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 ====== Reading ====== ====== Reading ======
 +See also:  [[Read|Books I've Read]] and [[toread|Books I Want to Read]]
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 === Books I'm currently reading === === Books I'm currently reading ===
-  * [[wp>Walkaway]] by [[wp>​Cory Doctorow]]+  * [[wp>Gridlinked]] by [[wp>​Neal Asher]] 
 +  * [[wp>​Feersum Endjinn]] by [[wp>​Iain M. Banks]] - I was just lamenting that I'd read all of Banks' work and realised this one had escaped my attention (probably because it wasn't a Culture story). ​ Happy to have found it and made a start now at least. 
 +  * [[wp>​Startide Rising]] by [[wp>​David Brin]] - Audiobook in the background while I do some tasks. ​ Some interesting ideas so far. 
 +  * [[wp>​Rapture of the Nerds|Rapture of the Nerds: A tale of the singularity,​ posthumanity,​ and awkward social situations]] by [[wp>​Cory Doctorow]] ​and [[wp>​Charles Stross]] - I could almost have guessed the authors of this book just by reading the first couple of chapters. ​ It's exactly what I expected/​was hoping for.  Not sure I'd be able to recommend it to any one but the hardcore fans of both though (it's not their most accessible work). ​ Enjoying it so far. 
 +  * [[wp>​Burning Chrome]] by [[wp>​William Gibson]] - I was particularly interested in reading one of the short stories, Hinterlands,​ recommened on a reddit thread somewhere but I'd been planning on reading more of William Gibson so this seemed like a good place to start/​continue. ​ I'd read it before, but enjoying it.  Looking for some inspiration around VR worlds/​games. 
 === On hold === === On hold ===
   * [[wp>​Star Maker]] by [[wp>​Olaf Stapledon]] - Borrowed this from Munro to read for a bookgroup. I found the first chapter overly flowery but by the second chapter I was hooked, and now I'm amazed how ahead of its time it was (for 1937). Still reading, waiting to find out about the Dyson/​Stapledon sphere (started reading July 2017)   * [[wp>​Star Maker]] by [[wp>​Olaf Stapledon]] - Borrowed this from Munro to read for a bookgroup. I found the first chapter overly flowery but by the second chapter I was hooked, and now I'm amazed how ahead of its time it was (for 1937). Still reading, waiting to find out about the Dyson/​Stapledon sphere (started reading July 2017)
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