The Merchants' War by Frederik Pohl My rating: 4 of 5 stars I really enjoyed this sequel to The Space Merchants, written decades earlier. Pohl's wit and satire are on full display through the entire novel. This is a futuristic world which is run by advertisers and advertising with protesters having migrated to Venus to …
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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card My rating: 2 of 5 stars I have some mixed feelings about Ender's Game, but mostly negative ones. Of course, I'd heard of the book for years -- after all, it's won some major awards and is about to be released as a major movie -- but only now …
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Finity by John Barnes My rating: 4 of 5 stars Finity was an interesting book to read. The premise isn't new -- alternate worlds and histories. I mean Philip K. Dick has the market cornered on that. But Barnes seems to take a fresh approach to this and I couldn't put the book down. I …
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The Other End of Time by Frederik Pohl My rating: 3 of 5 stars Frederik Pohl's The Other End of Time is a mediocre book with some promise, some potential, but it never seems to reach it. It's like one long drawn out scene book-ended by the beginning and end of the book, and after …
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Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K. Dick My rating: 4 of 5 stars Radio Free Albemuth is another fine Philip K Dick novel, written in 1976, but published in 1985 after his death. It's a precursor to VALIS, and as such, centers around VALIS, an alien God-like entity. This book is certainly post-modern. One sure …
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