> > > What's everyone else reading for excitement these days?
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> For once, I'm not reading through six books at a time...
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> Right now: Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. Hard, hard SF just the way I like it. Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars

That's a great series. I'm currently finishing up "Memory" by Lois McMaster Bujold, last of the Miles Vorkosigan books, I love these for the tight situation, everything-is-going-wrong problem solving (kind of like "Star Trek"). A little light, but very engaging and fun. Also just read "Hart's Hope" by Orson Scott Card, I think I've read everything else by him now. I almost always like his stuff and this was no exception. I guess I'm just finishing up all the many series that I love because I just finished "Necromancer" by Gordon R. Dickson which is the last of the Childe series that I hadn't read. Great set of books! You all have probably read "Final Encyclopedia" I sometimes get a bit bogged down in the philosophy since I love to argue those points, which of course just makes the reading more fun...

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