February: what are you reading?

Finished Conn Iggulden's Lords of the Bow and mostly enjoyed it, even though it's more focused on political history rather than character development, which is very different from the personal story told in Wolf of the Plains. Have ordered second-hand copies of the rest of the series, though, because I'm interested to see how it develops - especially as I know almost nothing about the Mongols.

In the meantime, have now made Bryan Wigmore's The Goddess Project my main read - 67% through it and it's been developing real excitement for some time, so am keeping focused on that. :)
 
Parson said:
I am much impressed. I've read all but the last one and have zero desire to go over that territory again. --- (I promised myself that unless the series ended with the just released book, or that they moved the story out to space, I wasn't going to read that anymore.)
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At least the last one finished the storyline of the war with the church. Let's hope Weber moves it out to space without much further ado. Not holding my breath, though. In the honorverse he keeps covering the same story in several books.
 
Finished Behemoth by John Walker, solid military SF, have cued up book 2 in the series: Warfare, but right now am taking what is probably a Maiden voyage into the land of YA Fantasy reading Heart Blade by our own Julian Spink Mills, and listening to Dead Level by Damien Boyd a DI Nick Dixon novel. (For the life of me I always want to write Dick Nixon, it has to be a play on that name wouldn't you think?)
 
Read the third in Suzy McKee Charnas' Holdfast series, The Furies, which I found best of the bunch. Then Paul Zindel's The Undertaker's Gone Bananas. Have now started a re-read of Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave.
 
After 4 or 5 stories in The Door Into Saturn by Clark Ashton Smith, I felt a need for novel length. I've started rereading Jonathan Carroll's The Land of Laughs, a long time favorite. This will be, I think, my fourth reading.

Randy M.
 
Parson said:
I am much impressed. I've read all but the last one and have zero desire to go over that territory again. --- (I promised myself that unless the series ended with the just released book, or that they moved the story out to space, I wasn't going to read that anymore.)
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it's quite an interesting series. honestly i have some problems with david weber. You see the first book i read from him was OUT OF THE DARK and it was BAD ( for me anyway). But i kept seeing people saying how good he was, so i tried the honor harrington series and loved it. so next i tried a few other series and also loved it. nowadays i just do not love the new multiverse series. Apart from that i ordinary love any of them.
 
kevin hardman - terminus book 1 - quite humourous :) nice syfy
 
tobl said:
it's quite an interesting series. honestly i have some problems with david weber. You see the first book i read from him was OUT OF THE DARK and it was BAD ( for me anyway). But i kept seeing people saying how good he was, so i tried the honor harrington series and loved it. so next i tried a few other series and also loved it. nowadays i just do not love the new multiverse series. Apart from that i ordinary love any of them.
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(Parson begins pulling his hair out.) You started with that bomb? I just about went ballistic after I read the ending. Here's the link. Flip Flop Genre I started out trying not to actually name the book, but if you read through you will see that I was completely unsuccessful. --- David Weber has been, likely still is, my favorite author.
 
Wye Valley by George Peterken. Going there next weekend so I thought I should try to understand the ecology a bit first.

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This is a beautiful book. One of the New Naturalist series, which have been published regularly since 1945, each being a detailed and definitive monograph on a particular subject. The original statment was: "To interest the general reader in the wild life of Britain by recapturing the inquiring spirit of the old naturalists."
Very comprehensive, well referenced presentations of academic and historical biology and ecology, accessible to the lay reader if he/she is willing to persevere. Been collecting them for a while.
New Naturalist - Wikipedia
 
Re-reading Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement (nee Harry Stubbs). One of the first Big Deals in the days when I was discovering SF...
 
Finished the first in Tanith Lee's Birthgrave series, and her first published adult novel - The Birthgrave.
 
pambaddeley said:
Finished the first in Tanith Lee's Birthgrave series, and her first published adult novel - The Birthgrave.
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I read The Birthgrave a couple of years ago. Are you going to read the sequels?

I've finished Fire From Heaven, Mary Renault's novel about the young life of Alexander the Great. Wonderful for the first three-quarters, but became less interesting towards the "climax", maybe because it had too much of a sense of things running along a predetermined course.

I found it strange that the book works as well as it did, because on the face of it Alexander is too flawless, precocious and competent to be interesting or credible, but Renault puts us (or me, anyway) completely on his side -- except where his relationship with Hephaestion is concerned, where I was much more on Hephaestion's. Maybe that is his flaw, his super-humanness; the only thing that truly seems to move him are stories of the heroes he models himself on.

Now onto Stephen Donaldson's The Augur's Gambit. You'd think in a novella he'd be less verbose, but no.
 
I've finished Dying Earth - Jack Vance, which wasn't really science fiction at all despite being described as such, following The Time Traveler's Wife which was mostly a love story with a twist and also not very sci-fi.

Next up Non-Stop - Brian Aldiss.
 
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