Traitors’ World by Stephen Goldin My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is #7 in the ten book series about the agents of the Imperial Special Investigation Service, and I found it to be one of the better ones. I … Continue reading
Stellar Revolution by Stephen Goldin My rating: 4 of 5 stars In book 5 of Agents of ISIS, the wedding of Tsaritsa Natalia is the big event, but first Pias takes Eva, his fiance, to his home planet of Newforest. … Continue reading
Sanctuary Planet by Stephen Goldin My rating: 4 of 5 stars In Book 4 of the Agents of ISIS series, a problem has turned up. It seems that a number of prominent criminals have gone missing without a trace. And … Continue reading
Robot Mountain by Stephen Goldin My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a continuation of Goldin’s reworking of his previous Family D’Alembert series as a new series called Agents of ISIS. The previous series was based on an idea … Continue reading
Butterfly Stomp by Michael Warren Lucas My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a short novella that is essentially the beginning chapters of the novel Butterfly Stomp Waltz, but it is a complete story so you shouldn’t be put … Continue reading
Treacherous Moon by Stephen Goldin My rating: 2 of 5 stars This is the second book in the series, and once again it pretty closely follows the original from the previous Family D’Alembert series (see my review of Tsar Wars … Continue reading
Tsar Wars by Stephen Goldin My rating: 3 of 5 stars So, once upon a time E.E. “Doc” Smith had an idea for a series involving the Family D’Alembert and their service to an interstellar empire headed by a Tsarist … Continue reading
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a masterpiece of a book, deservedly considered a classic. It starts with a group of human scientists re-awakening an AI, but everything goes pear-shaped … Continue reading
Worlds of the Imperium by Keith Laumer My rating: 4 of 5 stars Prior to this I knew Laumer as the author of the Retief stories, but this is not like them at all. It is a very interesting parallel … Continue reading
Variable Star by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 5 of 5 stars You don’t know what to expect when one writer finishes a work started by another writer, particularly when that other writer is considered one of the greats in … Continue reading
