Nova War

Author	Ken MacLeod
ISBN	1841491098

Better than the previous novel, but very uneven. The shifting perspectives in the last novel was annoying and in this one, the use of the present tense format is often irritating. I stick with this series simply because it is an interesting concept. The last chapter was really the worst of it all, which...

Author	Philip Palmer
ISBN	1841496243

from the Earth Journal of Scientific Analyst SLJLK92349UO,
Earth Invasion Exploratory Unit

as much as I would like to extend my dismay towards Goodreads' new policy of censorship by posting solely on the much less offensive BookLikes, my programming will unfortunately not allow me...

Author	Jeffrey Thomas
ISBN	1844164470

A bizarre mashup of science fiction, Cthulhu mythos, and hardboiled detective noir, Deadstock almost seems like it was written specifically for me. As a fan of all of those genres, to find them all embodied in one novel was an unexpected treat. If Neal Asher and H.P. Lovecraft had collaborated on a novel,...

Author

David Sherman

"Marines ain't supposed to sit. We're supposed to kill."

After the resource-rich planet Diamunde is seized by the armed forces of industrialist Marston St. Cyr, the Confederation Marines face their most desperate battles yet against the mechanized forces of the bloody usurper. Promised...

Author	Peter F. Hamilton
ISBN	0330351826

This is a collection of six short stories and a novella taking place in the Night's Dawn universe before the events of the main trilogy took place. To be fair I need to say "Peter F. Hamilton" and "short" do not belong to the same sentence - the guy does not know the meaning of the word. Thus these allegedly...

Author	Michael Cobley
ISBN	1841496332

The fight is on. So let the battle begin.

Darien is no longer a lost outpost of humanity, but the prize in an intergalactic struggle. Hegemony forces control the planet, while Earth merely observes, rendered impotent by galactic politics. Yet Earth's ambassador to Darien will become a player...

Author	Paul McAuley
ISBN	0575079371

The Quiet War is over. The city states of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, founded by descendants of refugees from Earth’s repressive regimes, the Outers, have fallen to the Three Powers Alliance of Greater Brazil, the European Union, and the Pacific Community. A century of enlightenment, rational...

Author	John Meaney
ISBN	0575085339

A very ambitious series but quite mediocre execution so far; Absorption is not really a novel but more a collection of snippet threads that never coalesce and late in the book seem very rushed to boot; it is the first volume of a series true, but still I expected more coherence - maybe the number of pages...

Author	Jaine Fenn
ISBN	0575082925

Khesh City floats above the surface of the uninhabitable planet of Vellern. Topside, it's extravagant, opulent, luxurious; the Undertow is dark, twisted and dangerous. A place where nothing is forbidden, Khesh City is also a democracy, of sorts, policed by the Angels—elite, state-sponsored...

Author	Neal Asher
ISBN	0230750702

So here we are at part two of Neal Asher’s ‘Owner’ trilogy and it’s fair to say that this volume takes a while to get going. Whereas the first book was an exciting rush of adrenalin pumping events, racing along as if believing that every one of its readers was addicted to high-octane videogames,...

Author	Eric Flint
ISBN	1416509321

I found this to be a very average read. I feel like I need to mention that the cover art for this novel is extremely misleading. Dinosaurs are virtually non-existent in this novel and only exist in the plot in the most generic sense because of the time period being discussed. This was greatly disappointing...

Author	Sean Williams
ISBN	0441014933

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)

This is one of four books that recently came in and out of my life without me finishing, which...