[Frankie the Fomori]

Re-reading SR novels for street legends. Right now it is Crossroads and dead Air to cover background on Talon and Hans Brackhaus. Latter I will pick up Serrin's first two but lack the third that is after i read the burning time. Cheers

[SirDelta]

Besides Shadowrun books?

Well, I'm abour knee-deep into the Kalevala.  It's almost all of the Finnish Folk poetry arranged into a cohesive narrative.
It's actually a really good read, and if you like world mythology, then you would probably like it.

[bigity]

Reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by PKD.  The world seems even more bleak than Blade Runner (movie based on the book).

I know right?  I feel like I need one of those dial-a-mood things after reading that book.

[CanRay]

"I keep dialing happy, but it keeps coming up depressed."   

I'm reading David Weber's "Off Armageddon Reef", part of a new (To me) series.

[freddieflatline]

Reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by PKD.  The world seems even more bleak than Blade Runner (movie based on the book).

One of the few instances where the movie is better than the book.  Still not a bad read it just does not have the same effect as the movie.  At least in my opinion.

[Critias]

Highlander: The History of the Legendary Highland Soldier, by Tim Newark. 
The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War, by Andrew Roberts.
Scotland: A Very Short Introduction, Rab Houston.
The Government of Scotland: Public Policy Making After Devolution, Michael Keating.
Scottish Battles, John Sadler.

God have mercy on a historian overseas.  We can't help ourselves, and book shops are everywhere.

And one for fun, a surprise gift from a fellow forumite:
The Ghosts of Belfast, by Stuart Neville.

[Laurentius]

RPG wise: Going through SR4 books by topic (I.E.: Magic, Hacking, Augmentations...)

Otherwise:
Documents of the Christian Church, Edited by Henry Bettenson & Chris Maunder, New Edition.
A Short World History of Christianity, by Robert Bruce Mullin.
Multivariable Calculus, by Jon Rogawski.

Been a while since I read for fun, recently (SR and random bits of 3.5D&D aside). Off the top of my head, Wraeththu by Storm Constantine and Chronicles of the Black Company by Glen Cook. Oh, and Heaven's Net is Wide by Lian Hearn.

[savaze]

What's your input on Wraeththu? I've seen it a few time and a wondered how it reads...

I just finished Grand Central Arena by Ryk Spoor and liked it a lot more than I though I would, enough so that I'm on a hunt for Doc Smith books now. I just started Hidden Empire by Kevin J. Anderson. I raided the book store last night and picked up:

A Secret Atlas by Stackpole
The Way of Kings by Sanderson
Eifelheim by Flynn
Gardens of the Moon by Erikson
Evolution by Baxter
Spirit Gate by Elliott
The God Stalker Chronicles by Hodgell
Boundary by Flint & Spoor
Singularity Sky by Stross

I was very tempted to splurge on more Ian Banks' Culture novels, but the dang publisher has never printed any of his stuff in mass market *sigh* and that would have eaten into my reading. These books should last me a couple of weeks!

[Laurentius]

I really liked Wraeththu, but it isn't for everybody. Main criticism when I hand it to friends seems to be the large amount of sex involved, so if you can get past that for the rest of the story it's really interesting. Refreshing take on post-apocalypse, in my opinion, and the intrigue  is well developed (though a lot of it is mostly romantic).

[savaze]

I wondered about that... All the reviews on amazon implied it had more to do with trying to pushing an anti gender-role agenda.

[Laurentius]

I won't say more for fear of spoiling things, but there is emphasis on how relationships are set up. The settings are what I really like, particularly in the third book, The Fulfillments of Fate and Desire. It was written in the 1980s, if that affects your opinions, although the occult portions of the book have quite a bit of research and detail going into them. It's generated a sort of occult following too, last I checked.

Another book that follows sort of the same tune is Ring of Swords by Eleanor Arnason, although that's set in a future where humanity takes to space and encounters another intelligent species, focusing on the diplomacy that ensues.

[savaze]

I like a good story regardless of when it was written... I'll have to get around to getting it.

[Laurentius]

Let me know what you think of it, when you pick it up.

[The Seven]

I've recently started Deus Ex: Icarus Effect and it's a great scenario/characters/plots ideas source for Shadowrun.

Seriously, the story is well-written, fast-paced, gritty and very raw; it features a hell lot of augmentations (but no metas or magic, though, being a non-SR fiction novel) and corporate/government hidden agendas and conspiracies (amazing how a lot of GMs and players completely forget governmental politics in SR!).

A must for any and all of you.

edit: a link to the upcoming 'Deus Ex: Human Revolution' game, on which the above fiction is based upon: http://youtu.be/kIPrVB12CK4?hd=1

[Prime Mover]

Just reread Spells & Chrome.
Found an old Hammers Slammers novel I might crack open.
Finished Changes the last Dresden novel, anxious for the next installment Coming in July.
Jonesing for more SR and EP fiction.