Probably the single greatest collection of short stories ever.
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Currently about halfway through this ~900 page tome and really enjoying it. It features the humans fleeing a dying Earth sci-fi trope, with humanity flinging itself across the galaxy on giant ark ships, but the story takes place a great many years after the Exodus. Really interesting how he shows the intersection of human evolution, time and technology. This is my first time reading anything by Peter F. Hamilton as well.
‘Exodus: The Archimedes Engine’
p.s. edit: I really hate this cover art, real missed opportunity to do something cool imo.
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Not the usual fare here, but have been enjoying listening to this audio book while painting. Currently my latest pastime is listening to audiobooks while painting my backlog of terrain.
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Already finished it. Enjoyed it very much.
On to Dungeon Crawler Carl…
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Just started this book. Supposed to be great and the twist at the end is supposed to be fantastic if not the best ever so I can’t wait to finish it.
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Been loving the Dungeon Crawler Carl audio book, good, entertaining, and funny.
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Really went back and forth on this one but my local book store offered me $10 off so she’d have someone to talk with about the book. Told her it’d be a while but I’m looking forward to getting started.
Neither The Fireman or Strange Weather really landed for me but I adored Heart Shaped Box and 20th Century. Horns was a lot of fun and Locke & Key are pretty important comix, I think, and I appreciated his Hill House imprint at DC.
So, leaning toward I’ll dig it but it’s a whole lot of book to wade through.
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So good! I love it. The animals are amazing, and the cosmic horror angle is so well done.
I finished the first 3 Earthsea books and was unsure if I wanted to go straight to Tehanu or switch things up. Was hesitant due to the amount of real-life time between the 3rd and 4th books, but opted to read it straightaway and very glad I did as I really very much enjoyed it. It is a great novel buoyed by poignant narration with female characters taking a central role. Perhaps could be argued it’s a slight departure from the first 3 books, though I felt it tied in very well and continued the narrative while still carving out its own story. Super good. 
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That’s a great cover. Mine’s the standard party looking one.
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LeGuin just rules. To me, at least.
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I’ve read the first 3 Earthsea books, and I love them. They’re my favorite LeGuin books.
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A couple of days left to blow a wad of cash 
on a beautiful archival copy of The King In Yellow:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidiancodexpress/the-king-in-yellow
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Looks like they’re making a nice edition of it!
I don’t think I like that they actually wrote the play though… How can it possibly live up to the hype?
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Agreed. The whole dramatic function of the play in the stories is that it creates a sense of complete unease and dread in the reader because it should never be read. The unknown contents is what creates the horror and the horror is brilliant because it exists in each reader’s imagination of what the unknown play could be which is unique to them. That’s kind of a terrible way to honor the stories in my opinion.
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I’m trying to imagine being that playwright, being asked to make this play, realizing what it is, and then still going “Yeah, I can do that.”
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James Blish wrote some of the play for a story he did. It was pretty cool. Basically just fragments, but it added a lot to the story.
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That’s interesting. Not an author I’ve ever read, but I think I’d be more able to accept fragments than the whole thing. There would still be a great deal of unknown that your imagination can attribute to the effects the play has on people.
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