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Short critiques of books as I read them. Not necessarily on the bestseller lists.

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  • Terror Firma - Matthew Thomas

    Posted on Wednesday April 15th, 2009 at 03:54 in humour, fantasy, ufos, mib, area 51

    The book’s subtitle is ‘If you’re not paranoid, you’re not human’. And I suppose that does give a flavour of the story, which takes place in sometime America, Britain and the mythical central Asian republic of Urgistan. ...

  • Heads - Greg Bear

    Posted on Monday April 13th, 2009 at 12:35 in politics, science fiction, moon, brains, cryogenics

    The Moon, late twenty-third century; Mars has also apparently been colonised, although it seems that the colonisation of the Moon has been fraught with difficulties and they have, to some extent, fallen out with the Earth. Though they are still talki...

  • A Moment of War - Laurie Lee

    Posted on Monday April 13th, 2009 at 10:48 in Other, spanish civil war, 1937

    This is the timeline sequel to the last book I reviewed, ‘As I Walked Out One Misummer Morning’,  which ends with the author crossing back into Spain over the Pyrennes in December 1937. This current book, however, took Laurie Lee a long ...

  • As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning - Laurie Lee

    Posted on Friday March 20th, 2009 at 05:59 in travel, spain, Other, civil war

    A young man of 20, living in a West Country English village in 1934, gives up his office job to take to the road with nothing but a few clothes, some meagre rations and a violin (which he could play). He spends several weeks walking to London, via th...

  • The Voyage of The Sable Keech - Neal Asher

    Posted on Sunday March 1st, 2009 at 03:15 in science fiction, polity, prador, reifs, spatterjay, sprine

    This is the second book about the world of Spatterjay. I admit to not having read the first. This story’s origins would hopefully have been clearer if I had. Spatterjay seems to be a world covered mostly by ocean (with a few islands) that are h...

  • Vitals - Greg Bear

    Posted on Thursday February 12th, 2009 at 04:48 in science fiction, biology, longevity, Other, mind control, stalin

    The subtitle is ‘Never say die’. Surprising for this author, it isn’t really sci-fi; more like a scientific thriller. Hal Cousins is a biologist in search of the secret of long, though not necessarily eternal, life - through scienti...

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