Reading through Book of the New Sun. Definitely an underrated sci fi series.

I don't normally plan my reading much ahead of time but August is an exception on a few counts.

Firstly, Whalefall by Daniel Kraus comes out on August 8th. It's such a goofy idea for a story (think Jonah and the Whale meets The Martian) and I have been so pumped, I've been talking people's ear off about it for months. It's like scientifically accurate Pinocchio.

Secondly, one of the bookclub picks for the Discord server affiliated with !bookclub@lemmy.world is The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin

And then it's Tropeical Readathon (a semiannual reading challenge thing) again so I have a couple dozen books picked out to cover that, but the only other sci-fi one apart from the above is Under This Forgetful Sky by Lauren Yero.

Just finished Scalzi's Redshirts. Was a lot of fun. Laughed at every mention of control panels blowing up in bridge crew's faces for no logical reason. Didn't much care about the last few chapters that came after the main story though.

Last book of the Expanse

I am just starting the Fitz and the Fool trilogy. I have enjoyed the other trilogies in this series.

Looking forward to rereading mistborn so I remember wax and Wayne before jumping into the lost metal.

Not sure if Riot Baby counts, but I just finished that and The Dreaming Void.

I’m tracking my progress through the Hugo award winners, so I’m now reading Rendezvous with Rama and have the Broken Earth trilogy on hand for when I’m done that.

Happy to talk about Wheel of Time. Did you make it all the way to the end?

I’ve read the whole series twice, once when the last book was finally released and again during the pandemic.

If you’re still on Reddit, there was a great sub for WoT memes

Frank Herbert's Dune, a great read. The new movie is actually quite faithful to the novel.

Just listened to the full cast audiobook of Alien: Out of the shadows. Nothing amazing but was a fun listen. Before that was Artemis, not as good as Project Hail Mary imo but still quite enjoyable. I think Recursion is going to be my next read, but I'm open to suggestions.

The Wheel of Time

The inverted frontier series by Linda Nagata has been quite fun for me. Waiting for book four.

Just started The Passage by Justin Cronin (audiobook) and I’m loving it, and I’m about to finish Witch King (dead tree) by Martha Wells, which has also been fantastic.

Up next in dead tree edition is gonna be something off my bookshelf at home. Not sure what I’m in the mood for yet but I’m leaning towards Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I want to re-read that and Eyes of the Void to prep for Lords of Uncreation.

Dungeon crawler Carl. It's a funny romp.

I just finished a book by Carlton Mellick the third called, Every time we meet at the dairy queen your whole fucking face explodes. Its probably even weirder than you are thinking, but very fun and enjoyable.

Just about to start “The Three Body Problem”. It’s been on my list for a while now, so looking forward to it!

Just finished an interesting and totally original read, “The Psychology Of Time Travel” which is basically a time-travelling murder mystery.

Death´s End - Third book of Three Body/Trisolaris series by Cixin Liu. I am positively surprised by the character Yun Tianming. After I really liked the character design of Ye Wenjie in the first book, I was pretty disappointed to find that other characters in the series seem as shallow as cardboard cutouts in comparison to her. However, with Yun Tianming there is a believable and relatable character in this outstanding sci-fi story again. I´m super curious how he and how the relations between humans and Trisolarians will develop. Being in the third book and knowing his style now, it is already clear that Cixin Liu still has some unexpected plot twists in his sleeve!

Reading? No. But listing to The Witcher Season of Storm. Also starting on Quantum Earth series by Dennis Taylor.

The Bobiverse books were great. Can't wait for more. I've been reading Expeditionary Force which is where the Skippy's come from. Also Rythm of War by Brandon Sanderson.

Empire of Man.

William Gibson - The difference engine

More of steam punk era with mechanical machines, enjoying it as Audiobook on the morning walks.