Currently one book (Use of Weapons) into the Culture series by Iain Banks. Instantly shot up my list of favorites novels. Looking for more dark, grime and gritty sci fi novels before I start the next Culture book (likely Excession) feel free to add suggestions to my short list: Sprawl trilogy Blindsight The Sparrow Snow Crash Annihilation 3 Body Problem The Murderbot Diaries
FWIW - while I like it - Murderbot isnt really dark or gritty. Other suggestions - Red Rising series by Pierce Brown Winter World Series by AG Riddle Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden
It's my favorite series of books. The first book is the weakest, especially in the beginning. Feels a little YA and tropey. But after that - the series takes off like a rocket ship. A lot of us here love it
Thinking about starting this. the second Locke of Lemora book didn’t hit quite like the first one. It’s either this or push through the red rising book no one wants
Need to read the third Wool book, books 3 and maybe 4 of Dune, books 2-6 of the Sun Eater series, then I'ma start Red Rising On another note, I'm currently about 40% of the way through Mickey7, and think it might be a good book club book. Fun read, I've actually chuckled out loud a couple times
Mickey7 is great. As is the sequel. Imo it’s the closet vibe to Andy Weir books I’ve found. Good sci-fi with humor ect. Author has a new book out this week I hope to get to soon. Also I think Mickey7 is going to be a movie
No one buys books Everything we learned about the publishing industry from Penguin vs. DOJ. https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books Some interesting/depressing/not surprising numbers about the publishing industry
Just finished the age of madness trilogy by Abercrombie. Another great installment into the first law universe
Paul Auster, the prolific novelist, memoirist and screenwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s with his postmodern reanimation of the noir novel and who endured to become one of the signature New York writers of his generation, died of complications from lung cancer at his home in Brooklyn on Tuesday evening. He was 77. His death was confirmed by a friend, Jacki Lyden. With his hooded eyes, soulful air and leading-man looks, Mr. Auster was often described as a “literary superstar” in news accounts. The Times Literary Supplement of Britain once called him “one of America’s most spectacularly inventive writers.” Though a New Jersey native, he became indelibly linked with the rhythms of his adopted city, which was a character of sorts in much of his work — particularly Brooklyn, where he settled in 1980 amid the oak-lined streets of brownstones in the Park Slope neighborhood. As his reputation grew, Mr. Auster came to be seen as a guardian of Brooklyn’s rich literary past, as well as an inspiration to a new generation of novelists who flocked to the borough in the 1990s and later. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/books/paul-auster-dead.html