A World of Difference

Author	Katya Reimann
ISBN	0812549333

Did I like this book? Let me put it to you this way: my AOL address/ screen name is Mervion and my twin sister's is Gaultry, which we chose way back in the mid 90s when we'd just read this book and AOL was still new.

I am completely biased when it comes to this book because I was so starved for a book about...

Author	Richard Dreyfuss
ISBN	0812544595

A precious and historic painting has been stolen by terrorists—radical separatists who will stop at nothing to shatter the union. Colonel Thomas Bushell, the government’s most fearless agent, is the only man who can stop them.

But this is not our world. For the stolen painting depicts...

Author	Stephen Baxter
ISBN	0061057088

The space mission of a lifetime An epic saga of America's might-have-been, Voyage is a powerful, sweeping novel of how, if President Kennedy had lived, we could have sent a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s. Imaginatively created from the true lives and real events., Voyage returns to the geniuses...

Author	Linda Evans
ISBN	0671875949

The sad thing is their are some really cool ideas like the idea that Odin is a villain and that it looks at the monsters as more of as tragic characters instead of as villains like they usually are. But the problem comes mostly with the main character Randy is just really boring and seems more like a gary stu...

Author	Karl Edward Wagner
ISBN	0937986720

I love the Kane books by Karl Edward Wagner, but I was tempted to rate this final volume even lower : three of the best novellas already published in the previous volumes are gathered here with two shortish stories, so 80 % of the collection is recycled material and it just doesn't feel right to call this...

Author	James P. Hogan
ISBN	0671877577

I went through a big Jim Hogan kick a few years back. I picked this one up recently in a second-hand bookshop, and I think I can now more clearly see both Hogan's strengths and his weaknesses. He's easy to get addicted to, easy to dislike when you're not addicted.

The premise: the Allies lost the...

Author	Douglas Niles
ISBN	0812574664

The Führer is dead ... but the war still goes on!

Backed by a cadre of SS officers, Himmler seizes control of the Reich and instigates a plan to change the course of the war.

First, an armistice with Russia.

Second, the mass production of jet fighters.

And third, the...

Author	Payne Harrison
ISBN	0804105537

"A stunning success...A literally out-of-this-world chess game of nuclear proportions."
THE BALTIMORE SUN
What begins as a routine voyage of a space shuttle carrying Star Wars technology, turns into a harrowing nightmare in outer space when a Russian agent siezes command of the vehicle....

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0425058220

David Falkayn -- Few indeed had won their Master Merchant's certificate as young as he, let alone become confidential associates of an uncrowned prince like Nicholas van Rijn, or ruled entire planets. But with an alien posse riding hot on his heels, even Falkayn can't feel completely at ease...

In...

Author	Loren L. Coleman
ISBN	0451459121

This is the second book in the Mech Warrior Dark Age series. This series is a continuation of the Battletech series. The books in this series, like the books in the original Battletech series, are by various authors. This one is by Loren L. Coleman. The Republic of the Sphere has known a long period of peace...

Author	Michael A. Stackpole
ISBN	0451459059

For generations, the Republic of the Sphere has known a Golden Age of peace. Mighty BattleMechs, once kings of the battlefields, now aid the reconstruction of war-torn worlds. But when terrorists destroy the interstellar communications net, each planet is thrust into isolation. Suddenly old hatreds...

Author	Dayton Ward
ISBN	0743457897

It started small, with an unprepared band of Marine reservists encountering deadly extraterrestrial visitors in the backwoods of Missouri. But this fatal First Contact rapidly escalates into a global crisis as mankind discovers that two warring species of aliens have invaded our world through...

Author	S.M. Stirling
ISBN	0765314886

Marc has been assigned to Jamestown, the US-Commonwealth base on Venus, near the great Venusian city of Kartahown. Set in a countryside swarming with sabertooths and dinosaurs, Jamestown is home to a small band of American and allied scientist-adventurers.

But there are flies in this ointment...

Author	Alan Dean Foster
ISBN	0441002188

This story started off promising. A group of biologists arrive on a planet hoping to study the terrain. What they find is not only does the planet have with crazy plants, animals, and insects, there are also aliens.
I don't want to give away too much of the plot but everything on this planet is not as...

Author	Leil Lowndes
ISBN	0806527935

What a load of rubbish this book was. If you want to get nowhere with women, be sure to adhere to the advice dispensed in this book. Otherwise, steer clear, steer way clear.

Lowndes obviously has no idea, how to REALLY appear attractive to women. All she can impart with is the kind of "what your mom...

Author	C.S. Goto
ISBN	1844162346

There’s always something important when it comes to writing for fictional universes: Research. No matter what it is, whether it be Marvel comics or a tv series which has just started you always take a look at the structure behind the events. You study the basic principles of the universe, the laws and...

Author	Ben Counter
ISBN	0743443535

Some say that Arguleon Veq came to the world of Torvendis when the Maelstrom was still young - a long time ago, for that jewelled wound in reality is old indeed. Others maintain that his deeds on the planet were within a breath of living memory, and that he fabricated the weight of history to turn...

Author	Joe Weber
ISBN	0425172554

Weber finally dishes out a fast paced, current events novel. Shockingly, this story sounds close to what is taking place in the world of terrorism today and not so long ago.
Basically, a billionare terrorist in Iran gets weapons help from the Russians, although the Russians do not play much of a role...

Author	Neil Jones
ISBN	1841541540

In the nightmare future of the 41st Millennium, humanity must fight for survival againt a myriad heretical alien races – but the most dangerous enemies of all are the former champions of mankind, now corrupted by the foul taint of Chaos!

This classic anthology of dark and gothic SF was first...

Author	Simon Spurrier
ISBN	1844160106

Based on the popular Playstation 2 video game from THQ, this is the action-packed tale of a young Fire Warrior sworn to protect the enigmatic rulers of the benevolent Tau empire who are known as the Ethereals. When one powerful Ethereal crash lands behind Imperial lines, the young Fire Warrior is sent...

Author	Anthony Reynolds
ISBN	1844166074

Ever driven by his lust for power, Marduk, aspiring Dark Apostle of the Word Bearers Chaos Space Marine Legion, strives to unlock the secrets of an ancient and deadly artefact. This quest throws him and the Word Bearers into a deadly warzone and a desperate battle between their Imperial enemies, the...

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	0380814889

No power on Earth can resist the might of Imperial Rome, so it has been and so it ever shall be. Through brute force, terror, and sheer indomitable will, her armies have enslaved a world. From the reign of Maximilianus the Great in A.U.C. 1203 onward through the ages -- into a new era of scientific advancement...

Author	James Swallow
ISBN	1844161544

I personally thought this was an awesome novel. James Swallow does a fantastic job at really building tension. There were a good number of times when things happened that were completely unexpected to me. I also love that there is far less plot armour than in some 40K fiction *cough* ultramarines *cough*....

Author	Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN	0345341023

Here is the compelling story of the launching of Prometheus -- Earth's first true spaceship -- and of the men who made it happen.
Dirk Alexson:
Chronicler of the greatest space adventure of all time, he was chosen to immortalize the incredible story of the men and their heroic mission.
Sir...

Author	Greg Donegan
ISBN	0425174298

I was a little torn about how to rate this one. I feel like I need to explain it a bit.

For me, a four star rating is a good book. Five is something I reserve for the absolute best, something that I know I'll go back to and read again someday. But, four is good. Three stars, well, that's for books that aren't...