I've recently realized that I've got a lot of media queues. Entertainment piled up for imminent immersion. I've got a game queue that I keep myself, a movie queue that I keep with Netflix, and a book queue which I don't have well organized. In an attempt to organize my thoughts, I'm going to list out my book queue here.
Academ's Fury is the second book in Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series. Rumor has it that he formulated the series on a dare to write a book combining a lost Roman Legion and Pokemon. His Dresden Files series has some of my favorite books of all time, but I didn't love the first book in Codex Alera. I'm hoping that the books get better.
Embassytown is a China Mieville book about another world, relations with aliens, and that's about all I get out of the description. It sounds complicated. But I'm interested.
Existence is a book by David Brin, whose blog I follow. I really like his writings, and the tidbits of his novel he's cited have me intrigued.
Homeland is the sequel to Little Brother. It came out last week, and I'll be buying it soon. When I'm finished with Axis, it's the next book I'll be reading.
Magicians is a book I first learned about when I heard that it was optioned for a TV series. I added the book to my wishlist, and got it for Christmas this year. It sounds like an emo Harry Potter, but darker.
Makers is Cory Doctorow. And I loves me some Doctorow. Got this one for Christmas this year too.
Medalon is a fantasy book that I picked up a while back. It's been sitting on my to-read shelf for a few years. I'm sure I'll get to it at some point.
In the Name of the Wind is a book by Patrick Rothruss that I've heard people speaking highly of for years. I know close to nothing about it, but I'm interested based on word of mouth.
The Rapture of the Nerds is a book that I'm saving for myself like a piece of candy. It's the inverse of the Left Behind series. In the future, technologically savvy people digitize their personalities and become digitized people, free of physical bodies. They go off to live on a Dyson sphere or something. Meanwhile, the luddites and the religious objectors are left on Earth, as they refuse to join the nerds in the cloud.
Red Shirts John Scalzi's farcical tale of a star fleet with a dark secret. Why do the red shirt new guys always get killed on away missions? I've heard nothing but good about it, and I look forward to getting a copy to read soon.
Troy Rising was recommended to me by a coworker. Alien invasion of Earth, yadda yadda yadda. Sounds good.
Redshirts was a blast, definitely more than expected from the advertised premise.
I'll probably steal some of your queue for my own, lord knows it can never have enough books to toss on the pile!