(I went book shopping in Canberra yesterday). C Year Title Notes 1994 Shadow of a Dark Queen Stored in Australia (Box 1). [bookstore: garagesale] 1995 Rise of a Merchant Prince 1997 Rage of a Demon King Stored in Australia (Box 1). [bookstore: garagesale] 1998 Shards of a Broken Crown
Month: June 2008
Raymond E Feist’s Empire Trilogy
(I went book shopping in Canberra yesterday). C Year Title Notes 1987 Daughter of the Empire Stored in Australia (Box 1). [bookstore: garagesale] 1990 Servant of the Empire Stored in Australia (Box 1). [bookstore: garagesale] 1997 Mistress of the Empire
Katharine Kerr’s Deverry Series
Year Title Notes Act one: Deverry 1986 Daggerspell 1987 Darkspell 1989 The Bristling Wood – US title; issued in the UK as Dawnspell: The Bristling Wood 1990 The Southern Sea – US title; issued in the UK as Dragonspell: The Southern Sea Act two: The Westlands 1991 A Time of Exile 1992 A Time of…
Isaac Asimov’s Inferno
Inferno is the second Asimov universe book written by Roger MacBride Allen. Much like Asimov’s Robots and Empire and Caliban, its what I will call an “issue book”. In Robots and Empire the issue at hand was that having a long life results in risk adversity and therefore the stagnation of society as a whole….
Isaac Asimov’s Caliban
This is a “robot mystery” in the style of Asimov, but actually written by Roger MacBride Allen. Wikipedia assures me that Asimov approved the outline for this book, as well as the other two by Roger: “Shortly before his death in 1992, Asimov approved an outline for three novels (Caliban, Inferno, Utopia) by Roger MacBride…
Robots and Empire
I find the newer Asimovs harder to read for some reason — I think it might be because they are more inclined to introspection that the earlier ones, but that might not be all of it. Overall I enjoyed this book, although I did find that I lost enthusiasm briefly in the middle. Overall, worth…
Bill the Galactic Hero Series
This series is a set of parodies of militaristic science fiction, and is excellently bad. 1965: Bill The Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison 1989: Bill, the Galactic Hero On the Planet of Robot Slavesby Harry Harrison 1990: Bill the Galactic Hero On the Planet of Bottled Brains by Robert Sheckley and Harry Harrison 1991: Bill…
Books read in May 2008
A Stainless Steel Rat is born The Complete Hammer’s Slammers Volume 1 The Complete Hammer’s Slammers Volume 2 Bill the Galactic Hero I, Robot Caves of Steel Naked Sun Robots of Dawn