Category: science fiction
Star Hunter — Andre Norton
April 5th, 2012, No Comments
Star Hunter Andre Norton 96 pages published in 1961 For a lot of American science fiction fans my age or older, Andre Norton was the first “real” sf writer they ever read, largely because she was hugely prolific and specialised in what we’d now call young adult novels. For some reason however she was never [...]
Rule 34 — Charlie Stross
April 1st, 2012, No Comments
Rule 34 Charlie Stross 358 pages published in 2011 It’s only thanks to Christopher Priest’s tirade about this year’s Clarke Award shortlist that you remember that you haven’t reviewed Charlie Stross latest novel, Rule 34 yet. You know that, like Halting State, which it is a sequel to, it’s written in the second person and [...]
The Better Part of Valor — Tanya Huff
March 4th, 2012, No Comments
The Better Part of Valor Tanya Huff 411 pages published in 2002 Once I had finished Valor’s Choice, I knew I was going to have to go back to the bookstore I’d found it in and get the other two Tanya Huff books I’d saw there too. To be honest, I hadn’t even taken me [...]
Dragonflight — Anne McCaffrey
February 20th, 2012, 2 Comments
Dragonflight Anne McCaffrey 303 pages published in 1968 Because I’ve been running my booklog since 2001 I know it’s at least a decade or more since I’d last cracked open an Anne McCaffrey novel, yet once upon a time her < cite>The Dragonriders of Pern series was very important to me. Like so much science [...]
Valor’s Choice — Tanya Huff
February 13th, 2012, No Comments
Valor’s Choice Tanya Huff 409 pages published in 2000 Tanya Huff is one of those science fiction writers I vaguely knew about but never had read anything from, nor to be honest, had heard much about. One of those authors that steadily plods along, has a decent following and career but never quite had a [...]
