The Berserker Throne
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| Author | Catherine Asaro |
| ISBN | 1416520791 |
This one didn’t enthrall me with either its ideas or its plot. A human who dies in a car crash has his brain circuitry emulated in an android construction, and runs away from his Dr. Frankenstein and lands on the short of a female scientist who has withdrawn from the industry over ethical issues. She falls...
| Author | David Drake |
| ISBN | 0671578219 |
“Tell them that I don’t know if we can release [him] alive by force. But I’ll promise to burn their planet for his funeral pyre if we can’t.”
This retelling of The Odyssey is another selection of the Venture Science Fiction series (an imprint of Arrow Books, not to be mistaken for the...
| 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 | Scott G. Gier |
| ISBN | 0345395093 |
Genellan -- a beautiful, Earthlike world where intelligent cliff-dwellers waited in fear for the day the warlike bear people would return. Genellan -- the sole refuge for a ship's crew and a detachment of spacer marines, abandoned by a fleet fleeing from alien attackers. Now winter is coming, and the...
Jason Wood was just an information specialist - finding data for research, enhancing photos for the police, a nice, usually quiet profession whose only dangers came from and occasional crook trying to eliminate the evidence. The a body with two holes in its neck and no blood left turned up at his back...
| Author | Dave Freer |
| ISBN | 0671578316 |
Greetings one and all! After reading "Rats, Bats and Vats" (RBV) and "The Rats, the Bats and the Ugly" (RBU), I thought I would try Dave Freer's first novel. I'm very happy I did. It starts off on three different paths that eventually meet up and that's when things really take off.
I loved the characterization...
| Author | Murray Leinster |
| ISBN | 0743471628 |
Planets of Adventure is an anthology of short stories. It contains one almost full-length story and several shorter stories, all of which are based on the theme implied by the title. The quality of the stories was pretty consistent – they weren’t terribly engaging, but they did hold my interest...
| Author | K.D. Wentworth |
| ISBN | 0671319795 |
This book is a sequel to Black on Black, one of the few books I’ve rated with five stars. I think I liked this sequel even more than its predecessor. This book, Stars over Stars, built logically from the events and character growth of the previous book. However, it told an entirely new story on a new planet....
| Author | Harry Turtledove |
| ISBN | 0671578383 |
THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T BE KING All Gerin the Fox ever wanted to do was go down to the City of Elabon and study. Life made other plans. When the barbarous Trokmoi killed his father and older brother, he became Baron of Fox Keep, warring against not only the Trokmoi and their fearsome evil wizard but also against...
A future war is being fought across the galaxy and the key to victory can be found on the legendary lost world where humanity originated - Earth. But even if the lost home world can be found, there may be no place for humans on it anymore. The once-lowly creatures who are now the sole inhabitants, and which...
| Author | John Dalmas |
| ISBN | 0671876740 |
Dalmas has skill and ability, but doesn't bring as much of it to bear on this book as he does on some of his other works. The premise is promising, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired, though it is technically rendered very well. The fault lies in the story, the character development, the characters,...
| Author | Keith Laumer |
| ISBN | 0743435370 |
Two complete novels in one volume feature hapless heroes caught in an out-of-kilter spacetime clockwork: Chester W. Chester IV, who has inherited his great-grandfather's lifework--a super computer that can bring any situation or time to life; and Roger Tyson, who is being pursued through time by...
| Author | James P. Hogan |
| ISBN | 0553563637 |
Richard Jarrow was a mild and unassuming teacher who was sure that the government knew best, with its strong environmental controls on industry and its equally stringent control of education and the media. He knew that the countries of the former Eastern Block, who now claimed to have more freedom than...
TNT: Telzey Amberdon & Trigger Argee Together
| Author | James H. Schmitz |
| ISBN | 0671578790 |
Telzey Amberdon is one of the most powerful xenotelepaths in the known galaxy.
Trigger Argee is a crack shot, with reflexes that make lightning look lethargic, and also a top agent of the galaxy's Federation of the Hub. Separately, they have been making life miserable for human criminals,...
| Author | Eric Flint |
| ISBN | 1416520783 |
The intrepid team of mentally uplifted rats and bats, and their vat-born human leader had not only pulled off the only victory the beleaguered colony's feeble military forces had won against the invading aliens, but had also uncovered the secret that the invaders were really a feint, being under the...
| Author | Jerry Pournelle |
| ISBN | 5550929929 |
Sooner or later, all civilizations age and decline, grow senile and die—either by conquest from without, or from internal rot. The final days of Western Civilization are signaled by the joining of the USA and the USSR into a ruthless and imperial state that spans first the Earth and then the Solar System....
