Review: The Savior by Tony Daniel and David Drake

Many of us talk to ourselves and consider ourselves lucky if the voices in our head don’t talk back. Major Abel Dashian relies on the fact his voices will talk back, offering information, projection, strategy and advice. His voices have names, too. Center is a computer intelligence and Raj Whitehall is a stored personality. Together,ContinueContinue reading “Review: The Savior by Tony Daniel and David Drake”

Review: Trial by Fire (Tales of the Terran Republic #2) by Charles E. Gannon

Trial By Fire is a big book. Six hundred and forty pages big. It’s chewy and complicated. Somewhere near the end, I decided the plot was something like a game of chess. Every page and every point of view represented a move and might hide a clue to next six moves planned by that player.ContinueContinue reading “Review: Trial by Fire (Tales of the Terran Republic #2) by Charles E. Gannon”

Review: The Circuit: Executor Rising by Rhett C. Bruno

‘The Circuit: Executor Rising’ by Rhett C. Bruno is my kind of book. Earth is dead (yay, apocalypse!) and humanity has taken to the stars. We haven’t gotten far. Still within our Solar System, humanity inhabits a string of Solar-Ark transports that continually travel what is known as the Kepler Circuit. Resources are mined andContinueContinue reading “Review: The Circuit: Executor Rising by Rhett C. Bruno”

Review: Memory (A Miles Vorkosigan Novel) by Lois McMaster Bujold

Summoned home to Barrayar to follow up on an incident where he might have accidentally cut the legs of the Imperial Courier he had just rescued, Lord Miles Vorkosigan finds that his own integrity is not the only thing awry. Simon Illyan, Chief of Imperial Security (Imp Sec) is having trouble remembering things, which shouldContinueContinue reading “Review: Memory (A Miles Vorkosigan Novel) by Lois McMaster Bujold”

Review: Heaven’s Queen by Rachel Bach

Deviana Morris is angry and with good reason. Unfortunately for her, everyone else is angry, too. Given the cataclysmic convergence of alien races pushing the galaxy toward apocalypse, it’s kind of understandable. If you haven’t read the first two books, ‘Fortune’s Pawn’ and ‘Honor’s Knight’, in the ‘Paradox’ trilogy, get busy. Rachel Bach writes goodContinueContinue reading “Review: Heaven’s Queen by Rachel Bach”