Matt the Bruins Posted August 22, 2018 Report Share Posted August 22, 2018 The first one was so evocative for me, I think it became a matter of diminishing returns as more stories were written. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted August 22, 2018 Report Share Posted August 22, 2018 Quantum Break Zero State by Cam Rogers. Interesting time travel story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grailknight Posted September 14, 2018 Report Share Posted September 14, 2018 Port of Shadows, a new Black Company story by Glen Cook. It takes place between books 1 & 2 and gives some interesting background on the Domination while clouding the identity of a main character. Serpentine, the newest Anita Blake novel. Strange things are taking place at Ted and Donna's wedding in the Florida Keys. Sex is kept to a minimum and is in self-contained chapters that are easily skipped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted September 14, 2018 Report Share Posted September 14, 2018 Expiration Date by Powers. When the ghost of Thomas Edison is ingested by a kid, it sets off a chain reaction of events that leads to a showdown on the Queen Mary. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Shadow Posted November 12, 2018 Report Share Posted November 12, 2018 Uncompromising Honor by David Weber. The final Honor Harrington novel brings the story that began in On Basilisk Station to a close. Honor may make an appearance in some of the spin off series, but it will be as a supporting character. Her story is now done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 Elevation by Stephen King. Scott Carey has an odd problem and a desire to help his neighbors, a married couple from Boston, fit in with the town of Castle Rock. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Democracy Posted November 14, 2018 Report Share Posted November 14, 2018 Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. What a fantastic book. Starts in the far future with a terraforming project which goes wrong when human society breaks down. Picks up centuries later when a generation ship leaves Earth heading for that planet where the terraforming has progressed in a manner unforeseen and the scientist in charge has been in deep sleep in a satellite round the planet as her technology decays waiting for a signal from the planet that will now never come. Great book, great story and fantastic ending when I thought there was no way it could be ended satisfactorily. Don't read it if you have a spider phobia... Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted November 23, 2018 Report Share Posted November 23, 2018 Marked by Benedict Jacka Alex Verus is now on the Light Council as Mordern 'his boss' is under arrest. Alex is helping to recover items missing from the Vault raid in the last book. The Council try to take down Richard Drakh and it does not go so well. Also Anne's problem with the Jinn resurfaces. If you liked the previous books, you'll like this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amorkca Posted November 24, 2018 Report Share Posted November 24, 2018 An Echo of Things to Come by James Islington Book two of a trilogy. Final book still coming... Touted as the next series to read after the Wheel of Time. I must agree. The characters are memorable and you feel the loss that comes from departure... I give it a 5/5! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranxerox Posted November 24, 2018 Report Share Posted November 24, 2018 I've been enjoying Beck Chamber's Wayfarer series (The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet; A Closed and Common Orbit; and Record of a Spaceborn Few). Have you ever watched or read some big space opera and found yourself wondering what life is like for normal people living in that universes? Ir is in the lives of normal people where the Wayfarer series calls home. Because while Chamber's Galactic Commons would make a fine setting for big space opera type of adventures. The stories are inevitably about people trying to find love, friendship and purpose in a big and confusing universe. That is not say they are completely lacking in adventure. Even though you know from the outset that she succeeds, Jane 37's efforts to escape from her home world are quite harrowing. It is just that when there is adventure, it is just a part of the story it is not the whole story. Good books. I will be impatiently waiting for the fourth in the series to come out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slikmar Posted January 12, 2019 Report Share Posted January 12, 2019 I just finished a series on audible (the reader is fantastic) by Dean F. Wilson called the Coilhunter Chronicles. Basically a western (Nox, the main character reminds me of Rooster Cogburn) set in a semi post apocalyptic world. I enjoyed it a lot and recommend it. I am trying Wilson's Iron War books set in the same world now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 Under the Dome by Stephen King. A town is suddenly covered by a force field that will not anyone enter or leave. What do the people do about it and survive ? I liked it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 41 minutes ago, death tribble said: Under the Dome by Stephen King. A town is suddenly covered by a force field that will not anyone enter or leave. What do the people do about it and survive ? I liked it. The TV series adaptation was okay. I thought it could have been better. None of the people in the TV version seemed paranoid enough, for my tastes, about the limited amount of resources which were under the dome. I've wanted to read the book but haven't gotten around to purchasing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slikmar Posted April 27, 2019 Report Share Posted April 27, 2019 Almost done with the Iron War books, not as enjoyable as the Coilhunter to me. I am also currently listening too the Hidden Magic Chronicles by Justin Sloan and Michael Anderle. Set in the shared Kurtherian Universe. Enjoyable so far, as I am only in book 2. More on the Kurtherian Universe here: https://kurtherian-universe.fandom.com/wiki/Kurtherian_Universe_Wiki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Tom 2009 Posted April 27, 2019 Report Share Posted April 27, 2019 On 11/12/2018 at 5:51 PM, Doc Shadow said: Uncompromising Honor by David Weber. The final Honor Harrington novel brings the story that began in On Basilisk Station to a close. Honor may make an appearance in some of the spin off series, but it will be as a supporting character. Her story is now done. I just got through with Uncompromising Honor not too long ago, and from what I had read in both the story itself and Weber's own statements at the end of the book, that while Honor's story might be at an end for the time being, it's far from over. After all, the Mesans still owe a rather outstanding debt for both Yawata Crossing and Beowulf Alpha, Beta, and Gamma -- not to mention the stations of Hephaestus, Weyland, and Vulcan -- and somehow, I can't see Honor not being the one to personally settle that debt. Major Tom 2009 Let's be about it, people... Grailknight 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tjack Posted April 28, 2019 Report Share Posted April 28, 2019 Just re-reading “Time Travelers Strictly Cash” by Spider Robinson. The first collection of the Callahan’s Saloon series. It goes all the way up to eleven. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted April 28, 2019 Report Share Posted April 28, 2019 Read Calcualting God, it started out pretty strong but got distracted in a pointless side plot and never made its way back to the quality of the beginning. Interesting debates and thoughts, but ultimately the ending doesn't hold up to scrutiny at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted April 28, 2019 Report Share Posted April 28, 2019 Glen Cook's Passage at Arms. A tautly composed submarine thriller reminiscent of Das Boot, and the only good submarines-in-space story I've read. Lawnmower Boy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stirling.N Posted May 17, 2019 Report Share Posted May 17, 2019 A Canticle for Leibowitz - classic post-apocalypse. tkdguy and Bazza 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted May 24, 2019 Report Share Posted May 24, 2019 A Memory of Light This is the last of the Wheel of Time books. I received the first as a present and being a completist I had to go through the story to the end. It ties up the main threads and all three of the main leads gets their time in the spotlight. Bearing n mind the finish it did leave Nynaeve with not much to do but I can live with that. Egwene was the only main character to die. But all the Forsaken got taken out, including the new one. The Last Battle was suitably epic in scope and bathed in tragedy as all sorts of characters who we were introduced to in previous books died. Then there is how Rand deals with the evil one and their battle. That was a good take on the battle between good and evil. Was the series too long ? Yes. But you could not fit it into a three book series, It is truely epic and makes the Belgariad for example seem small by comparison. There were things I did not like such as Trollocs. Troll Orc. How original and get this they are a mixture of man and beast. Paging Dr Moreau. It has been done to death. The Myrddraal are too reminiscent of the Ringwraiths but not as powerful. The Sharans are introduced too late to make much of an impact. And the two of the main male leads have more than one woman with them. Yeah right. But there were things worth following and it was never all about the one person, the Dragon Reborn and that was a strength. I loved the Aiel and hated the Seanchan. Perrin and Nynaeve were favourite characters. The evil Paladins, the Whitecloaks. Having finished one series I have another to complete and that it is the Fall of the Malazan Empire. Grailknight 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grailknight Posted May 25, 2019 Report Share Posted May 25, 2019 Mat and Perrin only end up with one woman each, Tuon and Faile. Just started my first reread of the series. Doc Democracy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Tom 2009 Posted June 26, 2019 Report Share Posted June 26, 2019 Quote I just got through with a two-week long readfest -- Anne McCaffery's All The Weyrs of Pern and The Skies of Pern, and Michael Z. Williamson's Better To Beg Forgiveness..., Do Unto Others..., and When Diplomacy Fails... (the Ripple Creek series). Major Tom 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Democracy Posted June 26, 2019 Report Share Posted June 26, 2019 On 5/25/2019 at 1:40 AM, Grailknight said: Mat and Perrin only end up with one woman each, Tuon and Faile. Just started my first reread of the series. OMG, I was impressed that I managed to finish the thing once. I loved the first two books, enjoyed the next three and ground my way through the rest. I think the world is great, the story was worth telling but it took too LONG. I reckon there is an amazing five book series here, six at a push. I did not think the ending was good, at least not good enough to warrant the effort poured into reading the 14 books (or just short of 12,000 pages and 4.5 million words). Starlord 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killer Shrike Posted June 26, 2019 Report Share Posted June 26, 2019 I read Fall; or, Dodge in Hell... by Neal Stephenson earlier this month when it was released. As a long time fan of N.S. it was a satisfying tie up for Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde. But maybe not as approachable as a first N.S. book and while very good not his best work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 Avalon: The Return of King Arthur by Stephen Lawhead. A great concept, but not handled very well and felt very naive and ignorant in modern times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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