Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold (1999, 320 pages) – Okay, this may be cheating, but it’s my 52nd Cannonball review this year so I think I should go out with a bang by rereading something I know is incredible. I fell in love with Ms. Bujold’s hunchback hero, Miles Vorkosigan, in Borders of Infinity (the short story and book of the same name), and have relished every day of his incredible life. Falling Free, however, takes place two hundred years before Miles and, while […]

3 Futures by Peter T. McQueeny (2014, 199 pages) – This is a collection of three novellas of the future. It starts off with a bang when we’re introduced to Father Frankenstein (come on, the name alone gets your attention) in “Hidden Deeds” as the space-traveling priest assigned to disprove a young woman’s been possessed. In his job, he mostly finds what psychological ailment they have that looks like possession. To add a bit of stickiness to the situation, the young woman is married to […]

I’m all caught up on Saga, now.  Which should be a good thing.  But I’m not feeling so joyful.  I now have to wait for the next volume to come out.  Whenever that is.  The silver lining is that I don’t have to worry about spoilers and I feel like I’m now “in” with the Saga fans since I’ve read them all as they came out.  Now to just find a comic-con. Volume 5 still continues the well thought out plots and character developments that […]