Posted: Sep 12, 07 12:59pm
Today, I just finished Brass Man by Neal Asher, author of Cowl and Skinner. A fast, startling read, Asher combines deep tech-savvy background with dark, complex characters.
Also on the nightstand:
Deeper Blue - John Ringo's latest installment in his "Ghost / Kildar" series. Ringo's treatment of adult themes almost certainly isn't for everybody, but I find his humor worthwhile and he definitely has a knack for engaging narrative.
The Canon - Natalie Angier's beautiful, almost elegiac, tribute to various 'canonical' scientific principles and ideas - if you ever found science a pain in the b*tt - Angier has a gift for making it accessible, fun and connected with your life.
Conqueror's Moon and IronCrown Moon - Julian May is the author of the series The Saga of Pleistocene Exile. If you haven't read this, you really oughtta give it a try. It was so wonderful that she immediately became one of those authors whose books I'll buy and read with a complete lack of consideration! :)
Everyman - OK, Philip Roth's latest is not really science fiction or fantasy, except that everything Roth writes is arguably fantastic!
On The Prowl - It's my guilty pleasure, what can I say - necromantic "chicklit" - it's like popcorn!! I bought it for the Patricia Briggs novella, and found (it's a collection of four) that 3 out of the 4 were guiltily pleasurable.
What are you reading these days? What are your guilty reading pleasures!?
Cheers
-Jeff
