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What fiction or autobiographies are people here currently reading?

Leed926

What fiction or autobiographies are people here currently reading? I find it interesting to hear what others are currently reading and why.

I have recently been reading Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill, originally published in 2017 and shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2018 science fiction book of the year. Yes, it came out before Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir in 2021, but I also sometimes read novels from the early and mid 20th century.

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  • At the moment I am re-reading 'Araminta Station' by Jack Vance. Vance was a science fiction author who started writing in the 1950s. The science in his fiction is mostly comparative anthropology. He also wrote fantasy (the way magic works and some of the spells themselves were adopted by the founders of Dungeons and Dragons) and thrillers. I am also rereading the Medieval Icelandic 'Saga of Grettir the Strong' (in translation). I'm about one third the way trough 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' by Robert Tressell, but am making heavy going of it and am continuously skipping to less depressing reads.

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  • At the moment I am re-reading 'Araminta Station' by Jack Vance. Vance was a science fiction author who started writing in the 1950s. The science in his fiction is mostly comparative anthropology. He also wrote fantasy (the way magic works and some of the spells themselves were adopted by the founders of Dungeons and Dragons) and thrillers. I am also rereading the Medieval Icelandic 'Saga of Grettir the Strong' (in translation). I'm about one third the way trough 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' by Robert Tressell, but am making heavy going of it and am continuously skipping to less depressing reads.

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  • in reply to Martin

    “Honestly, I hadn’t heard of Jack Vance before, but I did a bit of research since I love sci-fi, and he sounds exactly like my kind of author! His world-building and the way he mixes clever, morally gray characters with imaginative settings really appeal to me. Definitely going to check out some of his work!”