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Quick Review: Stand on Zanzibar

Really good, though those random and incomplete bits and pieces thrown in sometimes put me off a bit. Sure, they complete the picture, but finish the sentences! All excerpts from Chad’s books, and several other things, were great food for thought, but the eugenics legislation described in this book is only the very first step […]

Quick Review: The Book of the Short Sun

I’m quite sure this is the first ten I give a book in more than two years, but it’s completely deserved. Pity I was quite rushed to finish it… Don’t ask exactly why I think it’s so good. It’s nothing specific and everything combined, that’s all I’ll say. Rating: 10/10

Quick Review: Servant of the Bones

This book is by far one of her best. A bit too… stationary in the moments when you remember everything is told by Azriel to Jonathan and too… Christian-minded for my taste, but otherwise just great. And a lot of food for thought… “The purpose of life is to learn and to love.” Rating: 9/10

Quick Review: Exit to Eden

I had to struggle to read through the first half of the book. May be well written and I’m sure people into BDSM would love it, but such things put me off. The second half is completely different and I found myself lost in it. Not actually lost in the story, but in some of […]

Quick Review: The Octagonal Raven

Not as hard as Gravity Dreams, The Ethos Effect or Adiamante, but certainly just as deep. The thoughts are less spelled out and more included in the story. Great ideas and good story. Feel bad that it was the last SF book by Modesitt I could get my hands on… Rating: 9/10