My review of Between Planets by Robert A. Heinlein can now be found online at Sacramento Book Review.
Posts under ‘Science Fiction’
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 [...]
Book Review: Plague Zone by Jeff Carlson (in Polish)
The folks over at Carpe Noctem, a Polish blog devoted to dark fiction, have translated my English review of Plague Zone by Jeff Carlson into Polish. So if Polish is one of your languages, have a little look see.
Magazine Review: ResAliens Issue #1
For some time, Residential Aliens (known colloquially as ResAliens) has produced “spiritually infused speculative fiction” with the intent of acknowledging that in humankind exists a penchant for the spiritual that is not often reflected in much science fiction or fantasy in any real depth or with a true acknowledgment of this aspect of the human [...]
Audiobook Review: Vatta’s War: Trading in Danger Part 1 by Elizabeth Moon
My review of the multi-cast performance of part one of Elizabeth Moon’s tale of a disgraced cadet who joins the family shipping and trading business can be found as a featured review at SF Site.
Book Review: Wings of Creation by Brenda Cooper
# Genre: Space Opera, Science Fiction
# Hardcover: 384 pages
# Publisher: Tor Books; 1 edition
# Publication Date: November 10, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0765320959
# ISBN-13: 978-0765320957
# Author Website: Brenda Cooper
Wings of Creation is Brenda Cooper’s third solo novel, and continues the story of a misfit family of genetically altered humans living on a world having an aversion to [...]
Book Review: Diving into the Wreck by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
# Genre: Science Fiction, Adventure
# Paperback: 375 pages
# Publisher: Pyr
# Publication Date: November 24, 2009
# ISBN-10: 1591027861
# ISBN-13: 978-1591027867
# Author Website: Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The adventure-filled story of Diving into the Wreck was first introduced to readers with a novella (of the same name) in the August 2005 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. That [...]
Book Review: Star Wars: Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber
# Genre: Horror, Thriller, Space Opera, Shared World, Adventure
# Hardcover: 288 pages
# Publisher: Lucas Books; 1 edition (Del Rey/Ballantine)
# Publication Date: October 13, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0345509625
# ISBN-13: 978-0345509628
# Author Blog: Joe Schreiber
In a cross between Alien and Night of the Living Dead, Star Wars: Death Troopers is unlike any Star Wars novel to date. Horror [...]
Book Review: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
# Genre: Apocalyptic Fiction, Science Fiction
# Hardcover: 300 pages
# Publisher: Night Shade Books
# Publication Date: September 15, 2009
# ISBN-10: 1597801577
# ISBN-13: 978-1597801577
# Author Website: Paolo Bacigalupi
In The Windup Girl, Paolo with-the-unpronounceable-last-name (Bacigalupi), uses fiction to provide social commentary on such things as the environment, big business, international relations, and religion. Using themes of abandonment, failure, [...]
Book Review: And Another Thing… by Eoin Colfer
# Genre: Humor, Science Fiction
# Hardcover: 288 pages
# Publisher: Hyperion
# Publication Date: October 12, 2009
# ISBN-10: 1401323588
# ISBN-13: 978-1401323585
# Author Website: Eoin Colfer
# Book Website: www.6of3.com
Finding a worthy successor to Douglas Adams must have been a difficult job. Adams defined comedic science fiction, and his books are some of the most popular genre stories ever. [...]
