Comments on: MIND MELD: What SF/F/H Books Are On The Top of Your “To-Be-Read” Pile?

By: bloginhood

bloginhood — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:01:52 +0000

The TBR pile is getting pretty large, but a friend recently gave me a copy of the new Wildcards book, Suicide Kings, so that's next in line.

By: Carl V.

Carl V. — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:01:55 +0000

I'm going old school right now as well. The top ones on my list right now are:

Robot Dreams ~Isaac Asimov

Science Fiction Hall of Fame Vol. 2A ~Ben Bova, ed

Alien Emergencies: A Sector General Omnibus ~James White

Rocket Ship Galileo ~Robert A. Heinlein

As for newer stuff I would like to get to soon:

Cyberabad Days ~Ian McDonald

Marsbound ~Joe Haldeman

House of Suns ~Alastair Reynolds

Singularity's Ring ~Paul Melko

and I'm looking forward to Ares Express by Ian McDonald coming out in April.

By: John D.

John D. — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:24:08 +0000

Her Company books:

In the Garden of Iden (1997)
Sky Coyote (1999)
Mendoza in Hollywood (2000)
The Graveyard Game (2001)
The Life of the World to Come (2004)
The Children of the Company (2005)
The Machine's Child (2006)
The Sons of Heaven (2007)

Why? Time-traveling cyborgs.

By: Dino Mascolo

Dino Mascolo — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:12:11 +0000

Under the Dome

Marsbound by Haldeman

The Merchants of Space by Pohl and Kornbluth

Agent to The Stars by Scalzi

Something by Kage Baker (any recommendations?)

By: Savant

Savant — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:46:22 +0000

TBR Pile (non-genre titles omitted for brevity)

The Yiddish Policemen's Union (already started)
Two Foundation titles (Prelude to... and ...and Earth)
A boatload of PKD (4-5 novels; one short story collection)
Under the Dome
Unseen Academicals
Dune (reread)
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
The Dispossessed
Adams' Dirk Gently novels (more rereads - his best work, IMHO)

That's as of today. The real trouble with TBR piles is that they seem to change on a daily basis...

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:29:43 +0000

I'm doing old school SF this month, so on my night stand is Terry Bisson's short story collections, The Best of John Sladek, Tiptree's 10,000 Light Years From Home, Pohl's Alternating Currents and Tenn's Of All Possible Worlds.

By: Lou Anders

Lou Anders — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:10:52 +0000

Boneshaker, The WindUp Girl, Gentlemen of the Road.

By: ces

ces — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:05:28 +0000

All new books by Ian McDonald & China Mieville for sure. And PaulMcAuley. And lots more but I need my morning coffee first.

By: Jeff S.

Jeff S. — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:43:47 +0000

I have to many books on the TBR to count but here are a few that are near the top that I'm really jazzed about reading more than some others.

Burn Me Deadly by Alex Bledsoe,The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie, The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch, Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson, and the Songs of a Dying Earth anthology edited by George RR Martin and Gardner Dozios.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:10:35 +0000

I've got a couple of the picks up there on my list: Peter Brett's Warded Man and Neal Stephenson's Anatham are two that I've had on my shelf, but haven't gotten around to yet. I've got Greg Keye's Shadowbridge and its sequel, Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan Howard, which looks like fun. Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash is on the waiting list, as is George RR Martin's A Game Of Thrones. There's a couple other non-fiction ones on there as well.