Dreamsnake,
Vonda N. McIntyre *****
Fiddlehead,
Cherie Priest ****
Vamparazzi,
Laura Resnick ***
Robopocalypse,
Daniel H. Wilson *** .5
Axis, Robert
Charles Wilson *****
The Lost
Fleet: Courageous, Jack Campbell ***
The Owner,
Book One: The Departure, Neal Asher *****
Indexing,
Seanan McGuire ***
Sere From
the Green, Lauren Jankowski **.5
Shadow Ops:
Control Point, Myke Cole ***
Shades of
Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal *****
Woken
Furies, Richard K. Morgan, ****.5
Polterheist,
Laura Resnick ***.5
Half-Off
Ragnarok, Seanan McGuire ****
A Thousand
Perfect Things, Kay Kenyon *****
The Plague
Forge, Jason M. Hough, ****.5
Abaddon’s
Gate, James S.A. Corey *****
Fortune’s
Pawn, Rachel Bach ***.5
A Darkling
Sea, James L. Cambias ****
Zero Point
(The Owner: Book Two), Neal Asher ****.5
The
Arrivals, Melissa Marr ***
Inherent
Vice, Thomas Pynchon ***
The Human
Division, John Scalzi ****
Grimspace,
Ann Aguirre ****
Free Live
Free, Gene Wolfe *****
The Etched
City, K.J. Bishop ****.5
Ghost Story
(Dresden Files), Jim Butcher ****
My Real
Children, Jo Walton *****
The Shining
Girls, Lauren Beukes ****
Wanderlust,
Ann Aguirre ***
Parasite,
Seanan McGuire ***.5
Vortex,
Robert Charles Wilson *****
Inferno,
Mike Resnick ***.5
The Night
Stalker, Jeff Rice **.5
Dark Progeny
(Doctor Who), Steve Emmerson ***
The
Steerswoman, Rosemary Kirstein *****
Farside, Ben
Bova ***.5
Outlander,
Diana Gabaldon ****.5
Peacemaker,
C.J. Cherryh *****
Terms of
Enlistment, Marko Kloos *****
Mission to
Horatius, Mack Reynolds ***
The Owner,
Book 3: Jupiter War, Neal Asher ****
Revolt of
the Triffids (AKA The Day of the Triffids), John Wyndham *****
The Winter
Long, Seanan McGuire *****
Re-Birth,
John Wyndham ****
Death’s Dark
Domain (Doc Savage). Kenneth Robeson ***
Sandman
Slim, Richard Kadrey ****
Stowaway to
Mars, John Wyndham **.5
Lock In,
John Scalzi ****.5
Her Smoke
Rose Up Forever, James Tiptree, Jr. (finished)
The Pride of
Chanur, C.J. Cherryh *****
The Pritcher
Mass, Gordon R. Dickson **.5
Nova, Samuel
R. Delany ****
Chanur’s
Venture, C.J. Cherryh ****
The
Enceladus Crisis, Michael J. Martinez *****
Hmm.
I’ve got to
thank JfPowaloski for lending me his copy of Revenge of the Triffids, which was great, and also led me to some
other John Wyndham books.
The one
non-SF book on the list is Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent
Vice, a detective novel in the mold of Raymond Chandler. A combination of
Pynchon and Chandler is going to be weird, and this one lived up to the
promise. Confusing like Chandler, amusing like Pynchon, and confounding like
both of them. Possibly I should have rated it higher. Looking forward to the
movie.
I read Free Live Free, by Gene Wolfe, about 30
years ago, and didn’t quite get it at the time. But like Pynchon, Gene Wolfe is
never predictable, and pretty much everything he writes is worth reading.
The Night Stalker? I kept hearing Darren
McGavin’s voice as I read the book. But really, you should just watch the
movie.
Outlander. Just great. Can’t wait for
the DVDs to come from Netlfix, and to get the next book from the library.
Mission to Horatius. The first Star Trek
novel I ever read, actually before I’d really seen the original TV show. A
so-so novel, but it brought back memories.
Thanks, Jason,
for recommending the Sandman Slim
novels.
Nova, by Samuel Delany. Another book I
read a long time ago, but that meant a lot more to me now. Delany is a fantastic
writer.
No comments:
Post a Comment