Question What are you reading?

[Dickie]

Just finished Ben Bova's Mars and Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End - both of which were fantastic, next on my shelf is Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

I'm slowly working my way through my slightly overburdened bookshelf having promised myself I'd not buy any more books till I've finished the ones I have; although I suppose excessive book buying isn't the worst vice to have!

 

[Ghostrider]

I'm re-reading the whole Drenai series by the late David Gemmell. If you're into large-scale sieges, swordplay, massive bloodshed, flawed heroes and dry humour, you can't really miss those.

 

[Ark]

The whole Bova "Grand Tour" series makes for great reading.

The series occupies an entire shelf on my bookcase. Moonrise/Moonwar and the Asteroid Wars series are personal favorites.

Just finished "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlein. Can't believe I waited 21 years to read that one. :thumbup:

 

[Spacethingy]

Michael Palin, going around the Pacific in "Full Circle".

Makes you smile when it takes him the best part of a year to travel the distance that takes the ISS about half an hour.

 

[Graham2001]

Passengers by Michael Laurence (Screenwriter/Director), Thomas Foxworth (Ex-pilot/Author).

Film-script published as a novel. Inspired by the DC-10 affair. Authors seem to have been trying to put the scare on the use of Carbon fiber and fly-by-wire in aircraft.

 

[Tycho]

I finished War of the Worlds, H.G Wells a while back (not for the first time, I've read two or three times) and Apollo 13, Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger, two or three days ago, both great books.:thumbup: Still deciding on what to read next.:hmm:

 

[N_Molson]

That's a coincidence, I just finished the War of the Worlds too !

Wells was obviously a visionary. Also, it's interesting to see that before K. Tsiolkovsky works on rocketry were published, guns were considered as the best solution to travel between planets (Jules Verne greatly contributed to spread that idea).

 

[DanM]

Currently reading How To Live On Mars by Robert Zubrin.

 

[Izack]

Heh, now I feel like reading War of the Worlds again for the umpteenth time! :lol:

 

[Tycho]

Well, there's nothing wrong with that ... it's certainly one of my favorites!:thumbup:

 

[Enjo]

I should get this one by the middle of January:

 

[Dickie]

Can anyone recommend any books out there about ESA, it's astronauts and projects or the ISS?

I know there's loads of books about NASA's history and such but have many been written about ESA?

Cheers,

Dickie

 

[Kendrick]

I just finished reading this morning The Time's travelers wife by Audrey Niffeneger. I'n pretty fascinated on the film that's why I decided to buy the book. It's worth reading since the story is unique and good.

 

[garyw]

I just finished reading this morning The Time's travelers wife by Audrey Niffeneger. I'n pretty fascinated on the film that's why I decided to buy the book. It's worth reading since the story is unique and good.

I got the DVD as a present and will be watching it this week.

I've also downloaded the Clarke 2001, 2010, 2061 and 3001 series as ebooks on my iphone. I've never read 2001 before yet the book is so much better than the movie.

 

[Star Voyager]

I thought 3001 ruined the series for me. Personally, I think it's better off without it. But that's just me...

 

[Keatah]

micro-6502, Byte, Ntfs data recovery paperz, Applesoft Basic, Apple ][ reference manual.

 

[Urwumpe]

"Unseen Academicals", by Terry Pratchett.

The first time I read a Discworld novel in its native English language. usually I had German translations, but for this novel, they replaced the old translator by a new one, which didn't care about the existing old material (= many places and people got suddenly new translations), with many German readers giving the translation abysmal ratings, while they really love the English version...still, a strong change. While I can read Pratchett novels in English well, this one means really creating a new dictionary of Discworld terms in my head.

So far, one of the better Discworld novels, I had a few good laughs already on the first eighth of the book, and many smiles about Mr Nutt.

 

[Fabri91]

The last 3 parts of the Rama series from Clarke...in German. Read the first part (in English) during holidays in Scotland but wasn't able to get hold of the other parts. Currently at about 3/5 of the second part.

 

[marooder86]

Right now for me it's: R. Dawkins "The Selfish Gene", Orbiter's API_Guide and API_Reference and a lot of materials about particle accelerators and synchrotron radiation.

 

[Izack]

[...]Orbiter's API_Guide and API_Reference and a lot of materials about particle accelerators and synchrotron radiation.

Have any plans? :hmm: