The Orphaned Worlds

Author	Kevin J. Anderson
ISBN	0316007579

The culminating volume in Kevin J. Anderson's Saga of Seven Suns weaves together the myriad storylines into a spectacular grand finale.Galactic empires clash, elemental beings devastate whole planetary systems, and the factions of humanity are pitted against each other. Heroes rise and enemies...

Author	Gary Gibson
ISBN	0230706800

Before I even launch into this review I have one word: Emissary.

Imagine an alien race that is half Cthulhu, half Mammoth and all bad attitude. If that doesn’t inspire you to read Nova War I’m afraid nothing will.

What a fun book! Filled with violence and sense-of-wonder, the second...

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...

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Paul J. McAuley

For Dorthy Yoshida - abused earthborn Talent and prime player in the secret history of the galaxy - the seeds of destiny were sown a million years in the past...when a giant sun exploded and vast civilizations died in the subsequent blood feuding of ten thousand alien family nations. Or perhaps it all...

Author	Philip Palmer
ISBN	0316018929

Flanagan (who is, for want of a better word, a pirate) has a plan. It seems relatively simple: kidnap Lena, the Cheo's daughter, demand a vast ransom for her safe return, sit back and wait.
Only the Cheo, despotic ruler of the known universe, isn't playing ball. Flanagan and his crew have seen this...

Author	Eric Brown
ISBN	1844164721

Helix is a fast-paced action adventure novel following the plight of four humans when they crashland on what they think is a desolate, ice-bound planet. Daylight brings the discovery that the planet is one of thousands arranged in a vast spiral wound about a central sun. They set off to discover a more...

Author	Marianne de Pierres
ISBN	1841494291

Middle book in the Sentients of Orion trilogy, Chaos Space suffers a little bit from the "middle book" syndrome being a way station after the setup in Dark Spaces to the grand finale in book 3, and the ending reflects that the most, being just an arbitrary stop point after its 5 threads finally converge,...

Author	Tony Ballantyne
ISBN	0230738605

This was a great read! The setting was rather unique, I have never read a book in which all the main characters are robots. It was interesting to read about how they thought and what they fought over or about. There was certainly enough going on to keep me interested all the way through, and I had a hard time...

Author	Allen M. Steele
ISBN	0441014712

I love novels dealing with big dumb objects (or those that are not-so-dumb) In fact, I love them so much I tend to give them a bit of a free pass when it comes to other potential shortcomings (you know, the lesser aspects like storytelling, plotting and characterization). Lame jokes aside, there is something...

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	Peter F. Hamilton
ISBN	0812555244

Professor Edward Kitchener, a double Nobel laureate researching quantum cosmology for the powerful Event Horizon conglomerate has been savagely murdered. But was he the victim of industrial espionage, personal revenge, or a crime of passion by one of his handpicked team of live-wire students?...