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Arthur C Clarke Earthlight. It's been a bit slow going to be honest but its great to see lots of mid 20th Century technology alive and well on the Moon. They have a proper old liquid chemical darkroom up there for developing photographic plates form their telescope! That and all the magnetic tape and hole punched tickets flying about the facility. Sci-fi lit's first Big space battle at the end or so I'm led to believe!

 theCrowe wrote:
Arthur C Clarke Earthlight. It's been a bit slow going to be honest but its great to see lots of mid 20th Century technology alive and well on the Moon. They have a proper old liquid chemical darkroom up there for developing photographic plates form their telescope! That and all the magnetic tape and hole punched tickets flying about the facility. Sci-fi lit's first Big space battle at the end or so I'm led to believe!

Arthur C Clarke and slow going is pretty much a tautology.

Sci-Fi genius, though, and the science in his books is generally hard as nails, which I appreciate.

Rendezvous with Rama is another of his which I'd recommend, if you haven't read it already

Re-reading a lot of Jack Vance lately - damn he's good!

Right now I'm working my way through The Demon Princes series.

Highly recommended!

I'm now reading Star Trek TNG: Planet X. It's a book that came out a while back and is a crossover between Star Trek TNG and Marvel's X-men. Yes you read that right, a bunch of the X-men have travelled in time and between universes and are working with Captain Picard and company. It's actually a pretty good read so far, although you have to suspend your disbelief a bit more than usual.

Jack Vance is one of those fantasy authors who wrote during the pulp magazine era, which might be my favorite era because the stories got right to the good stuff and celebrated the fantastic instead of downplaying it. I've read a fair amount of his work and really enjoy it. Sadly, I loaned Tales of the Dying Earth to someone who moved 500 miles away...

 ZergSmasher wrote:
I'm now reading Star Trek TNG: Planet X. It's a book that came out a while back and is a crossover between Star Trek TNG and Marvel's X-men. Yes you read that right, a bunch of the X-men have travelled in time and between universes and are working with Captain Picard and company. It's actually a pretty good read so far, although you have to suspend your disbelief a bit more than usual.

I bought this book years ago to use for a party game; just open the book to a random page and start reading it out loud. Hilarity ensues. Of course, my parties tend to have a lot of nerds and a lot of alcohol...

Still working on Star Trek Vanguard, but the Spenser books are just too easy to read. I've gone through half a dozen of them, and find I prefer the middle novels over the later novels over the early novels, when Parker had the formula down, but before he had run out of steam for everything but streamlined dialog and action.

Also, just started MERCS: The Worker's Heart. So far, it's pretty fun. Feels like an 80's milSF story set in Verhoeven's take on the Feudal Corporatism of The Stars My Destination.