David Weber is one of my favorite authors, and this is an excellent series. I’ve put a discount on this that has it at $7.98, below the Amazon.com price at the moment, but that may not last, so if you’re price shopping, go take a look there. Note: I intend to place more short notes…
I blogged about a previous volume in this series, Engaging the Enemy, and while I had complaints, I rated it a 4, because I will continue to go out and look for books by this particular author. Elizabeth Moon does good characterizations and her plot lines are generally interesting enough. I do not find her…
This is another Pip & Flinx adventure. I have to confess that while I love Alan Dean Foster, who is one of those authors I look for on most trips to the library and every trip to the bookstore, I am getting a little overdosed on these books. The problem is that we have had…
This is the third volume of the Twins of Petaybee series. To let you know how I felt about the book, let me quote what I said about Maelstrom, the second in the series: It is lighter than the Dragonrider series, and I don’t find the cultural background anywhere near as interesting, but the characters…
I’ve been reading a lot of Mike Resnick’s work lately, especially after encountering his short story Kirinyaga, and then the book built from a number of short stories set in that world. He’s always an exceptional storyteller. With that, I picked up Paradise, currently it appears only available used. I got my copy from my…
I’ve already written about two of the stories that form a part of this book, and I’ve also linked to what I consider an excellent review, except that it gives a bit much of the story away for my taste. But I want to make a couple of additional comments because this book is really…
This is a lovely collection of 28 short stories by Mike Resnick. I blogged previously about getting the inspiration for a devotional from one of them, but I’ve now finished the whole collection. It’s available in a Kindle edition, hard cover, and paperback. My favorites were <em>Kirinyaga</em>, <em>For I Have Touched the Sky</em>, and <em>Watching…
It is perhaps a bit humorous that my devotional this morning, Sticking with the Familiar was inspired by Michael Resnick’s short story “Over There” which I read just last night from his collection Will the Last Person to Leave the Planet Please Shut Off the Sun?. The thought came to me how often we go…
Way back when I wrote a note on Destiny’s Forge by [tag]Paul Chafe[/tag], which I called (and still call) a great book. It has pretty much all the characteristics I like in a book. More recently, I posted a notice about Paul Chafe’s forthcoming book Genesis which will be released November 6th (according to Amazon.com)….
This book was a pleasant surprise. I’m normally annoyed by the huge possibilities that are ignored in stories about future AI or machine sentience. It seems to me to be the area in which near future science fiction does the worst job of projection. In this case, however, [tag]Catherine Asaro[/tag] does a wonderful job of…
