Anyone with any Talent on the entire planet of Altair heard when the Child was the only survivor of a mud slide in her mining village.    Her anguished mental screams led them to her.   Unable to narrow down exactly who her parents were, she was simple known as The Rowan, after the mining company, and

I decided I had to bite the bullet and finish out the second book of the Talent Saga, to see if it held up as well (or not, really) as the last had.     Fortunately, this book was written a good twenty plus years after To Ride Pegasus, and holds up much better than that one

This ombinus contains two novels (Cetaganda and Ethan of Athos) and a short story (“Labyrinth”) that all involve genetic manipulation.     Cetaganda is the first chronologically, but was written last, which left me with a few questions that were answered by the author’s afterwards, once I figured out the written order. The Cetegandans are one of

This is technically a reread – I was cleaning out my stored books, and came across the omnibus this was a part of.     I’d read it so long ago I figured it was time to revisit and figure out if I still wanted to keep it around. Holy product of the 70s, batman!   The book

Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr is a professional – good at her job, and well respected by her company. It turns out that the larger galaxy is populated by a bunch of fairly peaceful species, and when a warrior group called the Others starts to invade the Confederation’s territory, they’re completely unprepared to fight back.    Instead,

This is the kind of book you can point to when some sneering “literary writing only” nitwit tries to tell you that genre fiction can’t address larger themes or important messages. In this book, the planet of New Tahiti (as the Earth human refer to it) already has an indigenous population of humans that happen

Due to a botched attempt on his mother’s life while she was pregnant, Miles Vorkosigan was born with severely weakened bones and unable to walk without extensive surgeries. He’s also born as a member of a warrior caste on a planet that’s just emerged from isolation, and only a generation ago would have exposed Miles

In this book, Britain has been divided into four separate countries, based on the old theory of body humors and the personalities associated with them – sanguine, melancholic, choleric and phlegmatic.    There is no interaction between the new countries – you’re considered contaminated if you do. When the country is divided, every single person is