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Regenesis by CJ Cherryh, the sequel to Cyteen - so far it's more Cyteen, no surprises, no gimmicks, just flatly more Cyteen as if that book had never ended. Which is good! I like more Cyteen. I am a little disappointed it's not jumping ahead a hundred years to dig into what the plan for shaping societies is about, but hey, I do like Ari 2 and Justin and so on. Also, as I got 'em for xmas, A Matter of Oaths - it's about an amnesiac starship pilot being ostracized by all the other pilots, and the conspiracy that'll come after him, supposedly. I like the characters so far! Not often you get an older lady as a main character, and while the amnesia thing is old as hell, I like it. The Dragon Never Sleeps - This book is Warhammer 40k in another jacket. There's a lot of powerful conservative space marines and powerful starships, there's an alien menace that embodies chaos, and there are people caught in the midst of it. I really, really like this, as while it's 40k-esque it's still its own beast, and the imagery the author writes is compelling.
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Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian. I started a few days ago and I'm 148 pages in already! I've tried to read this book before on three separate occasions and bounced off because of the sheer difficulty of parsing everything (especially ship stuff) - but hey. This time everything's clicking and while I'm still going through that period where I have to look at the chart of a ship's parts to understand things, the rest of the book is coming together. I like Jack (a good natured bloke), I like Stephen, I'm curious about Dillon's bad attitude(?), and above all I love the humor. So - hopefully, hopefully I'll be able to post in the What did you just finish? thread soon!
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Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:
 They're good pulpy sci-fi / military sci-fi stuff, very readable. I knew nothing about Warhammer before I picked up the Founding, and I still know very little about it, but I'll root for Gaunt.
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