Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis My rating: 3 of 5 stars I’ve liked and disliked several of C.S. Lewis’s works over the years and if I remember correctly, I read his space trilogy as a young boy, but remember nothing of it. So my wife picked up Out of the Silent Planet …
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The Reality Dysfunction 1: Emergence by Peter F. Hamilton My rating: 1 of 5 stars I’ve read, or attempted to, my share of stupid books over the years, but I don’t think I’ve ever picked up a book this damn stupid in my entire life! I’m astounded, because The Reality Dysfunction has a great 4.24 …
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Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card My rating: 5 of 5 stars Speaker for the Dead, the sequel to Ender’s Game, both of which won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best Science Fiction novel in back to back years for Orson Scott Card, the first time that achievement has ever happened, is …
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The Alien Years by Robert Silverberg My rating: 2 of 5 stars I have mixed feelings about this author and hence this book. This author is well known and I've been meaning to read him for quite awhile and he came strongly recommended to me by a new friend. I saw this book in a …
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Time Scout by Robert Asprin My rating: 1 of 5 stars Unbelievably stupid and not remotely believable. Sometime in the future, time travel is possible, both “uptime” and downtime.” To do this, time scouts are needed to scout unknown areas and guides are needed to show tourists scouted areas such as historical Rome, Victorian England, …
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