Clans of the Alphane Moon by Philip K. Dick My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book had some good ideas, but PKD asks the reader to make too many leaps of logic to be able to give this book a decent score. CIA agent Chuck Rittersdorf splits from his psychiatrist wife, Mary, who's a …
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Headcrash by Bruce Bethke My rating: 2 of 5 stars I'm so pissed off I read this book. It took a real stretch of imagination to buy into the virtual reality world the author creates, but then you reach the ending and it's so insanely stupid, you wonder what the hell you just did and …
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The World Jones Made by Philip K. Dick My rating: 3 of 5 stars A decent book, but not a great PKD book. It's about Floyd Jones, a precog who can see exactly one year into the future and as a result has to live events out twice, once in his visions and once in …
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To Sail Beyond the Sunset by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 1 of 5 stars On March 7, 2014 I reviewed Robert A. Heinlein's "I Will Fear No Evil" and gave it one star. It was a sex-obsessed orgy with little "science fiction" to offer. Realizing it was published in 1970 during the Sexual Revolution, …
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The Vastalimi Gambit by Steve Perry My rating: 2 of 5 stars This book started out promisingly, but devolved into a muddled mess with a very disappointing ending. I generally like Steve Perry books and I had read the first book in this series, which I thought was okay (just okay), so I thought I …
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