Top 3 wishlist books

Hi all, I'm looking to increase my TBR pile. I was wondering about your Top 3 wishlist books for books to be bought.

Here's mine:
2001
Ultimate Hitchhiker's guide
1984

I'm curious about yours, let me know..

Hmm. In no particular order:

Dune Messiah (I already own it in paperback, but I want to pick up either the recent hardcover reissue, or the ebook; normally, I always prefer the ebook, but with a) no ebook of Dune yet, and b) the importance of the series, I'm rather undecided)

The Sons of Heaven (the concluding volume of Kage Baker's The Company series; I borrowed it from the library to read, but I've just been too broke to pick it up yet!)

Caine Black Knife (I'm a huge Matt Stover fan, so even though it doesn't come out until August I'm eagerly looking forward to the next Act of Caine)

Mine are :

Greg Egan - Luminous
Alastair Reynolds - Absolution Gap
John Scalzi - Old man's war

Happy reading,

planetrobbie

Make room, Make room by Harry Harrison
The ten-cent plague by David Hajdu

This is about all I can afford for now!!

#4

Ten cents?!

Right this moment, I want the three Hugo nominees that I don't own:

The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
Brasyl by Ian McDonald
Halting State by Charles Stross

But, since I just bought a bunch of books tonight, I don't think I will get them any time soon. If only I could quit my job long enough to read 50 or 60 of my unread books, but still get paid...

My TBR piles are already too big, but....

I just read The Skinner and it was so good I ordered the sequel (The Voyage of Sable Keech) from the U.K. and started re-reading Gridlinked. I may have to go on an Asher buying spree before I get back to my TBR piles.

Other than that, I don't have the latest from Charles Stross, Iain Banks, or Kage Baker. I'm trying to wait until they're in paperback since I have TBR piles.

I think right now my top 3 sf are:

Excession by Ian Banks
The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon (because there's been so much talk about it here)
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (already started)

Some good stuff coming out this year that's on my wishlist:

House of Suns, Alastair Reynolds
The Hidden World, Paul Park
The Steel Remains, Richard K. Morgan
Kéthani, Eric Brown
Omega, Christopher Evans (PS Publishing)
The Night Sessions, Ken MacLeod
Black & White, Lewis Shiner (Subterranean Press)
Going Under, Justina Robson

And further ahead, in 2009 or later...

The Accord, Keith Brooke
Necropath, Xenopath and Cosmopath, Eric Brown (based on his earlier Bengal Station)
Seeds of Earth, Michael Cobley
Yan Tan Tethera, David Herter
The Princess of Bois Dormant, Gwyneth Jones
The Kissed, Ricardo Pinto
The Galilieans, Kim Stanley Robinson

The prefect
Cyteen II
and duno - some of the classics that I haven't got around to reading yet.

the rest of Bujold's work
Vinge
Stross maybe
ted Chiang's work.

For interest the tagmash page for wishlist and Science fiction is here the top three results are:
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Stranger in a strange land by Robert A. Heinlein

compared to the Science fiction tag on it's own:
Dune by Frank Herbert
Ender's game by Orson Scott Card
The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams

Cyteen 2? You have the US massmarket paperback trilogy? It was published as a single book in hardback and in the UK (both hardback and paperback).

I read Stross' Glasshouse recently and was not overly impressed. I doubt I'll be trying anything else by him.

Well, Dune I like and have read many times. Brave New World - don't bother, read 1984 and A Clockwork Orange instead. I went off Neal Stephenson after attempting his Baroque Cycle, and there are better Heinlein novels than Stranger in a Strange Land, such as, er, one of his juveniles? Been so long since I read anything by him. Oh, except for Starship Troopers, which I read last year and thought was a terrible and fascist.

#11 - I touchstoned the work correctly. CJC has written a sequel to the 'trilogy', called Cyteen II - Regeneration. I don't know the publication dates but it's due late this year.

Ah. Didn't know that. I shall have to stick it on my wishlist...

#11

Cherryh is writing a sequel to Cyteen. People (even Cherryh) refer to it as Cyteen 2 at least until it gets a proper title.

I never got into Park's Roumania stuff - read the first and it didn't particularly thrill me. I'm not sure about the Morgan either, not a big fan of gritty fantasy.

Things I am looking forwards to (which have remained unmentioned so far)

Ian McDonald - Cyberabad Days
Greg Egan - Incandescence
Neal Stephenson - Anathem

I'm interested in Principles Of Angles by Jaine Fenn.

Frist LT post - btw, so be gentle.

I am a Simmons, Reynolds, Morgan, Gibson completeist (every volume, every edition kind of obsession – surely you can relate, right?!), so I’ve always leaned in that direction. But lately I’ve needed to move more left into fantasy-ish grounds since Stephenson forgot how to keep a reader interested, Simmons has abandoned (pray I’m wrong here) Sf, Gibson can tell a damn fine tale and leave you with absolutely nothing for it and Morgan can’t write fast enough. So I would like to contribute the following:

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch – stupendous first novel.
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss – also a first write (watch this one Harry Potter fans).
The Android’s Dream by John Scalzi – thank goodness he has more for you after this one.

PS. Snow Crash should have been a triple-crown winner without a second thought (I know ancient history…. But it burns us).

> 15 OK, currently Simmons is not writing SF or horror, but his last book The Terror was excellent. I even prefered it to Ilium and Olympos. I'll keep reading Simmons (even his hard boiled detective novels) as long as he keeps writing. Loved The Lies of Locke Lamora but am having a very hard time getting into Red Seas Under Red Skies. I have Rothfuss's 2nd novel continuation The Wise Man's Fear on an Amazon pre-order. It should arrive Wednesday.

All I can say is MORE Morgan, MORE Reynolds, MORE Stross!!!!!!

Well the next Morgan is a fantasy and not SF. I hope it is only a fleeting dalliance with fantasy and he is back writing SF soon.

Early reports are that it's very good. I'll be giving it a go, although I'll probably wait for the paperback.

Update to my #12 - Cyteen the Regeneration now has a publishing date of Jan 09. That will be hardcover US, so it will be a long time until I get to read it.

Ooh!

I need the Space Opera Renaissance anthology, the Etched City or anything by K.J. Bishop, really, and I lost my copy of Kalpa Imperial some time ago, so I'd really like it back. :(

#20: sylvan_eyre

I know just how you feel, I once lost a book about php programming, was quite expensive to replace.

Hope your book costs less. =)

Anything and everything by Henry Kuttner and C L Moore. Their passing was one reason I stopped reading F&SF stuff. The light of true imagination was extinguished until I met Borges.

A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller Jr
The Forever War, Joe Hadleman
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Apart from that, room for another bookcase.

Same here - I need more bookshelves too: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38494536@N00/508323862/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/38494536@N00/508323842/

And that's just the hardbacks...

THAT is one impressive load o' books.

Pop some pictures of your paperbacks on here too.

Those photos are over a year old. The shelves have even more books on now. I'll take some photos of the paperback bookcases (all six of them), although they're not so overloaded.

Bring 'em on, boy...

#24

I feel ashamed at complaining about my lack of space compared to you, but I get quite peeved at not having all of my books in chronological and publication date order.

No fair! I think that's the book I want sitting on your shelf!

Or I could be delusional.

Jeez, that's a lot of books. Do you double-stack them? (a horrendous thought, I know...)

As for Iron_monkey, #21:

You have my sympathy; I hate the gradual feeling that one has lost something! But I must admit I am loathe to use the internet and so pay the cost for that and a few other books on my list. It's my own fault my tastes run to the extremely obscure and back-catalogued.

Which book is that?

I'll take some updated photos this weekend, and post them here.