Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan's new anthology The New Space Opera 2 came out today, featuring all original stories by me, John Scalzi, Robert Charles Wilson, Jay Lake, Garth Nix, Bruce Sterling, Elizabeth Moon, Justina Robson and many others. My story, "To Go Boldly," is a look at the LARPing ethic that lurks under the skin of any space navy.

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061562351/
Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/29/new-space-opera-2-sf.html

I recently read the Tor book "The Truthsayer's Apprentice" by fellow Oort-Cloud member Deborah Teramis Christian, and it was great (and I'm very picky).

Things in particular that I like:

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If you aren’t familiar with the work of award-winning writer Jeff VanderMeer, now is your chance to see what the fuss is about. GeekDad is happy to be able to offer Wired readers a PDF copy of VanderMeer’s upcoming book The Situation, courtesy of PS Publishing (cover artwork by Scott Eagle).

http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/03/the-situation-j.html

So, right now what is everybody reading?

I'm purling through Gravity's Rainbow at the moment, and probably will be for a long time.

Title: The First Five Pages
Author: Noah Lukeman
Source: Simon & Schuster, New York, p.207 p.2000
ISBN: 978-0-7432-9093-7 (hardcover)