What are we Reading Now: Conan the Librarian

[Ruger]

and my fave judge dredd complete case files 1 through 33
btw does any one remember a origin story of dark judges death mortis fire and fear ? i recall judge death befor he became judge death coming across sisters of death who were also not dead yet

Love that series, but only have 1-16 as that is all that’s currently been released in the States in that series to my knowledge.

Ruger

[elf25s]

There's been a couple of origin stories for the Dark Judges down through the years.  I remember one that ran as an Anderson serial in the Meg maybe 10 years ago that had gorgeous Arthur Ranson art.  And apparently there's a big ongoing early years of Deadworld thing in the Tooth at the moment, but I've not read it in ages.

i know its so annoying its like having apiece of popcorn stuck between your teeth...you know its there you know it will come out but not when you want it to come out...the one i want is when death was not death and his dad was a traveling dentist(?) that was good ut really tortured people and death picked some of daddys attitude....it had been over 20 years since i read it i think

[Lorcan Nagle]

i know its so annoying its like having apiece of popcorn stuck between your teeth...you know its there you know it will come out but not when you want it to come out...the one i want is when death was not death and his dad was a traveling dentist(?) that was good ut really tortured people and death picked some of daddys attitude....it had been over 20 years since i read it i think

Is that Young Death: Portrait of a Superfiend?

[ActionButler]

Currently re-listening-to Blood of Elves before I start the rest of the Witcher books

[elf25s]

Is that Young Death: Portrait of a Superfiend?

!!!! thats the one!
thanks!

[CrossfirePilot]

Charlie Martz and Other Unpublished Stories of Elmore Leonard.  I can see why most of these were unpublished...

[Sartris]

The Book of Ninja: The Bansenshukai translated by Antony Cummins and Yoshie Minami

[Charlie 6]

So I'm reading three books concurrently.  Two at work and one at home.

At home, I'm nearly done with The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan.  I'm somewhere between my sixth and eighth re-read of the series.  Two of my co-workers are listening to the audio version of the series.  I bring this up because today is the 30th Anniversary of The Eye of World being published.

At work, I'm alternating between Successful Professional Wargames:  A Practitioner's Handbook and Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design:  An Encyclopedia of Mechanisms.  The latter uses to Battletech and The Duke to briefly illustrate movement points and tile movement respectively.  Handy books, these. 

[Daryk]

You aren't, by chance, going to be at the wargame in Quantico in a couple of weeks, are you? :)

[Charlie 6]

PM sent.

[Dubble_g]

Just finished William Gibson's latest, called "Agency."

It's set in the same world as "Peripheral", involving future-humans whose hobby is to manipulate the course of alternate/ parallel past Earths. This time, there's a new alternate Earth, which occurs in 2017 and where an independent AI is emerging  (one having "agency", hence the title).

Honestly, I was a little disappointed with this. Which is a shame, as Gibson has been one of the few truly reliable writers out there, a master stylist if not a masterful plotter. But this time, he's basically rehashed the emergent AI plot line from "All Tomorrow's Parties" with a carbon copy of the blessed-with-undefined-technological-affinity protagonist from "Pattern Recognition."

The main character spends the book getting transported around California, exercising precious little agency for a book with that as a title, getting vaguely threatened but never very convincingly by bad guys with obscure goals, then it all gets suddenly resolved with a URL. No, I'm not joking.

[grimlock1]

The Black Rifle, by  R. Blake Stevens.  I have it on loan from the library but I may have to buy it.  There a is a lot of stuff going on and want to reread parts and maybe take notes.

[PsihoKekec]

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Cristopher Clark

I knew a lot of what he wrote before, but still had to fight of the urge to facepalm every few minutes.

[elf25s]

bio of space tyrant

[grimlock1]

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Cristopher Clark

I knew a lot of what he wrote before, but still had to fight of the urge to facepalm every few minutes.

"sheesh, these people were stupid," facepalm

or

"No, Clark, you have that backwards," facepalm?

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

bio of space tyrant

Now there's an author I haven't heard about in a while.

Probably not for good reason- that man has issues when it comes to women.

[PsihoKekec]

"sheesh, these people were stupid," facepalm

or

"No, Clark, you have that backwards," facepalm?

I haven't encountered any glaring historical omissions yet, although I have a feeling he is understating the influence of Prussian officer class on German politics somewhat. Anyway decision making that led to WWI was even worse mess then what I expected.

[Daryk]

"Mess" doesn't even begin to describe it...

[garhkal]

Doing a read-through of an oldie but goodie series from John Christopher.. The Tripods.  First novel - White mountains.

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

I remember reading those books in junior high.  Wow, does that set off a chain of related memories.

[Sartris]

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Cristopher Clark

I knew a lot of what he wrote before, but still had to fight of the urge to facepalm every few minutes.

Currently teaching wwi in my world history classes. Sleepwalkers is always on my desk this time of year

[nckestrel]

Never Say Die, Robert Hayes.  Asian Fantasy about a swordswoman that is "recruited" by a boy with the power to raise the dead to join his band of risen heroes to defeat an evil emperor.

[DaveMac]

The Spy and the Traitor

The story of how MI6 ran and managed to extract Gordievsky from Russia

[Wrangler]

Never Say Die, Robert Hayes.  Asian Fantasy about a swordswoman that is "recruited" by a boy with the power to raise the dead to join his band of risen heroes to defeat an evil emperor.

Really? I wonder the people putting the James Bond movie by the same name knows that.

[Sartris]

Plot twist: James Bond is the swordsman

[nckestrel]

Really? I wonder the people putting the James Bond movie by the same name knows that.

They would be happy to know I thought of their movie when the book is actually just Never Die.

[Euphonium]

Doing a read-through of an oldie but goodie series from John Christopher.. The Tripods.  First novel - White mountains.

It's been about 25 years since I read those but I still remember them. Thanks to the vagaries of 2nd had book stores and libraries I read them out of order - 2,3,1 - And I also remember a TV (BBC?) adaption of them. now I want to go & read them again!

[elf25s]

took a break from bio of space tyrant...went with dracos tavern forgot how much fun it was to read

[worktroll]

Currently cycling alternate books from
- Horus Heresy (in the mid 40s),
- Charles Stross' Laundry series,
- Katherine Kerr's Deverry series,
- Mark Hodder's steampunk Burton & Swinburn series, and
- assorted Ken McLeod novels, including the Cosmonaut Keep trilogy.

Finish one, move onto the next in the next series.

[cavingjan]

Deadliest Enemy - I'm finding this interesting given the current situation.