Currently reading: The Android’s Dream by John Scalzi I loved Scalzi’s ‘Old Man’s War’ and have since ordered it’s sequels, but in the meantime ‘Android’s Dream’ exists in it’s own universe but has the same level of sci-comedy that I loved previously.  ‘Android’s Dream’ thus far is an intergalactic political thriller so far, and while I’m not a fan of the political thriller genre being sci-fi in nature makes it a little more palatable. Here’s the description from Amazon: Scalzi’s swashbuckling satire of interstellar diplomacy (after 2005’s Old Man’s War) stars Harry Creek, a low-level State Department deliverer of bad news to alien ambassadors to Earth who’s also a war hero and a computer genius. When Earth faces destruction over a diplomatic faux pas with the Nidu alien race, Harry must find and deliver the Android’s Dream, an electric-blue breed of sheep, to the Nidu for their coronation ceremony. Dodging Defense Department assassins and Nidu space marines, Harry and Robin Baker, a pet shop owner with sheep DNA in her genes, flee Earth and find their own way to attend the Nidu crowning. Also on the quest for the sheep are disciples of the Church of the Evolved Lamb—founded by an early 21st-century SF writer of “modest talents.” Up next it’s back to fantasy with the sequel to Joe Abercrombie’s “The Blade Itself”, “Blood of Ambrose” by James Enge, or “Acacia: The War with the Mein” by David Anthony Durham.  I usually wait till I’m ready to start a new title before making the choice.

Currently reading:

The Android’s Dream by John Scalzi

I loved Scalzi’s ‘Old Man’s War’ and have since ordered it’s sequels, but in the meantime ‘Android’s Dream’ exists in it’s own universe but has the same level of sci-comedy that I loved previously.  ‘Android’s Dream’ thus far is an intergalactic political thriller so far, and while I’m not a fan of the political thriller genre being sci-fi in nature makes it a little more palatable.

Here’s the description from Amazon:

Scalzi’s swashbuckling satire of interstellar diplomacy (after 2005’s Old Man’s War) stars Harry Creek, a low-level State Department deliverer of bad news to alien ambassadors to Earth who’s also a war hero and a computer genius. When Earth faces destruction over a diplomatic faux pas with the Nidu alien race, Harry must find and deliver the Android’s Dream, an electric-blue breed of sheep, to the Nidu for their coronation ceremony. Dodging Defense Department assassins and Nidu space marines, Harry and Robin Baker, a pet shop owner with sheep DNA in her genes, flee Earth and find their own way to attend the Nidu crowning. Also on the quest for the sheep are disciples of the Church of the Evolved Lamb—founded by an early 21st-century SF writer of “modest talents.”

Up next it’s back to fantasy with the sequel to Joe Abercrombie’s “The Blade Itself”, “Blood of Ambrose” by James Enge, or “Acacia: The War with the Mein” by David Anthony Durham.  I usually wait till I’m ready to start a new title before making the choice.