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…
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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…
About the time I finished reading Dreamhearth, I happened on a giveaway for a couple of Hogarth’s other books, and got them. It turned out that they’re very late on in things, and there is a warning up front about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A little bit ago, I got onto the Space Empires Discord server. The main person behind it (d_demon) is definitely a fan, and I have no idea just how many games he’s been involved in over Discord. Shortly after my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…