by M.C. Planck. This was a good mystery sheathed in very good sci-fi. The cover makes it look like it might be military science fiction, but it really isn't for the most part. The main characters are a private cargo ship captain and a spy. The story goes very dark just before a happy-ish ending. Hoping to see more in this universe soon!
. I really enjoyed the first novel in this series and was suprised that the main character from that book took a back seat to a new character's story arc. Eventually the two meet up, though. I found it interesting that, at least to me, the first novel portrayed the military in a very positive light, even though the main character didn't really agree with them. This second book seemed to portray the military in much less positive way - but I guess that could be due to the situation the Forward Operating Base was facing. This is a good series, military science fantasy I think is the term that's being used to described it: Modern day military with magic and other dimensions.
by Thea Isis Gregory. This is set in the far future, as recent graduate gets her first job on space station to upgrade the Artificial Intelligence that helps run the place. In this setting, an AI became sentient on Earth and horrible things followed. Humanity keeps AIs in check to make sure they never achieve sentience again. This was a good book! (And it had cats!)
by Eric Brown is a far future story as humanity's empire shares an uneasy border with a hostile alien race. However, some colonists ventured beyond the far border of the alien's territory, and what they encouter there wants to take over everything, starting with our minds. This is a good space adventure in an intriguing setting. It's also kinda gross in places, but I guess that's the point of the Weird. There's a sequel due out this year that's on my wish list.
by Tracy Hickman. I've been a fan of Hickman since I was a teenager reading the Dragonlance novels when they came out. I'd heard good things about Wayne of Gotham and was excited to get this. In it, an aging Batman relies on technology to enable him to perform the same feats he used to be able to do on his own (carry Harley Quinn over his shoulder up a flight a stairs without getting winded). Hickman makes interesting use of technology in the Batsuit and Batmobile, and the story fleshes out Alfred's family, as well as the story of Bruce Wayne's parents, which is really the main story, as it haunts Bruce in modern day with repurcussions from things his father did. Good stuff, but not your typical Batman versus his rogues gallery story.The Kassa Gambit, The ABACUS Protocol, and Fortress Frontier were each eARCs from NetGalley. I bought The Devil's Nebula myself because it sounded interesting. Wayne of Gotham was a gift from my lovely wife.
, by Michael R. Underwood is more a nerdy Urban Fantasy. It's fun with it's pop-culture references, plot twist, and a female protagonist that doesn't match the Urban Fantasy mold.
, by Lincoln Child, didn't live up to my expectations. Normally, a book from either of the authors of the excellent Pendergast series is always a good read. The Third Gate left me wanting something more from it.
, by Matthew Reilly, is another in the action-movie-as-a-book Scarecrow series. Plenty of edge-of-your-seat, breathless action, and some character development too. 
, by Richard Doetsch, is the fourth book in an excellent on-going series. I feel like I'm slogging through this book though, but not because of any fault of the book - I've just been crazy-busy lately and when I do have free I'm playing Guild Wars 2 instead of reading. More on this book maybe once I've finished it and can give it a proper mention. The Thieves of Legend is scheduled to be published on November 27, 2012.
, by Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon. This isn't a new book, but the blurb sounded interesting so I added it to my wish list.
, by E.E. Knight: Final book in the fantastic Age of Fire series. Knight is one of my favorite authors. This book one took too long to wrap up, too much going on for the end of a series. I still enjoyed it though.
, by Brett Patton: Part Starship Troopers (without the bugs), part Transformers. It'd make great anime. I loved it. Well-written mecha action.
, by Grieg Beck: Good modern-day military adventure. Iran tries to create and maintain a black hole. Stuff that accidentally goes into it, sends back something worse! Interesting premise and lots of action. I enjoyed it. Part of a series, but stands perfectly well all by itself.
, by Alex Irvine: Sequel to the novel Exodus, prequel to the cartoon Transformers Prime. It was okay.. read like average fan-fiction.
, by Paul S. Kemp: Better than the 9-book series that's currently running with the main Star Wars characters. Interesting premise and I'm intrigued enough to want to know if there's another sequel planned.
, by Joe Haldeman: Third in the Marsbound series. Kind of post-apocalyptic: aliens took away all of Earth's power generating abilities and nothing works. Quick resolution. I enjoyed it.
, by John Sailhammer. Theologian gives his interpretation of the 
, by Jean Johnson. I kept wanting to not like the premise of this 
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, by James Becker. Good story right up until the ending was dragged out too much. And the titular Secret was ridiculous.
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, by Jeff Carlson. Good short-form SF. I hope to read more from him.
, by Jeff Carlson. More good SF. I kept thinking I knew what was coming next, and I was surprised I didn't! I like that.
, book two of the Memory of Flames series, by Stephen Deas. I had a hard time at first knowing what was going on, who was whom, and what their motivations were; the book apparently picks up right after the events of first book and, to me, does little to explain what came before except for a little bit in passing that can be inferred from conversations or from other events. But once I got into the book, I couldn't put it down!
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, by Walter Greatshell; an intriguing book in which Maddy Grant suffers a terrible accident and injury to her brain. She later awakens to find she's been subjected to a procedure that enhances her brain function by implanting her brain with a tiny computer allowing her to network her brain functions, find, retrieve, and learn information faster than a computer. She struggles with the changes, and with her place in her world, fighting against those who changed her and finding out everything she's ever known is wrong - or is it? The most interesting part of the book to me, upon finishing it, was wondering what parts of the story were real and which parts were programmed into Maddy's brain - or was the entire story a simulation in her brain? I want to know!
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... I've been in a mood to read a bunch lately. It's nice! It's also nice having some good stuff to read. Everything in my list today either came from my local library or from 
by Steve Berry. It's a later book in the Cotton Malone series, of which I haven't read any others. Based on this one though, I just might! This one has cool stuff like conspiracies, ancient Antarctic civilizations, corrupt politicians... I'm eating it up! 
by Christie Golden. Hardcover novel in the middle of a nine-book series set about 40ish years after the original movies. It's an okay book in the series with some good plot events that make it worth the read if your reading the whole series. But there are much better Star Wars books out there.
by C. M. Palov. A photographer and a novelist/historian get involved in a search for the Ark of the Covenant by a radical fundementalist religious organization bent on starting the Gog/Magog war... Not a religious novel, but definitely has religion involved with the plot! Good read! 
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, picking up right where 
left off and continuing the rollercoaster ride to save the world. A pretty good book with government conspiracies to hide the secret origins of mankind and whatnot, but it had a really bizarre scene involving Jesus Christ that just didn't fit in with the rest of the story and seemed more of an attempt to out do Dan Brown. Other that that, it stayed within the breakneck plot of the rest of the series.