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hogwild  ·  3402 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are you reading this week?

Old fashioned space scifi! I read Old Man's War a while ago, and it was pretty great. I've been vaguely intending to hit all the sequels, but I have a much longer reading list than attention span and not a lot of free time. (I have to get through some Iain M. Banks first ...)

The big space scifi I've been hitting lately is Ancillary Justice, which is space scifi but I wouldn't exactly call it old fashioned. It's pretty brilliant speculative fiction, and probably the last Hugo winner we'll ever see that isn't written by a white supremacist. At least it went to a great work.

I'm also reading Mary Roach's "Gulp". It's a pop science treatment of the digestive system, and it's as funny and gruesome as one would hope for.