Book recommendations
May 18, 2012 3 Comments
Friday programming has begun with a sequel to last nights sugar rush, a trip to chocolateria Amorina, while the more literary minded attendees have been discussing about good books. Here are some that were heartily recommended by the participants:
Saladin Ahmed: Throne of the Crescent Moon
China Miéville: Railsea
Catherynne M. Valente: Palimpsest
Jeff Somers: Electric Circus
Mary Robinette Kowal: The Shades of Milk and Honey
Ted Chiang: Lifecycle of Software Objects
Ted Chiang: Lacey’s Patent Automatic Nanny from Doctor Thackeray T. Lambshead’s Cabinet of Curiosities by them VanderMeers
Seo-Young Chu: Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?
Joe Abercrombie: ouvre
Lauren Beukes: Zoo City
Michael Swanwick: Dragons of Babel
Richard Morgan: Altered Carbon
Stephen Brust: Tiassa
David Eagleman: Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Viktor Pelevin: The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones comics
Cory Doctorow: Little Brother
Iain M. Banks: Surface Detail
Emily Diamand: Reaver’s Ransom
Delia Sherman: The Freedom Maze
Jennifer Pelland: Unwelcome Bodies
Helen Oyeyemi: The Opposite House
Jo Walton: Among Others
William Elliot: The Pilo Family Circus
Feel free to recommend more in the commentary section!
Åcon 5 
You’ve left out: N.K.Jemisin’s brilliant The Killing Moon
And
Stina Leicht: Of Blood and Honey
It was Oyeyemi’s White is for Witching I recommended. Haven’t read Opposite House but I’m sure it’s good.
Sorry, my bad. I only got the author’s name and a mentioning of a house. Hence.