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Jun. 3rd, 2007
Quick Books Update...
Jun. 3rd, 2007 11:59 amHaven't done this for a while...
7. End of the World Blues - Jon Courtney Grimwood: Not the best of his I've read. Riven with in consistencies and some thumpingly bad errors of extrapolation. Sorry Jon, but you can already use cellphones from Japan in Europe, by 2017 world-phone radios will be the standard. A procedural with a trans-human subplot.
8. Spindrift - Allen Steele: At the end of the last Coyote book, a spacecraft lands with the suvivors of a European starship which had vanished almost a century before. This is their story. Actually a pretty good First Contact novel. I'm not sure about Steele's grasp of future politics but the space opera was ok.
9. Ally - Karen Travis: Part of her Wess'har series, about human interaction with a bunch of far far more advanced alien cultures who are big on enviromental issues. The first books were ok, but this suffers from feeling like a "middle of the series link" to me. The really interesting stuff looks like it will have to wait until they reach Earth sometime in the next few books.
10. Skid Road - Murry Morgan: Thanks to Hal for this 100 years of Seattle History. It certainly is a drier read than the Sons of the Profits but some excellent information in there and a great bunch of data points.
11. Voyage of the Sable Keech - Neal Asher: I'm growing to like his style and vision but I'd like to see Neal moving out of the Polity play ground and doing something new. This is an interesting return to SpatterJay and the fallout from the Prador War (covered in Prador Moon) and although one of the key plot twists was obvious from the moment the twist entered the narative, it was an excellent read.
12. The Cold Moon - Jeffry Deavers - Airport purchase, Lincoln Rhyme, paralysed police detective solves a complicated crime, yadda yadda
13. Roses are Red - James Patterson - Alex Cross, criminal psycologist, solves a complicated crime, yadda, yadda (yes, another airport book)
14. Overclocked - Cory Doctorow - Hmmm.... an ok(ish) short story collection. Some of them were weak though. I thought that "When sys-admins ruled the world" was a piece of over indulgent tosh which needed the editors pen badly... maybe the middle 8000 words?
15. Old Man's War - John Scalzi - Mil-SF, but with some good chrome. A nice pace and a decent book. I'm interested in the sequel.
16. Hannibel Rising - Harris - Another airport book. Frankly, this one reaks of flogging the dead horse from the first page onwards. Not recommended.
7. End of the World Blues - Jon Courtney Grimwood: Not the best of his I've read. Riven with in consistencies and some thumpingly bad errors of extrapolation. Sorry Jon, but you can already use cellphones from Japan in Europe, by 2017 world-phone radios will be the standard. A procedural with a trans-human subplot.
8. Spindrift - Allen Steele: At the end of the last Coyote book, a spacecraft lands with the suvivors of a European starship which had vanished almost a century before. This is their story. Actually a pretty good First Contact novel. I'm not sure about Steele's grasp of future politics but the space opera was ok.
9. Ally - Karen Travis: Part of her Wess'har series, about human interaction with a bunch of far far more advanced alien cultures who are big on enviromental issues. The first books were ok, but this suffers from feeling like a "middle of the series link" to me. The really interesting stuff looks like it will have to wait until they reach Earth sometime in the next few books.
10. Skid Road - Murry Morgan: Thanks to Hal for this 100 years of Seattle History. It certainly is a drier read than the Sons of the Profits but some excellent information in there and a great bunch of data points.
11. Voyage of the Sable Keech - Neal Asher: I'm growing to like his style and vision but I'd like to see Neal moving out of the Polity play ground and doing something new. This is an interesting return to SpatterJay and the fallout from the Prador War (covered in Prador Moon) and although one of the key plot twists was obvious from the moment the twist entered the narative, it was an excellent read.
12. The Cold Moon - Jeffry Deavers - Airport purchase, Lincoln Rhyme, paralysed police detective solves a complicated crime, yadda yadda
13. Roses are Red - James Patterson - Alex Cross, criminal psycologist, solves a complicated crime, yadda, yadda (yes, another airport book)
14. Overclocked - Cory Doctorow - Hmmm.... an ok(ish) short story collection. Some of them were weak though. I thought that "When sys-admins ruled the world" was a piece of over indulgent tosh which needed the editors pen badly... maybe the middle 8000 words?
15. Old Man's War - John Scalzi - Mil-SF, but with some good chrome. A nice pace and a decent book. I'm interested in the sequel.
16. Hannibel Rising - Harris - Another airport book. Frankly, this one reaks of flogging the dead horse from the first page onwards. Not recommended.