This was in the collection of second-hand books that I bought a few years back, and which form the bulk of my unread stack. To be honest, I wasn’t really expecting much, judging by the age and the cover (yes, I know the cliché, but without the cover, what’s left to judge by?).
However, I really [...]
Archive for April, 2009
16 Apr
“Santiago” (Mike Resnick)
16 Apr
“The Healer’s War” (Elizabeth Ann Scarborough)
I wonder if stories about Vietnam are only of interest to Americans. I certainly can’t recall any that have been interesting to me. This started out reasonably promising, but trailed off into a rather dull story that didn’t go anywhere. Characters come and go, and none are particularly captivating. Can’t really recommend this one.
16 Apr
“The Return of Santiago” (Mike Resnick)
I really enjoyed “Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future”, so I was quite hopeful about this sequel. However, while this was a good story, this wasn’t great. It was pretty obvious how it would turn out all along, and the characters weren’t as interesting as in the original Santiago story.
I would still recommend reading [...]
16 Apr
“The Science of Discworld III: Darwin’s Watch” (Pratchett, Stewart & Cohen)
I really liked the first Science of Discworld, and enjoyed the second as well. I’ve always liked the idea of mashing up educational material and fiction – here it’s loosely interspersed (odd chapters are lightly educational, even chapters are a related Discworld story), and I thought these were fairly well done.
This one, however, wasn’t that [...]
16 Apr
ta-meyer@ihug.co.nz, t-meyer@ihug.co.nz, tameyer@ihug.co.nz
I was ihug customer #377024, and signed up 20 Aug 1997. However, as of a couple of years ago, I wasn’t actively using my account (they finally made me angry enough to switch to someone else). I kept the account alive to keep these email addresses – in particular ta-meyer@ihug.co.nz had been active since 1997, which [...]
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