Summer reading

Summertime is my favorite time of year to read, granted that when hunkered down for the winter delving into a good story can offer expanded horizons while dealing with issues of snow, ice and cold. Summer offers a much wider variety of venues to settle in for a good read. This is a particularly good year for this fan of SciFi Space Opera. This year three of my favorite SciFi authors released new books which I collected in the spring for summer reading. For July I read Alastair Reynolds' "On the Steel Breeze", the second of his Poseidon's Children series. During vacation week for the second year in a row Neal Asher has this spot with the last of his "The Owner" trilogy, "Jupiter War". Half way through it and my vacation as well, setting a good reading pace while generally enjoying the time off. Both books hit the mark for what I like to read and now that I've read most of the SciFi novels they have written patience is the watch word between their next releases. On deck for after I return to the real world is "Cibola Burn" The Expanse, Book 4 by James S.A. Corey (pen name used by collaborators Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck). The first book of the series "Leviathan Wakes" from what I understand is in pre-production for a TV series on the revamped SciFi (SYFY??) channel. While reading the first three books I couldn't help but think what a great TV series this could be so it was exciting to hear that the thought may come to fruition. Another of my favorite authors, Iain Banks' last novel before he died of cancer last year, "The Quarry" I finished reading last weekend. This was a fiction but not SciFi. Banks has a large collection of writings though all my other readings of his were the science fiction ones and I'd read most of those. It's time for a morning jog along the lake, then back to lakeside for more reading.