The Reading Corner.

[Buster's Uncle]

Deserted Cities of the Heart by Lewis Shiner.

[gwillybj]

Neal Stephenson is always a good read  (cryopyre mentioned Diamond Age) (several are available in Russian and other languages): Snow Crash --- Cryptonomicon --- and others

William Gibson: Neuromancer --- Virtual Light --- and others

Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Blade Runner; by just watching the movie you miss out on a lot)

Niel Gaiman: the Interworld books --- the Sandman series

Isaac Asimov: the Foundation novels

J.R.R. Tolkien: everything Middle-Earth (some faction ideas in there if you want something light)


not Sci-Fi, but good military reads:
Harold Coyle: Team Yankee, and the series that begins with Sword Point

[Unorthodox]

Son had basketball practice last night, and it's far enough away it didn't make sense to go back home between dropping him off and picking him up, so I headed across the street to the library. 

They finally have the next book in my series in the system, so I reserved a copy of that, and picked up book 3 in The Last Apprentice series.  This is the series my younger son is reading, and I can burn through one in a night or two.  It's in the same vein as Harry Potter, but with far less prancing about in a fantasy world and more horror elements.  The forthcoming movie is, however, loosely based on the books just from the casting.  It could REALLY suck, or might surprise if they do it properly. 


Then I picked up Lord of the Dead by Tom Holland.  Vampire novel that supposedly harkens back to Anne Rice's glory days.  It's well reviewed and had been on my radar for a while. 

With only 10 minutes passed, I decided to do something I hadn't since I was a child.  Head over to the non-fiction and wander around seeing what grabbed my eye.  Many an afternoon thus spent learning how to build castles or hunt bigfoot as my mom did her research in various libraries.  Scrolling through various mythological/cryptozoological creature encyclopedias showed me there was very little there I either wasn't already familiar with, or would have better info on the internet.  I needed a field guide.  Sure enough, I found one. 

Monsters: an investigator's guide to magical beings by John Michael Greer. 

This explores the various mythologies behind the different beings, which interests me...then gets into magical means of identifying and dealing with them, which could prove useful in a halloween sense.  I've only scratched the surface so far

[Buster's Uncle]

Foundation by Isaac Asimov.  It's still almost as good as when I was 12.

[Lord Avalon]

Finished "40,000 in Gehenna," started Cherryh's "The Faded Sun Trilogy" (Kesrtih, Shon'jir, Kutath).  About 2/3 of the way through "Cyteen."

[Buster's Uncle]

Foundation And Empire by Isaac Asimov. 

[Green1]

Some non-fiction here.

Finished up Michu Kaku's Physics of the Future.

A bit on the optomistic side, but a fascinating read. When they talk all these advances, they neglect to say who will benefit from those advances.

[Unorthodox]

Then I picked up Lord of the Dead by Tom Holland.  Vampire novel that supposedly harkens back to Anne Rice's glory days.  It's well reviewed and had been on my radar for a while. 

Awful....

[Buster's Uncle]

Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov. 

[Unorthodox]

Storm Front first of the Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher.  TV show was ok, so why not? 

[Zoid]

I just read "Food & Memories" by iconic swedish chef and restauranteur Tore Wretman. The man who, in the 40´s and 50´s almost singel-handedly, built up the modern swedish restaurant business and gave it a much needed injection of haute cuisine with his experiences from Paris and New York. 

[Unorthodox]

I just read "Food & Memories" by iconic swedish chef

Love that guy. 

The Muppets: Cårven Der Pümpkîn

(had to be done) 

[Lord Avalon]

(had to be done) 

Bork! Bork! Bork!

[Buster's Uncle]

 

[Lord Avalon]

Finished Cyteen, about to start its sequel Regenesis.