What book are you reading?

[UniversalCommons]

The Green New Deal by Jeremy Rifkin. It reads like a set of standardized answers for climate change. I find it half baked with many standards that are only half way there. There is a huge focus on solar and wind power with little that is on biogas, distributed hydroelectric, geothermal, or other sources of energy. There are some ideas about stranded energy sources like coal which are interesting. A half way there solution. Good for someone who wants to know the standard answers on the left.

[Elwher]

J.E. Pournelle (editor) - Blood and Iron; There Will Be War Volume 3

I have the first There Will be War book. I didn't realize it was a series. Is it good?

I think so. If you liked the first, you will probably like the others; they are all of a kind.

[Pax Nerdvana]

I have the first There Will be War book. I didn't realize it was a series. Is it good?

I think so. If you liked the first, you will probably like the others; they are all of a kind.

Thanks! Something elese to add to my list of books I'd like to get copies of.

[Cameroi]

i'd like to read one (or many) about people (they don't have to be human) doing science (and better yet, in environments alien to me, if not neccessarily alien to them).

every book i've got in the house i've read the print off of soo many times. i don't know who if anyone is writing and published the kinds of stories i'm interested in these days any more. mysteries are a substitute but an inadiquite one. i do know an offordable book store which i may visit again some time soon.

wars and family sagas, empires, swords, guns, cars, and horses, aren't my idea of fiction ABOUT science.
social impacts are ok too, but they need to be about what is causing them, and not be limited to popular assumptions (or unpopular ones) about how they do.

they do generally need to be about something i'm not expecting to see on my bus ride to the grocery store and back.

in the 70s and 80s there were tons of really good ones like i like, but by the 2000s they slowed to a trickle.

[Hypersensible Crybabies]

Currently two of them - Boccaccio's "Decameron" and "Pješaci, dame i konji" by Damir Jaklin.

[Saint Lsawie Man]

Im currently reading "Go set a watchman" by Harper Lee

[Pax Nerdvana]

i'd like to read one (or many) about people (they don't have to be human) doing science (and better yet, in environments alien to me, if not neccessarily alien to them).

every book i've got in the house i've read the print off of soo many times. i don't know who if anyone is writing and published the kinds of stories i'm interested in these days any more. mysteries are a substitute but an inadiquite one. i do know an offordable book store which i may visit again some time soon.

wars and family sagas, empires, swords, guns, cars, and horses, aren't my idea of fiction ABOUT science.
social impacts are ok too, but they need to be about what is causing them, and not be limited to popular assumptions (or unpopular ones) about how they do.

they do generally need to be about something i'm not expecting to see on my bus ride to the grocery store and back.

in the 70s and 80s there were tons of really good ones like i like, but by the 2000s they slowed to a trickle.

You a fellow fan of hard SF? I wish I could help you, but there's not much hard SF written anymore.

[Zhou Zetian]

Doing a long overdue reread of The Hobbit for a challenge on a FB writing group.

Also reading Story Genius: How To Use Brain Science To Go Beyond Outlining And Write A Riveting Novel*. I've been meaning to take my writing more seriously, and a new year seems like a good excuse to do so.

*Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere

[Duskuarhiel]

the stand by stephen king

[Elwher]

the stand by stephen king

Original or expanded?

[Bombadil]

i'd like to read one (or many) about people (they don't have to be human) doing science (and better yet, in environments alien to me, if not neccessarily alien to them).

every book i've got in the house i've read the print off of soo many times. i don't know who if anyone is writing and published the kinds of stories i'm interested in these days any more. mysteries are a substitute but an inadiquite one. i do know an offordable book store which i may visit again some time soon.

wars and family sagas, empires, swords, guns, cars, and horses, aren't my idea of fiction ABOUT science.
social impacts are ok too, but they need to be about what is causing them, and not be limited to popular assumptions (or unpopular ones) about how they do.

they do generally need to be about something i'm not expecting to see on my bus ride to the grocery store and back.

in the 70s and 80s there were tons of really good ones like i like, but by the 2000s they slowed to a trickle.

Have you read The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin - it's the first of Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, and they're all extraordinary and, from what you write, very much in your line of interest.

Unrelated to that, but related to this thread, I'm reading The Crazed by Ha Jin, Waiting is one of my favourite books even though I'm not a huge fan of his prose, and that prose issue is bugging me in reading this book.

[Hershel Quezada]

Terror by Dan Simmonds

[Pax Nerdvana]

Transformers: Retribution, by someone I can't remember.

[Snow Bird-Worldism Crash]

one-dimensional man (1964) by herbert marcuse

[The Macabees]

Acemoglu and Robinson, The Narrow Corridor

[Barboneia]

Unknown Soldiers by Väinö Linna.

[Qhevak]

Peter Watt's Echopraxia. Great dark hard SF transhumanist fare.

On a related note, I'd highly recommend checking out Isabel Fall's recent short story I Sexually Identify As An Attack Helicopter. One of the best SF shorts I've read in a while.

[UniversalCommons]

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad-- The graphic novel drawn by Peter Kuper. Very dark and atmospheric.

[RCA Occupation]

The Falklands War, by Martin Middlebrook.

[Kowani]

Freefall, By Joesph Stieglitz.

[New Visayan Islands]

Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden.

[Purgatio]

Do plays count? I'm on a Tennessee Williams 'binge' at the moment - A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and The Glass Menagerie. The first one being my favourite play by far.

[Pax Nerdvana]

Rereading Airframe by Micheal Crichton

[Jabberwocky]

The Year's Best Science Fiction, edited by Gardner Dozois, 34th Annual Edition

[Pax Nerdvana]

The Year's Best Science Fiction, edited by Gardner Dozois, 34th Annual Edition

Nice. I have a bunch of SF short story anthologies, but nothing that recent. Also, nice signature.