Disappointing. The author does not use the awe-and-wonder mystery of advanced technology and uses magical pseudo-science in explicit detail. The characters and plot are cool. But the science is crap. 2/5 stars. Yuck.
Sunday, April 10, 2016
On the Razor's Edge
And they keep getting better!
Love this book Michael Flynn book as well. Non-stop action! I could not put it down. 5/5 stars.
In The Lion's Mouth
Continuing the stories of the characters in January Dancer, Michael Flynn tells a fun story with complex treachery and shifting alliances among powerful characters in a far flung future. This one is almost but not quite as good as the first book and much better than all the others in the series so far. 4/5 stars.
Friday, April 8, 2016
DC-1a aka Falcon-9/Dragon Sticks the Landing
After 11 years of hard work, functional, single stage to orbit rockets have finally arrived. I was crying when I watched this video. Elon Musk calls his Space-X company's rocket the "Falcon-9." It is the first incarnation of our dream, the delta clipper (DC-1) conceived in the 1960s and first funded by the US government in 1991. My grand children can be free from this repressive gravity well and will be able to reap the resources and benefits of space.
Congratulations to everyone involved. Ad astra!
Monday, April 4, 2016
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen
I remember the star trek and science fiction conventions I attended with Lois McMaster (now Lois McMaster Bujold) in 1973-1975. She was (and is) a fantastic writer and detail-oriented science and engineering enthusiast. Her fan fiction at that time was awesome. It was wonderful reading her first few professional works ("Falling Free," serialized in Analog magazine) and the Miles Vorkosigan books. I remember discussing them with my oldest children as they read them at the appropriate age (under 16). And it was more fun reading her new books as they came out because "I knew Louis when..." Now we're all grown up and so are her characters and the themes in her books.
This one has too little "awe and wonder" mysterious background C story science fiction for my personal (space opera) taste. It is a grown up book handling grown up topics that (I think) were better handled by the oblique hints in the earlier works as Miles, his mother, and other characters from Beta Colony discussed them. It does fill in a bunch of sordid story elements from the earlier books and I loved the mystery of the (very-brief mention!) of the power of the Cetagandans.
But it's still LMB writing and romping in her universe so it's still fantastic and a must-read for any fan.
4/5 Stars.
Sunday, April 3, 2016
Concussion
A little long and slow but the film is quite good and worth watching. The depth of Roger Goodell's evil is well-presented, along with the collusion of government. 3/5 Stars.
Courageous
I am enjoying this series but was disappointed that this one ended at a cliff hanger. 4/5 Stars.
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