by Didact | Jan 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
Greg Bear is one of those odd sci-fi authors whose work is at once very accessible and very dense. It’s difficult to explain this unless you’ve actually read one of his books. I have read several, and I have found his books to be of decidedly varying...
by Didact | Dec 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
Mother of God! A giant moving cave with teeth! RUNNNNNN!!! I could write this review in just one sentence: “Dune is the greatest science fiction novel ever written”. It would be accurate. It would be truthful. And it wouldn’t even begin to do this...
by Didact | Dec 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
Anyone who has been reading this blog for a while knows full well by now that I’m a big fan of Vox Day’s work. I’m very much looking forward to his next instalment in his The Arts of Dark and Light series. However, Vox’s roots as a writer are...
by Didact | Dec 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
Another quarter, another entry into Jay Allen’s outstanding Crimson Worlds series. In his last book, humanity had (just barely) stopped the onslaught of the First Imperium’s robotic warriors, at horrific cost, on the three worlds that constituted The...
by Didact | Dec 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Ever since Vox Day declared war on pink SF/F and started posting reviews by authors and readers of books in his “Lion’s Den” segments over on his blog, I’ve been keeping an eye out for books that seem to hold promise as examples of good...
by Didact | Nov 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
[It is waaaaaay past time that I started posting some book reviews again. In fact I’m at least 8 books/albums/films behind in terms of posts, so if you see a seemingly never-ending series of reviews bombarding this place over the next few days, well,...
by Didact | Oct 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’m a big fan of good, solid hard military sci-fi. This is why I keep reading the “Crimson Worlds” series. That is why I still re-read the “Stars At War” series, and why I am such a die-hard fan of the HALO universe. But let us never...
by Didact | Oct 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Being sick blows, but at least it gives me time to catch up on some reading, writing, and (by far most importantly) sleeping. I’ve been meaning to write this review for a while, actually; of course, that would require that I give up my lazy-bastard tendencies on...
by Didact | Sep 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
You can’t really call yourself a big fan of sci-fi until and unless you have read Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. During his lifetime, Asimov wrote 7 books in the series, starting with the original Foundation and continuing on through to...
by Didact | Sep 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Jay Allan is rapidly becoming one of my favourite modern military sci-fi authors. His Crimson Worlds series has definitely upped the ante for the genre. His ability to write great characters, great action, and great plots is by no means unique- in fact if you’ve...
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