In which there’s reading.
I just finished Jay Lake’s Mainspring, a fun piece of steampunk with a lovely spiritual element. I want the follow-up, Escapement, but it just came out in June and I don’t like reading hard-backed books ’cause they’re too heavy. It doesn’t appear to be available in ebook format, which sucks.
Over at Tor, they’ve got free shorts posted! Cory’s The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away is a great read, and I’m knee-deep in Down on the Farm by Charles Stross now.
Baen’s posted a YA list with links; a lot of the books are in the Free Library which means you can read ’em right now!
I *heart* sci-fi.
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I just found out that Paolo Bacigalupi finally has a short story collection out (hardcover only, it looks like). I think I’ve read most of the stories in it as they’ve come out, and I’ve loved every one. Now the book is on its way to me from the library and I can’t wait to re-read them as well as to see if I’ve missed any.
And, FWIW, I prefer hardcovers. Goes best with the way I like reading: on my stomach in bed, book propped up against the barred headboard of the brass bed. Paperbacks are harder to keep up against the bars. My attention tends to wander too much when reading on the computer.
Ooh. I put the collection on my Wishlist.
I don’t read much online; the occasional short. All those Baen books in the free library are downloadable and I read them all on my PPC. I *heart* the free library, omfg.
I can’t read on my tummy for very long, it makes my neck all hurty. 🙁 But reading in bed in general? Rules! Srsly.