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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It's the first day of spring and that means the Spring 2016 issue of Ray's Road Review has been published. Please feel free to drop by and read some fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Additionally, we're going on indefinite hiatus, which makes us a bit sad. My severely poor health makes it no longer possible for …
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A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge My rating: 2 of 5 stars A Fire Upon The Deep has got to be the most ambitious book I have ever read. Especially so for a book a little over 600 pages long. It’s monster space opera unlike anything I’ve ever seen before, with concepts so …
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Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the prequel to the infamous Asimov Foundation series, actually the sixth book written decades after the original trilogy was written. If you’re read any of my reviews of the original trilogy, you’ll remember that I wasn’t impressed. I couldn’t even finish …
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West of Rome by John Fante My rating: 4 of 5 stars I first read Fante some 25 years ago through, of course, the Bukowski connection and I was not disappointed. I bought and read a half dozen Fante books. Then, for some odd reason, I forgot about him. Until recently. Lately, I’ve been pulling …
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