What have you been reading?

Hey, I don't know if this counts but I've been following a couple of roddenberry.com comic strips regularly (well, every week when a new one comes out).

Here's one of my favorite recents ones:



What do you guys think?

GLF
 
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It is the near-future. China has become the new, dominant superpower. Asia has been subjugated, the Middle East crushed, and Europe is cut off by blockade. America, wallowing in isolationist splendour, is the next target. All seems doomed as the inevitable invasion approaches.


My first ever US vs China military fiction novel. I've tended to keep away froom the patriotic 'Us vs Them' type novels, even if a lot of scifi in the past has been 'cold war' types where you know who the 'enemy' are in our world sphere.

Huge ships being built that can fire 8,000 missiles in a salvo, small craft that can go orbital, fight and get back down. Politics and sheer bloody close up warfare. I suppose it counts as SF being just in the future.

I think with my position within my universities International Student Society means I find this type of genre distasteful in some ways, but still, my first one under the belt :smiley:
 
i just found a paperback copy of 'Utopia or Oblivion' by R. Buckminster Fuller. I've only read a few pages and skimmed the rest, but its fascinating. Also i came across two phil dick story collections(The Philip K Dick Reader and Minority Report and Other Stories)
aside from that, i have books i started a year ago and never finished these include Sam dealany's Dhalgren, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon( idoubt ill ever finish this one) and Alan Moore's Swamp Thing graphic Novels
 
Mostly Stephen Kings' novels.

Though I still haven't read even half of the total amount, he has been hard-working. I really like the books because that man knows how to write but in the long haul it's starting to get a bit tenuous because the structure, the plot and the ways of rising reader's interest are always pretty much the same. They do differ from each other book by book, of course, but there are always those clear marks of Stephen King's among the pages.

I should probably move on to something else but what would it be is still unknown.
 
Mostly Stephen Kings' novels.

Though I still haven't read even half of the total amount, he has been hard-working. I really like the books because that man knows how to write but in the long haul it's starting to get a bit tenuous because the structure, the plot and the ways of rising reader's interest are always pretty much the same. They do differ from each other book by book, of course, but there are always those clear marks of Stephen King's among the pages.

I should probably move on to something else but what would it be is still unknown.
Except for the series (eg: Tower), I prefer mixing in other authors rather then reading King novels one after the other.

Do you like Dean Koontz's works? A lot of his novels are very King-esque (to the point of there being King vs. Koontz debates out there) in that you may see certain towns & characters interwoven through out non-related stories but they they generally tend to be unique enough that you won't pick up a novel and go "Oh, this is a Koontz novel." like you may with a King novel.

While some of King's staff may be repetitious in their 'lesson learned' focus, he is still the only author that I always buy the hardback versions of to keep in the collection.
 
just started The Draco Tavern by Larry Niven.
Its actually a collection of stories centering around an interspecies spaceport bar and its owner. The stories are really fun. One of the reviews said something like niven uses enough cool ideas for ten novels in one story. many of the interesting concepts in these stories made their way into Nivens other stuff. Theres even a short skit he wrote that was perfomred at worldcon one year. These arent Known Space stories, but fans of nivens universe will dig this collection a lot.
 
Legion of the Damned ... William C. Dietz

I saw it a long time ago, and always meant to get it. I see there's a whole series now, while drifting through the Sci-Fi section ...

Are the rest good ?, cause this one is a page turner (for me). If only some are & you know, do tell.

Most large series have at least one stinker in them.

I'd appreciate it ;)
 
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