Forgot to add to my list that I read Charlie The Choo-Choo.
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Currently reading The Abominable by Dan Simmons. Previous book was The Fireman by Joe Hill (Excellent), Obsidian Heart (Quite good) series by Mark Morris, Blood and Bone by Ian C Esslemont (roolly roolly good), Against All Things Ending (snore) by Donaldson, and Escardy Gap (Wonderfully weird in a 'if Clive Barker ate shrooms when he writes' kinda way) by James Lovegrove and Peter Crowther.
This is the End times. a collection of great stories about the end of humanity. Starting with Vernes The Eternal Adam and goes on. Good introduction by Robert Silverberg who also participate with a story . It is solar flares, apokalypses , ice age, continental drift and many other means to reach the end. And of course the flood stories are in their too. After all, the first apokalypse story, The Gilgamesh written about 2500 bc, was a flood story so that variety must be represented.
Sounds interesting. anything with Silverberg interests me, great writer and a lovely chap in person!
You met him? The only big SF writer i met with are Jack Vance (i was about 8-9 and he loved me. Gave The Wind in the Willows signed by him). Also i think i misled you earlier. The title is: This Way to the End Times. But i agree about Silverberg. Read lots of books by him.
I read Fool Me Once and I Let You Go - both recommended on this board. Now finishing The Shadow of Night - book 2 in the All Soul's Trilogy by Deborah Harkness.
I finished reading Hugh Howey's Silo trilogy. I liked the story but I gots to say I was a bit disappointed to discover Howey's imagination didn't create the idea for the silos. I think he borrowed the idea from a survivalist fall-out shelter condo that was created within an old missile silo in Kansas about four years ago.
Then I read The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (published in 1974). The story takes place in the 31st century but it's not a post apocalyptic story. It's more of a space exploration story. Humans have colonized worlds on the other side of the Coalsack Nebula and they discover a world inhabited by some unusual aliens. I thought it was a great story
Niven and Pournelle also wrote Lucifer's Hammer which was very good. Niven (by himself) wrote Ringworld which is one of the best of the world-building novels ever written imho.
Then I got a bunch of the free kindle cozy mysteries which are more silly romance than mystery. I thought cozy mysteries were supposed to be similar to Murder She Wrote mysteries but cozy seems to be synonymous with romance. The heroines are all independent women, yet they melt in the presence of good looking males. What is with that? Jessica Fletcher never swooned over Sheriff Tupper or Doc Hazlitte lol.
Thank you! I just got This Way to the End Times One can only read so many cozy mysteries before brain damage sets in. I like Vance and Silverberg and there's a story by Fritz Leiber in the anthology too!
Then I read The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (published in 1974). The story takes place in the 31st century but it's not a post apocalyptic story. It's more of a space exploration story. Humans have colonized worlds on the other side of the Coalsack Nebula and they discover a world inhabited by some unusual aliens. I thought it was a great story
Niven and Pournelle also wrote Lucifer's Hammer which was very good. Niven (by himself) wrote Ringworld which is one of the best of the world-building novels ever written imho.Then I got a bunch of the free kindle cozy mysteries which are more silly romance than mystery. I thought cozy mysteries were supposed to be similar to Murder She Wrote mysteries but cozy seems to be synonymous with romance. The heroines are all independent women, yet they melt in the presence of good looking males. What is with that? Jessica Fletcher never swooned over Sheriff Tupper or Doc Hazlitte lol.
Thank you! I just got This Way to the End Times
One can only read so many cozy mysteries before brain damage sets in. I like Vance and Silverberg and there's a story by Fritz Leiber in the anthology too! 
Currently working on Anna Karenina, trying to broaden my horizons a bit, torn on how I feel about it. A character study on 1800s Russian aristocracy might have been a bit to dive into.
It's the same text as in the DT III. The cover is done by Ned Dameron but the rest of the illos inside are done by the nefarious sounding Columbia Tri-Star Marketing Group Inc. based on Dameron's cover. They did a great job capturing the 'feel' of Dameron's vision (you really don't know for sure if those kids are laughing or crying).
Agree about cozy mysteries. But i can recommend some cozy spy stories, Drink to Yesterday and Toast to tomorrow are written 1940 by Manning Coles and are excellent spy stories in a cozy way. In the mystery department some Michael Gilbert can also be recommended, Death of a Favourite Girl, Close Quarters and They Never Looked inside (AKA USTITLE He Didn't Mind Danger). A highly underrated golden age author is Philip Macdonald active 1930 to 50-ties. His The List of Adrian Messenger is a masterpiece. I often prefer prefer the mystery novels of that time to today because they still know to stop at the end and don't waste words. So most books are 200-300 pages at the most. Today i often feel authors need to learn that. Not all stories benefit from being long but rather the opposite. Sorry, i ramble a little.I finished reading Hugh Howey's Silo trilogy. I liked the story but I gots to say I was a bit disappointed to discover Howey's imagination didn't create the idea for the silos. I think he borrowed the idea from a survivalist fall-out shelter condo that was created within an old missile silo in Kansas about four years ago.
Then I read The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (published in 1974). The story takes place in the 31st century but it's not a post apocalyptic story. It's more of a space exploration story. Humans have colonized worlds on the other side of the Coalsack Nebula and they discover a world inhabited by some unusual aliens. I thought it was a great story
Then I got a bunch of the free kindle cozy mysteries which are more silly romance than mystery. I thought cozy mysteries were supposed to be similar to Murder She Wrote mysteries but cozy seems to be synonymous with romance. The heroines are all independent women, yet they melt in the presence of good looking males. What is with that? Jessica Fletcher never swooned over Sheriff Tupper or Doc Hazlitte lol.
Thank you! I just got This Way to the End Times
Wow, let's see,
Read through all his short story collections then started
" Salems lot"
Thinking of returning to DT series after that
Read through all his short story collections then started
" Salems lot"
Thinking of returning to DT series after that
Currently, Doctor Sleep. Since the board shutdown, I've amassed: Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Shining, and wrapped up The Bill Hodges trilogy. *Mops brow*
Next up: The Stand.
Next up: The Stand.
I did not realize that. Thanks.
...he felt like he'd been railroaded.....
That was my train of thought....
....see, I knew we were tracking........
It's cold and there's snow on the ground here, it might be time for a 'Salem's Lot re-read.....
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