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Thought it'd be fun to share what everyone has been reading. I'll try to include titles and authors to make finding more information on them easier as well as a brief synopsis and my thoughts.

I had a lot of travel this week and speed through "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Great read with very interesting ideas and payoff that had me hooked. Covers human uplifting of other species, their development, and interactions afterwards.

I've also been working on "Strontium Dog" from 2000 A.D. comics (hey, it's sci-fi and it's printed) and made it through most of Vol. 3. In short, the main character Johnny Alpha is a mutant who's only available employment is as a bounty hunter. Very fun read in general, although part of the main beats in this volume are sad.

Started a new novel and continued working on my audiobook but I'll save my thoughts on that for next week / when I finish them.

Should we move any active users here over to https://lemmy.ca/c/printsf

With such a small community it might make more sense for the time being.

Thought it'd get appealed and bumped down to 2. Guess I was wrong.

Trying to jump start this community a bit and thought sharing what we are all reading would be fun.

Recently I just finished "All These Worlds" by Dennis E. Taylor (book 3 of the bobiverse) which I enjoyed. Pulpy but that's fine by me.

I've been listening to the murderbot diaries on my commute because they were in the humble bundle recently and enjoyed those a well. Just finished "Rogue Protocol" by Martha Wells there.

Taking a short breather from prose and read "The Apocalypse War" arc of Judge Dredd. Comics still count as print sci-fi right? Been working through those chronologically alongside Strontium Dog.

I've kinda stalled on "The Dark Forest" by Liu Cixin. Just not working for me the way "The Three-Body Problem" did. Which to be honest I thought was marginal overall but when it worked it was great. Maybe just in a tough patch?

Kinda my last two weeks but who's counting. Have some long travel coming up and have some good novels picked out but that'd be spoilers for next week.

Found this article about under the radar players for the Lions. Who do you think will surpass expectations? Who do you think we will be worse than expected?

Honestly, having not watched any OTAs or the sort I think James Houston might be a little underwhelming. I think this is mostly because expectations from some people are wildly sky high for him.

What are people's thoughts? I like the theme and concept execution but think his games are a bit too heavy for me to get regular play. We keep meaning to get back to The Gallerist but can't find the time. I skimmed two video reviews (Rahdo and Man v. Meeple) and one suggested it was a lighter game (for Lacerda) and the other said it was up there with his more complex.

Title says it all. Also a way to grow this community.