What books are you guys reading? by leach | tildeverse BBJ

>0 leach @ 2025/09/19 10:46

I'm currently reading Project Hail Mary, I want to finish it before the movie comes out. I bought a really nice edition of nueromancer from Folio Society so I'll re-read that after I'm done with Project Hail Mary.

>1 konomo @ 2025/09/21 07:19

>>OP

I'm reading Faithbreaker by Hannah Kaner, it's the final part of a
fantasy trilogy that started with Godkiller, and I've been a big
fan ever since I picked up the first book from the fantasy shelf
at the library by pure chance :) I'm really enjoying it so far!

>2 ant @ 2025/09/23 01:33

I have just read /The End of the Story/ by Clark Ashton Smith. Nor really a book, just a short story. Well composed and executed.

>3 anthk @ 2025/09/23 14:48

>>OP

The Anachropomete (in Spanish). A scifi novel,
earlier than even the ones from H. G. Wells.
It's about a time traveling device.

>4 ant @ 2025/09/24 00:26

>>3

I wish there were a novel explaining Paul Laffoley's Geochronemechane:

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>5 eyayah @ 2025/09/25 19:03

i'm reading (very slowly, haha) Only Ashes Remain by Rebecca Schaeffer. I quite like it and would recommend it to anyone who likes darker books, but advise heavy trigger warnings since the book deals with human trafficking and other horrible crimes. it's the second in a series, though, so you'd have to read the first book of couse.

>6 vela025 @ 2025/09/28 18:59

I've just finished Ghost by Robert Harris, about a ghostwriter writing the memoirs of an ex-prime minister. I've read a few of his books, although this is the only one so far I've read that is set in the modern day. I'd recommend it, like his other books it has a medium to fast pace.

I'm starting After London, or Wild England by Richard Jefferies tonight, it was recommended on one of those clickbait articles you get on the blank firefox tab. It's a distopian fiction from 1895, England has been transformed in to a primitive world after civilization has collapsed and nature has reclaimed the land. It's on Project Gutenberg if it tickles anyone fancy!

>7 jh @ 2025/10/17 09:46

>>6
I have started reading This is for Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee. It is a
great re-telling of the creation of the World Wide Web and Tim's takes
on how to approach some of the challenges inherent to the web in 2025.

>8 ant @ 2025/10/19 23:48

>>7 There is also his HTML style guide online:

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/Overview.html

>9 threatcat @ 2025/10/26 15:33

dammit I did not finish Cory Doctorow's "Enshittification" before my
library app auto-returned it for the next hold. Now I'm back at the end
of the line 18 people deep. 

On the bright side, I have been on a Doctorow nonfiction kick, having
read "Internet Con" and "Chokepoint Capitalism" this year -- both great,
but it was getting a bit repetitive.

>10 ant @ 2025/10/26 23:34

>>9 The nonsense of applying restrictions of the physical world to the digital one.

>11 threatcat @ 2025/10/26 23:48

>>10

I know, right? I was happy to get the book on the Palace Project app, somehow thinking, Oh, it's a FOSS app from a nonprofit -- but of course, you're still dealing with the library's institutional relationship with private-equity-run Overdrive

>12 ferorge @ 2025/11/05 21:26

El eternanauta written by Hector Oesterheld.

>13 threatcat @ 2025/11/22 12:27

My wife and I just started reading "The Parable of the Sower" by Octavia
Butler. It's been on my list since late 2024 when there was a buzz about
how we're entering the time period where the novel is set (it was
published in 1993), and yes, it is eerily prescient, but thankfully not
to the details, or extent.

Butler also has a great style that makes for a quick read. I don't
normally read sci-fi (hell, I also don't normally read fiction), but I'm
kinda glad this is part one of a trilogy, in case I want more when this
one's over.

>14 Albatross @ 2025/11/27 16:17

Lately I've read through the Bobiverse, and then because it references
"Skippys" I ended up reading through the Skippyverse. Neither series is 
great literature, but they're fun. 

After that I decided to catch up on some classics, so I read through
Iain Banks "Culture" series and "The Algebraist." Now I'm re-reading
Delaney's "Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand" which is interesting
to revisit after 30 years. A lot of prescient stuff in there, along with
his usual weird sex.

>15 homebreadprawn @ 2025/12/02 04:37

I just read the book `The Spy and the Traitor` about Oleg Gordievsky.

Very good read.

>16 l0to @ 2025/12/09 19:16

That's a cool thread here...Right now I am reading a spanish book /Expedicion Parature/ by Alberto Melcon de la Rubia.
He is a dear friend of mine. The book talks about his experience reaching the indigenous tribus of the Yanomamis across Colombia and Venezuela and his work about the translation of their "creation myth" from their language to spanish.
It's an interesting book!