It's been a while since I read an issue of Analog. In fact, I visited my old home this weekend where I store old things such as the last Analog I read. There I found that the last one was the January/February 2010 issue. Having read the latest, I now recall why I liked it, but not enough to subscrib...
I'm going to admit right up front that I have a bit of a soft spot for Larry Niven's Known Space books. When I was 13 years old, I found Protector on a dusty shelf in a library, and thus discovered my love of science fiction. Niven opened universes to me.Fate of Worlds: Return from the Ringworld (re...
(2013 was turning into a stale year for SF. That summer, I really needed the solace of good, hard SF to escape, if just fleetingly, some harsh realities, same reality having given me long days and nights to read and listen. So, without really making a decision to do so but compelled by circumstanc...
It's possible, that when you read this book, you would get the same sense of foreboding as Star Wars III (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_III:_Revenge_of_the_Sith). In that movie, as in this book, the beginning is set by the preceding installments, Star Wars II Attack of the Clones a...
The Puppeteers are fleeing and the fate of humankind is at peril. Who better to save the world than a paranoid ARM agent named Sigmund.A multiple world, multiple entity battle of wits, intrigue and deception at truly galactic scales. We follow a set of three characters, one human and two Puppeteers ...
(In the summer of 2013, I re-read/relived Larry Niven, the story does not lose sight of the moral issue, making for a stronger book and more memorable. However, it does make the story closer to real life, with its myriad injustices, than escapist literature. After reading all these Known Space, I ...
This gets four stars from me, but if fractional stars were possible I'd have given it a 3.8.Larry Niven's Fleet of Worlds is a welcome reversion to Niven's better writing style. His work had become rather weak in the past ten to fifteen years; it seemed that like so many writers, age was robbing him...
This gets four stars from me, but if fractional stars were possible I'd have given it a 3.8.Larry Niven's Fleet of Worlds is a welcome reversion to Niven's better writing style. His work had become rather weak in the past ten to fifteen years; it seemed that like so many writers, age was robbing him...
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