Whazzup everybody? I like books (and edibles) so when I saw this community I wanted to contribute. I just finished Artemis by Andy Weir, a sci fi novel about a young delivery worker/smuggler who gets entangled in a plot to change the balances of power on the Moon’s only city.
I picked up The Deepest South of All by Richard Grant at Ollie’s for a few bucks the other day and have started that. It tells the tales of various people the author meets in Natchez, Mississippi and explores how it’s slavery centric past still influences the area today.
What are you all reading? How big is your backlog? I started explicitly keeping a physical backlog when I buy new media because I’m 100% that guy who’ll put it up and forget forever. haha
Just finished Eyes of the Void, another great sci-fi book by Adrian Tchaikofsky (part 2 of The Final Architecture trilogy). Very much recommended for people looking for space opera in the vein of The Expanse. It’s about a future where aliens and humans co-exist and godlike beings as big as moons called Architects are randomly destroying sentient worlds, seemingly without reason.
Now I’m reading The Stranger Times by C.K. McDonnell, which is urban fantasy very much in line with Neil Gaiman or Ben Aaronovitch. It’s about people working at a tabloid newspaper that publishes supposed news-stories about supernatural/alien encounters and accidentally stumbles upon a real one. So far, the book is not as funny as it wants to be, but very entertaining nonetheless.
This review made me laugh, then I thought “This comment is probably funnier than the book,” and that made me laugh again.
Good times haha.
It’s not that bad, I did have to chuckle a few times. But the author tries really hard to make every single character into some sort of quirky caricature.