CUK Book Club: Currently reading...

[sadkingbilly]

the final architecture trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky
very entertaining imo

now: Europa deep by Gary gibson

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Methuselah's Children (1958)" by R. A. Heinlein.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: TBD.

[sadkingbilly]

the final architecture trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky
very entertaining imo

now: Europa deep by Gary gibson

dun. end a bit disappointing.

now Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Rainbow Mars" is in the pile & it's more of the time travel oevre.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: the wizard one "The Magic Goes Away" by L Niven.

This one is an illustrated trade paperback. Bought far back in the mysts of tyme. Probly 1979. 2nd printing.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "N-Space" by L. Niven. More Known Space stories.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. Took a long time to read those last 40 pages.

Next: TBD.

[sadkingbilly]

dun. end a bit disappointing.

now Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

weird, quite amusing though.
next - echogenesis by Gary Gibson

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: the wizard one "The Magic Goes Away" by L Niven.

This one is an illustrated trade paperback. Bought far back in the mysts of tyme. Probly 1979. 2nd printing.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "The Magic May Return" edited by L. Niven. An anthology containing "Not Long Before The End" being the first of Niven's Warlock stories plus stories by other writers in the same vein.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The Magic May Return" edited by L. Niven. An anthology containing "Not Long Before The End" being the first of Niven's Warlock stories plus stories by other writers in the same vein.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. "Strength" by Poul Anderson and Mildred Downey Broxon was very good: the end of magic leading to the return of the glaciers and the fall of a civilisation held up by magic, presumably 14000 years ago in north America.

Next: TBD.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Secret Warfare" by Bruce Norman. Published 1973. No mention of ULTRA, ENIGMA, Bletchley Park or COLOSSUS, these remaining secret at the time. No idea when I bought this but it was at least 20 years ago, if not 30.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. I didn't attempt to understand any of the codes/cyphers mentioned. The most recent mention was of the Krogers.

Next: TBD.

[DoctorStrangelove]

"The illustrated history of Gadget Warfare: The Vietnam War" by F. Clifton Berry Jnr.* 82nd Airborne.

All that materiel, all those crazy weapons, Puff the Magic Dragon, Agent Orange, Daisy Cutters, CBU-55 FAE.

And they still lost to little men with AK47s and bicycles.

If there's something to be grateful to Harold Wilson for, it's keeping us out of that mess.

*That's the late F. Cliffton Berry Jnr.

https://www.airforcemag.com/f-clifto...-jr-1931-2020/

Done: read for the 2nd time: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: TBD.