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What are you Reading? (August 2023) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Izzy@lemmy.world to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world

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I've put together a collage of some books from last months What are you Reading? post. It's mostly random, but the more discussion something gets the more it stands out to me. Going forward I'm going to make a new post every month to talk about what people are reading.

Here is last months post. What are you Reading? (July 2023)

At any rate, what are you currently reading or plan to read in August?

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[–] Izzy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm currently in the middle of Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. I'm only about 15% of the way through so I don't have a great picture of what is going on or what it is about yet. It seems like the main premise is about an archeologist who has been working on an excavation of an ancient species on a distant planet for an extremely long period of time that likely has far reaching implications about the universe. I've definitely never read anything similar to this in the past.

The other book I plan on reading (listening to) is The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers of which I know basically nothing about. I tend to listen to a book whenever I can't read such as when I'm driving or bathing and then read at times that I can like before sleeping. I find it is a good system to get through 2 books at once.

[–] sir_wandelf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really enjoyed reading TLWtaSAP.

[–] Riker_Maneuver@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

It was incredibly refreshing in that it was almost just slice-of-life at times; so much time was dedicated to just getting to know the characters in not necessarily extreme scenarios.

[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Revelation Space, the only book within which I saw the word “triumvirate” used outside of the “Our jimmies are eternal. None can rustle the Triumvirate.” meme.

If you want to get a wider feel more quickly of the Revelation Space worldbuilding, try Galactic North which is a short story collection featuring many varied shippets featuring characters from the main series.

To an ordinary person not interested in sci-fi world building, I would be more inclined to recommend Reynolds's Pushing Ice or Century Rain which are self-contained.

[–] raffomania@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Galactic north really got me deep, after finishing the main trilogy. Id recommend reading it after for the full effect

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

House of Suns is also fantastic. It's my favorite one-book sci-fi anything ever.