What are we reading in Qctober 2023

Another month,another pile of books. Are you doing Spooky October this year?
Share your plans with us.

Dusty's TBR for October
(R) means reread
SF/F reads
Stephen Leather - Nightfall
Robert W Chambers - King in Yellow(R)
Liz Williams - Snake Agent
Amanda Stevens - The Restorer(R)
Karl Edward Wagner - Sticks(short story)
Richard Matheson - Born of Man and Woman(R)
Peter J Woods - The Serpent's Fury
from other genres
Michael Gilbert - Death in Captivity
Edmund Crispin - Swan Song
Mark McCrum - The Festival Murders

My local library has come up trumps again and delivered The Best of World SF volumes 1 and 2. That should keep me going for a good bit of October.

>1 dustydigger: It's been ages since I reread The Hallowe'en tree for October. Hmm.

I will definitely be reading Sue Burke's latest, Dual memory, for a book group I'm hosting.

I already have Wild Massive, Ascension, Infinity Gate, and The Deep Sky lined up. I'll also probably get Starter Villain this month.

In Progress:
A Wizard of Earthsea (reread)
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
A Dweller on Two Planets

On Deck:
In the Green Star's Glow
Starship Titanic
Childhood's End (reread)
State of the Art
Cryptonomicon

I picked up Galaxy Awards 1, a collection of Chinese science fiction, in order to read one Hugo-finalist short story. Now that I'm done with Hugo reading, I've turned back to it and am reading all the other stories.

>6 paradoxosalpha: I remember playing Starship Titanic on my PC using CD-ROMs but never finished it. Purchased it on sale a couple of years ago on Steam. Still haven’t finished it. I had no idea it was written into a novel. It’s now on my TBR list. Although I never finished the game (twice) I still thoroughly enjoyed the play.

I am taking a break from SciFi to live up to a couple of reading commitments in other genres:
1. My friend and colleague, Marina Endicott just published her most recent book, The Observer: A Novel a few weeks ago. I had promised myself I would read it when it came out after so enjoying her Good to a Fault this past summer.

2. I always read the Massey Lecture when it is released every fall. The 2023 book was published a few weeks ago: The Age of Insecurity. So that one is up next.

3. Lastly, my community book club is reading Margaret Atwood’s book Alias Grace which has been sitting on my shelf staring at me since it was published almost three decades ago. Time to strike that one off my TBR list. But that one is not being discussed until Dec so I should be able to fit in some SciFi between then and now.

I am looking forward to retiring in another couple of years. I am really resenting work getting in the way of my reading!

October Reading Plan

Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
To Die in Italbar - Roger Zelazny
Stringers - Chris Panatier
Axis - Robert Charles Wilson
For We Are Many - Dennis Taylor
Legacies - L.E. Modesitt
The Pride of Chanur - C.J. Cherryh

Just finished To Die in Italbar by Roger Zelazny. The story revolves around a man whose body collects diseases - he contracts them & overcomes them, and can use his immunity to save lives, but he also becomes periodically contagious. Interesting premise & made for a decent story. It turns out this is a sequel & not a standalone novel, which explains why it took awhile for me to get oriented. Worth a read, but probably better if you read Isle of the Dead first.