On Basilisk Station by David Weber My rating: 4 of 5 stars Flawed, but entertaining. Honor Harrington, newly-promoted Captain in the Queen’s Royal Manticoran Navy, has taken command of her first space cruiser, Fearless, and she is elated. She's worked for this moment for years. Unfortunately, an enemy has seen to it that she and …
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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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Last night, we went to Atlanta to see Barry Manilow in concert. Yeah, not someone I would normally see, but my wife's a lifelong fan and has never seen him, so I got her tickets for Christmas. It's been agonizing waiting a half year to see him, but she said it was worth it. We …
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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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