What are you currently reading? The City at the End of Time by Greg Bear. I’m about a third of the way into this hard SF novel, and I’m still not entirely sure what it’s about. Three people living in something like today’s present have access to sum-runners, which are stones that allow them to dream the extremely distant future, where Chaos is about to overtake the city of Kalpa. And a couple of beings in Kalpa, who are connected to some of the present-day humans, are about to go exploring the chaos. I think.
What did you recently finish reading? The False Prince by Jennifer Nielsen. Sage is an orphan who is in training to pretend to be the long-lost Prince Jaron, except he actually is the long-lost Prince Jaron and doesn’t end up having to pretend at all. Yes, I know, I gave it away. This book would have been awesome if I were eleven.
What do you think you will read next? Lexicon by Max Barry or Inside Job by Connie Willis, both on reserve for me at the library. Unfortunately, due to tomorrow happening to be the day the Declaration of Independence was adopted 237 years ago, the library is closed. Grumble. I will have to forestall the decision at least until Friday.
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