Currently reading

I just finished reading Fleet of Worlds by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner a couple of days ago. A good Sci-Fi read, with the story set in Niven’s “Known Space” universe, and taking place approximately two hundred years before the discovery of the ringworld. The book Ringworld is on my “must own” list of Sci-Fi books, although I don’t currently have a copy. As for the other ringworld universe books, I think that I’ve read them all.

I’m currently reading Thirteen, by Richard K. Morgan, and I’m not quite half way through. The main protagonist of the story is a “variant thirteen”, a genetically engineered man, a bounty hunter that hunts other “thirteens” living at large illegally, and is caught up in a search for one of these “twists” that is killing people all over north America.

Next up on my reading table are two books, Miles, Mutants and Microbes by Lois McMaster Bujold, and The Space Opera Renaissance, edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.

My next round of books to pick up from my local library will include some non-fiction, poetry, and Buddhist writings. Among these, I’ve reserved Nothing to Do, Nowhere to Go, by Thich Nhat Hanh, a teacher, author, peace activist, and expatriate Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, and Basic Teachings of the Buddha, by Glenn Wallis.

~ by Thor on December 6, 2007.