Review: Blame

Review: Blame

What do you get when you cross Gregory Benford’s Great Sky River [https://infogalactic.com/info/Great_Sky_River_(novel)]with a spaghetti western? Blame. A brief voiceover gives us the setting. In the far, *far* future where humanity lost the ability to communicate with the city it constructed, that they lived in, and so the city deemed them illegal residents, and began to exterminate humanity. Our story starts generations later.An aside. Yes. Given the word choice, I’m sure some people would l…

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How Reviews SHOULD Be Written

How Reviews SHOULD Be Written

I stand in awe. As I already commented the other day, “this review makes me want to watch the movie. [https://everydayshouldbetuesday.wordpress.com/2017/05/12/review-of-king-arthur-legend-of-the-sword/] “ What movie? King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. Yeah, that. Saw the trailers and it looked like a hacked together bit of CGI with little respect for the source material or the viewer. Saw go read the whole review [https://everydayshouldbetuesday.wordpress.com/2017/05/12/review-of-king-arthur-…

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Review: The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin

Review: The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin

I normally would not pick up a YA book. But John C Wright is a fantastically literate and aware author who’s integrity in making recommendations I trust, and in posts and comments his wife, L. Jagi Lamplighter, has been warm, very well spoken, and insightful. So I decided to give her book,The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin [https://www.amazon.com/Unexpected-Enlightenment-Rachel-Griffin-Books-ebook/dp/B01FVJ7DAY] , a shot. The short version is that I am very glad I did. From Amazon:…

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Review: Take the Star Road (The Maxwell Saga) book 1

Review: Take the Star Road (The Maxwell Saga) book 1

While I’ve long seen him around the Mad Genius Club [https://madgeniusclub.com/] environs and have enjoyed the posts at his own site, I had not read anything of Peter Grant’s until the western Brings the Lightning, and Take the Star Road is, after all this time, only the second book of his I’ve read. Steve Maxwell is an orphan, born on a deeply socialist earth that is in danger, due to most of the smarter and more driven (K-selected?) people leaving for other colonies, of becoming a backwater.…

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Review: The Stars Came Back, by Rolf Nelson

Review: The Stars Came Back, by Rolf Nelson

Helton Strom isn’t having a good day. Or week for that matter. A teacher who can’t get the job he wants as pilot (even managing to break the simulator while testing), he decides to take a break to help out his sister, he then has his citizenship and job stripped from him, and is left adrift with nothing to do. To make matters worse, the ship has been hijacked by pirates, and he, and the passengers, have been stranded on a desert planet, to be used as slaves. Little did he know things were alre…

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