What are we Reading Now: Conan the Librarian

[Nightlord01]

damn...

You said it, one of my favourite authors. Been years since I've seen a new book from him though.

[CranstonSnord]

Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising. It goes over Thrawn's backstory.

[elf25s]

Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising. It goes over Thrawn's backstory.

zahn or some one else writing?

[CranstonSnord]

Zahn. It's probably in his contract that nobody else can touch Thrawn  xp

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

No one else should touch Thawn.

[rebs]

Currently reading Icons of War.  Got to love a BattleTech heist novel.  The ultimate heist, really.  So far so good!

A long time ago I predicted the Homies would try to use Aleksandr's DNA to make their own Kerensky bloodlines.  I'm very glad that loophole is now closed.

[elf25s]

ok went old school...
arsene lupin
forgot how much i enjoyed when i was 8 over 35 ears back

[CranstonSnord]

From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back. It's an anthology about background characters in the movie. Like, random rebels on echo base, the wampa, a tauntaun, etc. I'm about 1/3 thru and it's still better than the A New Hope anthology, which isn't saying much. I can only hope there's an Ugnaut story, or a lizard on Dagobah.

[elf25s]

ok finally got my replacements to my cobra series by timothy zhan cant wait

[Mecha82]

Darkness in the Blood by Guy Haley

With new Blood Angels Codex Supplement out I am in mood for some Blood Angels focused stories and this one is right at my ally with main characters being Lord Commander Dante and Chief Librarian Mephiston. Focus of story is of course them trying to desperately find solution of red thirst and black rage that Blood Angels are cursed with.

[bpardoe870]

Currently reading Icons of War.  Got to love a BattleTech heist novel.  The ultimate heist, really.  So far so good!

A long time ago I predicted the Homies would try to use Aleksandr's DNA to make their own Kerensky bloodlines.  I'm very glad that loophole is now closed.

I really enjoyed what Craig did with that story.

Blaine "Buck" Pardoe

[pheonixstorm]

I recently started rereading the first Man-Kzin Wars novel again. So many sci-fi authors have contributed to those novels over the years and have enjoyed reading them, though I don't remember how far along I was. So many novels in the series...

[worktroll]

There's good, there's bad, then there's great (The Children's Hour). Managed to pick up pretty much the whole lot - up to about XIV - in a second hand book shop a while back.

[elf25s]

i only had been able to get 4 first books of the man kzin wars...loved most of the stories...especially the first story of how bad cats met humans for the first time...lol i felt so sorry for the telepath

[rebs]

I really enjoyed what Craig did with that story.

Blaine "Buck" Pardoe

I like it too.  He was bold in conceiving and executing his ideas.  We should all be that way when we write, you never know where it will take you. (Or, where it will take us, as it were)

[Frabby]

No one else should touch Thawn.

Oh don't get me started. I happen to be reading the Thrawn trilogy to my son for bedime story these days.

I wasn't ever as deeply into Star Wars as I was into BattleTech. But for me the Thrawn trilogy was the high water mark for that franchise, before it ebbed with the world-building snafus and pedestrian narrative of the prequels and was then shattered beyond repair with the Legends being cut from canon. Thrawn, as a character, was a villain worthy of, and on eye level with, Vader and the Emperor. Being shoehorned into the Rebels cartoon with sub-standard writing compared to the original character took so much out of that great, carefully crafted character, to the point where I simply walked away. Name-dropping in the Mandalorian can only twist the knife here. (I believe I don't hate the new Star Wars. Rogue One was the second-best Star Wars movie ever after ESB, and The Mandalorian is mostly enjoyable. But as universe building goes, my rose-tinted childhood love for SW got snuffed out over the last 20 years. Which was probably good for BattleTech.  ;) )

[elf25s]

wonder what would zhan do to battletech? i mean thrawn took star wars book out of the slump and i still enjoy heir to the empire today

[elf25s]

ok went back looked through some old boxes and rediscovered my stanslaw lem collection  first book i grabbed cyberiad and robotic salies both in polish...lets see how much i remember how to read and comprehend of it.....still artwork in cyberiad if you are fortunate to find it with artwork is sureal

[Jaim Magnus]

Just finished the Poppy War series (The Poppy War, The Dragon Republic, The Burning God) by R.F. Kuang a week ago. Very well written, compelling characters, would recommend.

Now reading the Legend of Galactic Heroes (all ten volumes) by Yoshiki Tanaka. Old school space opera. A little heavy on the numbers (ships, personnel, galactic population) but thankfully the story shines through. I had watched the old anime, and what there is of the new anime, then realized I'd never read the books. So I'm now correcting that.

Shrapnel #3 is next. Hopefully all that will see me through to the turn of the year and the release of Hour of the Wolf.

[battleman033]

Freakonomics - various economic theories applied beautifully in diverse subjects (re-read, first time was a speed read now detailing)

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

That's certainly an interesting read, but one to be cautious over.  The author tries claim a much stronger relationship between various situations than is actually borne out by the evidence.

[worktroll]

That's certainly an interesting read, but one to be cautious over.  The author tries claim a much stronger relationship between various situations than is actually borne out by the evidence.

QFT.

[elf25s]

ok i think i may have come across very first story that describes nanotech cyberiad by stanislaw lem
there is a story a the second sally where the constructors klapacius and trurl create a creature for king krool to hunt. and the way it works and way it reacts when confronted with weapons as well as other things it does through out the story cannot be anything than nanotech. keep in mind the story originally had been written in mid 60s when even word nanomite or nanotech ninite had not existed at least not with same meaning they have today. also the stories in cyberiad are about robots and so no magic is involved.
anything earlier that comes close to describing nanotech than this story?

[Ruger]

Finished Children of Kerensky yesterday. Just in time to be able to start the rest of the BTech PoD novels I’m getting for Christmas today.

Ruger

[Top Sergeant]

I received two books today which I very much looking forward to reading: Neptune's Inferno by James Hornfisher and Supreme Commander by Seymour Morris Jr.

[CrossfirePilot]

I got the book "I'm No Hero" by Charlie Plumb for Christmas.  I've wanted to read it for a while, but I don't know if I can handle a book about being a POW at this time.

[Daryk]

I just started Katie Mack's "The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)".  It looks to be quite good!  :thumbsup:

[Trajan Helmer]

I received two books today which I very much looking forward to reading: Neptune's Inferno by James Hornfisher ...

Hornfischer's books are so good to read. There is no better description of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal I have found than what you are about to read. Positively nail biting.

[Reldn]

Currently reading through "The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"" by William Hope Hodgson. It's a highly enjoyable read, I'll have to check out some of his other works now.

[Demon55]

Vietnam an Epic Tragedy by Max Hastings.

The Last NARC by Hector Berrellez.