The Dragon Revenant Bio of a Space Tyrant: Mercenary A Time of Exile Isaac Asimov’s Robot City: Perihelion
Isaac Asimov’s Robot City: Perihelion
I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I haven’t previously been impressed with Wu’s work, but this book is the best of the Robot City series. The other books suffer from feeling juvenile, whereas this book tells a story without being badly written and boring. Its a shame that you have to wade through the…
A Time of Exile
This book is the fifth in the Deverry series, but focusses on a different set of characters than the other books. However, the new plot line is tied in nicely with the previous stories, so there is a nice combination of furthering the overall plot without bogging down in territory which has been covered by…
Bio of a Space Tyrant: Mercenary
This book continues the story of a poor Hispanic immigrant made good that started with Bio of a Space Tyrant: Refugee. This book is overall much more positive than the previous one, with hardly any of Hope’s friends being killed. The book revolves around Hope’s military career, and the leadership team he builds. Its basically…
The Dragon Revenant
I knew what happens at the end of this book before I read it, and I thought I’d be upset about it. Funnily enough, by the time we got there the progression of the story made it seem kind of natural. This is a good book, and a worthy addition to the series, however Salamander’s…
Books read in February 2009
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe The Complete Hammer’s Slammers Volume 3 Life, the Universe and Everything Without Warning So Long, and Thanks For all the Fish On Basilisk Station Mostly Harmless
Mostly Harmless
It turns out I was confused when I said that So Long and Thanks For All the Fish was the last Hitchhikers Guide book. There is one more, Mostly Harmless. This book wasn’t as good as the others to be honest, it felt disjointed and I ended up disappointed by the ending. Then again, it…
Free Baen ebooks
Bradley noted in the comments for my On Balisik Station post that Baen has been making free ebooks of a bunch of their stuff available. Specifically, http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/ seems to be the place to go. It seems legitimate to me too. Awesome. I still like dead tree, but this seems like a good excuse to give…
On Basilisk Station
I bought this book because it was cheap a while ago, and only just got around to reading it. Its a pretty standard science fiction story of one naval officer’s plight — incompetent seniors; inadequate equipment; and evil neighbors. The story revolves around a young naval officer named Honor Harrington, who the Internet tells me…
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish
This is the final book in the Hitchhiker’s Guide trilogy, and to be honest I think this one is better than the third book. I enjoyed it, and I think the real strength of the book is that it doesn’t try to hard to be a sequel. Title: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy…