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Crucible Of Gold
Tragically, interesting space news has been slow and I’ve been too busy with my consulting work to pontificate on other random things. When I get home, I’m usually so exhausted I either curl into a...
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Guilt
It may seem odd to review a crime thriller on a site dedicated to science-fiction but, because it’s a storyworld site, I thought it might be interesting to include a discussion of one of the longer...
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The Orphan Master’s Son
I finished reading The Orphan Master’s Son about two weeks ago and I still can’t stop thinking about it. I’ve been interested in North Korea for a little while now. It started as mere curiosity about...
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The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
When I was a kid, I wasn’t a fan of sci-fi books. I found them dense, poorly written, and full of stuff I didn’t care about. I liked sci-fi for the fantasy element–people going to strange places to...
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As I was at the airport on my way out for my Christmas holiday, I stopped in the book store looking for the usual crap I like I read when on vacation. Well… crap may be too harsh. But it’s not exactly...
View ArticleAnd… We’re Back!
Welcome back! Or… I suppose I should say, I’m back! Back from a short holiday recess to Park City where I spent a couple of weeks with my girlfriend’s family and did a bit of skiing. But, as I said,...
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So… book number two that I read over my Christmas holiday was Lock In by John Scalzi. I picked it up because I read Scalzi’s best known works (I think), The Old Man’s War trilogy. They were good books...
View ArticleThe Imperial Radch Trilogy
What do you do when there’s a civil war and no one knows about it or what side they’re on? To some extent, that’s the central premise of the Imperial Radch Trilogy, made up of the three books Ancillary...
View ArticleNine Fox Gambit
Are you a fan of sci-fi that never bothers to explain anything, dark settings that make Warhammer: 40K seem cheery, a culture that overvalues the metaphorical creatures they’ve chosen to represent...
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Crucible Of Gold
Tragically, interesting space news has been slow and I’ve been too busy with my consulting work to pontificate on other random things. When I get home, I’m usually so exhausted I either curl into a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Guilt
It may seem odd to review a crime thriller on a site dedicated to science-fiction but, because it’s a storyworld site, I thought it might be interesting to include a discussion of one of the longer...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Orphan Master’s Son
I finished reading The Orphan Master’s Son about two weeks ago and I still can’t stop thinking about it. I’ve been interested in North Korea for a little while now. It started as mere curiosity about...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
When I was a kid, I wasn’t a fan of sci-fi books. I found them dense, poorly written, and full of stuff I didn’t care about. I liked sci-fi for the fantasy element–people going to strange places to...
View ArticleThe Martian
As I was at the airport on my way out for my Christmas holiday, I stopped in the book store looking for the usual crap I like I read when on vacation. Well… crap may be too harsh. But it’s not exactly...
View ArticleAnd… We’re Back!
Welcome back! Or… I suppose I should say, I’m back! Back from a short holiday recess to Park City where I spent a couple of weeks with my girlfriend’s family and did a bit of skiing. But, as I said,...
View ArticleLock In
So… book number two that I read over my Christmas holiday was Lock In by John Scalzi. I picked it up because I read Scalzi’s best known works (I think), The Old Man’s War trilogy. They were good books...
View ArticleThe Imperial Radch Trilogy
What do you do when there’s a civil war and no one knows about it or what side they’re on? To some extent, that’s the central premise of the Imperial Radch Trilogy, made up of the three books Ancillary...
View ArticleNine Fox Gambit
Are you a fan of sci-fi that never bothers to explain anything, dark settings that make Warhammer: 40K seem cheery, a culture that overvalues the metaphorical creatures they’ve chosen to represent...
View ArticleThe Judge Hunter
I’ve been a fan of Christopher Buckley since I first read Little Green Men. The book pre-supposed the idea: What if Tucker Carlson (or one of his Sunday talk-show ilk) was abudicted by aliens? The...
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