An avid sci-fi and fantasy reader who sometimes does historical fiction or even mainstream.
You might notice that most of my reviews are 5 stars. That's because if I start reading a book that doesn't engage me, I stop reading it. Life is too short. I've realized that it's not fair to review a book I haven't read and nobody really needs to hear why I didn't get into a book especially when they might like it.
My goals with reviews are to be brief and give other potential readers an idea of why they might like the book. I leave it to the marketing people and other reviewers to describe the plots.
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Earth has been allowed to colonize the Planet Garth only because its previous occupants went berserk and wiped out virtually …
Twenty-third century Earth, ravaged by climate change, looks backwards to the holy ideal of a pre-industrial Eden. Political power has …
From back cover Del Rey paperback January 1978:
CAPTAIN COURAGEOUS
For a profit -- and adventure -- Barlennan …
From inside cover Tor First Edition March 1999:
Thirty thousand years before the events of A Fire upon the …
Erin Morgenstern: The Night Circus (Hardcover, 2011, Doubleday)
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the …
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends …
I enjoyed this tremendously. I tried the webcomic version afterwards, but they didn't move fast enough for me.
I enjoyed this tremendously. I tried the webcomic version afterwards, but they didn't move fast enough for me.
A breathtaking joyride through the solar system several centuries hence, a world of marching cities, ubiquitous public-key encryption, people who …
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