Genre: Space Adventure
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Tor Books
Publication Date: August 3, 2010
ISBN-10: 0765324415
ISBN-13: 978-0765324412
Author Website: Harry Harrison
Having never read any of the Stainless Steel Rat stories by Harry Harrison, I was pleased when Tor decided to send me a copy of the newest tale of space adventurer Jim diGriz. Ten years in the making, The Stainless [...]
Posts under ‘Science Fiction’
Book Review: The Stainless Steel Rat Returns by Harry Harrison
Book Review: Recovering Apollo 8 and Other Stories by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
My review of Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s latest collection Recovering Apollo 8 and Other Stories (out now from Golden Gryphon Press) is available to read at Sacramento/San Francisco Book Review.
Book Review: Judge Sn Goes Golfing by John Scalzi
My review of the Subterranean Press chapbook “Judge Sn Goes Golfing” by John Scalzi is up at Sacramento/San Francisco Book Review. I first “read” this book by listening to Scalzi read it aloud at Dragon*Con 2008. It is great on its own, but you really have to hear it read by Scalzi, everyone there was [...]
Book Review: Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
My review of Nnedi Okorafor’s perception altering novel, Who Fears Death, can now be found at Tor.com.
Book Review: Is Anybody Out There? edited by Nick Gevers and Marty Halpern
Genre: Anthology/Collection
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: DAW
Publication Date: June 1, 2010
ISBN-10: 0756406196
ISBN-13: 978-0756406196
Editor Websites: Nick Gevers, Marty Halpern
Is Anybody Out There is a new collection of short fiction by co-editors Nick Gevers and Marty Halpern which attempt to answer the question of the Fermi Paradox. Fermi’s Paradox can be defined as, “The apparent size and [...]
Book Review: The Extra by Michael Shea
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction, Satire
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Tor Books
Publication Date: February 2, 2010
ISBN-10: 0765324350
ISBN-13: 978-0765324351
Author Website: Michael Shea
The Extra by Michael Shea is a laugh-out-loud satire of the film industry that is full of pulse-pounding action, astute social commentary, and super scary giant mechanical spiders.
Set in a future Los Angeles, the story follows several [...]
Book Review: To Outlive Eternity and Other Stories by Poul Anderson
# Genre: Anthology, Space Opera
# Mass Market Paperback: 720 pages
# Publisher: Baen
# Publication Date: April 28, 2009
# ISBN-10: 1416591648
# ISBN-13: 978-1416591641
# Author’s Bibliography
To Outlive Eternity and other Stories is a collection of seven tales by the Nebula Grandmaster Poul Anderson. The collection includes several short stories and novellas, as well as the complete novel [...]
Audiobook Review: Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder
Genre: Hard SF, Space Opera, Adventure
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Tor Books
Publication Date: October 3, 2006
ISBN-10: 0765315432
ISBN-13: 978-0765315434
Author Website: Karl Schroeder
Karl Schroeder’s Sun of Suns is an interesting mashup of fiction. It borrows bits and pieces from the great stories by C. S. Forester and Patrick O’Brian, the hard science of Vernor Vinge, and the adventure of [...]
Book Review: Between Planets by Robert A. Heinlein
My review of Between Planets by Robert A. Heinlein can now be found online at Sacramento Book Review.
Book Review: Geosynchron by David Louis Edelman
# Genre: Science Fiction
# Paperback: 508 pages
# Publisher: Pyr; Original edition
# Publication Date: February 23, 2010
# ISBN-10: 1591027926
# ISBN-13: 978-1591027928
# Author Website: David Louis Edelman
In this final chapter of the Jump 225 trilogy, David Louis Edelman continues to make action-packed the stereotypically mundane. As Geosynchron opens, anti-hero Natch is in the clutches of his one-time [...]
