Just finished Arthas, and just started with Cyberpunk’s No Coincidence. So far, reads well!

Man i love the Mistborn universe by Brandon Sanderson. It’s such cool fantasy that’s not just a carbon copy of Tolkien (a trap a lot of it falls into, I feel?)

I just finished two books, and your post was the first thing that popped up when I opened lemmy, what ahappy lil coincidence! The Stephen King one sounds interesting, what’s your favorite? I quite enjoyed the one about the apocalypse (forgot the name)

The books I finished are: A prayer for the crown-shy by Becky Chambers (Cozy second part of a nice little Solarpunk novel, the first one is really nice too)

Shards of the earth by Adran Tchaikovsky (A not so cozy but gripping first part of a Sci Fi trillogy about a mysterious Alien invasion of god like world destroyers)

Thanks for the posts, If you like give some recommendations, I read the Knife too, moved me to teats that one.

Edit: “The Stand” is the King book I meant.

I just finished Cormac McCarthy’s top 3 again (blood meridian, the road and no country for old men). I started reading them again right after he died but kinda rushed through. This reading I really took my time. Finished a few other books in that time as well. But currently I’m reading “Krieg” which is from the Warhammer 40k universe.

Hacker book club is reading The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin and I’m enjoying it so far. First novel I’m reading in a long time 😅

Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine”

Wikipedia’s description is pretty good:

In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal economic policies promoted by Milton Friedman and the Chicago school of economics have risen to global prominence because of a deliberate strategy she calls “disaster capitalism”. In this strategy, political actors exploit the chaos of natural disasters, wars, and other crises to push through unpopular policies such as deregulation and privatization. This economic “shock therapy” favors corporate interests while disadvantaging and disenfranchising citizens when they are too distracted and overwhelmed to respond or resist effectively. The book challenges the narrative that free market capitalist policies have been welcomed by the inhabitants of regions where they have been implemented, and it argues that several man-made events, including the Iraq War, were intentionally undertaken with the goal of pushing through these unpopular policies in their wake.

Not a book but I’ve just about collected all the pieces of historical evidence you can obtain in Caves of Qud and have just been reading all that recently (it’s pretty dense). The lore and writing of this game is awesome as hell and I certainly would get books of it if they ever wrote any.

Ryan North - How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

More interesting and funny than I had expected, not too heavy, ideal for now.

Working my way through discworld. Currently on the hogfather

I consider all the books in my collection good, even if I don’t exactly love them.

Mid-book in a D&D series about a dark elf that I love. The author is still making books for it, but I haven’t read anything past book 16 or 17 yet

Just started the audiobook for LOTR book 2 as read by Andy Serkis.

And I just recently finished a book based on the Halo video games.

I’m working on the most recent book of Dan Willis’ Arcane Casebook series. I stumbled onto them and got hooked.

The series is noir detective set in the 30’s, but with magic. As specific as that niche is, it has been done before, but these have been well worth reading. The way magic works is well-defined and has a lot of built-in limits. That keeps it from overshadowing the detective stories that are at the heart of the books.

These also do a good job of acknowledging the common tropes of the genre, without accepting them as limitations. For instance, cops don’t generally like private detectives, but the specific relationships between cops and detectives are varied and interesting.

The worldbuilding often goes in unexpected directions. The implications of magic affect everything. A lot of the world looks very familiar, but there are some prominent differences between our world and theirs. It’s a fun place to learn about.

I’m looking forward to the next book.

Mining Energy in an Expanding Universe

In principle, the expansion of the universe can be harnessed to provide energy. In a gedankenexperiment, energy is gained by connecting together widely separated bodies with strings. The tension and the energy generated are calculated for single strings. Mining energy in an expanding universe in this way raises unresolved issues concerning the conservation of energy. Apparently, the tethered-body experiment delivers “nascent” energy that previously did not exist in any identifiable and quantifiable form. It is argued that energy in a homogeneous and unbounded universe, in general, is not conserved on the cosmic scale.

I just finished Ender’s Game and loved it. I was completely enthralled with it.

Reading Serj Tankian’s memoirs: Down with the System.

It’s an interesting insight to how music was more a means of activism and bringing visibility to the Armenian genocide. It’s a very interesting story with almost as much history about his people as it has about him so far.

I’ve been reading a fair bit of old, out of copyright fiction over the last couple years. I recently finished Carry On, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse which was amusing. You can find a copy here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65974