Here's the place to let everyone else know what you're reading in science fiction/fantasy/horror.

OK. I guess I'll start.

I read very little novel—length work because I don't have the time, what with editing and reading for work.

But I have read two novels so far this year that's I'd recommend: Greg Bear's horror novel,Dead Lines, which has some excellent scary bits, and China Mieville's Iron Council, which is related but not a sequel to Perdido Street Station. It's political, passionate, and imaginative.

I'm not a huge science fiction fan, but I'm reading Nature's End by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka. It may be the first scifi book I've read in ten years!

I read it many years ago, and picked it up again last year to read once again. It was written back in the early 80's (when I first read it), but it's set in the near future (ie now).

I enjoyed how authors Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka would take real excerpts from newspapers and put them at the beginning of every chapter. It was also interesting how they would add their own articles for the events that happened later (ie: they would have more excerpts that would be from the year 1990, or 2000, or 2010, etc. etc.)

Pretty engrossing in the parts that dealt with Malthus, etc.

I read Nature's End back in -- what was it 1989?! -- it was tought to swallow back then; pretty bleak view of the future. "Environmentalists" like these two authors might as well be Branch Davidians, or die-hard Trotskyists -- always perversely excited by impending doom, and ever-eager to explain that their failed prophecies are all the more far-sighted because they haven't come true yet.