Janissaries

Author	Gordon R. Dickson
ISBN	0722129521

Ohhhh, potential-squandering frustration...thy name is The Childe Cycle!!!

Gordon Dickson’s superbly premised, yet underachieving Childe Cycle has been a source of teeth-gnashing, knuckle-whitening frustration for me. This disappointing, expectation larceny began while...

Author	S.M. Stirling
ISBN	0671720694

The first book of the Draka series.
1942: The Eurasian War.
The fleets of Imperial Japan raid the coasts of a United States that stretches from Panama to the Arctic. The Nazi war machine takes Moscow and sweeps east to the Urals. To the south the Domination of the Draka is a giant forge with serf-manned...

Author	Keith Laumer
ISBN	0425075591

Bolo. Originally developed as far back as the 1980's by the Bolo Division of General Motors, these great artillery machines took on awareness in later designs and gradually began to replace man in that most human of endeavors: War.
But let Bolo speak for itself. In the action-packed Annals of the...

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	0671532278

In the near future, Los Angeles is an all but uninhabitable war zone, racked by crime, violence, pollution and poverty. But above the blighted city, a Utopia has arisen: Todos Santos, a thousand-foot high single-structured city, designed to used state-of-the-art technology to create a completely...

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	David Drake
ISBN	0441240860

Premise: Anthology series in which authors (many well-known) write stories in a shared universe. The human-allied worlds are at war with the Khalia. We can’t understand each other, we don’t know for sure how it started, but The Fleet is the last line of defense against invasion and subjugation.

Ever...

Author	Leo Frankowski
ISBN	0345327632

Somehow, Conrad Stargard, faithful Roman Catholic and stalwart Socialist of the Peoples Republic of Poland, 20th Century, had been marooned in Poland, A.D. 1231.

Somehow, Conrad found himself under investigation by the Inquisition, got himself knighted, was granted his own fief, and...

Author	Simon Hawke
ISBN	0441437257

The year was 1897. The Khyber Pass echoed with the sounds of war. Soldiers from Britain, India, and Afghanistan were immersed in a bloody conflict.

Enter the Time Commandos. Their mission: To foil a plot that has set timelines on a collision course. Only they can save the timestream from disruption...

Author	John Dalmas
ISBN	0671720651

The planet Tyss has only one resource: soldiers. But they are very good soldiers. And once a regiment is formed, it never recruits again; as its members fall in battle, it simply grows smaller to become a battalion, a company, a platoon, a squad . . . and then there are none. But before the last man of this...

Author	Robert Adams
ISBN	0451126645

Every minute spent reading this book was a tedious chore. The period language combined with dialogue in horrific phonetic accents makes it a painful struggle to get through. It took me two and a half months to finish when I usually read a book in a few days.
The whole book is really just following the...

Author	David Weber
ISBN	0743435842

Not as good as the first two in the series

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This review is from: The Excalibur Alternative (Ranks of Bronze Series Book 3) (Kindle Edition)

I really like David Drake's RANKS OF BRONZE and was happy to see another volume in the series. After...

Author	H. Beam Piper
ISBN	0441231918

Like all of H. Beam Piper's works that I've read, the contents of this anthology were really fun, but occasionally contained some politically problematic baggage.

'Omnilingual,' the first novella, is easily the best - it's fun, smart, and, ultimately, inspiring. The other fiction (4 more...

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0425050483

(from the back of the book)
A power struggle for time itself.
The corridors of time connect the ages to each other. Through them, one can travel backwards and forwards over the history of man. But rival factions have waged war for centuries.... Malcolm is an ordinary man of today, caught up in...

Author

Alan Dean Foster

Late August 2008: I’m sitting at home alone, I haven’t spoken in hours, I’m contentedly detached from the world with cobwebs forming on my cock as I stare unblinkingly at the television, a cigarette long burnt to the filter encrusted on my lower lip, my dinner half-eaten, cold, and now being dragged...

Author	James P. Hogan
ISBN	0671319485

SOS FROM A FUTURE THAT WILL NEVER BEIt's amazing enough when Murdoch Ross's brilliant grandfather invents a machine that can send messages to itself in the past or the future. But when signals begin to arrive without being sent, Murdoch realizes that every action he takes changes the future that would...