Book Review: Julie Cross’ Tempest
Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal college student, except he can jump back in time with no harm. But the Enemies of Time have tracked him down and fatally change his life.
Genre: science fiction
Book Review: John Ringo’s Citadel
At the heart of nickel iron and starlight are the people, Marines, Navy and civilians, who make Troy a living, breathing, engine of war. Survivors of apocalypse, they know the cost of failure.
Book Review: David Weber’s By Schism Rent Asunder
Charis still stands, still free, still tolerant, still an island of innovation in a world in which the Church has worked to keep humanity locked at a medieval level of existence.
Book Review: Caitlin Kittredge’s The Iron Thorn
Everyone in Aoife Grayson’s family goes mad when they turn 16. Now a ward of the state at the School of Engines, Aoife tries to pretend her fate can be different.
Book Review: Timothy Zahn’s Cobra Guardian
Too deadly for their own worlds, the technologically advanced Cobras were “rewarded” with their own three planets where they fell into greater disrepute. Then the Troft invade…
Book Review: Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time
Meg’s father has mysteriously disappeared. Now Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace must rescue him and outwit the forces of evil they will encounter on their journey through space.
Book Review: Meljean Brook’s Heart of Steel
As captain of Lady Corsair, Yasmeen has learned to keep her heart as cold as steel, her only loyalty bound to her ship and her crew. Then treasure hunter Archimedes Fox returns from the dead.
Book Review: David Weber’s Off Armageddon Reef
The few survivors of the genocide by the Gbaba fled to Safehold where a renegade group instilled mind control and hidden high tech to force humanity to stay at a medieval level. But now a “rebirth” is occurring.
Book Review: Meljean Brook’s Wild & Steamy
Three short stories by three different authors that range from steampunk to erotic paranormal romance to the urban fantastic.
Book Review: Scott Westerfeld’s Goliath
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library Goliathby Scott Westerfeld steampunk in a hardcover edition on September 20, 2011 and has 543 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include BehemothThird and last in the Leviathan children’s steampunk series inspired by the events leading up to World War I and revolving around the friendship between the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and an aviation midshipman, er, -woman. My Take This was a bit slow to get started especially compared to the first two in the series but I thoroughly enjoyed Westerfeld’s extrapolation of history as he combines it with the politics of technology whether it’s Clankers or Darwin. The contrast between the two is fascinating with the Clankers using metal, electrikals, anything man-made while the Darwinists tweak organic life forms to perform the same feats. Interesting to bring Nikola Tesla into this and push Edison into the background while playing up the showmanship of the time. The take Westerfeld had on Hearst and his San Simeon estate […]