Kris Needs

Advantages: A really good read
Disadvantages: Not many I can think of

...A Dangerous Road by Kris Nelscott The scene is Memphis in February 1968. The sanitation workers are out on strike and tensions are running high in this southern US city. Smokey Dalton is trying to stay out of trouble and mind his own business as a private investigator. He describes himself as “a man who didn’t get involved with a crisis, but who did clear up other people’s messes – usually for a price”. In 10 years as a PI, living and working in a black area of Memphis, Smokey has never seen a white woman come through the door, until the day when Laura Hathaway comes to see him. She has come from Chicago to find out why he is a beneficiary in her mother’s will. Smokey is troubled by Laura and her questions, but he doesn’t feel able to just turn down the money. For reasons not even he is quite sure of, he persuades Laura to hire him... Read review

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Advantages: Light hearted easy to pick up Sci-Fi environment
Disadvantages: Not going to appeal to some readers at all.

...* Freedom's Challenge * Freedom's Ransom Freedom's landing was the first book, and is based on the 1970 short story The Thorns of Barevi. I admit to not knowing if the short story is one Anne McCaffrey has written, but I would imagine it is. I've not done further research on this one, hence my reluctance to just assume its one of her shorts. The books are all based around a planet that was named Botany by the people who arrived there, and the struggles against the Alien race the Catteni - who themselves are effectively ruled by the Eosi. ~ The Book synopsis ~ These books, while dealing with a large number of displaced people and Aliens from other planets do revolve heavily around Kristin (Kris) Bjornsen, a former slave from Earth, and Zainal, a renegade Catteni, who also becomes Kris's partner. The highest ranking amongst his... Read review

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Advantages: a classic read for sci-fi fans
Disadvantages: not everyone is a sci-fi fan

...sci-fi literature in general. I must confess that I feel the odd reader out in dooyoo bookland what with sci-fi and horror being the most read genres and both not appealing to me. The novel is told in the first-person perspective from the point of view of psychologist Kris Kelvin who flies from an orbital station for eighteen months to a space station hovering above the planet Solaris from where the crew is to research how to get into contact with the organic, sentient, unimaginably powerful and profoundly indifferent plasma ocean, its sole inhabitant. The leader of the crew asked for him to come but when Kelvin arrives he finds out that he committed suicide and that the other two scientists are half crazy. Robots half been shut away, the station is neglected and no serious research work is going on, Kelvin is obviously not welcome... Read review

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