The Rakehells of Heaven by John Boyd My rating: 3 of 5 stars I struggled with how many stars to give this book. On one hand, I thoroughly enjoyed it and thought it was pretty original. On the other, it's not particularly well written, it's dated, and full of stereotypes. In it, two space cadets …
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The Terminal State by Jeff Somers My rating: 5 of 5 stars Avery Cates is back in a big way! This is the fourth book in the Avery Cates saga and I'm glad I gave it a chance. I hated the third book. I didn't even finish it. As I recall, while reviewing it last …
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The Preserving Machine by Philip K. Dick My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Preserving Machine is a pretty good collection of short stories by Philip K Dick from the early 1950s through the mid-1960s. Some of his best work is here. I had already read several of these in other collections, but there were …
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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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