kind of a bummer to DNF a book I’d really been looking forward to (Children of Time), but life’s too short to read books you don’t want to read
Activity tagged "space operas"
Update on the arm I bought to hold my e-reader for me: have just discovered this enables me to knit (simple patterns) while I read
Last night I finished The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and half a sock
update: the library director was in today and showed me his secret space opera hoard. new additions to the list:
- August Kitko and the Mechas from Space, Alex White
- You Sexy Thing, Cat Rambo
(haven’t read either yet, but he highly recommends)
he also had two of the books i’d been wanting to include in the display!
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers
- Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee
in case you needed a reason to volunteer at your local public library: today the librarians let me pick a theme for and then curate one of the featured displays.
time to get this town reading more space operas!
my picks, if you want to read along:
- All Systems Red, Martha Wells
- Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie
- Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi
- Empire of Silence, Christopher Ruocchio
- Foundation, Isaac Asimov
- Leviathan Wakes, James A. Corey
- Olympos, Dan Simmons
- Saga (graphic novel), Brian K. Vaughan
- Shards of Earth, Adrian Tchaikovsky
- The Stars are Legion, Kameron Hurley
- The Three Body Problem, Liu Cixin
was working with a somewhat limited selection, or else I’d have tucked in some others:
- The Algebraist, Iain M. Banks (this is my current read!)
- Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Consider Phlebas, Iain M. Banks
- The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers
- Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee
- Pandora’s Star, Peter F. Hamilton
- Revelation Space, Alistair Reynolds
- Shards of Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold
- Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
- We Are Legion (We Are Bob), Dennis E. Taylor
(I haven’t read all these, but the ones I haven’t are all on my to-read!)