Miles Errantby Lois McMaster Bujold752pp (Trade Paperback)My Rating: 8/10Amazon Rating: 4.5/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.38/5Goodreads Rating: 4.3/5 Miles Errant is an omnibus containing the novella “The Borders of Infinity” and the novels Brothers in Arms and Mirror Dance in the Miles Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold. Mirror Dance won the Hugo Award in 1995. There are currently 13 novels in this space opera series (including the ones that are loosely related since one takes place 200 years before, two are prequels […]
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge 448pp (Paperback) My Rating: 10/10 Amazon Rating: 4.5/5 LibraryThing Rating: 4.08/5 Goodreads Rating: 3.92/5 The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge won the Hugo Award in 1981 and was also nominated for a Nebula Award. This science fiction novel was followed by a shorter novel, World’s End, which is the story of what happened to BZ Gundhalinu after the first novel ended. The Summer Queen is the direct sequel to The Snow Queen […]
Ascendant Sunby Catherine Asaro384pp (Paperback)My Rating: 6/10Amazon Rating: 4/5LibraryThing Rating: 3.81/5Goodreads Rating: 3.9/5 Ascendant Sun is the fifth novel published in Catherine Asaro’s Saga of the Skolian Empire series. Currently, there are thirteen novels total in this science fiction series and chronologically Ascendant Sun comes after five other novels in the saga (it is not really sixth chronologically since there are three other novels following different characters set around the same time as this one). I would not recommend beginning […]
Archangelby Sharon Shinn400pp (Paperback)My Rating: 8.5/10Amazon Rating: 4.5/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.21/5Goodreads Rating: 4.10/5 Archangel is a novel in Sharon Shinn’s Samaria series, featuring a world in which angels and humans live together in harmony. The Samaria series is not published in chronological order, but on her website Shinn recommends reading the books in the following order (by release date): Archangel, Jovah’s Angel, The Allelluia Files, Angelica, and Angel-Seeker. There is also a novella in the To Weave a Web of Magic […]
The Silver Metal Loverby Tanith Lee304pp (Paperback)My Rating: 7/10Amazon Rating: 4.5/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.27/5Goodreads Rating: 4.51/5 The Silver Metal Lover by the prolific Tanith Lee was originally published in 1981. It has one sequel, Metallic Love, published about 24 years after the first book. The Silver Metal Lover stands alone well as a complete story, and Metallic Love, which focuses on a different set of characters, actually takes place twelve years after this one. From what I have heard, the second […]
The Mote in God’s Eyeby Larry Nivenand Jerry Pournelle592pp (Paperback)My Rating: 7/10Amazon Rating: 4/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.01/5Goodreads Rating: 3.97/5 The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle was published in 1974. This novel set in the CoDominium universe contains some hard science fiction and is a story about first contact between humans and an alien race. There is a sequel entitled The Gripping Hand (or The Moat Around Murcheson’s Eye in most countries) that was released about 20 […]
