Books Reviewed

There are an absurd and insurmountable number of items I would love to review. When I say “it’s in the queue,” I mean:  “it’s in this ridiculously messy mountain of media that is seeping out of my control as if this were an episode of The Twilight Zone.”

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Abnett, Dan – Horus Rising – Horus Heresy #1 – (5 stars)

Adams, Douglas – The Restaurant at the End of the Universe – HHG #2 – (4 stars)

Andrews, Ilona – Magic Bites – Kate Daniels #1 – (3 stars)

Asimov, Isaac – Foundation – Foundation #1 – (4 stars)

Asimov, Isaac – Foundation and Empire – Foundation #2 – (4 stars)

B

Babel, Isaac – Red Cavalry and Other Stories – (3 stars)

Banks, Iain M. – Consider Phlebas – Culture #1 – (3 stars)

Barbery, Murial – The Elegance of the Hedgehog – (5 stars)

Berenson, Alex – The Faithful Spy -  John Wells #1 – (3 stars)

Bester, Alfred – The Dark Side of the Earth – (4 stars)

Black, Holly – White Cat – (3 stars)

Blish, James – They Shall Have Stars – (2 stars)

Brett, Peter V. – The Warded Man – (5 stars)

Brown, Eric – The Devil’s Nebula – Weird Space #1 – (3 stars)

Brown, Rita Mae – Wish You Were Here – Mrs. Murphy #1 – (3 stars)

Brust, Steven – Jhereg – Vlad Taltos #1 – (3 stars)

Budrys, Algis – Rogue Moon – (2 stars)

Bulgakov, Mikhail – The Master and the Margarita – (4 stars)

C

Campbell, Jack – The Lost Fleet: Dauntless – Lost Fleet #1 – (5 stars)

Carriger, Gail – Soulless – Alexia Tarabotti #1 – (3 stars)

Chekhov, Anton – Ward No. 6 and Other Stories - (3 stars)

Child, Lee – Killing Floor – Jack Reacher #1 – (3 stars)

Childs, Laura – Death by Darjeeling – Tea House #1 – (2 stars)

Christie, Agatha – The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Poirot #1 – (4 stars)

Christie, Agatha – The Murder on the Links – Poirot #2 – (4 stars)

Clarke, Arthur C. – Childhood’s End – (3 stars)

Clarke, Arthur C. – Expedition to Earth – (5 stars)

Clement, Hal – Needle – (3 stars)

Collins, Suzanne – The Hunger Games – (4 stars)

Connelly, Michael – The Black Echo – Harry Bosch #1 – (3 stars)

Cook, Glen – The Black Company – Black Company #1 – (4 stars)

Corey, James S. A. – Leviathan Wakes – The Expanse #1 – (3 stars)

Counter, Ben – Galaxy in Flames – Horus Heresy #3 – (4 stars)

D

Dembski Bowden, Aaron – Soul Hunter – Night Lords #1 – (4 stars)

Dick, Philip K. – VALIS – (3 stars)

Dick, Philip K. – Eye in the Sky – (3 stars)

Dick, Philip K. – Ubik – (3 stars)

Dick, Philip K. – The Man in the High Castle – (2 stars)

Dick, Philip K. – Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said – (3 stars)

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Farmer, Philip Jose – To Your Scattered Bodies Go – Riverworld #1 – (3 stars)

Fforde, Jasper – Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron – Shades of Grey #1 – (4 stars)

G

Gibson, William – Neuromancer – The Sprawl #1 – (3 stars)

Grossman, Lev – The Magicians – (2 stars)

Goncharov, Ivan – Oblomov – (5 stars)

H

Habens, Alison – Dreamhouse – (2 stars)

Haddon, Mark – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – (3 stars)

Harris, Charlaine – Dead Until Dark

Harrison, Harry – The Stainless Steel Rat – Rat #1 – (4 stars)

Herbert, Frank – Dune Messiah – Dune #2 – (2 stars)

Higgins, Peter – Wolfhound Century – (5 stars)

Hoyle, Fred - October the First is Too Late – (2 stars)

I

Jeter, K. W. – Infernal Devices – (2 stars)

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K

Kafka, Franz – The Trial – (2 stars)

Khoury, Raymond – The Last Templar – (1 star)

King, Laurie R. – The Moor – Mary Russell #4 – (4 stars)

Koestler, Arthur – Darkness at Noon – (4 stars)

Kurzweil, Allen – The Grand Complication – (2 stars)

L

Lackey, Mercedes – Arrow’s Flight – Heralds of Valdemar #2 – (2 stars)

Larsson, Stieg – The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – (3 stars)

Lawrence, Mark – Prince of Thorns – The Broken Empire #1 – (4 stars)

Lee, Tanith – Indigara – (3 stars)

Lem, Stanislaw – Memoirs Found in a Bathtub – (3 stars)

Lem, Stanislaw – The Investigation – (4 stars)

Lovecraft, H. P. – Dagon, The White Ship, Polaris – (3 stars)

Lovecraft, H. P. – The Lurking Fear, The Rats in the Walls – (5 stars)

M

McIntyre, Vonda N.  – The Entropy Effect – Star Trek #2 – (5 stars)

McKinney, Jack – Genesis – Robotech #1 – (3 stars)

McNeill, Graham – False Gods – Horus Heresy #2 – (5 stars)

McNeill, Graham – Fulgrim – Horus Heresy #5 – (4 stars)

Miéville, China – The City & The City – (4 stars)

Miéville, China – Embassytown – (3 stars)

Miller, jr., Walter M. – A Canticle for Leibowitz – (3 stars)

Monk, Devin – Magic to the Bone – Allie Beckstrom #1 – (3 stars)

Monk, Devin – Magic in the Blood – Allie Beckstrom #2 – (3 stars)

Moon, Elizabeth – Trading in Danger – Vatta’s War #1 – (3 stars)

Morrell, David – Creepers – (2 stars)

N

Nabokov, Vladimir – Despair – (2 stars)

Nabokov, Vladimir – Invitation to a Beheading – (3 stars)

Nabokov, Vladimir – The Defense – (4 stars)

Niven, Larry – The Ringworld Engineers – (2 stars)

Nothomb, Amélie – Hygiene and the Assassin – (2 stars)

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P

Parker, Steve – Rynn’s World – Space Marines Battles #1 – (3 stars)

Pehov, Alexey – Shadow Prowler – Chronicles of Siala #1 – (4 stars)

Pessl, Marisha – Special Topics in Calamity Physics – (3 stars)

Pitts, J. A. – Black Blade Blues – (2 stars)

Pohl, Frederik – Gateway – (2 stars)

Pratchett, Terry – Sourcery – Discworld #5 – (5 stars)

Pratchett, Terry – Wyrd Sisters – Discworld #6 – (3 stars)

Preston, Douglas – Blasphemy – (2 stars)

Priest, Cherie – Boneshaker – Clockwork Century #1 – (3 stars)

Pullman, Philip – The Golden Compass - His Dark Materials #1 – (5 stars)

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R

Reichs, Kathy – Deja Dead – Brennan #1 – (3 stars)

Reichs, Kathy – Death du Jour – Brennan #2 – (3 stars)

Reichs, Kathy – Deadly Decisions -Brennan #3 – (2 stars)

Reichs, Kathy – Fatal Voyage – Brennan #4 – (3 stars)

Reilly, Matthew – Contest – (2 stars)

Rollins, James – Subterranean – (3 stars)

Rusch, Kristine Kathryn – Diving Into The Wreck – (4 stars)

Rusch, Kristine Kathryn – The Disappeared – Retrieval Artist #1 – (3 stars)

S

Saberhagen, Fred – Berserker – Berserker #1 – (4 stars)

Saylor, Steven – Roman Blood – Roma Sub Rosa #1 – (4 stars)

Setiawan, Erick – Of Bees and Mist – (3 stars)

Shepherd, Joel – Crossover – Kresnov #1 – (2 stars)

Shepherd, Mike – Kris Longknife: Mutineer – Longknife #1 – (3 stars)

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – (4 stars)

Somers, Jeff – The Electric Church – Avery Cates #1 – (4 stars)

Souders, J. A. – Renegade - (3 stars)

Swallow, James – The Flight of the Eisenstein – Horus Heresy #4 – (4 stars)

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U

V

Vance, Jack – Big Planet – (3 stars)

Vance, Jack – To Live Forever – (3 stars)

Vardeman, Robert E. – The Klingon Gambit – Star Trek #3 – (3 stars)

W

Watt-Evans, Lawrence – The Lure of the Basilisk – The Lords of Dûs #1 – (4 stars)

Weinstein, Howard – The Covenant of the Crown – Star Trek #4 – (3 stars)

Westerfeld, Scott – Leviathan – Leviathan #1 – (5 stars)

Wolfe, Gene – The Shadow of the Torturer – Book of the New Sun #1 – (3 stars)

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Z

Zamyatin, Yevgeny – We – (4 stars)