Genre Science Fiction Books

Tanith Lee has an odd writing style which doesn’t work for me very well. The people don’t seem to be fleshed out – its sort of like reading about a bunch of robots in a really rich tapestry. I sort of liked this book, but not very much. I won’t give a plot summary, as [...]

A new Niven! Cool! A new Known Space book! Even better! Mind you, once I got it home I flipped it open and noticed 2 other books with similar names on the fly leaf Nooooo!!! I haven’t managed to pick up volume 3 *again* have I?!?! But, no. It seems to be a prequel to [...]

I absolutely adore C J Cherryh’s writing and the Foreigner series is her best work, in my opinion, so I was very excited when the new book was published and have been waiting for an opportunity to get a copy. It was worth the wait. Bren is back on the planet after a successful mission, [...]

Julian May’s works are growing on me. The Many Coloured Land was a little too graphic for my liking, but the followup Galactic Milieu trilogy was nothing short of genius. This series was very enjoyable. I’m looking forward to the sequels

I absolutely loved this book. Synopsis: Sparky is an actor, wandering a solar system a couple of centuries from now. The ‘world’ is well thought out and fascinating – I don’t want to spoil it for you – and Sparky is a fascinating character. Through flashbacks (which start off a little tedious, but suddenly grab [...]

I’ve always enjoyed Asimov’s work as a ‘light read’, so I picked up Foundation’s Edge when I was last getting more books. Maybe its me, or maybe its the reading level, but I’m not finding Asimov’s works are aging well. I had problem’s with his habit of describing female character’s bodies in detail as to [...]

Katherine Kerr is best known for her fantasy series, the Deverry Books, but she also writes science fiction, and damn fine science fiction it is – for instance I have previous favourably reviewed her novel Snare. This book, Palace, is a collaboration with Mark Kreighbaum. It is set in the far future, when interstellar travel [...]

Book 2 in the series – I had problems with the first story; had trouble getting into the series, so it was interesting to see how I felt about this book. I suspect I don’t quite get the Kress’ writing style, so have trouble relating to the characters, but – that said – I really [...]