Alistair MacLean's Death Train by Alastair MacNeill My rating: 1 of 5 stars Bad. Stupid. Dumb. Poorly conceived and poorly written. It started off rather clumsily, but I decided to give it the benefit of the doubt and continue. And at times I was glad I did. At other times, I wanted to chew my …
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Ambient by Jack Womack My rating: 5 of 5 stars Brilliant! Ambient is a 1987 (publication date) update of A Clockwork Orange with some additional ultraviolence and a new language thrown in. The author even pays tribute to A Clockwork Orange early in the book. In this book, we follow O'Malley, a bodyguard for a …
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The Transvection Machine by Edward D. Hoch My rating: 4 of 5 stars Oh no! Vander Defoe, the inventor of the new transvection machine that's going to save humanity, has been murdered! At least that's how it appears. He goes to the hospital to have his appendix removed and the mechanical surgeon causes blood to …
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Equations of Life by Simon Morden My rating: 5 of 5 stars Loved this book! Great dystopian novel. Samuil Petrovitch is a Russian ex-pat living in the London Metrozone after an apocalypse, that we're told little about, has occurred some years in the past. He's a grad student in physics and about to solve the …
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Puppet on a Chain by Alistair MacLean My rating: 3 of 5 stars Three stars or four? Three or four? How about three and a half? This Alistair MacLean book is an odd one. It's darker than his other books, and even creepy. It's about Paul Sherman, a British Interpol agent, in Amsterdam looking for …
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