WWW:Wake (Robert J Sawyer, WWW Trilogy #1)
4.5 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: WWW:Wake is a contemporary hard sci-fi coming of age story. Apparently it is the first in a trilogy, but I was rather surprised to learn this, since this book...
View ArticleThe 13th Immortal (Robert Silverberg)
1 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: The 13th Immortal is an old fashioned far future dystopian sci-fi adventure story. Although I often enjoy looking at the roots of sci-fi history to see how they have...
View ArticleSaturn Returns (Sean Williams, Astropolis #1)
3 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: Saturn Returns is the first in a series of very strange far future sci-fi mystery/action novels. It has one of the stranger interpretations of far future technology...
View ArticleThe Quantum Thief (Hannu Rajaniemi, The Quantum Thief Trilogy #1)
3 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: The Quantum Thief is a far future mystery/thriller sci-fi novel. I’m not a big fan of the extreme far future sci-fi stuff, but The Quantum Thief was definitely...
View ArticleMurphy’s Gambit (Syne Mitchell)
4 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: Murphy’s Gambit is a hard sci-fi, traditional faster-than-light travel spaceship themed adventure story. The protagonist is unique, I think this is the only sci-fi...
View ArticleGermline (TC McCarthy, The Subterrene War Trilogy #1)
3 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: Germline is a near future war thriller taking the form of a gonzo journalist stuck behind the lines of a horrific future conflict in Kazakhstan. This is a well...
View ArticlePeacekeeper (Laura E Reeve, Major Ariane Kedros #1)
0.5 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: Peacekeeper is a future sci-fi novel that has the distinction of being one of the worst books I have ever read. I am frankly baffled that this is the first in a...
View ArticleHunter’s Run (George RR Martin, Gardner Dozois, Daniel Abraham)
4.5 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: Hunter’s Run is an anomaly in my experience, a book that was worked on for several decades by several authors that actually came out well. I’m not a particular fan...
View ArticleThe Age of Ra (James Lovegrove, The Pantheon Trilogy #1)
2.5 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: I’m not really sure what category to put The Age of Ra in. The story is basically what I would think of as military sci-fi, and it has quite a few elements of that...
View ArticleTouched By An Alien (Gini Koch, Alien Novels #1)
1 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: This is a fairly standard sexy woman empowerment urban fantasy, with the requisite romance side plot. This is the first in a series, and it really shows. There is a...
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