The first few books are fun historical fiction adventure, steampunk; I haven’t read book 3 yet, but 1 and 2 are pretty good. The 4th gets a little dark but remains mostly similar. This one gets dystopic and loses the fun. Nearly every major character is killed off and brought back as a plant, descendant, cyborg, or clone, or a combination of the above. It gets stupid and meaningless. Burton and Spring-heeled Jack are both back and neither one has a clear head. Jack can’t […]
Didn’t hate this one, so at least there’s that.
So I had this huge brilliant review* for this book, which I stupidly wrote in the review space over on Goodreads, and upon being two sentences away from finishing it, my browser decided to to go non-responsive, crashed and deleted the whole thing. I will note that this ONLY ever happens to me while using Internet Explorer on computers that aren’t mine. Why does anyone have a computer that has nothing but IE? WHY. What terrible person makes these decisions? I hope they regret everything. *It wasn’t brilliant. I’m […]
“My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.”
Wool is one of the big books that’s been sitting on my bookshelf that I put on my list of goals to finish this year. It’s definitely a long book, and probably a lot longer than it needs to be. I felt that the pacing of the story was a little off but realized about halfway through that it originally had been released in sections, which might explain why. It’s the story of a future civilization that has survived some sort of Apocalypse by living […]
All’s Fair in War and Science
It’s not that Research isn’t aware of the ethical implications of its line of inquiry. It’s just that they really don’t care.
He Had Me Right Up Until the Sasquatch Started Singing
In the Ocean of Night by Gregory Benford (1972) I want to like Mr. Benford’s books. I really do. He’s one of the SF Masters, up there with Asimov, Clarke, and Norton, and he’s a scientist, too. But each time I try to delve into one of his hard SF books, he goes off onto a tangent (in this case, a metaphysical one). I guess it worked for Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001 when the science got so dense that we saw God, but this book […]
And from this seed grew a tree of discontent
At a convention in Las Vegas, 70,000 people are murdered in a brutal terrorist attack using stolen nanotechnology. As a result, a concerted effort is made by political activists to destroy the nanotech industry. The man who invented the stolen technology is the only person standing in between a government witch hunt and the forward progress of scientific development. Ok. That, I think, is an interesting premise for a book. That’s the premise that led me to pick this book up. The belief that this […]
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