The White Dragon Bio of a Space Tyrant: Politician Bolos 6: Cold Steel Dragonsong
Dragonsong
Dragonsong sits between Dragonquest and The White Dragon, although there is some overlap with The White Dragon and it doesn’t matter what order you read those two in. Some friends and I were joking the other day that all McCaffrey books seem to involve a pained teenager coming to age. That’s true with this book,…
Bolos 6: Cold Steel
This bolo book is different from the previous ones, in that it heavily focuses on the humans side of the story, instead of the bolo’s inner monologue. I’ve seen reviews online that say this makes it a bad bolo book, but I think that’s unfair. The bolos are critical to the telling of this story,…
Bio of a Space Tyrant: Politician
This is the third book in the Bio of a Space Tyrant series (following Refugee and Mercenary). I picked this series up on a whim when it was cheap in a bookstore sale, and liked the first two books, although the first was quite grim and the second a little odd. This book isn’t as…
Don’t use Jetbus Sydney if you want to catch your flight
I had to take a flight a few weeks ago, and I thought I’d do the financially (and environmentally) sensible thing and use an airport shuttle service. Especially because the airport train in Sydney is so expensive and slow. I found Jetbus online, and paid with PayPal. The first time I used them they were…
The White Dragon
This book took me ages to finish, and I’m not sure if that was because of distractions in real life (moving into a new house), or if it was because I just wasn’t all that into it. The first half of the book is the growing pains of Jaxom, the rider of white dragon Ruth….
Books read in July 2009
Bolos 5: Old Guard Why do men fall asleep after sex?
Why do men fall asleep after sex?
This is the second medical trivia book by The Leyner and Goldberg duo. The first was Why do men have nipples, which I read in June. This book suffers from the same flaws as the first — its light weight and doesn’t take itself very seriously. That means that often they avoid answering serious questions,…
Bolos 5: Old Guard
This book is similar to the previous Bolo anthologies in that it is written by a number of different authors, but utilizes Laumer’s Concordiat universe. Contrary to another LibraryThing review, all of the stories on this book don’t occur on one planet. All but one of them occurs on Delas, and the final one is…
Books read in June 2009
Bolos 2: The Unconquerable Why don’t penguin’s feet freeze? (and 114 other questions) Isaac Asimov’s Robot City: Robots and Aliens: Alliance Why do men have nipples? The Book of General Ignorance Bolos 3: The Triumphant Bolos 4: Last Stand