Last week I started and finished Exiles by Mason Coile. Short and engaging. I haven't read a ton of stuff in the sci-fi genre to know how derivative it is, but familiar themes abound (I don't think this is automatically a bad thing btw, and it didn't bug me in this book). That said, the twistS and ending were pretty good -- aw heck, the whole story was pretty good.

I'd give it 3/5 Fudgy Points (I'd give it a four, but it really could have been longer by burning slower and building suspense throughout... Just too short and lacking some explanations of Why).

I also started A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0 by Bill Bryson. So far a fun read.