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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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David Scrimshaw rated Fall of Moondust: 4 stars
Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke
An early Arthur C. Clarke novel that takes place on the Moon. The setting is a future in which the …
David Scrimshaw rated Lifelode: 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Jem: 4 stars
Jem by Frederik Pohl, Pohl
The discovery of another habitable world might spell salvation to the three (Food Bloc, Fuel Bloc & People Bloc) bitterly …
David Scrimshaw rated Anansi Boys: 4 stars
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
God is dead. Meet the kids.
When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat …
David Scrimshaw rated To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1): 5 stars
David Scrimshaw rated To Kill a Mockingbird: 5 stars
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its oritinal publication …
David Scrimshaw rated Curse Of The Wolf Girl: 5 stars
David Scrimshaw rated A Fire Upon The Deep: 5 stars
A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge (Zones of Thought, #1)
Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind's potential is determined …
David Scrimshaw rated 1Q84, Livre 2: 5 stars
David Scrimshaw rated The color purple: 5 stars
The color purple by Alice Walker
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for …
David Scrimshaw rated The Ophiuchi Hotline: 5 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Saturn's Children (Freyaverse #1): 5 stars
Saturn's Children (Freyaverse #1) by Charles Stross
Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct leaving only androids behind. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of …
David Scrimshaw rated Pandora's Star: 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: 5 stars
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its …