Book Review – Redemption Ark
Author: Alastair Reynolds Cover Artist: Chris Moore Publisher: Gollancz Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2003 I read Reynolds’ first novel Revelation Space in July. It’s an interesting book but on some points it leaves something to be desired. Reynolds has written four more books set in the same universe, as well as a number of shorter [...]
Book Review – 3001: The Final Odyssey
Author: Arthur C. Clarke Publisher: Voyager Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 1997 Cover Design: Chris Moore The fourth and final part in Arthur C. Clarke’s Odyssey series was published in 1997. Almost 30 year after the first book, 2001: A Space Odyssey. The final book is set early in the 4th millennium and tells the story [...]
Book Review – Revelation Space
Author: Alastair Reynolds Cover Artist: Chris Moore Publisher: Gollancz Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2000 The first book of the Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds and his début novel. It’s also the first book I have read by this author and I must say I am impressed. Not that the book is flawless but there [...]
Book Review – Deepsix
Author: Jack McDevitt Cover Artist: Chris Moore Publisher: EOS Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2001 Deepsix is the second novel in Jack McDevitt’s “Academy” series, which can be described as mostly-hard science fiction with a few exceptions like faster-than-light travel included out of narrative necessity. However, while it has the same main character as the first [...]
Book Review – 2001: A Space Odyssey
Author: Arthur C. Clarke Cover Artist: Chris Moore Publisher: Orbit Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publication Date: 2007 2001 was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the [...]
Book Review – Sandworms of Dune
Author: Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson Cover Artist: Chris Moore Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publication Date: 2008 Sandworms of Dune is the second part of a project by Herbert and Anderson to write the unfinished finale of Frank Herbert’s classic Dune series. I gave quite a lot of thought about [...]
Book Review – Altered Carbon
Author: Richard K. Morgan Cover Artist: Chris Moore Publisher: Gollancz Binding: Paperback Publication Date: September 2002 Altered Carbon is the debut novel of British SF writer Richard Morgan. Set in a universe in which the UN (United Nations) Protectorate oversees a number of extrasolar planets settled by human beings, the hard-boiled science fiction novel features [...]
Book Review – Pushing Ice
Author: Alastair Reynolds Cover Artist: Chris Moore Publisher: ACE Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: May 2006 “Pushing Ice” is a first contact adventure story concerning the crew of the comet mining spaceship, Rockhopper. When Saturn’s moon Janus mysteriously leaves its orbit to exit our solar system, the crew of the Rockhopper is tasked with interception and [...]
Book Review – Geodesica Descent
Author: Sean Williams, Shane Dix Cover Artist: Chris Moore Publisher: ACE Binding: Paperback Publication Date: February 2006 Geodesica Descent is an intense, intricate tale of revenge, desolation, and the evolution of humanity. Isaac Forge Deangelis, former Exarch of Bedlam waits centuries for the return of Melilah Awad from Geodesica. Melilah Awad escaped into Geodesica with [...]
Book Review – A Heritage of Stars
Author: Clifford D. Simak Cover Artist: Chris Moore Publisher: Methuen Binding: Paperback Publication Date:1986 If you’re like me, and you picked up a novel with a cover showing a robot head impaled on a spike, you’d be pretty excited. You’d expect there to be a scene of robot head spearing in the book. So you [...]
Book Review – The Second Book of Lankhmar
Author: Fritz Leiber Cover Aritist: Chris Moore Publisher: Gollancz Binding: Paperback Publication Date: December 6, 2001 During the 1930s, Fritz Leiber and a friend invented the classic sword and sorcery characters, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Leiber quickly took over the characters, penning nearly 40 stories over a 50 year period. “The Second Book of [...]
Book Review – The First Book of Lankhmar
Author: Fritz Leiber Cover Artist: Chris Moore Publisher: Gollancz Binding: Paperback Publication Date: June 14 2001 During the 1930s, Fritz Leiber and a friend invented the classic sword and sorcery characters, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Leiber quickly took over the characters, penning nearly 40 stories over a 50 year period. “The First Book of [...]
