by John Varley, Allyson Johnson
Christmas 2010: I realised that I had got stuck in a rut. I was re-reading old favourites again and again, waiting for a few trusted authors to release new works. Something had to be done.On the spur of the moment I set myself a challenge, to read every book to have won the Locus Sci-Fi award. That’...
Take a giant alien construct like Niven's Ringworld, add some bizarre engineered lifeforms like in Chalker's Well World, mix in a sexually adventurous female lead straight out of late period Heinlein and you've got Titan. It is not a bad Science Fiction novel, but it is kind of embarrassing in the ...
While it's true that I have plenty of never-before-read fiction on the To Read shelf, I've been hankering recently to reread this series, one of my favorites.Not only does it have one of my favorite characters - Cirocco Jones, subsequently the Wizard of Gaea - but also one of my favorite alien races...