http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/fiction/ls01.htm
Talented but scummy muso's small town sojourn leads to undead black statue tyrant's brainsucking escapade.
4.5 out of 5
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Safeguard - Nancy Kress
http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0801/PBSafeguard.shtml
Biowar kid slaughter has slobber solution.
4 out of 5
Biowar kid slaughter has slobber solution.
4 out of 5
Captive Girl - Jennifer Pelland
http://www.helixsf.com/archives/Oct06/fiction/Q2_pelland_captivegirl.htm
Machine hybrid defender fetish.
4 out of 5
Machine hybrid defender fetish.
4 out of 5
The Helper and His Hero - Matthew Hughes
http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/fiction/mh01.htm
Sea Worms of Dree.
http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/fiction/mh01.htm
Dreams come to nonaut.
3.5 out of 5
Sea Worms of Dree.
http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/fiction/mh01.htm
Dreams come to nonaut.
3.5 out of 5
Ragamuffin - Tobias S. Buckell
Time to get all mongoose-man space opera on our alien overlords.
Buckell has done something good here : improved with a second book in the series. The writing is better, and you are thrown into the story straight away. Where the previous book just scraped in for a 4, this is a solid 4 all the way, and maybe a little bit more.
The main character to begin with is an enhanced human, and has been imprisoned for anti-alien activities. First thing to do when you get out of jail is to kill one of 'em, of course, and hence she needs to get away fast.
More than one human faction wants to do something about the ruling Satrapy and things accelerate when the Satrapy decides that they would rather have humans not be alive anymore.
The main character Nashara is even more surprising than she seems, and as the action bails into space things become a little Peter F. Hamilton.
There's a wormhole network that functions a little like a cross between a freeway and a railway, and with the introduction of this element you begin to realise how this novel will tie into the previous book, which it does around half way through that makes it all more clear.
Hopefully this does well, as Buckell has a normal length novel here, not an animal killer sized series. Iif he can help show people will still buy those, along with people like Scalzi and Williams and others, then this is a good thing.
He could have actually thrown a few extra pages in at the end perhaps, but I think this is a case of keeping you keen to find out what is going on and wanting more, so possibly deliberate.
All in all, very entertaining.
4 out of 5
Buckell has done something good here : improved with a second book in the series. The writing is better, and you are thrown into the story straight away. Where the previous book just scraped in for a 4, this is a solid 4 all the way, and maybe a little bit more.
The main character to begin with is an enhanced human, and has been imprisoned for anti-alien activities. First thing to do when you get out of jail is to kill one of 'em, of course, and hence she needs to get away fast.
More than one human faction wants to do something about the ruling Satrapy and things accelerate when the Satrapy decides that they would rather have humans not be alive anymore.
The main character Nashara is even more surprising than she seems, and as the action bails into space things become a little Peter F. Hamilton.
There's a wormhole network that functions a little like a cross between a freeway and a railway, and with the introduction of this element you begin to realise how this novel will tie into the previous book, which it does around half way through that makes it all more clear.
Hopefully this does well, as Buckell has a normal length novel here, not an animal killer sized series. Iif he can help show people will still buy those, along with people like Scalzi and Williams and others, then this is a good thing.
He could have actually thrown a few extra pages in at the end perhaps, but I think this is a case of keeping you keen to find out what is going on and wanting more, so possibly deliberate.
All in all, very entertaining.
4 out of 5
Odyssey - Jack McDevitt
Unidentified Flying Project Annihilators.
Priscilla Hutchins is now a senior administrator in the Academy, dealing with politics and all that fun stuff. Gregory McAllister is the editor of a journal of political and social commentary, so the Academy, and the large amount of money they have spent on not finding a living sentient race is one of his targets, when there ar ea lot of environmental problems on earth that need fixing.
Some shenanigans and manipulation in the background, and the appearance of an alien threat that can apparently throw asteroids around and likely has technology advanced beyond human.
A fairly dry book, no real tension, and the McAllister character is the lead for most of it, and chapters are led with various 'headlines' from the media, plaing on the fact that he is a commentator, so it is like observing what action there is one step removed, for quite a bit of it.
3 out of 5
Priscilla Hutchins is now a senior administrator in the Academy, dealing with politics and all that fun stuff. Gregory McAllister is the editor of a journal of political and social commentary, so the Academy, and the large amount of money they have spent on not finding a living sentient race is one of his targets, when there ar ea lot of environmental problems on earth that need fixing.
Some shenanigans and manipulation in the background, and the appearance of an alien threat that can apparently throw asteroids around and likely has technology advanced beyond human.
A fairly dry book, no real tension, and the McAllister character is the lead for most of it, and chapters are led with various 'headlines' from the media, plaing on the fact that he is a commentator, so it is like observing what action there is one step removed, for quite a bit of it.
3 out of 5
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