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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Storm Force by Chris Bunch My rating: 4 of 5 stars I thoroughly enjoyed this third book in the Last Legion series and feel like it's good enough to give it five stars generally, but I'm not. Because it's military sci fi and I feel like David Weber is the gold standard by which all …
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Robot Blues by Margaret Weis My rating: 2 of 5 stars This has to be one of the more annoying and depressingly unfulfilling sci fi mercenary books I've recently read. And it had so much promise! Mag Force 7 is a mercenary outfit headed by Xris Cyborg, a cyborg (original, eh?), and manned by a …
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Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov My rating: 1 of 5 stars If you’ve been reading my reviews over the past few months, you’ve seen my reviews of Asimov’s Foundation books. I finally read the hugely known and loved Foundation trilogy and was not impressed. I thought the first book was poorly written, I thought …
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Nightfall by Isaac Asimov My rating: 4 of 5 stars Originally a fantastic short story written in 1941, the expanded novel, Nightfall, tells the story of the planet Kalgash, surrounded by six suns, with between two and four simultaneously in the sky, where one is always accustomed to light, and what happens to it when …
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