Question What are you reading?

[tblaxland]

Not reading it yet, but I just found this eBook to add to my reading list: X-15: Extending the Frontiers of Flight by Dennis R. Jenkins

 

[autopilotman]

Weapons of choice by John Birmingham
good for those who like alternate ww2 stuff

 

[Ark]

Working my way through 2010: Odyssey Two at the moment.

 

[Jarvitä]

James L. Helperin - The first immortal

Free Software, Free society - A collection of essays by Richard M. Stallman

 

[ex-orbinaut]

Hard to find now in printed version, it seems. Finally located it here, and have been reading it piecemeal ever since. Classic perspective on history; Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire...

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/gibbon/decline/files/decline.html

Okay, maybe it is not science fiction, but it is what I am reading right now...

 

[PhantomCruiser]

I just finished Patrick O'Brien's "The Thirteen Gun Salute". Taking a break before the next Aubrey/Maturin adventure with "The Time Travellers Wife".

 

[Loru]

Battle on Atlantic.

 

[vonneuman]

Just finished "Ringworld". OK, not great, just ok.

 

[Arrowstar]

Stumbled upon Ender's Game this weekend and decided to give it another read. Arguably one of my favorites.

 

[clive bradbury]

'Pride and Prejudice...and zombies'.

First time I've found it interesting enough to read...

 

[Ark]

Alternating between Moonrise by Ben Bova and The Family by Jeff Sharlet.

 

[Rocketman527]

Just finished Contact by Carl Sagan. Like anything else he's touched, it's golden

Now on to Foundation...

 

[Andy44]

The other day I was waiting for a carpool friend in the parking lot of a library. I wandered into the library to use the facilities, and on the way out I noticed they were selling books they no longer wanted to stock. Two of them caught my eye, memories from my childhood:

I had the "Spacecraft" book growing up, and I think a high school buddy still has it, though I've not seen it in years. These are out of print of course, and the public library, as stupid as any other public institution, was trying to rid itself of these great sci fi art books.

At $6 a pop I couldn't resist; they are both in good shape and now reside in a much better home. The Spacewreck one is full of wild creepy stories about radiactive alien derelict ships on the edge of nowhere.

And they are both full of add-on ideas, of course!

 

[kid gagarin]

couple months ago I finished Enders game by Orson Scott Card
it's my favorite book so far and i read alot

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Anything by Ben Bova is great (just my opinion)... Hey Kid Gagarin, have you read Ender's Shadow? The same story from Bean's perspective. Also very, very good.

Currently reading some historical fiction, "The Scourge of God" by William Dietrich. Roman vs. Hun, pretty good so far.

 

[n72.75]

Anything by Ben Bova is great (just my opinion)... Hey Kid Gagarin, have you read Ender's Shadow? The same story from Bean's perspective. Also very, very good.

Currently reading some historical fiction, "The Scourge of God" by William Dietrich. Roman vs. Hun, pretty good so far.

I have read most of his books, but I haven't read that one yet.

I am currently reading Hydrodynamica by Daniel Bernoulli

 

[Graham2001]

The Capricorn Quadrant by Charles Ryan.

My favorite bad technothriller, everything from a very small Big Bang (Radius 270m) to sharks with:

STATUS: INTERNAL METALLIC CORE/POSSIBLE MISSILE CHARGE
ASSESSMENT: DANGEROUS (PRIORITY 11)
CMR: DESTROY

:thumbup:

 

[kid gagarin]

Yes Phantom cruiser I accidantly read Enders Shadow before Enders Game but thats okay.

 

[Ghostrider]

The Capricorn Quadrant by Charles Ryan.

Wait! Is it the one with the Russian stealth bomber equipped with a cold-fusion DEW and a genius-level AI with a hot temper and a hair trigger?

A-w-e-some. Never piss off a marine biologist! :lol:

 

[Graham2001]

Wait! Is it the one with the Russian stealth bomber equipped with a cold-fusion DEW and a genius-level AI with a hot temper and a hair trigger?

A-w-e-some. Never piss off a marine biologist! :lol:

Or collide Proton masses at the speed of light!!! :hide:

Now, if anyone can tell me where/what this is: (Aside from a figment of the authors imagination that is)

US LANDING 1-4-1974(?)
TOUCHDOWN SITE: SOFT, MINOR DUST DEPTH
DECLINATION AT TD: 10.14 DEGREES AZIMUTH
POSITION 56.00 DEGREES
SAMPLE RECOVERY: SPECIFIC GRAVITY 0.198 labs (PA 1100.01 DEFLECTION INTERJECT)