Inside GMT Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerIt’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…
I’m not quite sure what I was expecting when I found out about this Vorkosigan novella, but it wouldn’t have been this. And I mean that in the best possible way. This is, if anything, a sequel to A Civil[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Even for a Haruhi novel, this was a bit of a strange ride. First, it starts off wrapping up a loose end from The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, with another bout of time travel. What is done seems inconsequential, especially[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As a part of Mark and I’s cycle of lighter game playing, we went back to GEV last November, and tried out the scenario “The Train”. I don’t think it held enough interest for me to try it back in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a large SF novel that uses the space to fit a lot of themes and ideas into it. First, we’ve got an inhabited asteroid belt. The date is kept purposefully vague, but its far enough in the future[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second half of Lisinthir’s Heirs is just that, the second half of the story begun in Dragon’s Fealty. It does have an interesting way to to begin, with two characters waking up and recovering from the trauma at the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…