Voted "Most Likely To Be Found With His Nose In A Book" in grade school. Now, it would be "Most Likely To Be Found With His Nose In An E-Book Reader".
Fiction: Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Speculative. Love long series, as long as they keep moving. Non-Fiction: History/Philosophy/Tech.
I started with the old school SFF authors -- Asimov, Clarke, Tolkein, Moorcock, etc. -- then found (and was blown away by) Stephen Donaldson in high school. As I got older, I started reading Hugo award winning authors, and discovered great names like Robert Sawyer, Paolo Bacigalupi, Anne Leckie, N. K. Jemisin (!), Charlie-Jane Anders, and Tamsyn Muir.
I can't wait to see who I discover next.
Calibre FTW.
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25% complete! Jon Fincher has read 3 of 12 books.
THE NECROMANCERS ARE BACK, AND THEY'RE GAYER THAN EVER.
SHE ANSWERED THE EMPEROR'S CALL.
SHE ARRIVED WITH HER …
Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party. In many …
I wasn't sure what to expect -- this isn't my normal type of book to read, but my grandmother's name was Ella, which is why I picked this up.
It became difficult to read around halfway through, when letters started to become scarce and the author needed to figure out how to get around that. There is some interesting foreshadowing around that time, but you need to wait until the end to see that come to fruition.
I wasn't sure what to expect -- this isn't my normal type of book to read, but my grandmother's name was Ella, which is why I picked this up.
It became difficult to read around halfway through, when letters started to become scarce and the author needed to figure out how to get around that. There is some interesting foreshadowing around that time, but you need to wait until the end to see that come to fruition.
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy …
All Systems Red is a 2017 science fiction novella by American author Martha Wells. The first in a series called …
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.
Once, she …
"In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened. In …
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges …
I'd not read any L.E. Modesitt before "Isolate", the first book in this series. I wasn't sure what to make of it -- it kept me interested enough to finish and then pick this one up.
Since then, I've read some of his other works, and my word, does he keep a slow, but steady, pace. Emphasis on slow, and on steady -- I never felt like we were stuck. We were always getting somewhere, but it was on the two lane state road through small towns, rather than on the six lane expressway.
That said, I'll read the next one when it comes out, if for no other reason than to finish the story with these characters in which I'm so invested. Sunk cost? Maybe, but there are worse things to do with my life than read.
I'd not read any L.E. Modesitt before "Isolate", the first book in this series. I wasn't sure what to make of it -- it kept me interested enough to finish and then pick this one up.
Since then, I've read some of his other works, and my word, does he keep a slow, but steady, pace. Emphasis on slow, and on steady -- I never felt like we were stuck. We were always getting somewhere, but it was on the two lane state road through small towns, rather than on the six lane expressway.
That said, I'll read the next one when it comes out, if for no other reason than to finish the story with these characters in which I'm so invested. Sunk cost? Maybe, but there are worse things to do with my life than read.
Though she knows her brother holds her mother's favor, Ingray is determined to at least be considered as heir to …
From the author of the Hyperion Cantos -- one of the most acclaimed popular series in contemporary science fiction -- …
