Mitch Wyle's Web Log

Tightly-scripted, well-crafted story with familiar, lovable characters, lots of drama, and good mystery. 5/5 Stars.  I am on a roll picking ...

Well-crafted, fun story with interesting characters.  It covers a huge arc of time and develops a great theory of emergent behaviors. 5/5 St...

Interesting analysis of historical clashes of civilizations that had the most extreme and sudden (single-battle) outcomes.  Victor Davis Han...

Another fun D&D adventure.   Close combat, manly men, warrior women, special forces one-liners, great humor and story-telling. Mindless ...

Another amazing Egan book with fantastic speculative hard science and interesting story arcs. 4/5 Stars.

Good space opera and storytelling and a tidy conclusion to the big story.  Entertaining but not great. I plan to start the "Xeelee...

Many of the stories in this collection are fantastic and others are mediocre. All of them are thought-provoking. None is bad.  I enjoy the m...

I seem to recall reading this story online in 2006.  Since Vinge's sudden death, I decided to explore some of his books that I had not y...

I enjoyed this third book in the series much more than the second one.  The action, mystery, passions, and power relationships are intense, ...

One of my kids described the series and world building.  I was intrigued so I bought the first book.  It is very good!  I shall try to read ...