Scenario: There's a strange megastructure artifact in space, and some curious folk want to take a look-see. The premise, quite a well-traveled science fiction road, recalls favorites such as the ring of Larry Niven's [b:Rendezvous With Rama|112537|Rendezvous With Rama (Rama, #1)|Arthur C. Clarke|ht...
I have not read either of these authors' independent work, so I cannot make any comparisons in that regard. I liked this book well enough to probably be suckered into waiting for the next in the series. However, I didn't buy this one (Go SPL!) and I won't buy the next one either because while I enjo...
I found this book completely by chance, and I don't regret taking it home with me in any way at all. Essentially, it's a story about a boy growing into a man who has spent his entire life outside of his ancestors' native planet, in Ganymede (the Solar System's biggest moon)and so sees "Earthers" as ...
The potential time paradoxes are acknowledged and explained. Using separate narrators for each time period added to the listening pleasure.The book leaves none of the science to chance and explains it better than any science book for non-scientist.You'll get a good coherent communication across time...
Big dumb alien objects tend to work me like a charm: that Thing sitting there, demanding explanation, and--often, in the best of such stories--all kinds of things on the Thing, complicating or endangering or compounding the fun. These books often have a propulsive what-next? energy complemented--in...
Anthology. This was a better than average anthology, although I didn't read all of the short stories. My feminist proclivities have made an appearance in this anthology. I only read the works by the female authors. What is extremely interesting in this anthology are the mini-biographies about ea...
This book is pretty much exactly as advertised - if you're in the mood for some dragons, and you're a fan of fantasy fiction, there are stories here for you.They're not all excellent stories - but my rating gets raised up to 4 stars because it does have some true classics here - Anne McCaffrey's glo...
Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is to be successful. Because your next thing has to surpass your first success. Just ask the guy who came up with the idea of pet rocks.Ellison probably knows what I am talking about. Dangerous Vision was a raging success. It is still the definitive sci-fi a...
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