Deepsix by Jack McDevitt My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is the second book in The Academy series and I loved it. Hutch, the space ship pilot from the first novel, is back, a number of years later, still piloting ships around for the Academy. A back plot. An earth-like planet is found and …
Tag: science fiction
A Review of On Basilisk Station
On Basilisk Station by David Weber My rating: 4 of 5 stars Flawed, but entertaining. Honor Harrington, newly-promoted Captain in the Queen’s Royal Manticoran Navy, has taken command of her first space cruiser, Fearless, and she is elated. She's worked for this moment for years. Unfortunately, an enemy has seen to it that she and …
A Review of Ambient
Ambient by Jack Womack My rating: 5 of 5 stars Brilliant! Ambient is a 1987 (publication date) update of A Clockwork Orange with some additional ultraviolence and a new language thrown in. The author even pays tribute to A Clockwork Orange early in the book. In this book, we follow O'Malley, a bodyguard for a …
A Review of The Transvection Machine
The Transvection Machine by Edward D. Hoch My rating: 4 of 5 stars Oh no! Vander Defoe, the inventor of the new transvection machine that's going to save humanity, has been murdered! At least that's how it appears. He goes to the hospital to have his appendix removed and the mechanical surgeon causes blood to …
A Review of Equations of Life
Equations of Life by Simon Morden My rating: 5 of 5 stars Loved this book! Great dystopian novel. Samuil Petrovitch is a Russian ex-pat living in the London Metrozone after an apocalypse, that we're told little about, has occurred some years in the past. He's a grad student in physics and about to solve the …
