What are you reading Wednesday

Home, finally, and more or less adjusted to Pacific time. More later.

What are you currently reading?

M.J. Locke's Up Against It, hard SF set on an asteroid mining colony. It's got thrills, disasters, nanobots, a feral AI, and it got shortlisted for the Tiptree. Seriously, why is no one else talking about this? It's quite good. I suppose it's got a very small chance of wandering off into "God did it" territory; if that happens I shall be extremely disappointed. (Update some hours later: luckily, no.)

Also, I have a bookmark about 2/3 through Daniel Abraham's A Shadow In Summer.

What did you recently finish reading?

Adam Rex's hilarious The True Meaning of Smekday. As I said to the bookseller, I can't remember if several friends have recommended this, or if jadelennox has just been effusive enough for three people. Regardless, it's a fine light YA romp with a fantastic heroine and a genuinely funny alien. The illustrations are first-rate too.

Chohei Kambayashi's Yukikaze, a novel about a withdrawn reserved sociopathic isolated recon fighter pilot in a war against an enemy no one has ever seen. It's doing interesting things with 'being human,' which is just about enough to make up for the occasionally awkward prose and storytelling, and the fact that it reads like a collection of short stories (which I don't believe it was). Worth reading, I think, and I think I'll be looking for the sequel (and the third, if and when it comes out in English).

What do you think you'll read next?

The rest of Abraham's Long Price Quartet, unless something else exciting comes up or I end up hating them.