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I'm currently reading the Wool omnibus by Hugh Howey. It's pretty decent I've been making very rapid progress as it's been too hot to sleep here recently now the summer has arrived.

I haven't seen the Apple show, but maybe I'll watch it in the future when I've finished all the books (I had Shift and Dust as well).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm currently reading The Rising Storm by Cavan Scott. It's part of the High Republic saga of Star Wars, and I'm really enjoying it so far :D

It was quite a challenge to read a book in English for the first time with Light of the Jedi (the first book of the series). But I feel like I've gotten way better and can now understand more while reading faster.

After this, I'm planning on reading The Prince of Milk by Exurb1a. Which I have wanted to read for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I know I'm late to reading them and I'm not sure if graphic novels count here, but "kill six billion demons" is a fantastic series with a unique art style and direction that I genuinely cannot get enough of

Though it might be more science fantasy than science fiction I guess?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. First forray into his books. So far very enjoyable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I am working my way through Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick. It's not a long book but it's really slow going, it's just so friggin weird that I have to put it down every few pages and just stop to absorb whatever the heck it was I just read. It's neat, as a drug user myself, to read a passage where it seems normal and then just randomly goes off into a 3 page rant about his weird racial ideas, and I just know he took a big fat hit right there writing it, sometime before I was born.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

More fantasy, but reading the Abhorson series by Garth Nix. Excellent series.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm currently reading Chibola Burn, the forth book in The Expanse series. Really enjoying it, specially since the third one was my least favorite of the first three. So it feels good to be loving a book in the series again.

I would recommend the series to fans of somewhat believable sci-fi.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Expanse is the best piece of sci-fi I have read in a long time!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Cibola Burn was my favorite as well! Seems like it’s one people either really love or hate. My favorite was probably the last book in the series, Leviathan Falls, but Cibola was a close second.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I am rereading Malazan Book of the Fallen. Just started the fourth book, House of Chains.

The start of this book is the hardest for me to get through. The first couple of chapters are really boring to me and it's only after

spoilerKarsa is captured and Torvald Nom is introduced
that I start getting into the story. The rest of the book is phenomenal, of course.

Edit: damn, is there no other spoiler option that just greys out the words?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm reading Nemesis by Isaac Asimov, slow (not much time to read) but steady.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Terry Pratchett's books on Discworld 📖

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Just finished books 1-7 of The Starsea Cycle by Kyle West. Pretty good stuff, kind of a mix of sci-fi and fantasy. Looking forward to the upcoming release of book 8.

In the meantime I'm reading the Red Rising Saga by Pierce Brown. Currently on book 4 with 2 more to go. Really enjoying it, but kinda feeling ready for something a little more toward the hard-scifi area.

Once I'm done with those I think I'll go reread A Fire Upon the Deep by Vinge, I think it's probably my favorite book and it's been a few years since I read it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Wild book. 3rd in the series. Not finished yet but the first two were incredible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Nice, I'm about halfway through the second and loving it!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I tried buying the wool omnibus on his website and couldn’t checkout…I’m gonna try again now, thanks for the reminder

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Just started The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel, too early to see if I like it yet. I’ve got some pretty high hopes though, Station Eleven was absolutely fantastic!

I just finished the Watchmaker of Filigree Street series, and loved that as well! IMO, the second was better than the first, but don’t read the second without reading the first since you need the context.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm rereading, after along time, Druss the Legend.

Once I'm done with that I'll work my through all of Gemmels other books.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Broken Earth Trilogy. I finished reading the entire Wool series many years back and gave it a 3.5/5. Really strong start but unfortunately the pacing for the rest of it wasn't quite to my liking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been reading Carrion Comfort. Really cool mystery story with people that can mind control. You're always trying to figure out what the Game is and what are these pawns accomplishing.

Its a little long winded but Dan Simmons can write a compelling story.
Def more Horror than Science Fiction.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Simmons does a good job with horror as well as science fiction. Hyperion is a wonderful blending of the two imo. The Terror is good as well for the hostile environment and isolation he manages to convey

His more recent work though... I'll just leave this NPR review https://www.npr.org/2011/07/28/137621172/one-rant-too-many-politics-mar-simmons-dystopia

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