This is a great ending to the Confederation novels. Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr has finally been sent back to her unit on the front, when they’re attacked. Torin pretty much knows she’s going to die when she hears a bomb coming in on their position, but she instead wakes up in a prison […]
Valor’s Trial – Tanya Huff Read More »
This is the third book of this series, and due to prior events, Torin Kerr has been promoted to Gunnery Sergeant. She’s also stuck giving briefings to officers, on a seemingly endless rotation. So when Major Svensson, who has recently come back from being reduced to pretty much a brain and
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Is it bad that my overwhelming thought about this anthology is that I’m glad that there was no one story that was just so amateurish it completely threw me out of the world of the book? Most of the older anthologies had at least one of those stories, and I don’t know if the
Stars of Darkover – ed. Deborah J. Ross and Elisabeth Waters Read More »
Pretty early on in his career, Miles Vorkosigan happened into a mercenary army (long story), and created the character of Admiral Miles Naismith to head that army. They ended up becoming covert operatives of the Barrayaran intelligence service (so covert that most of the army doesn’t know who their true employers are), but
Brothers in Arms – Lois McMaster Bujold Read More »
In Moonflash, Kyreol and her friend Terje went on a journey to see what was beyond the Riverworld where they had grown up, and found that their simple land was part of a larger world with more advanced technology that allows them to travel to the stars. Kyreol stays there with her mother,
The Moon and the Face – Patricia A. McKillip Read More »
Here’s another technical reread, though I’m pretty sure my original read was back in high school. There’s also another book in the series, so I was having some weird déjà vu moments that ended up not panning out, because what I was remembering must happen in the next book. The books ends up
Damia’s Children – Anne McCaffrey Read More »
I’ve had this book in the Tote of Shame ™ for a while – I think because I’d never read any of the author’s work before, so I really wasn’t sure to expect. So I’ve been passing it by because I never know if it’s going to fit whatever reading mood I’m in
To Say Nothing of the Dog – Connie Willis Read More »
Miranda is a very typical teenager, in a very typical town in Pennsylvania, totally annoyed by the extra assignments at school that week, due to a projected asteroid hit on the moon. Everyone is absolutely moon crazy, and the whole world makes the asteroid viewing a regular party. Except, the asteroid is
Life as We Knew It – Susan Beth Pfeffer Read More »
I thought McKillip only had one scifi book – but it’s actually three. Moon Flash (and its sequel, which I have not yet read) could be mistaken for fantasy at the beginning, but turn out to be scifi as the story moves along. Kyreol is the daughter of the village Healer, in a simple
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I’ve been sitting on this book for a while – my only other experience with this author was the movie version of The Remains of the Day, which I loathed. (I think that was a case of seeing something with the wrong expectations or in the wrong mood – it’s been long enough I
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