Tantavalist wrote:Currently, I'm re-reading a favourite of mine, The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove. A time travel/Alternative history story, where 21st century South African Neo-Nazis travel back to the American Civil War and help the confederates.
What i espescially liked about the book is that it finally shows that the Confederate States were about more than just pro-slavery. I really love Turtledoves works, sadly their are hard to find here in Belgium.
I'm currently reading "Let The Galaxy Burn". A collection of short stories set in the Warhammer 40K universe. Not a bad book, but sadly most stories (so fat, i'm not even half way yet) focus to much on action and the WH40K cliches, but the book does contain ceveral gems and offers an easy way (some things still demand some looking up on your part if you don't know yet) to step into that universe for those that are unfamiliar with it.
Other books that i've finished recently are:
Sheri S. Tepper's "Grass": It took me some time to get into the story as it starts to crawl away at a similar rate as a blind snail who has fear of spinning out in the next turn, but as soon all the main characters have gotten their introduction the story starts to get some speed and heads into the final climax. Along the way you'll be served an original way of looking at Gods/gods greater plan and the honest question whether the human ability to be commit both attrocities and deeds of unparalled kindness is a weakness or maybe our strenght.
As a side note. The main character is a strong and female one, the machomale & alpha-male stereotype get the weakest parts and emotional liberated or more thoughfull male characters get more productive roles.
So it has a bit of a feminist stamp on it, but that didn't bother me to much.
Joe Haldeman's "The Forever War": Most of you will have read it as it is one of "THE" sci-fi classics. Interstellar war, relativity, homosexuality as the next society, an unknown enemy, terran distopia and a hero war veteran that hardly ever fought. The Forever War has it all.
Haldeman states that it was written as a paralel with the Vietnam War, but we as post-Cold War, post-Gulf War and intra War On Terror-babies find plenty to recognize aswell in it.