Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Baen Published: 1987 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by David Hart Have you read this book? It’s the future, and humanity have colonized 20 planets. Some time ago we also discovered Threshold, which seems to be a conventional planet but isn’t. It possesses a ‘Tunnel’ connecting it to …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Baen Published: 1991 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by David Hart Have you read this book? I’d better start by making clear what I’m reviewing: this is Stardance the book, not the novella. The latter was written first, and won both the Hugo and Nebula awards in …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Baen Published: 1991 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by David Hart Have you read this book? This is the second in the series that starts with Stardance and finishes with Starmind. It could be enjoyed as a stand-alone novel, but it would be much better to read …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Baen Published: 1995 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by David Hart Have you read this book? This is the last of a trilogy, the first two books of which are Stardance and Starseed. As with Starseed, it could just about stand alone, but you will miss out …
Genre: Modern/Urban Fantasy Publisher: Baen Published: 1993 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by David Hart Have you read this book? What a wonderful title, giving a brilliant precis of the story–almost worth 4 stars in itself. And an equally good story line. The action takes place in a alternate earth where …
Genre: Modern/Urban Fantasy Publisher: Baen Published: 1992 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by David Hart Have you read this book? This is the second book in The Serrated Edge series. I didn’t much enjoy the first, Born to Run, but as I’d bought both books at the same time I read …
Genre: Modern/Urban Fantasy Publisher: Baen Published: 1992 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by David Hart Have you read this book? Mercedes Lackey is best known for her Valdemar books, most of which range from good to very good. However she occasionally seems to write the first few pages of a book …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Baen Published: 1993 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Sarah Guidry Have you read this book? At first glance, this appears to be a feminist work of the Chics ‘n Chain Mail variety. However, it doesn’t take reading much past the first few pages to reveal a jewel …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Baen Published: 1999 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Aaron M. Renn Have you read this book? Many years ago I saw a martial arts film called “The Five Deadly Venoms”, which was named after five characters who each practiced some unique and deadly skill. One of …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Baen Published: 1999 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Aaron M. Renn Have you read this book? A Civil Campaign is the latest installment in the never-ending chronicles of Miles Vorkosigan. It’s subtitle is “A Comedy of Biology and Manners”. It is supposed to be a romantic …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Baen Published: 1998 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Aaron M. Renn Have you read this book? Why write a review of any already popular book? That’s a good question, I guess. After all, most of the people who are going to read Komarr probably already have, …
Genre: Science Fiction Anthology Publisher: Baen Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Richard R. Horton Have you read this book? James H. Schmitz was one of SF’s most popular writers of the 1960s and early 1970s. His stories were published between 1943 and 1974, but despite early successes such …
Genre: YA Science Fiction Publisher: Baen Published: 1963 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Aaron M. Renn Have you read this book? I guess it is a sort of crime against humanity to speak ill of Heinlein, but in the case of Podkayne of Mars, I can’t resist. The old master …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Baen Published: 1995 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Richard R. Horton Reader Rating The latest of Lois McMaster Bujold`s Miles Vorkosigan adventures, Cetaganda, is, by Bujold’s own testimony, a rather light-hearted romp, a bit of a step down in seriousness and apparent ambition from Barrayar and Mirror …
