reading meme
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the_siobhanRecycled from bcholmes
The meme asks: What are you reading now? What did you just finish reading? What do you expect to read next?
Right now I'm reading Eon by Greg Bear. I'm maybe halfway through? Reading time is usually when I'm on the bus these days so it's going more slowly due to the holidays. Anyway, the Russians and Americans have finally succeeded in blowing up the planet and the survivors are stranded in a hollowed-out asteroid and trying to figure out what to do next.
I admit to not being completely blown away by the story but there are hints that humanity gets very odd over the next several thousand years and I'm kind of curious as to what that is going to look like.
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Previous to this one I read The Integral Trees by Larry Niven. We appear to have a lot of Niven books in the house. (Including two copies of Ringworld Engineers, neither of which are mine.) I love the world he created in this one. The setting is a low gravity world with a gas ring around it, and all life exists within a narrow band where the gas is dense enough to be breathable. Everything exists in free-fall and humans grow to be taller and thinner due to the low gravity.
The one before that was the Swords Against Darkness V anthology. Which I didn't so much read as skim the beginning of the first six stories and then gave up on because they were all so pants.
As you can see I'm gradually working my way through the SF pile. So the next book will probably be more Niven if only because we have so much of it.
bcholmesThe meme asks: What are you reading now? What did you just finish reading? What do you expect to read next?
Right now I'm reading Eon by Greg Bear. I'm maybe halfway through? Reading time is usually when I'm on the bus these days so it's going more slowly due to the holidays. Anyway, the Russians and Americans have finally succeeded in blowing up the planet and the survivors are stranded in a hollowed-out asteroid and trying to figure out what to do next.
I admit to not being completely blown away by the story but there are hints that humanity gets very odd over the next several thousand years and I'm kind of curious as to what that is going to look like.
Previous to this one I read The Integral Trees by Larry Niven. We appear to have a lot of Niven books in the house. (Including two copies of Ringworld Engineers, neither of which are mine.) I love the world he created in this one. The setting is a low gravity world with a gas ring around it, and all life exists within a narrow band where the gas is dense enough to be breathable. Everything exists in free-fall and humans grow to be taller and thinner due to the low gravity.
The one before that was the Swords Against Darkness V anthology. Which I didn't so much read as skim the beginning of the first six stories and then gave up on because they were all so pants.
As you can see I'm gradually working my way through the SF pile. So the next book will probably be more Niven if only because we have so much of it.
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Date: 2012-12-29 12:19 pm (UTC)The Integral Trees by Larry Niven.
Not one I have. It sounds like Larry Niven geeks over physics, which was my least interesting bit in Ringworld. I have Engineers, and may read it soon.
Swords... never heard of. It looks like a good bus read. Although I never count anything with Ramsey C as a good read.
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Date: 2012-12-31 04:52 pm (UTC)I rather hope that the Swords anthologies I to IV were a better sampling of the genre. If I had to read one more story that started off with a description of the hero's biceps I was going to toss it out the window.