Reading
 

I think there used to be another thread for what you were reading, doesn't seem around now, oh well. We'll start a new one!
I just finished reading Gene Wolfes "The Wizard Knight" - a quite surreal at times fantasy novel.

fucking awesome. really.

been working on Obama's first book "Dreams from my Father", been taking so long cause i tend to read it only when there isn't much happening at work, so it's hard to find time in the rush

V for Vendetta. Actually I just finished it. I didn't like the movie so much, I don't really know why......

I just finished Bryce Courtenay's The Power of One, now I'm reading Tandia.

naked lunch

The Ilium by Dan Simmons. Science fiction in a way far future where post-humans play Greek gods in the time of the Trojan War on a Terraformed Mars. At least, I think that's what's going on...

You guys are dumb.

http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=3180

I'm bumping the other thread, all y'all be stoop stoop.

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Well, there are tons to be found on the SF message board I admin (my name over there is ljim2000 from an old email address) particularly in the Author Central forum (there's actually an alphabetical index of the author threads there).

Off the top of my head:

if you like both Gibson and Dick you really ought to check out Pat Cadigan who is very influenced by both but with her own voice.

For anyone who is interested in checking out the best of current contemporary SF, I always direct them to Alastair Reynolds, who just fucking rules.

I am a huge fan of the science fiction books by C.J. Cherryh, in particular Downbelow Station, Cyteen, and the other Alliance/Union books which are mostly classic space opera.

I'm also pretty big on David Brin mostly for the "Uplift" series (especially the first two Sundiver and Startide Rising) but also Kiln People which isn't space opera like those at all but a very weird detective novel in a future where people can replicate themselves in temporary bodies.

In terms of really classic books that stand the test of time remarkably well, Stanislaw Lem's Solaris is much, much better than either of the film adaptations.

Finally (in terms of the "off the top of my head list...") the late Octavia Butler wrote some of the best dystopian/apocolyptic future stuff I've ever read in Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talent. I really wish I didn't see the world laid out in those books starting to happen for real right now.

Thank you Alex. Dang noob's. Don't be realizin' thread neva be dead, just back some pages, dat all.

You bastard!
In my To Read pile is Foundation, The Pickwick Papers, Les Miserables, and The First Book of Lankhmar. Which one should I read?

The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.

I'm about half way through Olympos by Dan Simmons (the sequel/companion to The Ilium).