Smudge Marks & Engel Werks Inside GMT Flash of Steel Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Ravens N’ Pennies Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsOkay, this was interesting. It’s the far-future, the galaxy is well-settled, though there’s no sign of aliens. But there’s not just humans. There are genetically-modified animals, given human thought, near-human shapes, and powers beyond normal humans. The Bestiae are rare,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many Star Trek novels are basically ‘just another episode’. An adventure happening alongside all the normal ones of the TV series. Some of them go after bigger subjects, like this one which presents Kirk’s evolution as a command officer into[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a relatively early Star Trek novel and it shows. Vulcans were one of the obsessions of the early fandom (…with good reason), and this novel obviously flows out of that. The bulk of the novel happens on Vulcan,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Prime Directive came out a bit after my primary era of reading Trek novels, money was tighter, and there were just too many coming out. But, it got a fairly good marketing push at the time, as one of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The “giant” novels were Pocket’s stepping stone to hardcover Star Trek novels, which took over the ‘premium’ slots in the production of way too many novels at the start of the ’90s. They were longer, more involved stories, and the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been quite a while since I’ve gotten back to the Honor Harrington series. It’s been more than long enough for me to forget a number of details, and anything more than the bare outlines of the plot of previous[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Way back when, I read through several early ST:TNG novels (all put out during first season). It was a pretty sad bunch. One of them was notably better than the others (not to say that it was worth recommending), and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This Aliette de Bodard story is every bit as good as the first one I read a while ago. In fact, I felt it was more tightly plotted, and shorter, than On a Red Station, Drifting, but it seems that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
C. J. Cherryh’s writing can get annoying with pages and pages of internal… well, monologue is not quite the right term, but it’s close. Major character’s thoughts are examined in detail as they go around on subjects weighing every angle.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second book of the Safehold series continues to play to Webber’s strong points. And his weak points. The book starts very well by giving a number of different incidents across the world to reintroduce where things left off, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…