SF Reviews, Views and General Musings
Publisher: 47North Series: The Palladium Wars (#1) Genre: Military SF Pages: 278 Publication Date: 01/06/2019 Verdict: 4/5 The war is over, and Aden Robertson of Gretia fought on the losing side. Released from a PoW camp after 5 long years, he must adapt to the new world he emerges into. But he not the … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW: Aftershocks, by Marko Kloos
Publisher: Century Genre: Space Opera Pages: 330 Publication Date: 18/04/2019 Verdict: 5/5 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away: Qui-gon Jinn is unorthodox by the standards of the Jedi, but when he and his padawan Obi-wan Kenobi are sent to work with an eccentric Jedi on a remote world, Qui-gon discovers … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW: Master & Apprentice, by Claudia Gray
-This review contains some general spoilers for On Basilisk Station. Proceed with caution.- Publisher: Baen Series: Honor Harrington (#2) Genre: Space Opera/Military SF Pages: 422 Publication Date: 1993 Verdict: 4/5 The planet Grayson is independent, but its position makes it strategically valuable to both the Star Kingdom of Manticore and the people's Republic of … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW: The Honor Of The Queen, by David Weber
Publisher: Tor Series: Children of Time (#2) Genre: Hard SF/Space Opera Pages: 565 Publication Date: 16/05/2019 Verdict: 5/5 A group of scientists arrive on a remote world, intending to terraform it for human habitation. But the planet is not as empty as they first thought . . . Centuries later, Portia's descendants and their … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW: Children of Ruin, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Publisher: Head of Zeus Series: Standalone (ish) Genre: Hard SF (ish) Pages: 479 Publication Date: 09/08/2018 (Chinese Edition 2004) Verdict: 4/5 When Chen witnesses a natural phenomenon kill his parents on his fourteenth birthday, he knows it will change his life. Little does he realise how much his obsession with ball lightning will change the … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW: Ball Lightning, by Cixin Liu (translated by Joel Martinsen)
Publisher: Bantam Genre: Space Opera Books: 3 Published: 1997 Verdict: 4/5 It has been over a decade since the defeat of the Empire. But while Leia Organa-Solo holds together a fractured New Republic and Luke Skywalker trains the next generation of Jedi Knights, a new threat is rising. A threat called the Yavetha... Between 1991 … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW: The Black Fleet Crisis trilogy, by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
One of the best things about used bookstores, in my not so humble opinion, is finding battered old paperback SF anthologies. That's really how I got into SF in the first place, and it's something I keep coming back to. The three anthologies here are all ones … Continue reading QUICK REVIEWS: Three Golden Age Anthologies
