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Recently read
The Man Who Saw Seconds - Alexander Boldizar
Runes of Engagement - Tobias S Buckell & Dave Klecha
How to become The Dark Lord and Die Trying - Django Wexler
Think Twice - Harlan Coben
You Sexy Thing - Cat Rambo
The Devil’s Gun - Cat Rambo
Safe Enough - Lee Child (non-Reacher short stories)
The Javan War - John Birmingham & Jason Lambright
Cascade Failure - L.M. Sagas
Mercury Rising - R.W.W. Greene

Currently reading
The Tower Of Jack - Sean Loomer
The Mercy Of Gods - James S.A. Corey
How To Kill Your Family - Bella Mackie

Reading next
I’m Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom - Jason Pargin
Livesuit - James S.A. Corey
The Great When - Alan Moore
The Last Dangerous Visions - Harlan Ellison
Dolphin Junction - Mick Herron
Long Live Evil - Sarah Rees Brennan

One of the benefits of being retired - more time to read (I also read The Times and the Washington Post daily, and Empire, New Scientist, Stuff, & Wired monthly (the monthly magazines courtesy of Libby, the online Library app)).

So far, read 72 books on my iPad :D

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Chinglish instructions for an item from Temu.

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Recently read
Replay - Ken Grimwood
The Mail Man - Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Corvus - Marko Kloos
The Feeding - Anthony Ryan
Hail Mary - Andy Weir (re-read)
Blue Sunrise - Gregg R Overman
Stone & Sky- Ben Aaronovitch
The Accidental Soldier - Owain Mulligan
After America Trilogy - John Birmingham (re-read)
When The Moon Hits Your Eye - John Scalzi
The Fourth Consort - Edward Ashton
Future’s Edge - Gareth L Powell
A Very Punchable Face - Colin Jost

Reading now
The Petrovich Trilogy - Simon Morden
(Robert B. Parker’s) Buried Secrets - Christopher Farnsworth
The Deserter - Nelson DeMille
Dark Diamond - Neal Asher
World War 3.2 - John Birmingham

Reading next
Starter For Ten - David Nicholls
Clown Town - Mick Herron (latest Slow Horses book)
The Shattering Peace - John Scalzi (new "Old Man’s War" book - first in ten years)
Who Will You Save - Gareth L Powell
Under Fortunate Stars - Ren Hutchings

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Currently, Marc Landau - Outpost Omega

me goes searching, cheers Hugh ;)

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Just re-read all the Martha Wells “Murderbot” books/short stories, before reading the latest "Platform Decay”

After that, probably

The Dog Stars - Peter Heller
Aurora - David Koepp
And Side By Side They Wander - Molly Tanner
The Cracked Mirror - Chris Brookmyre

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*uncanny coincidence #27*

Guess who, a few days ago, also decided to revisit Murderbot, I'm currently halfway through Network Effect.

If I didn't know better, I'd suggest our interfaces were acting suspiciously . . or I've been compromised :shocked:


p.s. have you tried any Adrian Tchaikovsky ?

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Not tried his Fantasy, but have read

The Doors of Eden
Children of Time (not got round to the other 3 books in the series yet)
Shards of Earth
Alien Clay (started this, couldn’t get into it, must try again)
Dogs of War, Bear Head, Bee Speaker

Service Model is in my TBR (virtual) pile

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Only started his stuff a week or two ago.
Yes some of them seem to be 'long winded' and 'over described' in places. Not yet read any of the 'animals/insects' books.

I struggled to the end of Alien Clay, found Service Model* to be decent enough.


* this probably kicked of the Murderbot thoughts ;)

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I was the same with Alien Clay..

I recommend the Edward Ashton books Three Days in April, The End of Ordinary, Mickey7, Antimatter Blues, Mal Goes to War, and The Fourth Consort.

Just reading his latest "After The Fall".

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Cheers, will look for some Edward Ashton, I think that will be a new author for me . . although if he's the typical writer I may have read something in a short story omnibus at some time.
Sometimes I grab those short story collections as a pointer towards other authors, either new or old, that I hadn't 'discovered' yet.

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I got sidetracked reading "2034” by Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis - burned through it in two days; liked it so much (never goes where you expect it to go, especially coming from two retired US military officers), I’ve the follow up books (2054 and 2084).

They’re not SF, more near-future techno-thrillers.

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Earlier, my eye test results from 3 years ago. That's enough reading for one day :D

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@ Hugh, just had a quick look and I have 'Elliot Ackerman-Sheepdogs' in my 'yet to read' section, will check the others out :tu:

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Ice Vegas - Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
Careless People - Sarah Wynn-Williams
The Warehouse - Rob Hart
Brigands and Breadknives - Travis Baldree
Broken Greek - Pete Paphides