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Under the Green Sun

Retro Review: Under the Green Star by Lin Carter


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 …

Descender Tin Stars

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 …

Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson

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 …

Deliverance

Review: Deliverance by James Dickey


You aren’t hallucinating.  This is not a science fiction book review.  This is indeed a review of the novel Deliverance.  Yep, THAT Deliverance.  The one with white water canoeing, banjo playin’, […]

Review: Halting State by Charles Stross


Halting State by Charles Stross was not the book I was expecting.  As a gamer and MMORPG player the book piqued my interest based on the description.  Instead of getting […]

Consider Phelbas by Iain M. Banks

Review: Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks


IV. DEATH BY WATER Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep seas swell And the profit and loss.           […]

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