Question What are you reading?

[pattersoncr]

I just finished Rendezvous with Rama (very good, although the anti-climax at the end means that I won't be able to rest until I've read the rest of the series), and I'm about to start Destination: Void.

The Case for Mars is a good book, although it gets rather less grounded in reality near the end. Still, I hope we get to try it someday.

Don't do what I did: I read Rendezvous with Rama then I read the last book in the series which completely ruined my chances of reading the ones in the middle.

 

[BlueDragon8144]

Currently reading:
The Right Stuff

 

[Cosmos]

The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan

 

[James.Denholm]

Sir Archer's (Jeffrey Archer, his lack of an ego means he dosen't write with the "Sir") newest book, A Prisoner of Birth.

An awesome book if you like the idea of time-travel is Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife.

 

[roblin]

I am currently reading Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Good for you! Great book, I read it several times. I could not get trough green and blue though.

I am currently reading 'Svitjods undergång och Sveriges födelse' (the fall of Svidjod and the birth of Sweden). The birth of the nation has been subject of much controversy over the years. Partly because of the lack of written records from the time. Sweden was devided country for a looong time with european standards and did not exist at all untill the 13th century. So it is about the death of the Heretic Viking culture and the christening of Sweden, wich the authours claim went really slow and not very well at all
That certainly explains a few things about swedes i think.
Intresting stuff... if you are a swede atleast.

The last book on spaceflight was Moondust by Andrew Smith which i reccomend for anyone to read.

And I am eagerly awaiting the delivery of 2 Yuri Gagarin books i bought online. 'Road To The Stars' and 'The Gagarin Mystery'. The first is written by Gagarin himself so I think it is probably propaganda stuff and the mystery one seems to be a conspiracy theory about Gagarins death. Both should be fun to read, i hope!

/Rob

 

[bujin]

The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan

I've been trying to get my hands on a copy of this book for weeks! Amazon just don't seem to want to stock it (officially) anymore!

Sir Archer's (Jeffrey Archer, his lack of an ego means he dosen't write with the "Sir") newest book, A Prisoner of Birth.

Yuk. Uncle Jeffrey.

 

[Ghostrider]

I just finished Rendezvous with Rama (very good, although the anti-climax at the end means that I won't be able to rest until I've read the rest of the series)

If you loved Rendezvous with Rama, do not read the sequels. They ruin the magic.

 

[gimp1992]

I am reading, Apollo the Difinitive Sorce Book and Dexter IN The Dark,

 

[martins]

Philip Roth, The Human Stain (pleasure)
C. R. Vogel, Computational Methods for Inverse Problems (work)

 

[fresh squid]

Women, by Charles Bukowski
Although I really should be reading best before dates, because man there
was something wrong with my macaroni salad.

 

[Andy44]

If you loved Rendezvous with Rama, do not read the sequels. They ruin the magic.

Agreed. I read Rama II and stopped there, disgusted.

 

[Eagle]

Linear Algebra Textbook *sigh*

 

[Tex]

"Sphere" by M. Crichton

 

[James.Denholm]

Yuk. Uncle Jeffrey.

"Uncle"?

And don't bag him, he's an excellent writer.

 

[bujin]

"Uncle"?

I'm sort-of quite distantly related to him. My dad's family are part of the Archer clan.

 

[Andy44]

I am 3/4 of the way through Jerry Pournelle's King David's Spaceship and wow! I have forgotten how much I love Pournelle's stuff! Not so much sci-fi as military fiction set in the future, I loved the Falkenberg's Legion series and War World anthologies, but somehow I missed this particular book. Funny thing is it's copyrighted 1980, so he wrote it before STS-1.

So I searched around Amazon and found a hard-bound collection of the War World stories, along with what appears to be a short story that wraps up the whole thing. Amazon's One Click is a dangerous thing for your wallet, but my book's on the way!

Pournelle's "future history" timeline is obviously modeled on Heinlein's but I have never seen a good synopsis of Heinlein's timeline in any of his books. Anyone want to steer me in the right direction? Which Heinlein books are part of that timeline?

 

[joeybigO]

Aircraft System I by Jeppesen.

LOL. I teach that! That's one of the books we use. I currently am reading "An introduction to the mathematics and methods of astrodymamics" by Richard Battin. Just as a refresher. And go play in space for a translation project.

 

[Talon1]

Well, I was reading a book called "Y2K-9: The dog that saved the world"
I just finshed reading it tonight

 

[tblaxland]

Book 11 "Knife of Dreams" of Robert Jordan's "The Wheel of Time" fantasy series.

 

[Master of Blades]

Just finished "V for Vendetta" by Steve Moore (yes, it was some crappy novelisation of the movie, not the original), and "Last chance to see" by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwadine (really reccomend this one, very intresting, and quite funny on top of that). Currently trying to obtain a copy of "1984", still haven't read it.