Question What are you reading?

[camelopardis]

I'm reading Isaac Asimov's The Complete Stories

 

[Andy44]

Just finished "One Minute to Midnight" by Dobbs, it's a new history about the Cuban missile crisis whoch reveals some new info and photos, and comes to some new conclusions. Great book, reads like a Tom Clancy novel, and scary, too.

 

[PELLAEON]

Reading Battlefield Earth.

Forget the movie which was one of, if not the worst misinterpretations from book to movie ever.

 

[Ark]

Reading Battlefield Earth.

Forget the movie which was one of, if not the worst misinterpretations from book to movie ever.

Ugh, Scientology...

Just picked myself up a copy of Cosmos, by Carl Sagan. I shouldn't even need to say anything about this guy.

 

[Deke]

Currently reading two books.


Starship Troopers and The Crusades.

 

[Ark]

Currently reading two books.


Starship Troopers and The Crusades.

Starship Troopers is a great book, lots of really cool ideas, both in technology and government/society.

 

[joiz]

I've been in the mood for a comedy -

So I'm currently reading Gerard K. O'Neill's, The High Frontier.

For some reason though, I don't seem to be able to book a reservation for the decade old Island 1....

I thought that one was a tragedy.

 

[flytandem]

Currently reading, "Hotel California" guitar tab. The eyes see, the brain understands but the fingers are borderline mutiny.

 

[Andy44]

I'm tearing through R.A. Heinlein's Expanded Universe, published in 1979, which is a collection of short stories and essays by the Greatest One. I never get tired of his style.

Earlier there was a thread in which I mentioned Heinlein's propensity for killing off his characters with radiation. Green Hills of Earth and the Long Watch were mentioned.

Add to that list "Solution Unsatisfactory", written in the days before US entry into WWII. The narrator is telling the story from the first-person perspective, and describes how his boss, a congressman recalled to Army service, developed a horrible radiological weapon consisting of radioactive dust, and how it is used to kill the residents of Berlin and enforce a world peace. Late in the story the main character realizes he has been exposed to a little too much radiation himself...and you see where this is going.

Many of the writings in Expanded Universe deal with nuclear or radiological weapons and the implications to both the survival and freedom of humanity. Grok it!

 

[Juanelm]

The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene

Read Watchmen the other day...

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Just finished 'Too Far From Home' by Chris Jones - a great read about Expedition Six to the ISS who found themselves with no way of getting home after the Columbia disaster. The parts that really make it worth reading are the descriptions of day to day life on the ISS for it's three man crew and how the crew grew together during the time they spent waiting to come back.

It sounds like a good book, so based on your "review", I have ordered it from Amazon.
I hope it is as good as you say it is

-Pete

 

[xgmx]

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Warped

 

[spec10]

Dan Abnett - Legion

 

[ex-orbinaut]

Tonight will be finishing James A. Mitchener´s Novel, Space.

Before that, simultaneously;

Ron Hubbards Sci Fi Invader´s Plan, Vol 1, and;

The Art of the Infinite, R & E Kaplan, recommended for number junkies (maybe find some more compelling material here for originalpckelly's thread; answer of the universe 0 not 42?)

Will be looking for this one...

V2 by Walter Dornberger ( nazi general who overseen the v2 project) interesting book how he imagined launching rockets using the v2 technology to the moon

And inevitably will need to brush up on this, now (10 years since I did anything with C, not even C++)...

C++ for dummies

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Right, my book "Too Far From Home", about Expedition 6 to the ISS, has just arrived from Amazon. I shall begin reading tonight.

From just flicking through, it seems very good!

Dickie: Thanks for bringing it to my attention

 

[spec10]

Dan Abnett - Legion

Well, to be honest, right now I'm more into "Fundamentals of Physics (Extended)" by Halliday, Resnick, and Walker than into the novel i mentioned above.

I'm sure many of you know that one, but there's something confusing about the version I have on my table ... the one I got from the University library looks like this:



What's the difference between mine and the U.S. Edition !?

 

[cljohnston]

I couldn't accurately say what I am reading as I usually have several novels on the go at once and skip from one to the other depending on my mood, so I can take months to get through one (I mostly have sci-fi novels on my bookshelf). I have a very few favorite novels which I like to re-read scenes from. I am guilty of borrowing lots of interesting-looking books from my local library but more often than not never finish reading them as I lose interest (short attention span). :blush:

Yep, I'm the same way...

• Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
• Hybrids by Robert J. Sawyer
• The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture by "Gene Roddenberry" (actually Alan Dean Foster)
• The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• The Big Knockover by Dashiell Hammett
• Appointment on the Moon by Richard S. Lewis
• Lightpaths by Howard V. Hendrix
• Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy by Crawford Kilian
• The Complete Book of Scriptwriting by J. Michael Straczynski
• The Writer's Guide to Creating a Science Fiction Universe by George Ochoa & Jeffrey Osier

Re-reading Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan because it was lying around and I got bored. Kind of a cross between Phillip K Dick and Dashiel Hammet, with a hint of William Gibson style genetic engineering.

I like that he really considers the implications of the tech he invents, the impact it has on society and how people see the world. The tech thoroughly affects his character's worldview on a deep and subconcious level.

This one I'm actually reading all the way through!
One of the best damn books I've ever read!


However, I'm one of the few people who just couldn't stomach Ender's Game.
Most irritating thing I've ever tried to read — just wanted to smack that kid, and his siblings.

 

[ex-orbinaut]

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (at present),

and immediately prior to that, I finally found and read the now out of print;

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, by Buckminster Fuller.

Found it at

http://bfi.org/?q=node/421

 

[cljohnston]

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, by Buckminster Fuller.

Found it at

http://bfi.org/?q=node/421

Hey! Another Bucky fan!
I once had a friend over for their first time, and as he was looking at my bookcase he asked, "Is there any significance to the fact that you have an entire shelf full of books on Buckminster Fuller, and you live on Fuller Avenue?"
I had to tell him it was just a happy coincidence. :speakcool:

 

[Pquardzvaark]

Nearly finished with The Right Stuff - fun read. Wondering just how accurate the novel is because I noticed one or two errors that then seemed fixed later on, so possibly more of an editing mistake than factual error.

John Glenn seems like a bit of an uptight jerk, no wonder he became a politician.