Cataract

Author	Tanya Huff
ISBN	0756403995

As military SF, maybe 4 stars. Better than most.

But I'm starting to think that military fiction has become so rigid that it's almost an automatic minus when you judge it just as SF.

Military SF checklist:
* Protagonist is a hard-boiled NCO - check (but a point for her being female)
*...

Author	Kathleen Nance
ISBN	0505525917

Canada: For over a century it's been closed off, quarantined. Now, in 2176, its people thrive. The country still needs peacekeepers, though -- and the Mounties are there. Be It All, Do It All. Those are the high-tech police force's twin mottos. They're Day Daniels' mottos, too.

But things are...

Author	Brian Daley
ISBN	0345329198

Giving it more of a 3.5/3.75. The end of the trilogy is bittersweet as author Brian Daley died before writing more exploits of Hobart and Alacrity (one wonders why he abandoned the characters in favor of Robotech novels, but oh well). A few things become blazingly apparent with this entry, most specifically...

Author	Wilhelmina Baird
ISBN	0441121632

Read for the LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge, the Second Best Reading Challenge, and the Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge.

I originally chose to read this book because I needed to read women I had not read for the Women of Genre Fiction challenge, this one had been nominated...

Author	Rhiannon Lassiter
ISBN	0330391836

This is my second time reading this series, but since I forgot what happened, I ended up reading it really fast and skipped a lot of the boring political stuff to get to the action. The premise is very imaginative, and a lot happens, but the story is told in a really superficial manner. There are so many characters...

Author	Thomas M. Reid
ISBN	0786918640

"So bad, but so good" Ted(2012)

A funny movie reference to say that this review was more a 2,5/3 one, but nostalgia factor raised the final vote for good.

Average writing.
Not much fleshed characters.
An avoidable romance between the main character,...

Author	Joe Dever
ISBN	0425133044

The world of Magnamund has not aligned in perfect harmony even after you, legendary freedom fighter Lone Wolf, struck the miraculous death blow against the undead Darklords of Helgedad. Now that this most worrisome wildfire has been permanently doused, it is up to you, the last Magnakai warrior, to...

Author	Deborah Teramis Christian
ISBN	0812549082

What attracted me to 'Mainline' was the protagonist Reva's special talent, which is the superpower I've always wanted most. It is the ability to see divergent timelines and choose the one she finds preferable. Surely the ultimate control freak superpower! In 'Mainline', Reva uses this ability to...

Author	Mel Odom
ISBN	0765346508

In The Destruction of the Books, the Vault of All Known Knowledge was destroyed and its learned caretaker abducted, leaving the forces against darkness without resource and leadership.

The world as they know it and all that is good are now threatened by the same shadows that have oppressed...

Author	S.L. Viehl
ISBN	0451460294

After driving their mutual enemy out of the Pmoc quadrant, the Allied League of Worlds gather for a peace summit on K-2, the homeworld of the underwater-dwelling 'Zangians. With the Bio Rescue team assigned to protect the delegates, Sub-Lieutenant Burn mu Znora's attention is placed on the daughter...

Author	Steve Jackson
ISBN	0140316035

Who knows what monstrous creatures lie in wait in the Citadel of Chaos?

The Citadel holds a dark and dangerous peril for anyone foolhardy enough to venture through its gruesome gates. And yet venture you must, for your mission lies at the heart of the Citadel, with the dread sorceror, Balthus...

Author

Ian Livingstone

The dark, twisted power of the young Malbordus is reaching its zenith!

All he needs now is to retrieve the five dragon artefacts which have been hidden for centuries in the lost city of Vatos, somewhere in the Desert of Skulls. Each day that passes brings him closer to them and only YOU can stop...

Author	Robert Sedgewick
ISBN	0201350882

Robert Sedgewick has thoroughly rewritten and substantially expanded and updated his popular work to provide current and comprehensive coverage of important algorithms and data structures. Christopher Van Wyk and Sedgewick have developed new C++ implementations that both express the methods...

Author

James Blish

A SF story of futuristic earth that has become overpopulated with males and the sun is about to explode, so mankind has to take to the stars in a hurry to find a new planet to colonize. The premise sounds interesting, with added in gender issues a SF creatures called familiars you would think this book would...

Author	Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
ISBN	0553251031

As if it wasn't bad enough already that because of her frost giant heritage from her father the king's side of the family she was 6 feet tall when she was only 12 years old, poor Princess Bronwyn (the Bold) of Argonia was cursed at birth to tell nothing but lies. With her father away at war and her mother heavily...

Author	Anne McCaffrey
ISBN	0517193655

I'm guessing this is where McCaffrey checked out of this series. The tone changes entirely - it's a marked difference, and not a good one. Suddenly there's a lot of "she caught her own unspoken pun and chuckled", and you read back thinking "what pun? Oh, that - why are we noting that?" There are a lot more...