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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Valiant by Jack Campbell My rating: 4 of 5 stars In Valiant, Jack Campbell’s fourth book in his The Lost Fleet series, Captain “Black Jack” Geary is back, leading the remaining Alliance fleet through Syndic territory in an effort to get home to Alliance territory. They’re worried about their fuel cells, food stores, and the …
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The Sky So Big and Black by John Barnes My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Sky So Big and Black is a sci fi novel by John Barnes that is good, not great. Above average. Interesting, intriguing, mysterious, fairly well told in a now somewhat common, but perhaps then unique way. It has some …
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Terms of Enlistment by Marko Kloos My rating: 5 of 5 stars In Terms of Enlistment, Andrew Grayson is a slum-dweller who joins the military for three good/real meals a day – unavailable on the outside – and a decent chance at an enlistment payout if he survives his five-year commitment. The book follows Grayson …
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