It’s been a while since my last complete re-read, I think it was before The Path of Daggers, so after reading the posts on the first two books I’m amazed once again by how much actually happens so early in the series! It’s sad that the pace slowed down as much as it later did, it seems like things might get way to rushed in the final book. Looking forward to it anyway though!

Oh and BTW, sorry about not posting the review on The Dreaming Void, in short it was pretty good but I was a little bit disappointed as I felt it was a bit too much of a filler inbetween the first and last book of the trilogy. I really did enjoy the fantasy parts that takes place within the void though, I was a bit sceptical while reading the first book but they soon took off and continued to be great all the way through The Dreaming Void.

I’ve been reading a few of the ones released before the launch using MobiReader on my Nokia phone and it’s quite nice to always have something available to read.

One of the most intriguing aspects of his story is the back-story of the leading characters. They start out as hostages living through a several year long hellish existence at the hand of their captors. After being saved we then follow them and their friends and families around the globe as the flooding  starts wreaking havoc on life as we know it. Baxter’s depiction on how major cities of the world are affected is detailed and really gets you involved in the story, at least if you are familiar with them. The later chapters showing how the next generation treats the transformed world as something normal, already adapting to it, and showing almost no interest in stories of what it used to be like is almost scary.

Apart from some near-future tech which seems to be within our reach we unfortunately get to know very little about the really science fictiony stuff in the story . We’ll have to wait for the coming sequel Ark for that part of the story I guess. Looking forward to it myself!

I’ve been a Baxter fan for quite some time and looks like I’ll continue to be one; Flood gets a rating of 4 stars out of 5 from me.

” Once the full Tor.com site opens on Sunday, July 20, we’ll be making all the books in this program briefly available one last time, so be sure to stop by for our launch!”

Looking forward to see the new site and of course I’ll check if there were any books available before I signed up.

There’s also some really nice free reading available at the Baen free library. I recently re-discovered it and read John Ringo’s “A Hymn Before Battle” and “Gust Front”. Both were pretty decent but a bit to hard-core military for my taste.

A month or two ago I devoured Old Man’s War and The Ghost Brigades. If you haven’t already and you’re at least somewhat into military SF (like I am) make sure to add them to your wish list. I will definitely buy a softcover copy of The Last Colony when it arrives next year!

The last books of his I read was the excellent Glasshouse and Accelerando , and I’m looking forward to the upcoming ones! Check out his earlier works as well, for instance Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise, highly recommended!

Keeping track of publications of paperback editions in general is far from easy considering the difference in both price, format, release dates etc between the UK and US. Some authors books seem to take forever to move from hardcover to softcover, other ones switches so quickly that it might be hard to get hold of the hardcover edition if you don’t keep track. I do tend to by mostly paperbacks since they are easier to store and the lower price also enables me to buy more books than I otherwise could. There are of course exceptions, either books from favorite authors (last one was The Dreaming Void by Peter Hamilton) or hardcover editions on sale.

For people who can read Swedish my favorite resource for information on new books is SF-bokhandeln and I guess there must be similar lists available in English somewhere. I’m afraid I don’t know of any good ones, but that is probably since I haven’t looked hard enough.