Genre: Star Trek Publisher: Simon and Schuster Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Steven Sawicki Have you read this book? When you play in an established universe you face challenges, as a writer, that you don’t face when you create everything yourself. These challenges come from both the inside …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Doubleday Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Ray Wallace Have you read this book? “ Jennifer Government is the best novel in the world ever.” Or so the book’s back cover claims. Whether this is true or not is really beside the point. What is …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Berkley Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by S. Fazekas Have you read this book? In his latest book Omega, Jack McDevitt continues the tale of his heroine Priscilla Hutchins as she continues her work for the Academy. Filled with the usual depth McDevitt brings to …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Ballantine Published: 1997 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lynn Nicole Louis Have you read this book? What if there was an infallible machine that could detect when a person was lying? What if this machine became so ingrained into world society that you could be subjected …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Tor Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lynn Nicole Louis Have you read this book? I bought Sawyer’s Hominids because it won the Hugo award for best novel. I was even ordered it through SFReader, earning Dave a whopping 33 cents for his continued efforts …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: The Books Collective Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Matt Hughes Have you read this book? This is a book of dreams, in both a literary and a literal sense. Its creation began back in 1966 when a teenage Frenchwoman who was just beginning to …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates Published: 1991 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by David Hart Have you read this book? It’s a standard SF theme, isn’t it: while the whole galaxy is teeming with intelligent life, this is especially true of its core, where the stars are packed more …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Harper Collins Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lisa DuMond Have you read this book? When author Walter Jon Williams starts a new series, there is good reason for excitement. Not only because of his mastery of prose and world-building, but because he is not …
Genre: Star Trek Publisher: Simon and Schuster Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Fraser Ronald Have you read this book? While the anthology Star Trek S.C.E: No Surrender is not the finest work of literature I’ve ever read, it certain was entertaining. The collection presents four short stories (maybe …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Ace Published: 1989 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by S. Fazekas Have you read this book? Jack McDevitt’s A Talent for War has all the traditional elements of a solid science fiction novel–faster than light starships, an alien race at war with humanity, and fantastic worlds-but starts …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Warner Books Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Fraser Ronald Have you read this book? I really didn’t know what to make of John Ridley’s Those Who Walk In Darkness when I started it. It had superheros in it (though not going by that name). …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Warner Books Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Fraser Ronald Have you read this book? With the Duke of Uranium, John Barnes has singing-on nailed science fiction high-adventure. Toktru. Not only that, but he’s added some cool slang, masen? The Duke of Uranium isn’t very …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: iUniverse Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Goat Allen Have you read this book? In the prepress marketing material I received with my copy of KB Shaw’s From the Shadows, anonymous reviewers described the young adult novel as a “computer lover’s version of Harry …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Scribner Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by David Hart Have you read this book? In 1939 Robert Heinlein started writing SF short stories, and his career never looked back. However the year before he had written a novel-length book which was rejected by two publishers …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Warner Books Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lisa DuMond Have you read this book? Most authors attempt a coming-of-age novel sometime in their career, but few are brave enough to risk an act-your-age book. Especially not with a protagonist like Ryan Azarcon, who you …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by David Hart Have you read this book? The year is 2020, and some things have changed. Corporations have more power, national governments less. The Council, an alliance of corporations, has constructed Xanadu, one of several floating …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Vertical Inc. Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? Randy Taguchi’s novel, Outlet, a best seller from Japan, possesses qualities both peculiar to Japanese SF and what in western circles is known as “chick lit,” which may mean …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Keeper and Sol Publishing Published: 1999 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lynn Nicole Louis Have you read this book? In a perfect world, an editor at a ‘real’ publishing company would have seen the potential in Ronald Reed Jackson’s The Mars Transmission. With some dedicated guidance, …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Dark House Books Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by David Hart Have you read this book? It is 10 years in the future. On the surface not much has changed. However the new US Vice President Fairchild gradually discovers that beneath the surface not much …
Genre: Star Trek Publisher: Pocket Books Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Heather Hunt Have you read this book? Christie Golden has turned herself into the preferred author of Star Trek: Voyager novels. This is a good thing because she has an intimate knowledge of the cast and story …
