Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerPart two of Duane’s novel of the Rihannsu Empire picks up where the previous left off naturally enough. The rest of Star Fleet’s task force is finally on hand for tense negotiations as events continue to spiral out of control[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Published thirteen years after The Romulan Way, it takes place a couple of months after that novel. There’s a lot effectively unsettled after that, and this book picks up on all the threads, and even brings in K’s’t’lk from her[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, overall, it is by no means a bad overview of the history of the Hospitallers. And unlike Dan Jones’ The Templars, it has the bonus that you won’t find all of this in any one other place about a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Duane’s second Romulan (excuse me: Rihannsu) novel is also, or maybe more of, a follow up to Spock’s World. Like that book, which dived into the history of the most prominent member of the Federation after Earth, every other chapter[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
All right, I was disappointed by this. It is a good book, and well written. If you don’t really know much about the Crusades, and specifically the part the Knights of the Temple played in it, it is an informative[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The professional fan fiction of Star Trek novels are useful for finding new authors, and the biggest find I’ve ever had from them is Diane Duane, who had written many very good books outside that universe. This is where I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The good news is that this is another good book in Freeman’s Borderlands series. Even better, we see more of Suiden this time. The bad news is that it’s the last. This is especially bad because there are unresolved threads.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the third in a series of reviews looking at the evolution of Victoria II. See the previous reviews here: Victoria II: Same But Different A House Divided: Limited Expansion Just about a year after A House Divided came[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A Fire Upon the Deep is an important novel that SF fans really should read. I think, like Niven’s Ringworld, it’s a flawed book with really good ideas. Like Ringworld, it also has a much better sequel. The original book[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It is hard, at first glance, to see just what a book dedicated to naval (actually, the ‘maritime’ of the title is a better fit than ‘naval’…) warfare in the Middle Ages would have to say. However, Stanton has done[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…