Advantages: Stylistically cool, sociologically inspiring, good action and characters Disadvantages: First couple of pages are incomprehensible, get past them and you are cruising.
Brunner wrote this book 30 years ago, and it is a startling accomplishment. He may have got the timescale wrong, as he describes the world of 2010, but he hit the trends on the head and did it in a startlingly original way.
The world he describes is over ...
Advantages: Plenty of action Disadvantages: Missing some of the human touch
At the end of "Firemask", the second book in Chris Bunch's "Last Legion" series, there seemed to be only one direction the series could go in. Throughout the previous two books, Protector Redruth of Larix and Kura has been a floating menace and the Legio ...
Advantages: Pretty good plot. Quite exciting. Disadvantages: Takes a while to get going, and James Doohan isn't Scottish! I feel cheated!
This is actually a review of the audio version of this novel, a 3 CD set available from Simon and Shuster audio (ISBN: 067101093X). It's read by James Doohan (Scotty in the show).
The story follows on from the slightly ridiculous film in which they tra ...
Advantages: Cheap to buy. Drawing of Ewan McGregor on the front! Disadvantages: Difficult to read in places, needs prior "Star Wars" knowledge
...by Steven Barnes is an official Star Wars novel. It originally came out on hardback in June 2004. I was given a copy of this last year but it came out in paperback in June 2005 and a brand new copy costs about £6 on Amazon. Second-hand copies a ...
Advantages: A very entertaining read Disadvantages: Will not appeal to everybody.
In 1980 when I was in my favourite book shop of that time, the owner advised me that he had received some new American publications I might find interesting. Among them was this book by a new author, David Brin a 30 year old Astro-Physics doctor who lived ...
