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 BootsWith any good story, it can be hard to manage to make the things that made it work function just as well again. That is, “sequelitis”. With a fresh start, you can do something different, but with a sequel, you’re[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve enjoyed Honsinger’s Man of War series as a fairly typical energetic military-SF series borrowing from the Age of Sail literary series. My main disappointment with the series is that it halts at a dramatic moment, and the sequel series[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After going through the last tutorial scenario for Operation Dauntless, Mark and I spent a little time with the classic pocket game GEV, and it’s initial “Breakthrough” scenario. I haven’t played it in decades, and while Mark is well aware[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, military science-fiction is always a selling point for me, and I have taken too long to get to this series. It is always presented as a series, and with good reason. While this is a complete story, structure-wise, the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a four-in-one of a series of James Blish novels. They’re all in the same universe, but only get truly related to each other later. The first book, They Shall Have Stars, takes place in an early twenty-first century[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second book of Vatta’s War finally gets to the ‘war’. Things take a very violent turn at the start, and everything follows on for that. We get a little bit of the opposing viewpoint near the beginning, but nothing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Gerrold writes an interesting story that feels a bit between a Star Trek story and a regular SF offering of it’s age. I think part of that is that it’s a ‘big dumb object’ story, with humans encountering a large[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m glad I came to the later part of Duane’s Rihannsu series late, as there was a six-year publication gap between the middle part (the previous pair of books) and this one, with it picking up just as things get[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Part two of Duane’s novel of the Rihannsu Empire picks up where the previous left off naturally enough. The rest of Star Fleet’s task force is finally on hand for tense negotiations as events continue to spiral out of control[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Published thirteen years after The Romulan Way, it takes place a couple of months after that novel. There’s a lot effectively unsettled after that, and this book picks up on all the threads, and even brings in K’s’t’lk from her[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…