Ragamuffin is three books in one: a space opera, featuring a complex world with humans near the bottom of the socio-economic chain; a sequel to Mr. Buckell’s excellent first novel, Crystal Rain, featuring Pepper...
Fifth and final book in the Gap Series This concluding book brings all the players in the saga together on or around Earth, where the political and personal manipulations conclude in individual and mass...
Book 4 of The Gap Cycle In every space opera series, there must be action; there must be space battles; there must be high drama and adventure. As far as Stephen R. Donaldson’s Gap...
Big Red Tequila is the first in a series of Tres Navarre novels, a semi-private investigator set in my home town of San Antonio. I’ve always enjoyed novels set in locations where I’ve been,...
Book 3 of The Gap Cycle The classification of “space opera”can be interpreted in many ways: a soap opera in space; large-scale adventures in space whose outcome is global (or space wide) in affect;...
Matt at Variety of Words had a contest to give away an Advanced Reader Copy of Tobias Buckell’s upcoming novel, Sly Mongoose. Matt started my memorial day weekend off right by emailing me this...
I started out as a skeptic, but I’ve become a big fan of my nike+iPod gadget set. My wife got me the gift box set for Christmas which has an iPod Nano, the Nike+...
Book 2 of The Gap Cycle Forbidden Knowledge is the second book in Stephen R. Donaldson’s The Gap Cycle (the Gap referring to faster-than-light drives jumping the gap). As promised in Donaldson’s author’s note...
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Book 1 of The Gap Cycle I thoroughly enjoyed The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (and the Second Chronicles as well) by Mr. Donaldson, about Thomas Covenant, leper and unbeliever. I’d pick up this book,...
