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Book one of The Expanse series - really good. Had you watched the show?

I'm sure there's an odd element caused by the fact that it was translated from Chinese (which involved tweaks for a western audience), but it certainly didn't come close to living up to the hype for me.

I don't know how different California is from other states, but it might be worth looking into the situation for your state.

So many people have recommended Bobiverse that I'm reading it now.

I hadn't heard of Robinson, but looked him up and apparently he's pretty prolific (though some of his early birds l books are self published). Looks like a diverse set of stuff, too.

Sounds good, thanks

Oh, I certainly get that one. I read quite a bit, so it would be awfully expensive if I didn't use Libby.

My strategy is to put a tag on all the books in interested in reading. I use lists of award nominees, recommendations from friends, and threads like this to find books to tag. Then in Libby I show all tagged books, make sure I have one or two with a wait that I have a hold on, then filter by available now. Seems to work pretty well.

Oh! Did you know you can have more than one library card in Libby and it will see if the book is available at any of them? For instance, I'm in Los Angeles, and I can legitimately have cards for the LA county library, the Sacramento library because anyone from the state can have that, and the San Bernardino library, I forget why. So that helps a lot.

Interesting, thanks

I liked Long Earth, but haven't read the rest of the series. They're on my list. How did you think the second compared to the first?

I read Time, Ruin, and Memory, and really liked all three. I'm not usually a fan of military SF, but I read and liked Old Man's War and the next in the series, Ghost Brigades. If you want fun, quick fluff, you might try Starter Villain by Scalzi.

The whole Murderbot series is great, I'll add to the recommendation. I've read some Dick, more novels than short stories, but not much recently. I don't think I've read Ubik.

Thanks. The book was hugely popular, but good to know I'm not all by myself in thinking it wasn't great.

Oh, that's the last one, right? Definitively, since he died after writing it? How did you like it?

People usually count audiobooks.

I haven't read the last title, but all the others are excellent.

Yes, and it's a good place to start but it isn't the strongest book of the series.

Oh, I'm kind of surprised. I didn't like Agency as well as The Peripheral, but mostly because I felt like a lot of the interesting ground was already covered in the earlier book.

The one I was most disappointed in that I've read recently is Spook Country, the second Blue Ant book. It just struck me as hardly at all SF, though the story was fine.

Oh, Made Things looks interesting, and I really like Tchaikovsky, so I'll for sure read that one.

I've read all of those - quick, fun reads.

I'll give it a try

The only Becky Chambers book I've read is The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. I enjoyed it, but the explanation for why all the aliens were humanoid variants of earth animals seemed really thin to the point of distraction.

Oh, so many amazing books. Loved the Robot series, loved the Foundation series.