The Wanderer: The Planet That Ate the Moon and the Cat Woman Who Pulled a Man Out of a Tsunami
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My Resident Evil 2026 review: not an action movie but a proper horror one, funny, scary and gross, with a new lead to root for. 4 out of 5.
Rereading Tom Kratman’s A Desert Called Peace in 2026, when the world doesn’t feel nearly as black and white as it did back in 2014.
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester won the very first Best Novel Hugo in 1953. A telepathic murder, an ending that punishes without killing, and a huge legacy.
By Schism Rent Asunder trades naval battles for politics and theology. Still good, still growing its cast, but this is where the brakes go on.
By Heresies Distressed is where Charis starts hanging churchmen and the naval war turns into a ground war. The momentum is well and truly back.
A review of Beyond the Rift by John Ringo and Lydia Sherrer. The series finale sticks the landing, mostly, then runs out of pages to close it properly.
A review of Behind the Veil by John Ringo and Lydia Sherrer. Book three is where the alien plot finally pays off, and it’s the best entry yet.
Off Armageddon Reef opens with humanity losing an extermination war, then hides the survivors in a fake Dark Age. A book I’ve reread several times.
A review of Through the Storm by John Ringo and Lydia Sherrer. Great Lynn material, but the middle book trades the alien plot for fame, bullying and doxing.
A review of Into the Real by John Ringo and Lydia Sherrer. The AR gaming premise is fine, but the hidden-identity story underneath is the real reason to read it.
The Hot Gate (Troy Rising Book 3) by John Ringo delivers the best space battle of the trilogy and the one argument I no longer buy. Full review.