Fahrenheit 451 written in the 1950's describes a future to which we still may be on our way. The book follows main character ,Guy Montag a fireman, though as ordinary as this sounds his job is to...
I am frustrated by the sloppiness of this book. From what I understand, Bradbury sat in a library and wrote it in a few weeks, and it shows. Montag is introduced as a man happy in his job. The...
This was one of my favorite books in high school, and reading it again had a certain charm, but my issue with it can be summed up in a small quote from an interview included in the final pages.
Its hard for me to imagine anyone NOT having read something by Asimov, he's that important to my individual experience as a reader of science fiction, but if you find yourself just getting into his...
Important for the fictional depiction of robots, but not very well written
When Stanislaw Lem famously castigated American SF writers for the very low quality of their books, it could well have been books like this one that he had in mind. This is not to say that there...
Tedious and Flat... Wish I had those 400+ pages back...
I had to write a review somewhere after reading this book. After reading the Caves of Steel, I thought it would be an enjoyable read. However, it was not. This was the most tedious, long-winded,...
Robots of Dawn is the third entry in the Robot series and was written quite a few years after the second volume saw print. The story follows Elijah Bailey once again as he tries to solve a murder...
This book fell far short of the standards I had for it. The narrative jumped not just between characters, but also between planets and time periods. There's very little adventure or excitement and...
A fascinating sci-fi novel about the first manned expedition to Mars. The story's more about the science than the fiction, which makes it very interesting to this reader, who suffers from a...
Wow, there were some parts of this novel that were very steamy, and some of the best written I have seen in science fiction in years. Maybe because I am male reading female perspective written for...
Kelric is a damaged jaggernaut (a kind of cyborg) who finds himself stranded on a planet under the control of hositles. Kelric gets a job, but hatches a plan to escape off world. He eventually is...
I loved Catherine Asaro's two books Diplomatic Immunity and Radiant Seas. Coincidentally, both focussed on Soz, one of the many characters in Asaro's Skolian Empire series. All the other books...
This book, for me, was critical to better understanding the Ringworld as a whole and provided insight into non-human psychology of the Protector stage of the Pak.
Good Sci-Fi with an anthropological twist that is entertaining.
Protector
I went into this book thinking that it would be the story of a really old alien who came to earth and found something in us worth saving. Boy, was I in for a surprise....
First: I did not like Stackpole's X-Wing novels, even though I persevered through all four of them. I dislike nearly everything about Stackpole's style, so I bought "Wraith Squadron" at the local...
What an X-Wing Novel Should Be......Best book in the series
What a relief to read this book by Allston after struggling through Stackpole's first 4 books of the series. This book is what you would expect for a squadron of X-wing pilots. It is fast paced...
This book is an insult. I read the first four because I love space combat. When I found out that Aaron Allston wrote the next one, I bought it and read it anyway, hoping for the best. BAH! He uses...
This is an entertaining depiction of the experience at the low end of the academic hierarchy. It clearly reflects CSLewis' bitterness about some aspects of his own academic career. The constant...
The conclusion to the trilogy, "Out of the Silent Planet" and "Perelandra". It can be read on its own, but there are moments when it was helpful to have read the previous two. "Perelandra" is by...
to long a time lapsed from ordering the book to when i actully recd it, on january 8th 2008. checked online, and this product was sent to phoenix arizona, where it sat for at least a week. poor...
I couldn't put this book down - I threw it down. Sorry, I couldn't finish it. The writing style was amateurish and the characters were as dull as a butter knife. There was absolutely no set up - no...
If they make a movie out of this it will probably be one of those so-bad-it's-good hits. It is too hard to take this story seriously. I tried, but I lost it at the above quote. I was listening...
I found myself right there watching every scene unfold, just when you think you're out of a spot something else pops up. This has been a wild journey across the realms of space.
Takeshi Kovacs, an ex-Envoy now working for his own agenda, has returned to his homeworld of Harlan's World on a personal mission of vengeance. During his task he falls in with a gang of freelance...
Altered Carbon is one of my favorite books from the last 10 years. The world created by Morgan was fascinating, full of potential. However, the second book Broken Angels, was a major let down,...
While I liked Altered Carbon for its new content, and somewhat the second book, this one was kind of tired. While the storytelling was good and the SF strong, the character was tiring, especially...
Stackpole's Best Effort (It goes downhill from here)
The first 3 books in this series are really just 1 very long book, since nothing gets resolved until the end of the 3rd book. None of the first 3 books in the series could stand alone, and the 4th...
I understand that this series was capitalizing on the popularity of a computer game, but it would have been better if it didn't have the title of "X-Wing."
Everything nowadays needs a spin-off. Be it Star Trek, B5, the X-Files or Star Wars, you need to squeeze every last dime out of the wonderful franchise you've come upon. Doesn't much matter if it's...
I thought his entire trilogy was a pretty good read. I couldn't help but laugh at the scientists in the Death Star Prototype who kept saying "We should have a meeting about this right away!"...
Champions of the Force is the final book in Kevin J. Anderson's Jedi Academy Trilogy. It continues much in the vein of the first two novels: a somewhat promising and engaging storyline is dragged...
I was really excited to read this trilogy. Last summer I read through the Thrawn trilogy and was pleased by a nice realistic story. Right after that i picked up the first of this trilogy and was so...
The Truce at Bakura literally picks up where we left off with our intrepid heros at the end of Return of the Jedi. Hours after the Second Death Star blows up, we find Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, and...
The Truce at Bakura picks up with the Star Wars saga just after Return of the Jedi. After reading the Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy and various collections of tales in the preceding books from the...
The Truce at Bakura is one of the very early Star Wars novels. Just for a change, here we have evil lizard men, who were of course on the side of The Empire. What else would evil lizard...
I read the book when it first came out... Many years ago. Here and now, as much as I love S.W. and the story lines it creates, I would put the book down and never return to read it. Essentially the...
As I read some of the reviews for this book I just couldn't resist having a reaction. This is the one book that I keep recalling in my mind about once every few months. I enjoyed the fact...
this book was great......many people havent read the earlyer books and i have, it is engaging, the thing was that the luke, and han solo parts of the story, wasnt that great. the author wasnt...
Crazy Painful read... 3PO accidental main character
Disregarding the redundant plot, this book was absolutely painful to read. It's as if the author determinately used this book as a vocabulary builder. There are endless prose that makes no sense...
A compliated, but ultimately worthwhile, addition to the GFFA
This is one of my favorite additions the Star Wars Expanded Universe. Barbara Hambly's writing reads more like florid prose than Kevin J. Anderson's elementary style, which gives it a reputation...
The plot wasn't too bad, but what really annoyed me was that Cray was so Mary-Sueish. She was too perfect, and Leia was always being jealous of her. Han was calling her "the blonde with the legs,"...
Dave wolverton should be banned from writing anything!!!
After reading five star wars books in less than two weeks (had surgery and was laid up), I get to the this book and wish that my surgery had gone wrong only to save me from reading this fifth book....
Mr. Wolverton's book continues the pursuit of Warlord Zinsj but ties the tale in with Han's courtship of Leia and Leia's apparent admiration for another suitor. At the beginning of the book,...
The Courtship of Princess Leia is a well-done book that, although not as "faithful" as the Zahn books, was for years my second favorite book. This is a different interpretation of a successful...
First, lets start with the fact that this book is book 22 in the chronological order of books for the Star Wars Series. Any real fan of the series just would not "pick up this book" they would go...
I am still waiting to see when Darth Vader will be powerful.
Overall entertaining read, although I think any book written about a between film hallmark Lucas character has a Very Very restricted story line. I'm sure Luceno did what he could with the...
Don't bother to read this tome. James Luceno has transformed one of the most darkest and villainous bad-guy into a whimpering, whining cry-baby. I read the book praying that the story-line would...
Good writing and ideas but ultimately unsatisfying
I was impressed by "Aurora in Four Voices," which is one of the author's short stories set in this universe, and read in the foreword to the short story that this series was in the vein of Bujold's...
First off, I'm a lover of romance as well as science fiction and I can tell you, there is no romance in this book! Here Ms. Asaro uses the old tried and true cheat of having two people "destined"...
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