(Original Review, 1980-12-19)The story is the “The Telzey Toy” and it is in a collection of the same name. There are about 3-4 stories in the novella. It was the second time I had encountered the lady and it took some time to make the connection. I thought that the first story I had read was much be...
A lot of very readable and entertaining SF is grounded in Clarke's observation that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." A character who pops what looks like an aspirin tablet into what looks like a microwave and then retrieves and eats a vindaloo is behaving as re...
Reading Eric Flint’s 1632 reminded me of two classc science fiction works. The first is L. Sprague de Camp’s Lest Darkness Fall, which is predicated on a similar premise: a man from the present finds himself suddenly transported to the collapsing Roman Empire, where he uses his knowledge of modern ...
This book had a great deal going for it; Eric Flint clearly did a lot of research on military strategy, history, and both early modern and modern weapons. This is evident throughout the novel, and helped make his novel a superior and interesting work of fiction. However, his research was not the onl...
An uneven, possibly overly long, Adult SF story with some great characters. When humans and their Jao overlords joined forces in a desperate battle to save the Earth from the malevolent race called the Ekhat, the relationship between the two species was changed forever. Two years later, humans an...
A complex if slightly cliche SF with a great cast of characters. Conquered by the Jao twenty years ago, the Earth is shackled under alien tyranny - and threatened by the even more dangerous Ekhat, one of whose genocidal extermination fleets is coming to the solar system. The only chance for human...
I really liked the 6 books telling the story of Belisarius. History mixed with a little bit science fiction. Only thing I didn`t like was the too fast technolocial progress in the last book (radio towers,...)
Reading this book was sort of like sitting across a table from a madman or a drunk who’s trying to tell you a story. Well, to be honest I’ve never had either experience, but reading this book is what I imagine that experience might be like. The story is told in a rambling, conversational manner, a...
This is one of the more bizarre books I’ve read in a while. I would classify it as science fiction, but most of the story really reads more like fantasy, with a very heavy dose of mythology. At the beginning of the story an alien, pyramid-shaped object lands on Earth. Some people who get within a ce...
Eric Flint’s novel reminded me in many ways of two science fiction works. The first is L. Sprague de Camp’s classic Lest Darkness Fall, which is predicated on a similar premise: in de Camp's work a man from the present finds himself suddenly transported to the collapsing Roman Empire, where he uses ...
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