I’m currently reading Adrian tchaikovskys architect series and it’s surprisingly engaging. Really enjoyed book one and just started 2. Love your videos btw.
Hi Christine, fab, glad you're enjoying the videos, great to hear. I read that Architects trilogy last year, i found it tailed off a bit by book 3 but there was still lots to like. thanks for watching 👀!
My plan is to try to read the Xeelee Sequence, Revelation Space series, and The Polity books next year. Probably with singleton novels and short story collections in between each series. I've tried parallel reading but prefer to stay in-universe until I finish a series.
Nice, I almost included Asher in my loose plans but I have soooo many of them! I didn't think to include the revelation space books, those would have been in the re-read section. We can compare notes on the Xeelee books. Cheers Eric thanks for watching 👀!
I'm thinking of finally tackling the Galactic Center saga by Benford. Reread some Heinleins to get in shape, then just go for it, after a reread of some fantasy books...(seasoning, you understand. 😋😋) Plus, I need to catch up on some books that have caught my interest...not necessarily SF, but I've got a backlog of fantasy to read too.🙄🙄😉 For your rereading, I'm going to remind you of how keen you were when I mentioned I just finished rereading the Belgariad. 🐶😛 I'm going to recommend that. 😉
Helliconia is on my TBR, though I'm not sure I'll get to it next year. I definitely want to start the Expanse series I got this year and also read the Earthsea series by LeGuin. And a bunch of standalones in between. Also I'm going to re-read God Emperor of Dune. It's been a while since I've read it.
So that's what you’ll read in 1 month, what about the rest of the year? 😆 I must confess I'm not really one for series, at least in SF, but one I do plan to read through next year is Gibson's Sprawl trilogy. I have them all now (including Burning Chrome) and plus it gives me a reason to read Neuromancer again, which is a masterpiece.
Actually I've already read them all, work of moments! I doubt I'll get to all of the books I mention, but whatever I get to, they'll be spread out a bit across the year. Thanks for watching!
@@morrisjensen1959 some of the stories in Burning Chrome are set in the Sprawl universe and feature share some characters with each other; Molly from Neuromancer appears in the short story 'Johnny Mnemonic'
Off the top of my head, projected series for next year: the Revelation Space series- only read his stand-alones; the Annihilation trilogy; Helliconia; possibly the Culture, though that might be too much; the Three Body Problem trilogy, if I like the first book!
i ought to have included revelation space in the re-read section as i have recently re-read the first one. oh well, maybe i'll get to it anyway as an extra during the year. cheers David, thanks for watching 👀!
That's an ambitious list :) Cherryh: I wouldn't recommend starting the Alliance/Union books with Downbelow Station, even though it won a Hugo. I read her books as they came out in DAW mmpb, DS was the 12th one. I'd loved almost the preceding ones, but found DS rather slow, & dull - things I would say about v few of her books. The A/U books do jump all over the timeline, but there are short sub-series that need to be read in order. I would suggest starting with some of the definitely standalone, and shorter books: Cuckoo's Egg, Serpent's Reach, Merchanter's Luck, Rimrunners. Her Foreigner series is a bit longer than 9, it's now up to #21! For a shorter series of hers, I would v strongly recommend the 5-book Chanur series, which starts with The Pride of Chanur; it's set in a part of the universe with lots of alien species but humans are unknown... until a single slightly battered & confused specimen turns up.
thanks for the CJ Cherryh intel, i shall do some further research, although my actual reading will be constrained by the book i have on my shelves, and most of those you mention are not. yet. thanks for watching 👀!
I have just this evening finished Halfway Human, the first of Carolyn Ives Gliman's Twenty Planets books. I went into it totally blind and not expecting much, but it's really quite excellent and I recommend it highly. I'm not sure how much the Twenty Planets count as a series by your definition, mind. Two of the four books are, putting it generously, novellas, and I believe that the four are connected by setting rather than plot. I have the other three, so I expect I'll read them over the course of next year. Some other series I hope to continue: Le Guin's Hainish books, once I get around to buying City of Illusions. Helliconia, where I've just got Winter to go. I re-read Hyperion earlier this year and it's as good as I remembered, so I'll probably get onto The Fall... and then see if I can be bothered with the other two. There may also be others that don't start with H, and I've got a load of books in series that I haven't started yet: Benford's Galactic Centre; Wolfe's Book of the New Sun; Scalzi's Old Man's War; Niven's Ringworld; Reynolds's Revelation Space (although I have actually read Revelation Space about 20 years ago, but I remember almost nothing about it). I can never keep track of these things with all the booktubers I watch, but have you read Chris Beckett's Dark Eden trilogy? If not, you really, really should. Spectacularly good "proper" SF.
Good to hear about 20 planets, I shall look that up, sounds interesting. And yes, have read the Eden trilogy, earlier this year in fact, loved it, among my favorite reads this year (see tomorrow's top.15 video!). Thanks for watching 👀!
Another great list, and some good recommendations in the comments, so thanks to everyone. Would it be possible to have the books, even just one if its's series, placed on a stand as you chat. Stephen, over at Outlaw Book Seller does this and it's really useful to give us old buggers time to jot down the names and tiles. I'll look through my audiobook list and post my favourites series soon. Off to watch your Tolkien's Heir? Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg video - looking forward to it.
Hi Morris, I don't have a stand, unfortunately. I do usually list out all the books mentioned in the video in the description for reference. thanks for watching 👀!
🦆 Laughing along at the bird tangent halfway through! 😆 I think that I’ve tried Cherryh’s “Downbelow Station” a few times, but I cannot recall ever finishing it 🤷♂️ It sounds excellent, I now have quite a few in the series - Downbelow Station, Alliance Space, Tripoint and Finity’s End, all of which I acquired spread over a time span from 2004 to 2018 according to my records - but I only seem to have read “Tripoint” and can remember nothing at all. I also remember those early Baxters as being quite challenging reads when I had far fewer orbits of the sun to my name. But golly gosh I adored “Ring” in particular.
I really enjoyed the Noumenon series, even buying a copy of the first book for a friend. I will say though that the first two books are more engaging than the third book imo.
Bujold: Barrayar is much better than Shards of Hono(u)r. If you've sat at home while your other half goes shopping, wondering what they might bring back, there's a scene in Barrayar which will blow your socks off :)
Downbelow station is definitely the right place to start - awesome novel. Hannu is also a genius, I'd compare him with M John Harrison - difficult reading but I feel Hannu does it much better - wish he'd write more. I didn't get on with noumenon - sacked it off after the first. On my series list is a mix of new and reread including Gary Gibson if I can haul stealing light (have the second two), helliconia, Eden trilogy, suneater, uplift, children of time, 3 body problem. Probably way too optimistic.
I've only read one M John Harrison (Centauri Device) which I found very fussy to read, which doesn't bode well for young master Hannu. Some good reading ahead of you there Mark. thanks for watching 👀!
Wonderful series. You are right The Red Saga books get better. You will continue the re-read The Revelation Space ? And one more question What do you think of Brian Herbert's books in the Dune universe ?
I had forgotten about Revelation Space, I may well get to one or two of those. I have read the Brian Herbert Dune books, they are just OK, no more than that. Cheers Andrei, thanks for watching 👀!
@@inocanandrei6950 I agree with Jon's assessment. And if you're planning on reading the Destination Void series, avoid the last book. What a mess. 🙄🙄😵😵
I'm reading The Wraeththu Trilogy by a relatively forgotten writer named Storm Contantine. Exotic name, & her books read like that. Descriptive slow burn, great stuff.
@DonnaAbbati I've read another of her's - Burying the Shadow. Beautifully written and evocative as I've come to expect from her. I may read her entire list.....
Barrayar is better than Shards of Honor and Warrior's Apprentice. The Merchant Princes series by Charles Stross Gibraltar Earth trilogy by Michael McCollum Pillars of Reality by Jack Campbell.
I very nearly put Merchant's Princes on the re-read pile but was already surrounded by piles of books at that point. I really love that series and may well still give it another go next year. Noted on the others, thanks for watching 👀!
I’m currently reading Adrian tchaikovskys architect series and it’s surprisingly engaging. Really enjoyed book one and just started 2. Love your videos btw.
Hi Christine, fab, glad you're enjoying the videos, great to hear. I read that Architects trilogy last year, i found it tailed off a bit by book 3 but there was still lots to like. thanks for watching 👀!
My plan is to try to read the Xeelee Sequence, Revelation Space series, and The Polity books next year. Probably with singleton novels and short story collections in between each series. I've tried parallel reading but prefer to stay in-universe until I finish a series.
Nice, I almost included Asher in my loose plans but I have soooo many of them! I didn't think to include the revelation space books, those would have been in the re-read section. We can compare notes on the Xeelee books. Cheers Eric thanks for watching 👀!
I'm thinking of finally tackling the Galactic Center saga by Benford. Reread some Heinleins to get in shape, then just go for it, after a reread of some fantasy books...(seasoning, you understand. 😋😋)
Plus, I need to catch up on some books that have caught my interest...not necessarily SF, but I've got a backlog of fantasy to read too.🙄🙄😉
For your rereading, I'm going to remind you of how keen you were when I mentioned I just finished rereading the Belgariad. 🐶😛 I'm going to recommend that. 😉
i'm still missing one of the belgariad books! thanks for watching 👀!
Helliconia is on my TBR, though I'm not sure I'll get to it next year.
I definitely want to start the Expanse series I got this year and also read the Earthsea series by LeGuin. And a bunch of standalones in between.
Also I'm going to re-read God Emperor of Dune. It's been a while since I've read it.
The Expanse is great fun, tho Helloconia is better written I'd say. Thanks for watching 👀!
I have ordered the 6 Emortality books by Stableford. I intend to read them next.
oh great you can let me know how they are before I plough on and get the other 3 or 4 I'm missing! cheers Montie, thanks for watching 👀!
So that's what you’ll read in 1 month, what about the rest of the year? 😆
I must confess I'm not really one for series, at least in SF, but one I do plan to read through next year is Gibson's Sprawl trilogy. I have them all now (including Burning Chrome) and plus it gives me a reason to read Neuromancer again, which is a masterpiece.
Actually I've already read them all, work of moments! I doubt I'll get to all of the books I mention, but whatever I get to, they'll be spread out a bit across the year. Thanks for watching!
Just checked, I have the three in audiobook - and Burning Crome, is there a connection? MJ
@@morrisjensen1959 some of the stories in Burning Chrome are set in the Sprawl universe and feature share some characters with each other; Molly from Neuromancer appears in the short story 'Johnny Mnemonic'
I'm thinking of doing that too.😉
Off the top of my head, projected series for next year: the Revelation Space series- only read his stand-alones; the Annihilation trilogy; Helliconia; possibly the Culture, though that might be too much; the Three Body Problem trilogy, if I like the first book!
i ought to have included revelation space in the re-read section as i have recently re-read the first one. oh well, maybe i'll get to it anyway as an extra during the year. cheers David, thanks for watching 👀!
That's an ambitious list :)
Cherryh: I wouldn't recommend starting the Alliance/Union books with Downbelow Station, even though it won a Hugo. I read her books as they came out in DAW mmpb, DS was the 12th one. I'd loved almost the preceding ones, but found DS rather slow, & dull - things I would say about v few of her books. The A/U books do jump all over the timeline, but there are short sub-series that need to be read in order. I would suggest starting with some of the definitely standalone, and shorter books: Cuckoo's Egg, Serpent's Reach, Merchanter's Luck, Rimrunners.
Her Foreigner series is a bit longer than 9, it's now up to #21!
For a shorter series of hers, I would v strongly recommend the 5-book Chanur series, which starts with The Pride of Chanur; it's set in a part of the universe with lots of alien species but humans are unknown... until a single slightly battered & confused specimen turns up.
thanks for the CJ Cherryh intel, i shall do some further research, although my actual reading will be constrained by the book i have on my shelves, and most of those you mention are not. yet.
thanks for watching 👀!
I have just this evening finished Halfway Human, the first of Carolyn Ives Gliman's Twenty Planets books. I went into it totally blind and not expecting much, but it's really quite excellent and I recommend it highly. I'm not sure how much the Twenty Planets count as a series by your definition, mind. Two of the four books are, putting it generously, novellas, and I believe that the four are connected by setting rather than plot. I have the other three, so I expect I'll read them over the course of next year.
Some other series I hope to continue:
Le Guin's Hainish books, once I get around to buying City of Illusions.
Helliconia, where I've just got Winter to go.
I re-read Hyperion earlier this year and it's as good as I remembered, so I'll probably get onto The Fall... and then see if I can be bothered with the other two.
There may also be others that don't start with H, and I've got a load of books in series that I haven't started yet: Benford's Galactic Centre; Wolfe's Book of the New Sun; Scalzi's Old Man's War; Niven's Ringworld; Reynolds's Revelation Space (although I have actually read Revelation Space about 20 years ago, but I remember almost nothing about it).
I can never keep track of these things with all the booktubers I watch, but have you read Chris Beckett's Dark Eden trilogy? If not, you really, really should. Spectacularly good "proper" SF.
Good to hear about 20 planets, I shall look that up, sounds interesting. And yes, have read the Eden trilogy, earlier this year in fact, loved it, among my favorite reads this year (see tomorrow's top.15 video!). Thanks for watching 👀!
Another great list, and some good recommendations in the comments, so thanks to everyone.
Would it be possible to have the books, even just one if its's series, placed on a stand as you chat. Stephen, over at Outlaw Book Seller does this and it's really useful to give us old buggers time to jot down the names and tiles.
I'll look through my audiobook list and post my favourites series soon. Off to watch your Tolkien's Heir? Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg video - looking forward to it.
Hi Morris, I don't have a stand, unfortunately. I do usually list out all the books mentioned in the video in the description for reference. thanks for watching 👀!
Quantum Thief is great fun.
good to hear, thanks for watching 👀!
🦆 Laughing along at the bird tangent halfway through! 😆
I think that I’ve tried Cherryh’s “Downbelow Station” a few times, but I cannot recall ever finishing it 🤷♂️ It sounds excellent, I now have quite a few in the series - Downbelow Station, Alliance Space, Tripoint and Finity’s End, all of which I acquired spread over a time span from 2004 to 2018 according to my records - but I only seem to have read “Tripoint” and can remember nothing at all.
I also remember those early Baxters as being quite challenging reads when I had far fewer orbits of the sun to my name. But golly gosh I adored “Ring” in particular.
quack to you too! 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆
thanks for watching 👀!
I've read and thoroughly enjoyed Tom Tomer's books. I understand that he planned to write more.
oh that's good to hear, I'm really looking forward to those. thanks for watching 👀!
I often watch this and other TH-cam programs. ? Do the thumbs up count on the TV?
i believe so, yes! thanks for watching 👀!
I really enjoyed the Noumenon series, even buying a copy of the first book for a friend. I will say though that the first two books are more engaging than the third book imo.
Hi Sam, oh that's good, although I am hearing mixed reports. If time allows it'll get a read next year, at least book 1. thanks for watching 👀!
Bujold: Barrayar is much better than Shards of Hono(u)r. If you've sat at home while your other half goes shopping, wondering what they might bring back, there's a scene in Barrayar which will blow your socks off :)
Ha OK, I shall look out for that! Glad to hear Barrayar is a step up from SoH. Cheers Mike, thanks for watching 👀!
Downbelow station is definitely the right place to start - awesome novel. Hannu is also a genius, I'd compare him with M John Harrison - difficult reading but I feel Hannu does it much better - wish he'd write more. I didn't get on with noumenon - sacked it off after the first. On my series list is a mix of new and reread including Gary Gibson if I can haul stealing light (have the second two), helliconia, Eden trilogy, suneater, uplift, children of time, 3 body problem. Probably way too optimistic.
I've only read one M John Harrison (Centauri Device) which I found very fussy to read, which doesn't bode well for young master Hannu. Some good reading ahead of you there Mark. thanks for watching 👀!
Wonderful series. You are right The Red Saga books get better. You will continue the re-read The Revelation Space ? And one more question What do you think of Brian Herbert's books in the Dune universe ?
I had forgotten about Revelation Space, I may well get to one or two of those. I have read the Brian Herbert Dune books, they are just OK, no more than that. Cheers Andrei, thanks for watching 👀!
@SciFiScavenger Thanks for our answer and your opinion about the Dune books. I think I want to read them.
@@inocanandrei6950 I agree with Jon's assessment. And if you're planning on reading the Destination Void series, avoid the last book. What a mess. 🙄🙄😵😵
I'm reading The Wraeththu Trilogy by a relatively forgotten writer named Storm Contantine. Exotic name, & her books read like that. Descriptive slow burn, great stuff.
ooh haven't heard of that, sounds interesting. thanks for watching 👀!
Read those books years ago. Enjoyed them.
@DonnaAbbati I've read another of her's - Burying the Shadow. Beautifully written and evocative as I've come to expect from her. I may read her entire list.....
Yes. All very well written. I haven't read anything else of hers. May have to check other books out.
A Requiem For Homosapiens Cycle by David ZIndell, first book is Neverness.
Thank you, I think I have Neverness on my shelves somewhere. Cheers Bobby, thanks for watching 👀!
I read Neverness recently, it's definitely a fun and somewhat strange read
Think it is time to re-read Simmons Endymion (all 4 volumes)
Ooh good shout, been a long time since I read that. So many books, so little time! Thanks for watching 👀!
Barrayar is better than Shards of Honor and Warrior's Apprentice.
The Merchant Princes series by Charles Stross
Gibraltar Earth trilogy by Michael McCollum
Pillars of Reality by Jack Campbell.
I very nearly put Merchant's Princes on the re-read pile but was already surrounded by piles of books at that point. I really love that series and may well still give it another go next year. Noted on the others, thanks for watching 👀!
@SciFiScavenger
Have you considered seeing a psychiatrist?
@@psikeyhackr6914 eh?
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This huge obsession with vast quantities of science fiction books must be an OCD. 😆