John Ringo, Under a Graveyard Sky

It's the zombie apocalypse. Only this is Ringo's version in which our heroes respond to it with guns, knives, and more guns.
This isn't anything deep or philosophical. Enjoy the dakka!

Besides the collected works of Lovecraft, which are more like a trip down the memory lane for me, I came across this (slightly dated) bit of SF:

H. Beam Piper - Space Viking

Well, let me put it that way: Now I know exactly what I'll be once Limit Theory is ready. This has been a rather inspiring lecture.

-Hårdenbørg

Hardenberg wrote:
H. Beam Piper - Space Viking

-Hårdenbørg

You can either read the first book in full online (HTML) or via other devices, if you click here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20728

Just read the RCN series by David Drake, I thought they were pretty good.

Not, you know, fantastic, but pretty good.

So, yeah, Ancillary Justice and Ancillary Sword were very good.

Now I'm reading The People of the Ruins... A bit of ye olde Sci-Fi. Seems good so far.

I'm with Shadow Linger of the Black Company's Books of the North series. Good so far I plan to read this one and White Rose and then jump back to the First Law's second and third books.

Just finished William Golding's - he of Lord of the Flies fame - The Scorpion God, a collection of three novellas that examine human nature in three rather different, semi-historical, environments.

Given Golding's reputation for seriousness, and that of his works for being challenging, I was pleasantly surprised at how engaging the stories in this thin volume turned out to be. It wasn't that the author decided to forgo examining the human penchant for deceit and violence but rather that, as a master of prose, he makes his observations with a refreshingly light touch.

Of the three tales, The Scorpion God about pre-Pharaonic Egypt is the most thought-provoking with much left up to the reader to define and project (including how the great civilization of Ancient Egypt might have been a product of an odd social synthesis).

My favorite among the collection is Envoy Extraordinary, which is, in essence, a colorful lead-in to a punchline.

There are far worse ways to spend a couple of hours than reading Golding's novellas.

Hi,

Have you read The Series Of Unfortunate Events? It is originally destined to child, but just as "The Little Prince", I think it is enjoyable with a more mature point of view.
I really loved it.

Diegetisor wrote:Hi,

Have you read The Series Of Unfortunate Events? It is originally destined to child, but just as "The Little Prince", I think it is enjoyable with a more mature point of view.
I really loved it.

I saw the movie, dose that count?

Gunther Haldan wrote:

Diegetisor wrote:Hi,

Have you read The Series Of Unfortunate Events? It is originally destined to child, but just as "The Little Prince", I think it is enjoyable with a more mature point of view.
I really loved it.

I saw the movie, dose that count?

what that is the least acceptable book movie, it only covered like part of three of the books of the series read the series it is really good

~Sly

Slymodi wrote:

Gunther Haldan wrote:

Diegetisor wrote:Hi,

Have you read The Series Of Unfortunate Events? It is originally destined to child, but just as "The Little Prince", I think it is enjoyable with a more mature point of view.
I really loved it.

I saw the movie, dose that count?

what that is the least acceptable book movie, it only covered like part of three of the books of the series read the series it is really good

~Sly

LOL, I know Sly, I was being silly!

Gunther Haldan wrote:*snip

ah lol, how did I not catch that

~Sly

The movie was quite good ! The victorian unchronological atmosphere is well rendered and it wrap the first three book in a coherent way (which was not that easy). Ok, maybe Jim Carrey is overplaying... we are used to it?

After rereading the Battletech Blood of Kerensky trilogy, I've now moved onto Wool by Hugh Howey.

Seems pretty good.....

HowSerendipitous wrote:After rereading the Battletech Blood of Kerensky trilogy, I've now moved onto Wool by Hugh Howey.

Seems pretty good.....

I enjoyed Wool - curious to see what you think