Full disclosure: I’m already a fan of John Birmingham, and I talk to him occasionally on Twitter; so I read A Girl in Time with some preconceptions, and more than a little positive spin on my bias. Birmo is a big fan of manipulating both time and history in his recent fiction; his very excellent Axis of Time series (three full-length novels and three novellas) plays hard and fast with 21st Century military forces being inadvertently sent back to WWII and the massive fallout from […]
The Rook Files: Revisiting the Supernatural MI5
I have been reading a lot this year, and nearly all the books I have read have had me thinking about being used and being of use. Daniel O’Malley’s excellent Stiletto, which revisits the Checquy and it’s collection of supernatural government servants, fits right into this pattern. For those who have not read The Rook, the background here is that Britain has a entire government agency made up of agents with mysterious powers, ranging from people who increase the fertility of those who surround them […]
Lacks Heart of Lunar Chronicles
I never thought a day would come where I would not be fan-girling over a new Marissa Meyer work. Sadly that day is here. I thought about this a lot last night, and I think the biggest issue I have with this graphic novel, is that the characters we have come to love in the books are so flat in graphic novel form. I just honestly didn’t care what was going to happen throughout and found my mind wandering as I did. And some of […]
She’s leaving home…
I haven’t read a lot of science-fiction, I was never interested in it when I was a kid even though my dad tried to get me into it. But I also don’t decide what to read based on genre. If something sounds appealing I will read it, I don’t care what genre it is supposed to be. As for this novella, I don’t even remember how I found it but the summary sounded amazing so I decided to buy it. And I don’t regret buying […]
Commander Uhura to the Rescue
Firestorm by L.A. Graf (1994) The author L.A. Graf is really the housename for three writers: Julia Ecklar, Karen Rose Cercone, and Melissa Crandell. Their group name stands for Let’s All Get Rich and Famous which is clever enough in itself. They primarily focus on Star Trek pro-novels and are the few Star Trek novels I keep on my reread shelf. I always enjoy them. Primarily, because the trio focus on the secondary Star Trek characters of Uhura, Sulu, and Checkov. Full disclosure here: I […]
I’ve Got Friends in High Places
The Two Faces of Tomorrow by James R. Hogan (1979) Long before Terminator brought us the terrors of a unified, anti-human computer named Skynet, James R. Hogan addressed the issue with exciting but more favorable results. In the near future, an integrated computer system on the moon follows an order to remove a lunar ridge for a construction crew. Unfortunately, the engineers who requested the removal are on-site when a lunar cannon obliterates it. On Earth, a charismatic scientist and his department have been working […]
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