I for­got to men­tion, the last time I pos­ted a books catch up, that I had read Tik-Tok by John Sladek. This was a book that reminded me of old style Sci Fi books, from back when I first star­ted buy­ing books. Though it was pub­lished in the 1980’s. Sladek writes with a wicked sense of humour, (I also read Rod­er­ick many years ago), and his satir­ical stor­ies are very enjoy­able. Recommended.

More recently I fin­ished Escape from Kath­mandu by Kim Stan­ley Robin­son, of which, the cover claims, the Wash­ing­ton Post said “laugh-out-loud funny”. I thought there were some amus­ing parts to what amounts to four short-ish stor­ies based around the same char­ac­ters. But not laugh-out-load, not even chuckle-to-myself. Still, the stor­ies were inter­est­ing if not what I was expect­ing.
I’m now read­ing Memory of White­ness also by Kim Stan­ley Robin­son. More on this when I’ve fin­ished it.