Finished reading 2023: Dirge by Alan Dean Foster 📚

Going to dive right into the final book of the trilogy today. On track for 4 novels this month.

Just a very quick podcast, updating my reading activities and an idea for a Science Fiction discussion group. 🎙️

I picked up these two paperbacks several years ago, and finally read both of these books on my Kindle in the last month. I just have a hard time reading an actually paperback now. The ability to increase the font size on my Kindle improves my reading experience a lot, and since it is lit we can have the lights down low and I can still read.

Still – I am so drawn to collecting these books as paperbacks or hardbacks (if I can get them). Why? Just to have them? Yes, pretty much. There is something pleasing about having shelves full of the books you love, even if you rarely if ever go back and read them again. It’s so dumb, and yet true. I love the idea of having a library full of SF novels, but I don’t want all that stuff in our house. Having a house devoid of clutter gives me a lot more satisfaction, and more importantly tranquility, than having a bunch of shelves full of books. Yet still…I…am…drawn…

But in ten years I don’t want to be back at Half Price Books selling my stuff just to get it out the house again.

Currently reading: Dirge by Alan Dean Foster 📚

I drove right back into the Founding of the Commonwealth trilogy tonight.

Finished reading 2023: Nor Crystal Tears by Alan Dean Foster 📚

Finished reading 2023: Prison of Night by E.C. Tubb 📚

Finished reading 2023: Incident on Ath by E.C. Tubb 📚

Finished reading 2023: Fuzzy Sapiens by H. Beam Piper 📚

Finished reading 2023: Little Fuzzy (Fuzzy Sapiens, #1) by H. Beam Piper 📚

Finished reading 2023: Endymion by Dan Simmons 📚

Finished reading 2023: Logan’s Run: Vintage Movie Classics (A Vintage Movie Classic) by William F. Nolan 📚

Finished reading 2023: Haven of Darkness (Dumarest of Terra, #16) by E.C. Tubb 📚

Finished reading 2023: Sargasso of Space (Solar Queen, #1) by Andre Norton 📚

Finished reading 2023: Phylogenesis by Alan Dean Foster 📚

I will probably plow right into book two of the Founding of the Commonwealth trilogy tonight.

If you have an interest in the cover art of science fiction novels of the 1970s, check out this interview on Joachim Boaz’s blog, Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations.

sciencefictionruminations.com/2023/08/0…

“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.”

Carl Sagan - from his novel Contact

I love cosmic horror, but man, it is kinda blown out, is it not? In this novel, Sagan provides measured optimism. I love it. One of my favorite books.

In this episode, I breakdown the results of reading 5% of a book every day. I talk a little bit about how much I’m enjoying the novel Phylogenesis. 🎙️

In this episode, I talk about my recent reading of an Allen, Dean Foster novel, and the one I’m currently reading as well. And I talk a little bit about the author and my desire to learn more about him and read more of his material. 📚 🎙️

After working all day then going home and spending about 1.5 hours doing some work in our hot garage I was way too tired to do any reading last night. Will be a different story tonight. I swear!

I’m enjoying Phylogenesis, by Alan Dean Foster, very much. Can’t wait to dig back into it.

Also, I read four novels last month. For many readers that isn’t a lot, but for me four books in a month is pretty good. Gonna try to match it this month. 📚

Currently reading: Phylogenesis by Alan Dean Foster 📚