A Review of Starship Eternal

Starship Eternal by M.R. Forbes My rating: 4 of 5 stars I had never heard of the author of this series until Amazon recommended him to me. I’m really glad it did. I enjoyed the hell out of this first of a five book series. I thought it was well-told, engrossing, action packed, well plotted, …

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A Review of Doomsday Book

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis My rating: 1 of 5 stars I’ve never heard of Connie Willis, the author the Doomsday Book, which won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best science fiction book of the year in 1992. Apparently, she’s quite successful, having won six Nebula awards (more than any other science fiction …

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A Review of House of Reeds

House of Reeds by Thomas Harlan My rating: 4 of 5 stars The House of Reeds is the sequel to Wasteland of Flint, a book I thought very highly of and gave five stars to in this review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show.... In this current book, xenoarcheologist Gretchen Anderssen and her team return and are sent to the …

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A Review of The Helverti Invasion

The Helverti Invasion by John Dalmas My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Helverti Invasion is the second novel in John Dalmas’s Monitor Service series, following The Lizard War. In the previous book, Brothers from the Order of Saint Higuchi infiltrated the Saint Lawrence People's Democratic Republic in order to attack a number of aliens, …

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A Review of Freehold

Freehold by Michael Z. Williamson My rating: 1 of 5 stars Since this book has a 4.01 rating on Goodreads, I started off reading it with high hopes. Especially as it’s the beginning of a series that is highly rated. And the back cover synopsis made it sound interesting. But as I got into it, …

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A Review of Orphanage

Orphanage by Robert Buettner My rating: 4 of 5 stars An interesting and entertaining first book in an undoubtedly decent series. I read someone comparing it to Chris Bunch’s The Last Legion series and I’m glad I read that because that thought occurred to me as I was reading it, but I pushed that thought …

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