It’s the last day of the challenge and we want to know what you’re reading right next. We’ve spent the month talking about all kinds of books, from what influenced us as kids, our favorites that we re-read, classics, and more. And as we finish out we want to know what’s next in your stack to dig into that has caught your eye and will draw you forward into more of the literary world. We’ll be posting our epilogue for this challenge in a little bit and hope to see you there and join us for a new challenge tomorrow!

I’m currently wrapping up the Julian May book I talked about earlier this month and that has me ready to move back toward more “hard” science fiction material that’s the real draw for me. One of my favorite authors of the past two decades that I discovered with The Reality Dysfunction was that of Peter F. Hamilton. That series with the undead coming back across a galaxy, taking over worlds, and infecting others was an absolute blast, as were many of his follow-up works. I’ve fallen behind and I haven’t started his Salvation trilogy yet, so that’s next on deck.

The book is described as:

In the year 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. Cutting-edge technology of linked jump gates has rendered most forms of transportation—including starships—virtually obsolete. Every place on Earth, every distant planet humankind has settled, is now merely a step away from any other. All seems wonderful—until a crashed alien spaceship of unknown origin is found on a newly located world eighty-nine light-years from Earth, carrying a cargo as strange as it is horrifying. To assess the potential of the threat, a high-powered team is dispatched to investigate. But one of them may not be all they seem. . . .