The Infinite Sea

Author	Chris Dolley
ISBN	1416509127

Graham Smith is a 33 year-old office messenger. To the outside world he's an obsessive-compulsive mute - weird but harmless. But to Graham Smith, it's the world that's weird. And far from harmless. He sees things others can't . . . or won't. He knows that roads can change course, people disappear, office...

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...

Author	Eric Flint
ISBN	0743471466

Please Note: Read in January 2008 immediately after The Philosophical Strangler. Just copying over my review.

Thoughts: Combining prequel and aspects of similarity with The Philosophical Strangler, Forward the Mage is full of Rabelaisian nonsense that is certain to confuse and befuddle...

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	Alan Dean Foster
ISBN	0345461312

Interrupted by a variety of cultures and customs, our reluctant hero heads ever homeward. Escaped from alien slavers, three-tailed Niyyuu escort human Marcus Walker, speech-augmented mutt George, cephalopod Sque, and gigantic Tuuqalian poet Braouk. When their three ships appear over Hyff, Ussakk...

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	Keith Laumer
ISBN	0743435273

This collection of three novels by the creator of Retief features three heroes on interstellar adventures.

Contents:

Galactic Odyssey (aka Spaceman!) was first serialized in IF magazine (May-July, 1967) and first published in novel form by Berkley in 1967.

"A Trip to...

Author	Christopher Anvil
ISBN	0743488482

The crew of the ship were marooned on a planet with no ship repair facilities, where the well-meaning schemes of social engineers had created a nightmare of battling gangs. They had their own invention with them-an emotional amplifier, which could cause anyone to feel a heightened emotion, but...

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

Howard L. Myers

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	David Drake
ISBN	0743471725

From Booklist The latest Hammer's Slammers book consists of three novellas flying in close formation. Together they are the adventures of Lieutenant (later Captain) Arnie Huber, a combat-car leader when the Slammers land on Plattner's World to fight over the price of a key ingredient for geriatric...

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	Aaron Allston
ISBN	0671876627

My old review for this didn't thrill me so here's the one I wrote as Dangerous Dan for BlackPigeonPress.com.

It's no secret that the pulps get Dangerous Dan as hot and bothered as a hillbilly with a jug of moonshine and two eager cousins, and a twist on an old favorite puts a little extra spring in...

Author	Harry Turtledove
ISBN	0671318462

I'm a HUGE Harry Turtledove fan, so I had the usual great expectations for this book.

Unfortunately, after falling asleep twice while reading it (the second time it put my Kindle to sleep too), I admitted defeat and quit reading it.

It's got the usual Turtledove style and quality, but...

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...

Author	James H. Schmitz
ISBN	0671318470

Volume 5 of the collected works of James H. Schmitz.

Previously appearing in separate publications, these stories of the Galaxy are now in a unitary publication. After the Galactic Empire crumbled, the Vegan Confederacy was too weak to survive, yet it prospered because of its secret weapon--telepathy....

Author	Ben Bova
ISBN	0380786974

There is a dream called Moonbase, nurtured by ex-astronaut Paul Stavenger and his wife, Joanna Masterson Stavenger, head of the powerful Masterson Corporation.

There is a future of astonishing possibilities and vital technological development waiting on a lifeless world of astonishing...