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    Default What fiction books are you reading currently?

    Thought this would possibly be a good thread to share what we are indulging in at this moment in time!

    Ill make a start..

    The Silmarillion - J.R.R Tolkien

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    I can heartilly endorse:

    THE WEIRDNESS by Jeremy Bushnell- occult happenings in Brooklyn
    CRY FATHER by Benjamin Whitmer- off-the-grid living in the Southwest US
    NIGERIANS IN SPACE by Deji Olukotun- stolen moonrocks and conspiracies involving the Nigerian space program
    HOW TO LIVE SAFELY IN A SCIENCE FICTIONAL UNIVERSE by Charles Yu- time travel via grammar
    DARK ORBIT by Carolyn Gilman- SF with a Ursula Le Guin endorsement
    KEYHOLE FACTORY by William Gillespie- the most innovative dystopian apocalypse I've read

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    I like the sound of Nigerian in space maybe ill look for that when I'm done reading my current book.

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    3 fictional books I enjoyed reading by Graham Hancock
    War God night of the witch.
    War God return of the plumed serpent.
    Entangled.

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    I'm usually too wrapped up in reading non-fiction, but I did read a fiction item lately, though it's so far back it's no longer resident on my Kindle: Mars and the Lost Planet Man by Lou Baldin.

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    Child of Fortune
    a 1985 science fiction novel by the American author Norman Spinrad. Like his previous book The Void Captain's Tale, Child of Fortune takes place three or four thousand years in the future in a fictional universe called the Second Starfaring Age. It is a coming of age story about a young girl's wanderjahr, a rite of passage that all adolescents in the Second Starfaring Age are expected to undertake before they become adults.

    The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You
    It deals with the idea of how the negation of dreams as a guide to life affects the real world.

    Also two I recomend which aren't neccesarily fiction
    Anastasia and The Return of the Bird Tribes.

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    Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett. One of the best books I've ever read. About stone masons in the 10th century, church politics, everyday life of Earth's poorest tenants. Great characters, great plots.
    The quantum field responds not to what we want; but to who we are being. Dr. Joe Dispenza

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    My Journey To Lhasa - Alexandra David-Neel. This mother is unreal!
    Cant wait to begin Magic and mystery in Tibet.
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    I have just finished 'We are all completely beside ourselves'. It is a book with a brilliant twist early on so I cannot say too much--- but it explores what it is to be human.

    In the same way the book 'The bees' does something of the same, I am an SF reader and this book about the organisation and structure of a beehive from the point of view of a bee was fascinating--- and appeared very alien.

    I also re-read 'Salmon fishing in the Yemen' which I loved the first time--- but this time it wasn't so funny, and seemed quite sad. Overtaken by real life events I think.

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    Quote Posted by Roxann (here)
    I'm usually too wrapped up in reading non-fiction, but I did read a fiction item lately, though it's so far back it's no longer resident on my Kindle: Mars and the Lost Planet Man by Lou Baldin.
    Lou Baldin is the guy who pretty much convinced John Lear that our souls get captured and recycled by the greys using technology on the moon. These same greys seem to be able to pull souls out of the body via a black cube and insert those souls into a new identical clone.
    I'm just finishing Dr. Karla Turner's second book TAKEN, where she says a lot of the same through first hand human testimonials.
    Linda Molten Howe has reported the same in some recent abductees testimonial.
    It's times like this I ask myself WHY OH WHY DIDN'T I TAKE THE BLUE PILL?


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    I'm reading (aside from non-fictional books) "The Bright Empire Series" by Stephen R. Lawhead.
    This series contains 5 books, and I just started the second one "The Bone House".
    It is a story about Ley-Lines which make the individuals travel through "time and space". In the second book it is stated, that they are not travelling through time really, they are travelling through different dimensions or multiverses.

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    The Lone Gladio by Sibel Edmonds. Actually quite a good thriller that at the same time exposes the origin and current status of false-flag operations. I picked this up immediately after reading her autobiography. There is one line in the novel where the character resembling Sibel calls her FBI coworker cynical, while he thinks she's naïve, which really is true. She really was idealistic and believed somebody would help correct the wrongs she saw perpetrated- Congress, the media, someone! But unfortunately there really was no one, so now she's writing fiction, a trilogy in fact. Hopefully the next books are as good as The Lone Gladio!
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    First Thunder by MSI is a great "fiction" to read during this time. Found it for a dollar at a local shop and was not disappoint :3

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    I've just finished Sea of Tranquility, a very unusual SciFi novel by Emily St. John Mandel. https://www.goodreads.com/author/sho...St_John_Mandel
    It's on the themes of time travel and the theory that we are living in a simulation.
    Mandel looks quite young from her photos, but :
    "She is the author of five novels, including The Glass Hotel (spring 2020) and Station Eleven (2014.) Station Eleven was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, won the Morning News Tournament of Books, and has been translated into 34 languages. She lives in NYC with her husband and daughter."

    I've since checked out the two of her other novels (mentioned above) and look forward to two more good reads.

    This is a very old thread, and I'm surprised it hasn't been getting more attention, as I'm sure I'm not the only Avalon member who is an avid reader!
    But perhaps it needs to be made more inclusive, and not limited to fiction.
    Anyway, time it got a jump start!
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    For some reason, I've had the urge to dig up and read the book "Swan Song" again. I may just pull it out, if I can find it. Does anyone else remember that book?

    "Swan Song is a 1987 horror novel by American novelist Robert R. McCammon. It is a work of post-apocalyptic fiction describing the aftermath of a nuclear war that provokes an evolution in humankind. Swan Song won the 1987 Bram Stoker award"
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Song_(McCammon_novel)
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    I'm on my second novel by Mandel, Station Eleven, a post-apocalyptic story about a near future in which over 90% of the world's population has died from a virus.
    The other novel by Mandel I finished just before this one also featured a pandemic, though it wasn't that central to the story. (see post #14)
    She's a good writer, but the theme is making me feel a bit morose.
    The scenario that Station Eleven's depicts seems all too likely when taking into consideration the current vaccine depopulation agenda and the geomagnetic pole reversal --no more running water, electricity, functioning cars, planes or trains, no cell phones, etc. and the survivors having a very hard time adjusting to the new paradigm.
    Someone needs to write a post apocalyptic novel about what happens to the people in the DUMBs versus what happens to Preppers on the surface, and what happens when they meet up.
    With a prevailing theme involving some kind of justice...
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    I'm reading Sara Paretsky's Indemnity Only. Prretty good so far.

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    half way through the Dune books, always worth a re-read.
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    Quote Posted by TargeT (here)
    half way through the Dune books, always worth a re-read.
    I loved the dune books. Read em as a teenager and later I would read the war of the roses which dictated the in fighting of the medieval royal houses of England.
    I was blown away seeing in my opinion where Frank Herbert had gotten a lot of his ideas from.

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    Later I would read Robert Jordan's wheel of time series and this guy loved Frank Herbert as he ripped off so much of his work and recast it as a work of fantasy rather than science fiction.

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    I like to read cime fiction aka mystery/thriller
    But I'm having trouble finding new stuff. I think the genre may not survive Gen Z. Writers should be readers foremost, but alas, too many are not. They make amateur mistakes like too many main characteers, or minor onese treeated like main characters. They don't know the rules and abuse the reader without knowing it because they don't read, themselves.

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