All My Sins Remembered by Joe Haldeman My rating: 4 of 5 stars This 222 page book makes for a quick read and it's somewhat enjoyable. Otto McGavin, an Anglo-Buddhist, seeks a job with the Confederacion because he believes in its mission to protect human and nonhuman rights. The problems begin there. The Confederacion needs …
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The Day the Martians Came by Frederik Pohl My rating: 2 of 5 stars I like Frederik Pohl, on average, but this book is below average. It's not even much of an attempt at sci fi -- just loosely related to it. It starts out rather promisingly, with some crashed astronauts finding an underground Martian …
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The Heaven Virus by Clifford A. Pickover My rating: 2 of 5 stars I gave this book a try, I really did. Ultimately I got to page 168 out of a 364 page novel before giving up. The author, Cliff Pickover, may have a PhD from Yale, but that doesn't mean he's a good writer. …
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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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