Under the Green Star by Lin Carter is not a ripoff, it's a deliberately derivative fanboy love letter to Edgar Rice Burroughs and the sword and planet genre he created. It's …
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Review: Descender Volume 1: Tin Stars
Descender: Tin Stars has all the elements of great storytelling in graphic novel form: characters, world building, action, conflict, and tension. All of this is masterfully penned by writer Jeff Lemire, and …
Read More »Review: Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
There's little doubt that Kim Stanley Robinson crafted Aurora to be a cautionary tale about the tremendous risks involved with space travel and the settling of alien planets. The takeaway seems to be that humans are …
Read More »Review: Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds
It’s no secret that I’m an Alastair Reynolds fan. His mixture of astrophysics, space opera, and gothic noir really scratches my space opera itch, especially his Revelation Space setting. All of his books, that I’ve read thus far, have been solid …
Read More »Retro Review: The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
I’ve always been fond of the classics, both the books and the authors. As a fan of the genre I feel obligated to be knowledgeable about what has come before, and to be honest some older science fiction, while reading …
Read More »Review: Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
(Header art by WETA Workshop) This review contains minor spoilers. That last time I posted an article about Neal Stephenson it was after reading his monstrous, brilliant, and, some would say, inaccessible novel Anathem. In that review I point out this …
Read More »Review: Roadside Picnic
(Header concept art by Alex Andreev.) I am SO behind on my book reviews at this point that I plan on posting abbreviated versions going forward just to catch up. I finished Roadside Picnic several years ago and picking my brains …
Read More »Review: The Hour of the Dragon by Robert E. Howard
In 1936 Robert E. Howard tragically put a gun to his head and ended his own life upon hearing that his beloved (and terminally ill) mother would never come out of her final coma to speak to him again. He …
Read More »Retro Review: Dragonlance: Dragons of Spring Dawning
Note: This is a guest review by Michael. I just finished Dragonlance: Return of the Green . . . I mean Dragons of Spring Dawning. Like I said in my last review I tore into this one hoping for a …
Read More »Review: Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Anathem In New Orth, an aut by which an incorrigible fraa or suur is ejected from the math and his or her work sequestered (hence the Fluccish word Anathema meaning intolerable statements or ideas). See Throwback. (The Dictionary, 4th Edition, …
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