The eighth book in the Dumarest of Terra series, this finds Dumarest stuck on another dead end planet, hoping to find scraps of information that might lead… Read more “Book Review: Veruchia”
Tag: Space Opera
World Building Wednesday #2 Finding the Balance
Once you’ve started down the long road of world building, how do you keep from getting lost? Finding the balance between your million ideas and the million… Read more “World Building Wednesday #2 Finding the Balance”
Book Review: Technos
The seventh book in E.C. Tubb’s Science Fiction/Adventure series Dumarest of Terra, Technos is another exciting and quick read. On the one hand, there’s not a lot… Read more “Book Review: Technos”
Book Review: The Stolen Moon
Rachel Searles’s follow up to The Lost Planet finds Chase and his companions in a near constant series of misadventures and dangerous situations. Chase hardly has a… Read more “Book Review: The Stolen Moon”
Tabletop RPG Review: The Orions: Book of Common Knowledge
I scored a copy of this at a used book store and didn’t realize it was part of a two book set. Sadly, I don’t have The… Read more “Tabletop RPG Review: The Orions: Book of Common Knowledge”
Book Review: David Falkayn: Star Trader
Straddling the border between Space Opera and Hard Science Fiction comes Poul Anderson’s Technic Civilization. This second volume is made up of five novellas, a novel, and… Read more “Book Review: David Falkayn: Star Trader”
Book Review Ancillary Justice
I was working the receiving department at a bookstore when this book came out. I got to see all the new books as they came in, and… Read more “Book Review Ancillary Justice”
Book Review: Lallia
My favorite Dumarest of Terra novel so far, Lallia shakes things up a bit for our hero. In the previous novels, Dumarest is typically on a planet,… Read more “Book Review: Lallia”
Tabletop RPG Review: Fading Suns
A favorite of mine since it first came out back in 1996 (yeah, I have a copy of the first edition, too), Fading Suns has so much… Read more “Tabletop RPG Review: Fading Suns”
Book Review: Interstellar Empire
John Brunner is another one of those names that has floated around my Science Fiction constellations since I can remember, yet I’ve never read. This book collects… Read more “Book Review: Interstellar Empire”