What are you reading at the moment?

[Volkodav]

I take it you mean Eddings and Sarah Douglass? Huge Eddings fan back in the 80s, but I have found his books haven't aged that well. Douglass like Jordan died far too young at 54 and 59. Jordan of course leaving his masterpiece incomplete. Raymond E Fiest and Katherine Kerr are 2 authors you may like, going on your choices.

Read all of them, as well as David Gemmell, another who passed before he completed his work.

Loved Fiest but was disappointed as his latter works seemed to become more and more formula, I have a similar feeling regards Edding latter works.

When I was younger I read everything Anne McCaffrey wrote, still don't mind them.

 

[Larry_L]

My first impression is that this is an author that I will follow. So far I have only read 3 short stories, The steel flea, The Archbishop and the Englishman, and Singlethought from the book "Satirical stories of Nikolai Leskov. Apparently The steel Flea is also known as Lefty, and Singlethought is also known as Singlemind. Both of these also appear in the other book of short stories that I received so I will be able to evaluate translators. I would be interested in your opinion on translators since you know both languages.

 

[Larry_L]

I just finished "Dark Angel" by John Sandford. The novel is about hackers disrupting Russian train shipments during February 2022. An aide to a US senator, attached to the DHS is approached by several "Suits" asking her to investigate a fictitious plot to disrupt gas lines in winter. An interesting look at plausible deniability, and sanctions evasion, are the side stories.

 

[ngatimozart]

I am in the process of reading Peter F Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga series and looking at a new series he started. Also perusing a Harry Turtledove fantasy swords and sorcery book.

 

[Feanor]

I've finally gotten to Conrad's The Secret Agent. And while it starts out a bit slow, it builds to one hell of a climax. It's a short work, but really good.

 

[Feanor]

I've finally gotten around to reading a complete text of Clausewitz's On War. I've read excerpts of it before in college and after but I haven't had a chance to get to the whole thing. So far I'm about halfway through and it's quite good. Some parts of it are obviously dated, the part about billeting troops in areas, etc. But much of it is shockingly 100% relevant to this day. It's interesting to see his principles play out as part of the War in Ukraine.

 

[Feanor]

I've picked up Suketu Mehta's Maximum City, an excellent portrait of the insides of Mumbai (Bombay) from the perspective of an ex-pat who returns home. He goes into detail about the religious and ethnic riots that took place, talks about the city politics, social movements, the nature of the slums, and life in India in general. I'm only about a quarter of the way in so far, but it's a fascinating book at least for me.

 

[Feanor]

Working through a short story collection by Maxim Gorkiy. Prior to this I read his Life of Klim Samgin which I found a tedious and plotless slog. However the short stories definitely show why he has a literary reputation. I'm 2/3rd of the way through and enjoying them quite a bit though they're a mixed bag in terms of format, from folk tales, to travel stories, to just traditional short form fiction.

 

[Feanor]

I picked up Stanislav Lem's Invasion from Aldebaran, a major collection of his short stories. Great so far, and an author that definitely lives up to his reputation. I would definitely recommend to anyone who is interested in science fiction, especially something outside the typical.

 

[Larry_L]

In a used bookstore I found the book Mitla Pass by Leon Uris. I have not read any of his books since high school. Recent world events made me curious enough to read it since it flows from the Ukraine area of Russia through the USA to Israel.
I also picked up the book Metro Girl. A humorous adventure by Janet Evanovich. Not the best author, but entertaining..

 

[ngatimozart]

In a used bookstore I found the book Mitla Pass by Leon Uris. I have not read any of his books since high school. Recent world events made me curious enough to read it since it flows from the Ukraine area of Russia through the USA to Israel.
I also picked up the book Metro Girl. A humorous adventure by Janet Evanovich. Not the best author, but entertaining..

I haven't read any of his for awhile, but his book Battlecry is partially set here in NZ.

 

[Feanor]

Picked up the rest of Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space series. It's quite a good read, toying with interesting concepts. British science fiction has historically been quite strong and it's good to see the tradition is alive and well with modern writers.