Challenger’s Hope (The Seafort Saga #2): Nick Gets His First Ship
Challenger’s Hope sends Nick Seafort to war with his first ship. I gave it 4 out of 5, a step down from book 1 only because book 1 is so good.
Challenger’s Hope sends Nick Seafort to war with his first ship. I gave it 4 out of 5, a step down from book 1 only because book 1 is so good.
The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber won the 1965 Hugo. Full plot: a rogue planet eats the Moon, Tigerishka, the trial and the Stranger, and the ending.
A Parade of Horribles has a clever Emberus solution, but the race floor bored me and turned crawlers against each other. My Dungeon Crawler Carl 8 review.
Children of Dune is the one I reread almost as often as the original. Alia’s collapse, Paul’s send-off, and a transformation no film will attempt.
Advance to Contact sends the Warp Marines into a colossal alien habitat while a spy, a pilot and a corporal fight their own wars. Highly recommended.
Midshipman’s Hope starts the Seafort Saga with a seventeen year old in command of a starship. A very different book that I loved. Highly recommend.
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick won the 1963 Hugo. Full plot, characters and ending of the Axis-wins alternate history, plus where it sits.
A Call to Arms review: the book that made humanity the galaxy’s scariest recruits, and one I’ve reread more than once.
Steel Storm picks up the Steel Legion tank war with clunkier prose than Steel Breach, but the Emflife mystery kept me reading. My thoughts, spoiler-light.
My Wind and Truth review: the Recreance answers were welcome, but Szeth pushes Kaladin aside, Dalinar’s ending was sad and it dragged. A 2 to 3 out of 5.
Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein won the 1956 Hugo for Best Novel. A ham actor impersonates a kidnapped politician and never gets to stop. Full plot and legacy.
A Case of Conscience by James Blish won the 1959 Hugo. A Jesuit decides a perfect alien world is Satan’s work. Full plot, characters and ending.
This Inevitable Ruin is one of my favourite Dungeon Crawler Carl books: the crawlers hit back, old Cookbook authors return, and Faction Wars delivers.
My Rhythm of War review: some good elements, but the pace, characters and story struggled for me, and Urithiru fell far too fast. 3.5 out of 5.
A review of A Mighty Fortress, book four of David Weber’s Safehold series — the destruction of the Circle, the Markovian Sea, and where the rating starts to slip.
The Big Time by Fritz Leiber won the 1958 Hugo. A time war, a bar outside space and time, and a live atomic bomb. Full plot, characters and ending.
A review of The Path of Ascension 7 by C. Mantis, and why the endless dungeon delve through Minkalla left this reader wondering what the series is actually building toward.
My Oathbringer review: Dalinar impresses, the Everstorm twist surprised me, but Kaladin disappoints and the book flagged for me in the middle.
Dune Messiah picks up twelve years after Paul takes the throne. A short, airless second book, and the one place this series leaves me wanting more.
My The Weapon Makers review: an immortal spy, a stolen starship and giant spiders, but it was a hard read that dragged and didn’t deliver what I expected. 2 out of 5.
A review of The Dungeon Phoenix, Book 4 of Konrad Ryan’s Dungeon Slayer series, and why the grind is starting to wear on this reader more than the series wants it to.