David Scrimshaw rated Surface Detail: 5 stars
Iain M. Banks: Surface Detail (2010)
Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #9)
Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks is a science fiction novel in his Culture series, first published in the UK …
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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 Against a Dark Background: 4 stars
Against a Dark Background by Iain M. Banks
Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the …
David Scrimshaw rated Good Omens: 5 stars
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don't let you go around again until you get it right.
According …
David Scrimshaw rated Altered carbon: 4 stars
Richard K. Morgan: Altered carbon
Altered carbon by Richard K. Morgan
It's the twenty-fifth century, and advances in technology have redefined life itself. A person's consciousness can now be stored in …
David Scrimshaw rated Woken furies: 4 stars
Woken furies by Richard K. Morgan
Richard K. Morgan has received widespread praise for his astounding twenty-fifth-century novels featuring Takeshi Kovacs, and has established a growing …
David Scrimshaw rated A Good Old-Fashioned Future: 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Schismatrix: 5 stars
Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling
In the far future, in a solar system colonized by a strange aggregation of human cultures, Abelard Lindsay, a rogue …
David Scrimshaw rated The Catcher in the Rye: 5 stars
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Holden Caulfield, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New …
David Scrimshaw rated The King's Peace: 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Shadow of the Scorpion: 4 stars
Neal L. Asher: Shadow of the Scorpion (2008, Night Shade Books)
Shadow of the Scorpion by Neal L. Asher
Raised to adulthood during the end of the war between the human Polity and a vicious alien race, the Prador, …
