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With the Lightnings

Lt. Leary Commanding

The Far Side of the Stars

The Way to Glory

Some Golden Harbor

When The Tide Rises

In the Stormy Red Sky

Just re-read all 6 previous in prep for the new one In the Stormy Red Sky, excellent as they all are, one of the better all round, perhaps because it has a tad more Mundy in it. overall series is 7-10, average 9.

Spam-a-Lot

Spamalot - was fun, but overall not worth it. I mean at $45 I expected a bit more than some dancing girls and a rehash of skits from Holy Grail with a smattering of other Monty Python skits thrown in the mix to change them up. Little new stuff. The dancing girls were good looking and the skits were fun, but none of them really measured up to the original, so re-watching Holy Grail would have been more fun. It was good don't get me wrong, but I've yet to go to a theatrical event and feel I've gotten money's worth, even this, which was probably the best of them (although Wicked was good). I guess I just don't have an appreciation for theatre, I'd rather see the movie. Actually I'd likely enjoy it more just seeing a filming of the play from right up close, than have the theatre experience. And they skipped over Castle Anthrax, which is one of the best bits in Holy Grail. a 6.

Ai Yori Aoshi - vol 17

Finally finished the story. V1-17. V17 is mature readers due to the quite tasteful sex scene, some minor nudity that US audiences might think objectionable for youngsters. But I was pleased to see they didn't gloss over it after building up for 16 volumes! Happy sweet ending, with everybody mostly happy and Aoi getting what she wanted for so long. Although the cover shows her in a wedding dress, they actually skip over the wedding and jump to an denouement 4 years later. Overall nice, and gives closure that the Anime didn't.

Manga

Ai Yori Aoshi V1-17 nice sweet romance, with some interesting dark backstory.

Free Collars Kingdom V1 - cats - that look like people but are cats and only look like people to other cats...

F. Paul Wilson - The Tomb

F. Paul Wilson - The Tomb
Repairman Jack #1 Good stuff, Kali in New York. Good characters, excellent action, Horror in name, a good dark fantasy, somewhat bloody, but not without sucessful ending. Dunno why never read it before. This was the revised edition - with ipods, not the original with walkmen... not much other changes. an 8

Ken Grimwood - Replay

Well written, with good characters and some fun alternate history stuff, but , overall there wasn't a reason, or explanation, hell Groundhog's Day at least had a moral, (and Bill Murry which certainly didn't hurt). It was fun, reminded me of Jumper a bit, esp early on, but sort of a deflated ending. A nice love story aspect but ends well, not sad, but not happy, sort of eh. Mostly after searching for meaning, I'd expected them to find something. but it's more of a character study after all.

Martyn Pig by Kevin Brooks

YA,
drunken father, death and murder mystery. betrayal, and 'acting'. interesting, and well written, but depressing, realistic, but not pleasant ending. a rather sad affair all told, but some pretty good mystery stuff, trying to dispose of the body and then an actual murder. lots of soul searching. don't like the title, doesn't tell anything about the story. a 6.

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
his first YA novel, with mystery, adventure, good teen story, and some environmentalism. Characteristically quirky characters and comic twists. Some good standing up to bullies, both the kids in school, and the adults in business.

Edward Bloor - Crusader

A good book, but not what I was expecting after reading the blurb. The cover and blurb imply sort of a SF alternate reality layer to the story that is not there. Her family owns an arcade, her mother was killed when she was 8, her father is never around and now at 16 she's finally dealing with it. Journalism, media, ideals, politics, family, friends, drugs, hate-crimes, murder, coming of age, it has a lot in it. A good strong story where even the lesser characters change and evolve by the end of the book no one is the same. Growth is not always pleasant, but necessary. a 6. well written with good strong characters that you grow to like. x.

Rob Thurman - Nightlife, Moonshine, Madhouse

Rob Thurman - Nightlife, Moonshine, Madhouse.
First three in the series, a half-elf - (although the Auphe are more like dark elf/goblins), his human brother (warrior noparriel), and their friends, Puck, a modern Vampire, an oracle. The first is a bit rough, but the writing gets better as it goes. The plots are good, adventure/mystery in the modern world with hidden monsters, compares favorably with Jim Butcher. an 8 the series.

Donna Jo Napoli - Beast

An interesting retelling of the Beauty & the Beast story, with the Beast a persian noble. Touted as both Exotic (& Erotic but I think that was a typo), and a young adult novel. Overload of middle eastern in the first chapter, but once that is out of the way, it's smooth and quick. Persia to India to France, the locals are well drawn. Well written with a sweet ending. a 5, X.

Christopher Stasheff - Saint Vidicon to the Rescue

Touted as more irreverent, when in fact it was rather catholic, but for something that sort of felt like several short stories strung together with a connecting story, it worked pretty well. a 4. Not his best, but not bad. Sort of cyberpunk religion. X.

Julie Kenner - Demon Hunter

Julie Kenner - Demon Hunter series
Carpe Demon
California Demon
Demons are Forever
well done - if Buffy grew up settled down and had kids, then started hunting again. sometimes pushes the romance a bit, but mostly very good stuff.

Alan Dean Foster

Alan Dean Foster - Lost and Found
The Light-years Beneath My Feet
The Candle of Distant Earth.
A trilogy of short novels, a broker Kidnapped by aliens and joined by a modified intelligent dog, travel the universe trying to get home. The ending was sort of bland. There was some fun stuff along the way, but not really much adventure. More a story of personal growth. a 5, X

James Patterson - Maximum Ride

James Patterson - Maximum Ride
Angel Experiment
School's Out --Forever

Andrew Clements - The Report Card

Andrew Clements - The Report Card

Dean Karnazes - Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an all-night runner

Astounding, and gripping. Started flipping through it, and got so hooked I finished it up while supposed to be working.. Very readable, it's almost spiritual - but without any touchy-feely stuff. an 8.

John Levitt - Dog Days

John Levitt - Dog Days. 20080410. Modern fantasy. a bit unpolished much like the early Butcher novels, I was a bit surprized to find it was his 3rd book, it felt more like a first novel. The characters took a bit to develop but the plot went well. Magic structure was a bit simple, but then things were added to flesh it out more. Hook of being a musician who is also magical, but doesn't bother with it much is pretty good. Not bad at all, I was going to say it was a sort of a magic-mystery but it's not really a mystery, more an investigation where they already know who did it mostly. a 6. There's to be a sequel.

Louis Sachar - There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

Louis Sachar - There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom. R. YA. Not quite what I'd expected from the title, but a good self-redemption story. A little dated, but nothing serious. The class Bully/gross kid
becomes a regular kid and pulls him self out of his hole. Some stuff resonated well, esp the taking pride in being the worst at something. Good analysis of the fear of failure so don't attempt therefore you can't fail. a 6.

Mirror Mask

Watched the DVD last night, 1st time I'd seen it since it was in the theatre. Even better than I remembered, the first time I'd thought she looked too old, but I didn't see that this time, there were a few parts where she acts like a brat, but it does follow her character. Then I'd thought she was lead thru the danger too easily and didn't have to do anything on her own, but while there was a bit of that, it wasn't as much as I'd remembered, and if it was all a dream, it was all her anyway... so while not perfect it is great a 9. The Sphinxes were just as creepy, and the really useful book was even more heroic.

Jerry Spinelli - Loser

Jerry Spinelli - Loser. YA. interesting voice, very much like a news report on the kid. Follow Z from birth to jr. high, loves school, but is a failure at success. Yet he has a quality of never giving up never giving in and always enjoying himself. There isn't an overall plot, but there is a bit at the end with the snowstorm that it quite touching. good. a 7.

Alichino 1

Kouyu Shurei - Alichino 1. R. 20080220. beautifully drawn manga, the Alichino seem somewhat like the old cruel and beautiful elves, they steal souls, and grant wishes. It's not always easy to follow the story, or tell the characters apart, but the art is wonderful.

Doll 1

interesting manga, collection of related shorts, relating to artificial humans 'dolls' as servants, substitute children, lovers, mothers. very soft SF, more to do with the relationships than the tech. good a 7. nice art and well done stories.

Pet Shop of Horrors

Pet Shop of Horrors - short stories with mythical beasts sold and generally gremlin like rules and the breaking of them is the horror of the patrons - yet! with a very likeable shop owner and not a creepy tone. a 7

Yun Kouga - Loveless 1

Loveless 1 Yun Kouga - started out interesting, good art, but then got all yaoi-ish. Did like Yuiko quite a bit, a good character. a6.

Felipe Smith - MBQ 1

Felipe Smith - MBQ1 - really good, excellent storytelling, good art, good story, some great perspective. an 8, a modern 'slice-of-life' not a standard sf manga.

Barbara Corcoran & Bradford Angier - A Star to the North

Barbara Corcoran & Bradford Angier - A Star to the North. R. 20080201 a YA novel in the vein of Hatchet - sort of, set in the late 1960's as there is mentions of the 'evil' Hippies & LSD, but beyond that bit of anarchonism it's pretty well done. a 6. teen boy and his younger sister visit canada wilderness and take a thrilling canoe ride, also quite a bit about growing up and apart from their parrents, they sort of run away, but more of a taking the summer off, the sister sneaks along. Some good self reliance, and a nice sibling relationship.

Dean Koontz - The Husband

Koontz, Dean - The Husband. R. 20080130 an interesting thriller. the revelation of the villians is interesting. The villians themselves are a bit flat, but a good comon man thrown into extraordinary circumstances, some weird childhood experiances, but the love of the husband for his wife was a good hook. a 6.

Andrew Clements - Things Not Seen

He wakes up one morning and is invisible... but it's more of how he develops than some sort of spy mystery. an excellent bit of young romance, and a great family story. an 8.

Denise Vega - Click Here (to find out how i survived seventh grade)

a cute and quite well written teen story. makes an accurate reference to Harriet the Spy. Friendships and hardships of middle-school. a 7.

David Weber - Honor Harrington Series

Weber, David. Honor 01 On Basilisk Station. R
Weber, David. Honor 02 The Honor of the Queen. R
Weber, David. Honor 03 A Short Victorious War. R
Weber, David. Honor 04 Field of Dishonor. R.K. possibly the best one! (also saddest..)a 10. still my favorite. the Duel.
Weber, David. Honor 05 Flag in Exile. R.K.
Weber, David. Honor 06 Honor Among Enemies. R.K.
Weber, David. Honor 07 In Enemy Hands. R.K.
Weber, David. Honor 08 Echoes of Honor. R
Weber, David. Honor 08b Worlds of Honor 01 More Than Honor R
Weber, David. Honor 08c Worlds of Honor 02 Worlds of Honor R
Weber, David. Honor 09 Ashes of Victory. R.x(hb) excellent. Honor series is a 9/10!
Weber, David. Honor 09b Worlds of Honor 03 Changer of Worlds. R.K.
Weber, David. Honor 10 War of Honor. R. 2004112?. where WhiteHaven gets Samantha & Honor & WH learn they Love each other - not one of the better ones, all politics, little action. a 5.
Weber, David. Honor 10b Worlds of Honor 04 The Service of the Sword. R. 2004121?
Weber, David & Eric Flint. Honor 10c Honorverse 01 Crown of Slaves. R. 200510? Zilwicki, Erewhon. an 8-9
Weber, David. Honor 10d Honorverse 02 The Shadow of Saganimi. R. 200510? HB.BC a 7. at least it's a return of individual action, not admirals & politics, but no Honor.
Weber, David. Honor 11 At all Costs. 20080111. More personal, a bit less politics, but still not enough adventure and too much going on with secondary characters. At times the battles become lists of numbers of missiles and sound more like math equations than stories. With so many characters it is at times, hard to remember who's in what navy. The introduction of a 3rd party villain, brought over from the Honorverse series with Flint, was good as it was getting depressing to see 2 groups of essentially good guys slaughtering each other. The end is a bit depressing many popular characters getting killed, but the stuff about Honor's personal life was fun. Good but not as fun an adventure as the earlier stuff. a 7. R.X.

Bomb Queen

Bomb Queen comic book (Image)
V1. Great black comedy! emphasis on the comedy, with plenty of fan service, a mature readers title - not erotic, but with enough gratuitous nudity and language to warrant it. Mostly she gets her wardrobe blown off fairly often. Very funny, and violent with an overall social commentary that doesn't bludgeon you with a moral. an 8
V2. more of the same great stuff, a bit more fan service perhaps. an 8
V3. starts to get a plot, and crosses over with shadow hawk, less humor to the detriment of the title, starts to be more about where it's going not what's going on. Something that happens often to humor titles, once the characters are developed plot starts to leak in, and it waters down the humor. (see oots) a 6

Bleach - Anime, Season one

What's with the title? It's got to mean something in translations that I don't get. Still Bleach is one of the better anime I've seen. Maybe not as good as NGE, but close. It starts a little slowly, but quickly hooks you in, it has a good long plot and the episodes are often 2 or more part stories. Near the end of season one before then go to soul society, are some of the best episodes, but you need the background of the earlier got really appreciate them. Once they get to Soul Society they throw in some stupid characters for pure comedy relief and I didn't care for them as much, still the overall plot is going along nicely and the adventure is great. The animation has some interesting character designs, the people are not always standard fare, and that was neat. The intro has some great 70's-ish style. Death-Gods, and evil souls. Season one a 9,. season 2 an 8 season 3 a 9

Alan Moore - Promethea

Promethea, a superheroine explicitly from the realms of the imagination drawn by J.H. Williams III, explored Moore's ideas about consciousness, mysticism, magic, écriture féminine and the Kabbalah [wikipedia] . Intensely well written as just about anything from Moore, this series seems to contain his entire magic philosophy, and in fact over half of the issues are a primer on magic, kabbalah, tarot, etc, as Promethea learns it, by traveling the Qabbalistic Tree of Life. The series explores Moore's ideas about art and magic, combining elements of superhero action, metaphysical theorizing, and psychedelic hallucination, all focused on the adventures of Promethea, a metafictional character that possesses magical power over the real world. Promethea is also notable for wide-ranging experimentation in visual style and storytelling technique on the part of Williams and Moore [wikipedia]. Visually stunning with unusual layouts and art techniques, with characters commonly breaking the 4th wall, it is often a rather didactic philosophy lecture, yet overall is an intriguing and uplifting story. a 7.

S.E. Hinton - Hawkes Harbor

Wow, I hate to give away anything but this is the oddest vampire story I've ever read. but good! the ocean tramp travel and friendship and storytelling kell & jamie at the beginning was good, and would have even been good enough for a novel, but then hawkes harbor, and weirdness, and vampire - and then not, and IRA and death and redemption, the end tho happy is still sad. a 7. interesting, excellent character. the setting running from the 50's to the 80's is slightly dated, but doesn't really matter. finding your place, and being happy in it.

CHARLES DE LINT - MOONHEART

DE LINT, CHARLES. MOONHEART. Old pre Arthurian Celtic, Talsien and Magwin (Merlin) come to America or at least Canada. Also native American Canadian stuff mantious. All very very neat, the House reminds me of the house in Little Big and the characters are well likable and the story is nice, fulfilling, sad that friends were lost but the evil was overcome and things are good. a 10

DE LINT, CHARLES. SPIRITWALK. SEQUEL TO MOONHEART - And a good one too, more a collection of stories containing the same characters, or a few short stories that are linked and one long piece I think moonheart was better but only because it was all one long piece. a 9

ROALD DAHL - JAMES & THE GIANT PEACH

DAHL, ROALD . JAMES & THE GIANT PEACH . CH, R. best dahl book a 10 .

STEVEN K. Zoltan BRUST - TO REIGN IN HELL

BRUST, STEVEN K. Zoltan. TO REIGN IN HELL. R. SATAN'S SIDE OF THE STORY. A 10! certainly the best Satan story ever.

John BRUNNER - THE SHEEP LOOK UP

BRUNNER, John. SHEEP LOOK UP, THE. PB. R. A very hard hitting sf cyberpunk w/o the cyber. an apocalypse novel which ends as the apocalypse begins. well written, but I thought too many characters with not enough to differentiate between them too many times I was confused at who was who. The damn scariest novel I have ever read! extrapolating the environmental problems we currently have and if we continue like we are we will end up as sheep. Entirely convinced me to become a Trainite (but one of the peaceful ones) If you've ever been worried about the environment but put off doing anything you'll never do it again after reading this book. The scariest thing is that it feels so real. There's hardly a thing that seems implausible let alone unlikely! disease run rampant, mega toxic fallout, wearing masks to breathe in any city. The jumping pov to all the many characters really brought the global perspective to you made the problem all the more huge looking. Liked the design of the book as well many many small
episodes, advertisements, tv, news, billboards, etc. And the chapter quotes were horribly great. Unfortunately the solution wasn't very nice. Real but not nice. Recommended more for it's ideas and philosophy than for spectacular writing style but worth getting thru the problem places to see the whole picture. a 10 for content a 6 for construction and an 8 for style = 8

STEVEN R. BOYETT - THE ARCHITECT OF SLEEP

BOYETT, STEVEN R. ARCHITECT OF SLEEP, THE. R. GREAT STORY ALTERNATE WORLD- RACCOONS INSTEAD OF APES, SIGN LANGUAGE INSTEAD OF SPEACH, INTELLIGNET RACCOONS! SPELUNKING, MARTIAL ARTS, A HERO WITH GLASSES! there's written bk 2 but never pub, & was designed as trilogy -editorial prob's creative differences etc. squashed it. probably will never be finished and it's a damn shame. A 10
Wow! there's a slim chance the Architect might be someday finished and published in it's entirety!!
Which is quite a bit better than the last time I checked his website where he thought there was no hope of him ever going back and completing the last book

Lloyd Alexander - Prydain Chronicles

Alexander, Lloyd. Prydain Chronicles. HB. R. YA. one of my very favorite books as an early teen. doesn't hold up as well as some on a later reading, but I remember thinking this was just the best series ever! when I read it. It's a good mythic Celtic fantasy, with excellent characters. a 10 / 6.

Kim Harrison - Hollows series

Harrison, Kim. Dead Witch Walking. R.20060529, reread 200709
Harrison, Kim. The Good, the Bad, and the Undead. R.20060530, reread 200709
Excellent series very reminiscent of Hamilton's Anita Blake but without feeling like a knock-off. interesting characters, stumbles a bit on the 1st book, throws a lot of stuff in all at once, but once you get the setting and background the story flows smoothly. Witches, vampires, werewolves, pixies and elves oh my... magic as a college course, demonology, dark books, vampire mobsters. Sexy main characters, tough, 'runners' sort of bounty hunters/detectives. excellent settings, such as their home/office/church. a 9.
Harrison, Kim. Every Which Way But Dead. R.20060531, Reread 20070927. #3 in the series. drifting toward Hamilton much more sex in this one, but not over done yet. Ceri appears, more to do with Trent & her father, much more with Big Al. set in an alternate present where creatures have come 'out'. very similar to Laurel K. Hamilton, but unique enough to be it's own thing.
If you like this try Laurell K. Hamilton - Anita Blake. Charlaine Harris. Kelley Armstrong. Robin Mckinley - Sunshine. Nancy Collins - Sonja Blue. Carrie Vaughn.

Tamora Pierce - The Immortals

Wild Magic. shades of Bradley's Hawkmistress, and again Lackey's Heralds. a stronger more emotionally gripping story than the first of Lioness. Continuing the same land with the Lioness grown and with children. about 9 years since the end of the lioness quartet. Return of the Immortals - the mythological beasts, harpies, gryphons, dragons, fae, etc. good an 8.
Wolf-Speaker - the valley of the magical and intelligent beasts, or at least once Daine's done with it. off in it's own direction, so less of an homage to Bradley. good an 8.
Emperor Mage. land of slaves and cages, an good adventure, and quite a bit more god-works going on, some more hints of her father. an 8.
The Realms of the Gods. a good conclusion to the tetralogy, much ado with gods, and beats gods, meets her parents, and new darkings, and big battle against forces of chaos. a bit disjointed, but fairly epic. some romance brewing, and a good happy ending. an 8 the series.
good Young Adult fantasy that isn't such kids stuff that adult fantasy readers would be bored, and isn't so violent or sexual that even youngster who read above their grade wouldn't enjoy it.

Tamora Pierce - Song of the Lioness

Alanna, In the Hand of the Goddess, The Woman who Rides like a Man, Lioness Rampant. nice Young adult stories in the vein of Lackey's original Herald series. a 7. some romance, some growing up and overcoming obstacles, some magic, quests, the woman in a mans job was nicely underplayed, and not an overt theme. The friendships and the villain were a bit too easy or too evil and the first couple felt at times written down to a certain level, but the 2nd 2 didn't have that feel as if she let the story flow on its own.

Maria V. Snyder - Poison Study

It being a Luna book I was worried it would be too much a romance and not enough a story, but it's an excellent fantasy with the romance coming lightly at the end. The poison taster is a interesting twist, and the magic simple and effective. Yelena's a great characters, strong of mind, and overcoming her horrors and becoming strong of skill, spymasters, magic chocolate, and a kind of opressive, stalinesque, 'kingdom' but not over done. good, but for a bit of a sequel cop-out ending. an 8. perhaps more if the sequel lives up to it.

http://www.mariavsnyder.com/about.php

ASSASSIN STUDY is an online serial story about the trouble Valek is involved in while Yelena is in Sitia.

MAGIC STUDY: YOU KNOW YOUR LIFE IS BAD WHEN YOU MISS YOUR DAYS AS A POISON TASTER.

FIRE STUDY: SURROUNDED BY FIRE WITH NO WAY TO ESCAPE THE BURN.

Madeleine L'Engle - Meet the Austins

After the sad news of her passing I went and checked what books of hers I hadn't read. It's a sweet family story, but doesn't have the fun impact of A Wrinkle in Time. a 6.

Stardust

Great, beautiful, and excellent acting. Some very funny bits, but they didn't overshadow the adventure, great sets, and good dialogue. Good acting, even if I'd thought some characters oddly cast before I saw it, they did a great job, no-one sucked. Fun with a sweet ending. Co-produced by Gaiman, it had an authenticity to it that another adaption would have lacked. a 9.

Christopher Moore - A Dirty Job

One that just make you want even more Moore. Back to San Francisco, with several supporting characters from previous books (including the Emperor of SF) chock full of dark humor, and light humor, and adventure, and death. Lots of deaths actually. Sort of a Santa's helpers for Death. Plus used bookstores and thrift stores and used record/cd stores. And all the Deaths of history and mythology. Hellhounds and battle crows, true love, and squirrel people. a 9. superb, probably his best so far.

The Sweet Collection - Leland Myrick - B&W GN - collection of short stories. Great use of blacks, interesting collection of lovestories, from Vampires, to Frankenstein's assistants, to Kidnaped by Indians, and on Mars. As the title suggests all very sweet stories. Short and sweet as it were. clear and concise, well done. a 7.

Derek Kirk Kim - Same Difference and Other Stories - B&W GN - Korean-American in the bay area, semi-autobiographical story, good art and excellent storytelling. Slice of life stuff, not really my favorite. a 4.

The Last Mimzy / MIMSY WERE THE BOROGOVES, by Lewis Padgett

Went and saw the movie Sunday with some friends and so I searched out the story to see how close it was. They changed it quite a bit really, but it was a pretty good movie, sort of ET-ish, but it's a bit slow for a kids movie.
They happied up the ending of course, added some environmentalist aspects, and changed the mathematical aspect to a mental/psychic ability. The story is heavily psyhonalitical, and poses questions about children and learning. If you learnt non-Euclidean geometry, would you see the world differently than those whose minds have been conditioned to Euclid? In the movie they change it to mental capacity and sidestep the aspect of learning making the mind different. The character of the children was actually fairly similar, older brother with an annoying sister whom he loves and helps even when she's a bother, they aged them slightly in the movie, but it would have been difficult to really get a 2-year-old to act as the sister. The movie also gave away the AIW connection early, (of course the title implies a connection), but it was fun to see. The movie intro and outro were a bit overdone, and I could have done without the intro at least, or much less of one.

300

Bloody Awesome!, emphasis on the Bloody. Blood-splatteringly great. Yay, Goat-headed Sitar player! Great action, some hokey bits, but nothing large or long lasting. a 7. Great violent fun and what acting there was, was well done. Kelly Craig - Oracle girl - yowza.

Raymond E. Feist - RIFTWAR

Feist, Raymond E. RIFTWAR 01A: MAGICIAN APPRENTICE. (author's prefered ed) reread. 20070119. not much difference - certianly nothing I noticed, tho it's been years since I read the original version. The begining, Pug and Thomas as kids, until the start of the riftwar.
Feist, Raymond E. RIFTWAR 01B: MAGICIAN MASTER. A GREAT 1st novel. a 9.(author's prefered ed) reread. 20070119. not much difference - certianly nothing I noticed, tho it's been years since I read the original version. Pug in Kelewan master of magic, Thomas the Valeru.
Feist, Raymond E. RIFTWAR 02: Silverthorn. not a bad followup, an 8. Jimmy.
Feist, Raymond E. RIFTWAR 03: A DARKNESS AT SETHANON. much better an 8 or 9. ReRead 20070206 excellent combination of high otherworldly magic and gritty fantasy battles.
Feist, Raymond E. & JANNY WURTS. RIFTWAR: MISTRESS OF THE EMPIRE. Good, interesting. very far eastern. a 7 or 8
Feist, Raymond E. & JANNY WURTS. RIFTWAR: SERVANT OF THE EMPIRE
Feist, Raymond E. & JANNY WURTS. RIFTWAR: DAUGHTER OF THE EMPIRE. PB,R,SIGNED!.
Feist, Raymond E. RIFTWAR 04: Prince of the Blood. the sons of Arutha go on an adventure. a 4, bah, the kids are just dumb.
Feist, Raymond E. RIFTWAR 05: KING'S BUCCANEER, THE. PB,R. better! a 6 or 7.
FEIST, RAYMOND E. RIFTWAR 06: SERPENTWAR SAGA 1: SHADOW OF A DARK QUEEN, RIFTWAR. REG PB ah, now it's good again a 9.
Feist, Raymond E. RIFTWAR 07: SERPENTWAR SAGA 2: Rise of a Merchant Prince, an 8
FEIST, RAYMOND E. RIFTWAR 08: SERPENTWAR SAGA 3: RAGE OF A DEMON KING. R,pb. A Good conclusion to the trilogy but not as good as the 2 books before it. calis & thomas loose their valerhu-ness! poor pug = everybody dies on him, but good, an 8
Feist, Raymond E. RIFTWAR 09: SERPENTWAR SAGA 4: Shards of a Broken Crown.
Feist, Raymond E. RIFTWAR 10: Krondor 01: The Betrayal. much better than expected novelization of a compter game. a 6 or 7.
Feist, Raymond E. RIFTWAR 11: Krondor 02: The Assassin.
?read? Feist, Raymond E. RIFTWAR 12: Krondor 03: Tear of the Gods. R?
Feist, Raymond E. & Joel Rosenberg. RIFTWAR: Legends of the Riftwar : Murder in LaMut. R. 20070113. Good fun, takes Joel's 3 not-musketeers from Guardians series and drops them into the Riftwar back when it was going strong. An interesting idea and a good story, not a murder-mystery by any means, but effective. Still there was no great goings on and since it was the past no furthering of any plot. a 7.

Catherine Asaro

Asaro, Catherine. Primary Inversion. R.X. 20070113. Soz and Jub heirs to feuding empires fall in love, much shakespearian. a 5.
Asaro, Catherine. Catch the Lightning. R.X. 20070114. interesting blend of high-math science SF and romance and sadistic psi vampire types - with strong overtones of Jacqueline Lichtenberg's sime-gen series. Not spectactular but good adventure and well done romance. 100's years later. acidentially into the alternate past of 1987 LA. then back, some darkoverian feel. a 5.
Asaro, Catherine. The Last Hawk. R.X.` 20070117. the thought dead brother was instead lost and kidnapped by a society esentailly reverse muslim with the women in charge and the men in hoods and harems. the Dice game as a meme-program was interesting, and that aspect I quite liked, but overall while slightly better written still the same theme and feel, not quite as much sadism, but still... a 5.5.

David Drake - Lord of the Isles

Drake, David. Isles 01: Lord of the Isles. Reread 20061231. excellent epic high fantasy series. a 9. multiple characters, but kept within a reasonable and rememberable number, excellent magic, and lots of alternate worlds. but mostly just great characters, and good battles.
Drake, David. Isles 02: Queen of Demons. Reread 20061231. an 8.5
Drake, David. Isles 03: Servant of the Dragon. ReRead 20070101. again great characterization, epic -cross-dimensional battles, necromancy and armies of undead. an 8.5
Drake, David. Isles 04: Mistress of Catacombs. R. 20070103. further adventures, and bring more islands into the kingdom, some time travel as well as dimension hopping, all leading to the same point, woven together quite well. Giant spiders. an 8
Drake, David. Isles 05: Goddess of the Ice Realm. R. 20070110. more in a similar vein. The group is split each to their own quest, then reunites at the final battle at the end. Ilna - the evil version. an 8.
Drake, David. Isles 06: Master of the Cauldron. R. 20070111. excellent, still the same overall format, but a good story. made men coming and 3 attack. Cashel & Ilna's Mother - Mab queen of - somewhere, the King of stone and trolls, a cauldron of monstrous made men. an 8

Sean Stewart - The Night Watch

Stewart, Sean. The Night Watch. R. 20061227. modern fantasy, similar to De Lint. Strong with great depth to the story. futuristic and mythic, in the near future the magic returns, bringing with it powers of grand design. 2 cities one of the plains, one a Chinatown, with all their historical magical background become real, one high tech, one infested with gods. a very good story and certainly as good as Nobody's Son - one of my favorites. a 9.

Jane Lindskold - Wolf - FireKeeper series

Lindskold, Jane. Wolf 1: Through Wolf's Eyes. 2004?. R.k. neat feral wolf-raised girl to 'queen' animal speaker. good battle & some intrigue. a 9. Reread 20061212
Lindskold, Jane. Wolf 2: Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart. 200505? R.k. more intrigue, more magic. an 8 very good sequel. Reread 20061213
Lindskold, Jane. Wolf 3: The Dragon of Despair. 20050513. R.k. revolt of the beasts, to new Kelvin and oddities and more magic an 8. good series, set for more. reread 20061215
Lindskold, Jane. Wolf 4: Wolf Captured. 20061216 R. kidnapped to a distant - sort of aztec - land, much to-do with religions, more romance than usual. Derian & woman of the new land, Firekeeper & Blind Seer (yow). Lots of divine and divination, not quite as good as the previous a 6. answers some minor questions from the very beginning. missed the usual gang tho, with only 3 characters from the previous books involved.

Dave Grossman & Leo Frankowski - The Two-Space War

Grossman, Dave & Leo Frankowski. The Two-Space War. R. 20061208. excellent space opera very very hornblower (or aubry) in space. great references to sf as classic lit of the future heinleiners, webers, tolkien, and a very good sailing ships in space story with a well thought out and reasonable - reason for them. the whole of 2-space was well done. flatland, compressing the universe so things are closer. a bit overdone pushing the military science, tho sort of a authors personal crusade going drops it from truly great to just very good. Still the poetry was excellent and well woven into the story more tolikien influence. an 8. ending set it up for sequels sort of leaving it hanging a bit much.

Christopher Paolini - Eragon

Paolini, Christopher. Inheritance 1: Eragon. R. 20061115. A good mix of Tolkien High-Fantasy with a dash of Harry Potter. Epic feel, high elves, powerful mysterious evil. Interesting dragons. Nothing that you've never seen before, but a good interesting mix put together well with a few good twists to make it somewhat unique. Growing up and leaving home, finding friends, some excellent supporting characters, perhaps overly evil villains, but a staple of high fantasy. Well developed magic system, and societies. good especially for a first novel a 7.

Gary Paulsen - Hatchet

Paulsen, Gary. Hatchet. R. 200611. YA adventure. 12 year old Brian lost in the Canadian Wilderness uses his wits to survive, and becomes more than an average kid. The first of the Brian books, has a sub-plot about his parents divorce. The sequel revises the ending of this book so that he doesn't get rescued quite as easily. good stuff a 6.

Jasper Fforde - The Big Over Easy (A Nursery Crime)

Fforde, Jasper. The Big Over Easy (A Nursery Crime). R. 20061112. a crime noir mystery, with characters from children's nursery rhymes, as real. Humpty is murdered, Jack Spratt (the giant killer) investigates, with Sergeant Mary Mary. A wild cast of characters you instantly recognize, or eventually recognize with surprize, including Prometheus, Old Mother Hubbard, all the famous detectives of fiction from Sherlock Holmes, to Mrs Marple, Solomon Grundy, Georgie Porgie, the woodcutters, 3 Little Pigs, Big Bad Wolf, and many many more, all for some reason living in Reading. A true crime mystery with all the trimmings, and all the extra's you'd expect from Fforde. an 8.

Mail Order Ninja ; volume 1

Elder, Joshua & Erich Owen. Mail Order Ninja v1. R. 20061110. Graphic Novel. Amusing idea, adequate art, a few in jokes (like the article by Charles 'Eastman-Laird', or the Asimovian aliens). Overall quite pointedly aimed at 5th graders. similar to ninja high-school, only it's grade school, and while it has it parts, there's a bit too much kiddie to it. a 4.

Tony Millionaire - Premillennial Maakies

Millionaire, Tony. Premillennial Maakies. R. 20061109. HB. 5 years collection of the weekly independent Maakies comix featuring Uncle Gabby the monkey, and Drinky Crow in all their blasphemous, darkly suicidal, murderous, hilarious, glory. part Winsor McCay part George Herriman part Partrick O'Brian, dash of don martin, with plenty of blood and gore. tremendously well illustrated in a turn of the century style, with darkly humorous, surreal, and/or just violent stories. quite fun. an 8.

Tony Millionaire's Sock Monkey Uncle Gabby

Millionaire, Tony. Tony Millionaire's Sock Monkey Uncle Gabby. R. 20061107. GN HB. in nice muted color that gives it an extra wow. Edward Gorey meets Winsor McCay. Sock monkey poetry, toys adventure, marvelous monsters, flying ships, and Uncle Gabby discovers the sad truth about his owner-creator Ann-Louise. an 8.

The Adventures of Tony Millionaire's Sock Monkey

Millionaire, Tony. The Adventures of Tony Millionaire's Sock Monkey. R. 20061107. TPB. excellent. reminds me of Edward Gorey - the style looks old and turn of the century, you might think. the humor is bright, with dark twists. Uncle Gabby the sock money, and drinky Crow the drunken toy crow have adventures, involving toy ships constantly on the attack. death, insanity. an 7.

Wen Spencer - Alien Taste

Spencer, Wen. Alien Taste. R. 20061102. other than the title giving away too much it's excellent! an 8. very good near future sf. boy raised by wolves with near supernatural abilities. gangs of feuding aliens trying to take over the earth. excellent PI search, good gunfights, satisfying ending, although it doesn't close up all the loose ends, and there could easily be a sequel. cover looks more high-tech than it is. good characters, good low-level romance, excellent adventure, and finding self story.

Nina Kirki Hoffman - A Fistful of Sky

Hoffman, Nina Kirki. A Fistful of Sky. R.20061102. a good modern fantasy. romantic. family of powers. simple living life. a family story with magic. kind of similar to Alice Hoffman. ends oddly tho. a 5.

Cemetery Man (Dellamorte Dellamore)

Cemetery Man (Dellamorte Dellamore) - 20061101. the greatest zombie sex comedy. the most surreal zombie movie of all time - I'm sure. In great the company of comedy horror, like Army of Darkness and Shaun of the Dead, it's doesn't have the jokes per minute, but it also has sexy surrealism. Falchi is hot, delamorte is intriguing and very Italian. The production is amazing for such a low budget seeming film. The camera work is great, there are some shots that are so amazing it almost takes away from the story, the moon in the pool, the broken wings bracketing delamorte, the ending! is one of my favorites, def a surprize. the beginning is great nonchalant zombie killing, sets the tone perfectly. a 9.

Wen Spencer - Tinker

Spencer, Wen. Tinker. R. 20061027. a good elves and sf story. near future and someone built a machine that opened the way back up to elfhame of old. good characters. the sex scenes were cribbed from a typical romance novel, a bit stereotypical feeling. the ideas magic as a waveform, spells as a type of technology, the 2 able to work together science and magic print out magic spells, cast them - was interesting. But the best of it was the main character, able to overcome her enemies without being a 'fighter' using her considerable brains instead. a 6.

David Weber & John Ringo - March Series

Weber, David & John Ringo. March 1 March Upcountry. R.k+file good an 8 better than Ringo alone. maybe not quite as good as Weber alone. the kid is bratty but gets over it quick enough that you don't end up disliking him. wagons west on another planet ) having to 'go native' to get weapons. guns & dinos. an interesting setting. hardcore military
SF. Reread 20040120.alice.
Weber, David & John Ringo. March 2 March to the Sea. R.k-file 20040122. lots of vs. barbarians, developing primitive artillery & guns. much the same, only larger scale. a 7 or 8.
Weber, David & John Ringo. March 3 March to the Stars. 20040208. R.x. take the port, easy enough, lose more and more people tho, sad end, but the series isn't over at least one more, prob only one more. a 7.
Weber, David & John Ringo. March 4: We Few. R. 20061026. finish the story of sorts, but sets up for new stuff. a 6. loses the effect of the 'march' but still good fun. Becomes more intrigue, less battle, 'tho there is still much. Add many more characters - tho lost many in book #3 so prob didn't add overall to the number. The series is Written by Ringo from an outline by Weber. Ties up most of the previous loose ends, and only makes few more. Ringo's website says something about 3 more books to finish the series, but there is a good ending to the plot in this one, not particularly happy, but successful.

David Weber - In Fury Born

Weber, David. In Fury Born. HB. R. 20061023. not really a sequel, more of a prequel plus. a combo of a prequel and the original into one volume, about 50% new, tacked onto the front of Path. Very well done hard military marine sf, but not a better book. Sure there's ton's more backstory on Ally, but with out the 3 fury's the 'hook' of path is missing, and while good military sf, it lacks the great that Path had on it's own. Sure the original is still all there, but with such a long buildup it come off a bit odd. a 9.

Identity Crisis (Meltzer, Morales, Bair)

Identity Crisis (Meltzer, Morales, Bair). GN. R.X. 20061018. excellent story, JLA/JSA classic DC comics characters, and a few of the old unused ones. very gripping, emotional story, 'real' deaths, and some excellent character developments. if it wasn't for so much needed backstory to get some of the characters, or history to understand the emotions, it would be even better, but you just can't get that with an ensemble cast of characters with such long back stories. still excellent writing, and good art. exposition of the why behind the secret identities. a 7.

Neal Schusterman - The Dark Side of Nowhere

Schusterman, Neal. The Dark Side of Nowhere. YA. SF, excellent story, coming of age. the glove thing that they always use for the cover is an odd aspect to focus on. boring town has secrets that, once discovered, will change the world. Jason is in the middle of it, there's a girl he likes, a friend who's just died, maybe... a mysterious janitor, and secrets in old town. Nature or nurture? go with the crowd, or do what you think is right. a 7 or 8.

Gary Paulsen - Brian's Series

Paulsen, Gary. Brain's Winter. R. 20061016. Young Adult. sequel of sorts to Hatchet. What if Brian had not be rescued and stayed the winter? an excellent outdoors survival novel. excellent descriptions, and narration. You're in Brian's head the whole time and deep in his thought and musings. a 6.
Paulsen, Gary. Brian's Return. R. 20060921.
Paulsen, Gary. Brian's Hunt. R. 20060921. Good, very short, reminds of My Side of the Mountain, but more spiritual-bonding to nature. one with nature, young teen on his way to being a mountain man' of the north Canadian woods. a 7. Continuation of Hatchet I think books 3 & 4.

Kolchak The Night Stalker and Night Strangler

The Night Stalker very 70's TV movies. but there is something about the story and plot that are interesting. It's not that scary, but there are some interesting spooky bits. the Las Vegas setting is interesting, the Vampire is sort of flat. a 5
Night Strangler - is a bit better, McGavin really gets into it, the Seattle underground setting is quite interesting, and the back story on the mysterious murderer is quite interesting. plus denouement as they drive off is quite fun. John Carradine has a great bit part. the effects are a bit better, or perhaps budget was a bit higher.  a 6.

Brian K. Vaughan & Niko Henrichon - Pride of Baghdad

Vaughan, Brian K. & Niko Henrichon. Pride of Baghdad. R. 20061012. Graphic Novel. an excellent talking animals story, very 'real' feeling the lions freed, and confused, wandering in the ruins. loosely based on true events, which make for a sad ending. a 7.

Neil Gaiman - 1602

Gaiman, Neil.   1602. rx. 20061012. Graphic Novel. the beginning of the marvel universe as it would have happened in 1602. All the greats, Fury, Strange, X-men, Doom, daredevil, Magneto, Thor. and he even made it work without being an elseworlds story, (although I think that would have worked just as well) excellent cover art by Mckowen very much in the style of woodcuts. An interesting story but more a gimmick than anything great. a 5.

Tony Millionaire - Billy Hazelnuts

Millionaire, Tony.      Billy Hazelnuts. 20061011. Graphic Novel. astounding turn of the century style art & story. very reminiscent of Winsor McCay. Girl scientist, boy poet, billy the thing the rats made! A grave yard for worn out & broken planets, flying ships, magic-science. marvelous. a 9.

Mercedes Lackey & Rosemary Edghill - Bedlam's Bard Series

Lackey, Mercedes & Rosemary Edghill. Beyond World's End. R. 20061005. Continuing Bedlam's Bard + Knight of Ghosts & Shadows (and apparently mostly Rosemary's work). bard goes to NYC to finish Juliard. meets Guardian House, magic guardians of NYC, & a gargoyle. The Wild Hunt which is rather taken aback to find they're not much of a threat to modern armed paramilitary drug runners. Good story, but takes along time to get going, and you really do need the backstory of the previous books to know the characters, in fact you ought to have read all the serrated edge books too (not as necessary but there are references). a 6.
Lackey, Mercedes & Rosemary Edghill. Spirits White as Lightning. R. 20061008. Direct sequel to world's end, with all the same characters, but a new plot. govt agency after elves and search for 1/2elf breeding info. lord of the hunt - scary guy, but some interesting background on him. a 5. Really overall sort of Lackey-lite.
Lackey, Mercedes & Rosemary Edghill. Mad Maudlin. R. 20061010. more gripping that the previous 2. some tail ends unfinished, and a sequel at least is listed. some good interweaving of story lines, the mad protector/Bloody Mary was interesting. a 7.

Jordan Sonnenblick - Drums Girls & Dangerous Pie.

Sonnenblick, Jordan. Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie. R. 20061004. Young Adult tear-jerker. Quite well written. Brothers. cancer. Girls. and Drumming. an 8. Astounding depth to his passion for drumming - something which comes through well. Love of brothers and annoyances of little brothers, family crisis and growing up, taking control of what can be controlled. Girls, finding what was there all along, not what it looked like. Much sadness, quite a tear-jerker esp near the end, but a nice upbeat heartwarming ending. A little pat, but I was beginning to worry he was going to die, and I'd of thrown the book across the room if he'd had. Strong emotional story similiar to much of Cynthia Voight.

Walter H. Hunt - 'Dark' Series

Hunt, Walter H. The Dark Wing. R. 20060929. good space opera, fairly polished, a bit of honor harrington and bit of Babylon 5 a bit of Enders Game. interesting aliens, simplistic military maneuvers and combat, but good intrigue. a 6.
Hunt, Walter H. The Dark Path. R. 20060930. part one of a series. a continuation of The Dark Wing but not directly following it, 80 years later. a lot more about the mental special abilities, and the Zor mythology and prescience. a 6.
Hunt, Walter H. The Dark Ascent. R. 20061001. direct sequel to path, jackie continues lots of mystical dream stuff. some minor revelations about the masterminds behind it all. a 6.
Hunt, Walter H. The Dark Crusade.       R. 20061004. jump 20-some-odd years, war with the Bugs. still the 6 colors the villains behind the scenes. Cults, AI, betrayals. not over yet. a 5.

Christopher Rowley - Fenrille Series

Rowley, Christopher. The War for Eternity. R. 20060920. a 5. starts a bit disjointed, but he writing really picks up by the last 1/3 and the quality improves noticeably. had a hard time keeping track of the characters at first. good adventure/military stuff, and the addition of the 'spirits' and the created world was interesting. 1st written in a series of 2 with 2 prequels.
Rowley, Christopher. The Black Ship. R. 20060925. sequel to war for eternity. a 6. good continuation of the story. excellent military adventure, with the addition of mental powers. A combination of stories, the military sf, 1st contact, and human evolution of the mind. well written, his skill was raised to a good level by the end of war for eternity and stayed there.
Rowley, Christopher. The Founder. R. 20060926. prequel to war for eternity. a 5. the writing was good, polished, but the plot jumped from childhood, to young adult, to the trip, then when I'd just gotten a good hold on the character - he had a breakdown. the revolution in the ship was well plotted, the new info on the woodwose was interesting. But being a prequel there was nothing surprising.
Rowley, Christopher. To A Highland Nation. 20060927. R. 2nd prequel, Fair Fundan's history, the beginning of the Fein/human highlander community, less military sf than guerilla warfare, and banditry. a 5. Suggested reading order: The Founder, To A Highland Nation, The War for Eternity, The Black Ship. Since Black Ship is really major ending to the series, and the prequels don't give away anything of the plot.

Gary Paulson - Brian's Return & Brian's Hunt

Paulson, Gary. Brian's Return. R. 20060921.
Paulson, Gary. Brian's Hunt. R. 20060921. Good, very short quick reads, reminds of My Side of the Mountain, but more spiritual-bonding to nature. one with nature, young teen on his way to being a 'mountain man' of the north Canadian woods. a 7. Continuation of Hatchet I think books 3 & 4.

Mario Acevedo

Acevedo, Mario. The Nymphos of Rocky Flats. R. 20060919. TPB. Interesting vampire story, Gulf war syndrome a cover for vampirism, UFO's, Roswell, vampire hunters, Nymphomaniacs, Red uranium, death and murder, and redemption. dryads, and potions, and turning people to frogs! Secret vampire organization. a Mexican-American vampire P.I. investigating the nymphos, secret DOE compound. then the weirdness starts. pretty good adventure. a 6.


Mario Acevedo - X-Rated Bloodsuckers, sequel to Nymphos. R. 200801? TPB. It has the elements of the original, but not the angst, and unfortunately not the level of sarcastic humour. The ideas are there, but the humour just didn't come across as well. Still fun, and a good adventure, set in the valley this time, with vampires and porn stars and evangelists, but not quite as good as the first. a 5.

Christopher Moore - Fluke

Moore, Christopher. Fluke. R. 20060913. excellent as usual. Even though for quite over half the novel it's still about scientists studying the whale songs - it's still quite gripping and funny, he does excellent characters, dialogue, and plotting. It's both real and humourous. Then it goes SF on you and gets even more fun. Okay so the villain is a bit flat, and only comes in at the end of the story, but it's not about that sort of conflict. a 7.

John Ringo - There Will be Dragons

Ringo, John. There Will be Dragons. R.K 20060907. excellent historical-military with high-tech nano-SF, body mods, universal power utopia. a bit hard to swallow that they so quickly accept the loss of all the high-tech. but once that's done, it does go very well. several hints of previous 'history' and excellent fantasy/medieval warfare. start of a series. a 7.

John Ringo - Princess of Wands

Ringo, John. Princess of Wands. R. 20060907. interesting modern fantasy. Christian with out bible thumping. - as the character is also. really a collection of 3 short stories, one fairly long, one novella, and a short ender. Con stuff in the 2nd story, and several characters who were certainly parodies of real sf authors including the villain who had to be David Drake, allusions to Robert Jordan, a character who had to be Baen, and one may have been Ringo too. secret magical defenders in the FBI to fight the demons and monsters which are really there. power of faith, any faith, even Christian :) to combat evil. good stories. a 6.

Lois McMaster Bujold - The Hallowed Hunt.

Bujold, Lois McMaster. Chalion series(hmm needs another name) 3: The Hallowed Hunt. 20060831. It's certainly set in the same world as Chalion, but not the same land, it has the same gods, with the addition of shamanistic animal magic. An excellent story, but lacking a truely evil villain it was hard to get entirely behind the heros - one of those that if they'd only talk! they could work it all out. But! far better than '2' so I'd say an 8 she's getting excellent in fantasy.

Carrie Vaughn - Kitty and the Midnight Hour

Vaughn, Carrie. Kitty and the Midnight Hour. 20060830. Werewolves and dominance, Dj's and vampires and murders. starts a bit wavering, but ends well, there are sequels, and is as good as Charlaine Harris or Kelley Armstrong. a 7. an excellent start. as good as the first Hamilton Blake.
If you like this try Laurell K. Hamilton - Anita Blake. Kelley Armstrong. Robin Mckinley - Sunshine. Nancy Collins - Sonja Blue. Kim Harrison. Charlaine Harris'- Southern Vampire series.

Greg the Bunny

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Don't know why I thought it was terrible when it first came out, but just watched the DVD's and G the B is really really funny. Some eps are better than others, Dottie's video tape fiasco is prob my favorite. Jimmy & Gil bonding is really one of the lesser ones - not enough puppets. Sarah Silverman is funny and sexy in a dominating career woman way. The puppets are really funny, for the most part. Dottie is cute and bubbly and sexy, the bathroom wall writing was her - spot on. Didn't find Tardy as amusing as they did, and Susan is kinda creepy. Count Blah is quite great as was Junction Jack.

L. NEIL SMITH - HENRY MARTYN & BRETTA MARTYN

SMITH, L. NEIL. HENRY MARTYN. R. YET ANOTHER SAILING THE STARS BOOK, I WISH WE'D STAYED WITH 'HENRY' MORE OR AT LEAST FOLLWED ALL HIS ADVENTURES INSTEAD OF SKIPPING THE MIDDLE AND WATCHING HIS EVIL BROTHER SO MUCH. BUT A GOOD BOOK, IDEAS 8, STORY 7
WRITING 6. Reread 20060818. that was neat, but perhaps a bit overly brutal? Still quite, fun, and yes should have stayed more with 'Henry' and less with the villains, but that's my nitpick with POV and not necessarily a fault of the story. rather think it's more an 8 this time there was a lot of invented modified language, but I 'got' it more this read. Loved the archaic Walther .22 and the old Lego style of building! amusing fun bits. but the story freedom vs. governance of empire underlying theme is still a good one.

SMITH, L. NEIL. Bretta MARTYN. sequel to Henry Martyn. R. 20060821. very libertarian, and it shows in the luna colony. not quite as good as Henry, not due to story, but due to sequel, spent quite a lot of the beginning - felt like over half recapping (and revising) the 1st book, but it was all telling little showing. Once it finally took off - when they took off, it when quick and was quite fun. A bit less rape and pillage, lots of adventure & pirates at war. anti-slavery, pro-self government. a 7.

Greg Bear - Vitals

Bear, Greg. Vitals. R.X. 20060812. ugh, a disappointment, actually rather reminded me of Tim Powers last - Declare. starts off as if it's going to be an interesting immortality story and ends up a spy/intrigue/mind-control story. Never really got into the biologist character - I remember being at pg 80 and thinking, when is it going to get good... The historian character (2 character pov story, half way thru switches) was much more interesting - but it could have been that the plot was going strong by then. but worst of all he loses, and never really figures out exactly what was going on... bah. I'd expected much better from BEAR, GREG. since THE INFINITY CONCERTO. was amazing, but this isn't up to his old stuff. It is a good spy/mind control/mild sf story, and might appeal to the Dan Brown Da Vinci Code crowd, if they weren't too much into the art & religion aspect of that story. a 4.

John Varley - Red Thunder

Varley, John. Red Thunder. R.X. 20060806. good story, lots of gosh wow, great fun yay we did it, and excellent built it ourselves stuff. a 6. The adventure is great, the afterwards was inconclusive, and sort of a let down. but easily dismissable. an excellent hard sf story, with the addition of the one 'fantasy' element of the drive, all else is quite 'real' science and tech. very like a perhaps somewhat more thoughtful Heinlein juvenile.
If you like this you might like Frankowski, Leo & Dave Grossman. The War with Earth.

Michelle Shirey Crean - Dancer of the Sixth

Crean, Michelle Shirey. Dancer of the Sixth. R. 20060804. an excellent 1st book. Military, Spy, fighter jock, secret spy organization, in depth secrets, multiple races of men, torture death. well written for the most part, just a few bits where it gets confusing, unfortunately the end is one, not the big finish, but the denouement is off, bit of romance. a solid 6. great potential for further stuff. good plotting. excellent detail filled setting. One of the fighter-jock sf sub-sub-genre. Dancer code name of a former hot shot pilot now assumed KIA, joins the 6th - apparently the clean up crew war, sort of well armed spies, full of vengeful Aruyx a race of minor telepaths massacred by the enemy who has an odd love of torture. She finds a double has taken her place in the 4th (the fighter-jocks) and is in their version of the Blue Angels. There are some excellent twists and revelations. It's set up for a sequel without truly needing it to finish the story. I would have said she was a writer to watch out for - great things might be forthcoming - if it didn't look like this book from 1993 is her one and only book. A shame, she had a good voice, and this could have been continued to an excellent trilogy.

James Kochalka Superstar - Spread Your Evil Wings and Fly

James Kochalka's James Kochalka Superstar - Spread Your Evil Wings and Fly CD, was probabaly the most fun thing I got at the San Diego Comic-con 2006. Saw him at the Top Shelf booth, with Eddie Campbell, and Melinda Gebbie. He didn't really have to talk me into it that hard, I've been waiting for a collection of the SuperF*ckers comics and stopped to see if I could get a sketch. Good rock music, with darkly humorous lyrics, some songs more pop rock, some dark rock, with some catchy and horrifying refrains (Justin Timberlake, Justin Timberlake, Justin Timberlake, Justin Timberlake, Justin Timberlake... Gah!!) an 8 it's only problem is that it's too short!

Juliet E. Mckennan - Einarinn fantasy series

Mckenna, Juliet E. Einarinn 1 The Theif's Gamble. Elemental magic, atheric magic, evil Eskimo people, a fun story mostly. a 6 Livak the theif's pov
Mckenna, Juliet E. Einarinn 2 Swordsman's Oath. Ryshad the warrior's pov. too little Livak in it. but more odd cultures shown, the archipelagoes. find the lost land. revive the lost people.
Mckenna, Juliet E. Einarinn 3 The Gambler's Fortune. 20060730. a 6 the series so far, at least another probably 2 more books to finish. Livak the theif pov. the forest folk, and the mountain folk this time.

Gail Carson Levine - The Princes Test

Levine, Gail Carson. The Princes Test. R. 2006071? cute novella, ya, classic princess tests, pea in the bed etc. nowhere near as good as Ella enchanted. but of the same style. a 5

Laser Mission Force

Laser Mission Force - Brandon Lee. DVD. 20060710. some ok fight scenes, nothing special tho, some gawd-awful dialog, definitely B-movie grade action, direction, plot, and effects. Where it was set.. maybe Africa? by way of Russian Cuba? confusing setting, but it was actually shot in a desert somewhere and that bit looks good. Poor Brandon was saddled with some truly horrible dialogue, the chick side-kick (Debi A. Monahan), was ok. And although her greatest assets were definitely the 2 in front, at least her dialogue was better. The bumbling enemy pair who eventually help them were actually amusing. The evil bad-guy who just won't die was rather amusing after awhile too, how many times to they have to kill him before he'll stay dead? a 3. Not really worth seeing. There are only 3 reason to see this movie it is Brandon Lee's 1st, has Ernest Borgnine, and Debi A. Monahan trying desperately not to fall out of her dress (and unfortunately succeeding). On the other hand - you can get it for $1 so it was actually worth the price, but not a penny more.

Previous Movies

Blast from the Past. 20060709. ha the ex boyfriend is the captain from Firefly! A great and funny movie, Walken steals his scenes, and Clueless girl is cute when she pouts, and the druggie/worshiper is amusing. Story is cute, sort of fun. good overall. a 6.

Young Master. 20060702. early Jackie Chan, some good kung-fu, not much plot, and what there is, is kind of confusing. oh you can follow it, but why bother? the dragon fight at the beginning is quite good. a 6

Fantasy Mission Force. 20060703. GREAT! B-Movie Weirdness! Nazis, Japs, Amazons, and post-Apocalypse Kung-Fu! One of the best B-movies, crazy kung-fu, WW2-ish, fantasy. Truly bizarre plot, nazis & Japanese attack ;? Canada? capture 4 generals - one from France, one from England, one from Africa, and one from America - Abraham Lincoln!, take them to Luxembourg! the army chooses guy captain to form a team to rescue them. including the escape artist guy, the explosives guy, the old west Elvis impersonator guy, his psycho girlfriend, weird asian Scottish highlander guy, and his sidekick dressing in roman armor. Jackie Chan is a thief the team runs into and he helps - some. they are captured by Amazons, escape a haunted house, and finally have a show down with the 70's car chariot riding Nazis & Japs. Most everyone dies. Jackie revenges them. bizarre and surreal plot, quite a bit of good kung-fu action. lots of B-movie sets, and costumes. just great! taking it for what it is
- a 9.

36 Crazy Fists. 20060703. fight choreography by Jackie Chan. 98 lb weakling, begs to join temple to learn kung-fu to avenge his father. he learns with amazing speed. tons and tons of long involved fights. he wins some he loses, he goes back for 1 week of training, he wins, gets new challenge, 1 month training, fights the big boss master, he wins, with help, the end. a 5

40 Year Old Virgin. 20060515. eh, lotta creepy embarrassing stuff,but some lovey romancey stuff, and just bit too accurate with some portrayals.

Shaun of the Dead. excellent funny movie. an 8

Underworld 2. 20060126. bloodiest movie ever. not most violent, but certainly most bloody. a good action adventure vampire werewolf amusement. a 6.x

Grand Canyon. (1991) VHS. X. a 5. a bit preachy, but excellent work from Kline, and steve martin, and danny glover was good, the teen boys were a bit over done. a nicely moralizing peace, with a pleasant end.

Light Sleeper (dafoe sarandon)(VHS) a 7. a bit slow, an interesting drug dealer story. very little action, more of a finding himself, sort of a reverse mid-life crisis. 40 yr old dealer suddenly may be out of the biz, and what to do? dafoe is good and the guy who can and is going to change, but can't find the direction to turn to.

Memoirs of a Geisha. blah, a 2. excellent photography, and some quite good acting save it from total ick. but the story and setting just were not nice.

Elizabethtown. 200512. much better than expected, a chick flick, but excellent, great wake/memorial, excellent road trip, romantic comedy, and good at all three. an 8 imdb

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead. watched at Tracys on her big drop down screen and projection tv. yay. one of the best movies ever and prob my 2nd favorite comedy just after Holy Grail. Rape of the Sabine women, or rather women, or rather Alfred. England I don't belive it! Just a conspiracy of cartographers? imdb

Mirrormask. 200510. absolutely great a 9. The actress who played Helena was a bit off at times, but it was minor, the story could have been a little stronger - less happenstance more struggle, but was well done. Excellent visually, and I though not at all difficulty to follow. imdb

Corpse Bride. 20050925. excellent. quite reminiscent of NBX but less a musical. carter hold the show - her character the bride is the best one. Depp's characters is too much a Victorian wimp, and victoria just lets stuff happen to her - at first she tried to fight it but gave up. so the story is a bit weak, the visuals are as good as NBX, the music is very good. a 8. imdb

Brothers Grimm. 20050828. excellent, good creepy fun fantasy, keeping to the original Grimm tales, not the prettied up Disney stuff, as good as any Gilliam movie, not his best, but still good fun. an 8. imdb

Batman Begins. 20050701. a very good batman movie - Ras Al Guhl was excellent, good setup for the batman universe history, an excellent superhero movie, certainly better than the last few batmans, as good as Burton's but with a different slant. a 6. good action movie, some excellent actors in the minor parts. imdb

Wicked - the musical - live at the pantages. 20050630. Good. excellent sets, costumes good, effects very good, music good, lyrics ok, story good. overall good a 6. went with David, Shelley, Alex, Me.

Howls Moving Castle. 20050618. Miazaki's new movie - very good, a _great_ adaption. prob the least for kids of his movies, tho. thick with plot - well a little bit - certainly more than American animated films, but certainly not overmuch. good ending, added a but more war stuff than I remember from the book, and toned down howl a bit. a 9. maybe not my new fav Miazaki movie but certainly top 3. imdb

Thirteenth Floor. 200506? watched again. good as I remembered - but more, continues further than where I remember the 'end', didn't really think the clean up ending was all that memorable - I stopped when they find out they're the '2nd simulacrum' gonna have to read the book and see what it was like. a 7. atmospheric, no-name cast but many recognizable faces.

Death to Smoochy. 20050428. very good a 9. excellent cast, excellent dialogue, very funny good denouement & end.

Sin City. 20050402sat. a great movie - if you liked the comix you'll like the movie, not perfect - there are a few scenes with dialogue that is just a bit off, but a solid 9. possibly the best adaption of original work ever.

Princess Bride, The. 20050120- 5th? viewing at least. excellent. very amusing. a 10.

Black Hole, the. 20050105. wow, poor acting, plotless story, dated effects, nice theme music, and overly cutesy robot r2-d2 knockoffs. storyless random ending. a 2. actually very amusing to watch and make fun of, but not really fun in & of itself. leaden acting, very dated effects, totally unrealistic science, weird Dante & hell references, ending just trying to get by on effects with no plot what-so-ever. some of the dumbest fights, robots doing quick-draw target practice?!, very hmm suspect robot fight scene with 'rape' overtones near the end. Red 'black' hole, strangest meteor shower just aiming at the ship no-where else, could have just moved a few feet & got out of the way, still attempt the maneuver even as the ship is being destroyed via meteor - no attempt to abort & fix it first. robot esp, but wait just her, no he did it too, no just her, huh? not even consistent within itself. an all-effects movie where the effects didn't last the test of time.

Daredevil - 2 he would _never_ allow some one to die no matter _what_ they had done let alone just a rapist! yet within the 1st 5 min... bleah. otherwise ok action.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the - 9. excellent

Around the World in 80 Days.jackie chan version. 20041229. good, funny, nothing really like the book or other movie, but a good jackie chan movie with vintage futuristic sf stuff. a 5.

Lord of the G-String the R version. a lot of new scenes that are not in the NC-17 version, all the sex is cut drastically. over all a funnier movie, less time between jokes, more hokey jokey stuff. 20041229 a 6.

Napoleon Dynamite. 200412. eh, more cringe-worthy than funny, but there were some laugh out loud moments. high school geek horror slice of life. a 4.

Without a Paddle. 20041120. pretty funny once it finally got funny. a 7. took too long to get them into the woods, but good. moral ending but not too bad.

Chronicles of Riddick 1: Pitch Black. 20041118. pretty good horror sf - sort of Alien/Aliens feel. not really great production. good characters tho. a 5.

Chronicles of Riddick (2) eh, lots of sf effects, but not really much of a story. a 5.

50 First Dates. drew & adam sandler. very cute with lots of funny. a 9. better than wedding singer.

Producers, the. Mel brooks, very funny, ? was a bit over the top during his anxiety attacks, the secretary was hilarious, nice and short, no slow bits. a 7. 200411? DVD - the extra cut scene was good, don't really know why it was cut. lots of slapstick, and situational comedy.

Terminal, the (tom hanks) good amusing touching funny. a 6.

Shrek. an 8
Shrek 2. a 7

Bruce Almighty. great movie. an 8

Hulk, the (2003) - ugh the best bit was the cameo by Stan Lee & Lou Feregino - a 3

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - excellent a 8 or 9

Ladykillers (tom hanks) funny black comedy. great a 7.

Dodgeball. very funny an 8.

Harry Potter 1: the sorcerers (philosophers) stone 8
Harry Potter 2: chamber of something 7
Harry Potter 3: Prisoner of Azkaban 7

Cabin Boy. 20040317. watched DVD - no extras to speak of, but a great surreal film. a 9.

UHF. 20040317. DVD. Weird Al movie! never heard of it before, but it's good. a 6.

The Last Samurai. 20040314. with the whole crew from d&d. good choreography on the individual fight scenes, the battles were not bad too. the samurai were good tom was enh. a 7.

Traffic. 20040213. interesting, but enh,. a 5. neat structure & dir. but story...

The Rutles: All You Need is Cash. 20040310. excellent Beatles parody mocumentary. an 8

Monty Python's Holy Grail. (DVD with extra scene) 20040310. best comedy ever a 10

Spinal Tap. 20040303. heavy metal mocumentary. great an 8

A Mighty Wind. 20040303. folk music mocumentary. (most the actors from spinal tap) a 7.

The Cat in the Hat. 20040221. ug. the fat bastard in the hat. the kids weren't bad sally was pretty good actually. freak boss! what the ! a 1. i did laugh, but not much.

TimeLine. 20040125. sun. with the whole crew kathy,dan,duane,mark,shelley. fun but nothing great, poor plot but pretty good medieval action. a 3, poor acting too... but a fun to see once movie and worth $2.75 :}

Big Fish. 20040111. tall tales, very good. an 8. (Burton)

Shipping News, The. 20040108. over at Kathy & Dan's place with the huge projection screen. actually a good movie, I'd thought it was going to be a rather sappy chick-flick, but while still rather a chick flick, it had more backbone than most. newfoundland, pirates in your family tree, good work by spacy, a 5. nothing spectacular, but better than a lot of stuff.

Paycheck. 20040105. pk dick story, good as always, similar theme as usual,, not the best actors but a good story, and fun. - saw with Ally.

Cheaper by the Dozen. 20040103. a funny movie, better steve martin than usual (lately). but nothing like the book, other than 12 kids... maybe some names? - still for what it was it was amusing a 5.

Scrooged. 20031224. GREAT x-mas movie - very funny, and a bit touching at the end. - plus a bonus - book at a gift!, and Carol Kane as the ghost of xmas presents, and Bill Murry is in top form on this one. a 9 - one of my perennial xmas favs

Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King. 20031217 8pm. 20031221 4pm. Great! & I like the accurate to the book endings. a 10

Once Upon a Time in Mexico. 20031211. Rodrequez, bandares, . a sequel to desperado itself a remake of El Mariachi. a good if bloody movie a great as expected performance by Jonhhy Depp, over the top violence, but a nice back story with hyack. fun exciting movie. an 8.

Magic Knights Rayearth - whole series. 200311.not bad, but not really great, good but not great animation, sorta pushed it to get the giant robots into the show, okay story, a bit simple minded, liked the end of season 1, season 2 was more action fighting robot story and less good story than 1st but better action stuff.

Nauscia of the Valley of the Wind. Anime. 20031021. excellent drama, good animation, great story, an ending that fits very well with the story (unlike a lot of anime!) a 9.

Captain Studly. cartoon on cartoon network. The Originals. 20031008. old superhero (superman parody) & the League (Justice League parody) some really funny bits, (like the Sgt.Rock/Cap.Fury parody character having had a sex change!), come back from retirement to fight their old nemesis. overall it's been done before (powerpuff girls ep with the batman/robin parody jumps to mind as most recent) but not really done any better. Still fairly amusing overall, don't know if I'd bother to keep watching the series, but this episode was fun. a 5.

Trigun. Anime ep#1 the $$60 billion Man. 20031008. amusing, great action animation, a bit too goofy, but pretty much a fun romp, western SF. a 7

Charlies Angels 2: 20030911. a 7. very very funny, very, and good action, not seamlessly putting the actress into it all the time but not too bad, great cameos.

Slackers - 200309 - SVCD - what the hell?!? gah, weird!, Freak!!, & what did it have to do with 'slackers' anyway? they put waaaay too much effort into their shenanigans. cool ethan is a stalker psycho freakmonkey! the cheating stuff was good 'con' style action adventure & the puppy love stuff was sweet & there was lots of funny bits, but this movie is very very odd. an 8 of 10. low production values, but not adversely affecting, slap-dash ending tho. might be more disturbing than amusing in the final count, but it is fun.


Pirates of the Caribbean. 20030710. Thurs. very fun. Depp was excellent! lots cool cannon & skeleton fight scenes, good pirate stuff. sabre fights actually looked good & 'realistic' too.

RollerBall (200x- the new one) (2 SVCDs) silly & dumb. a 3.

Orange County (2 SVCDs) funny, jack is great.

Minority Report (3 SVCDs)very good, but sorta cop-out end

Boondock Saints (2 SVCDs) excellent!

Mr. Deeds (Full Screen) (2 SVCDs) funny

New Guy, the (2 SVCDs) hillarious! funk, & Henry Rollins!

Birthday Girl (2 SVCDs) Good!

Rat Race (w/extras) (3 SVCDs) quite funny(cleese)


Collateral Damage (2 SVCDs) glad didn't pay much for it..

Core, the. Armageddon rip-off not as good. Better than it looked

Gangs of New York. 20030626. really neat an 8

Holes. 20030629. a9 great - word for word the book.

Formula 51 (sam jackson)SVCD good story, not that great done, but fun.

X-Files. a 2 hour episode of the show, with some bigger effects, but not many...

DareDevil. 20030422. well it had a better story than spiderman .. but . Lots of in references to daredevil artists. Dan & Kathy worked on it :} sort of odd, that he kills that guy early on, not his style. good job showing the 'sight' tho. great action - hong kong wirework.

4 Dogs Playing Poker. 20030421. pretty neat W/ Tim Curry supporting character - tho he has a fairly big part. Reservoir Puppies. art thieves, suddenly need $4million life insurance & murder pact some plot holes but a good b movie.

Spirited Away. 200304. excellent. one of the best fantasy Anime ever seen. strong plot, good ending not too surreal, interesting characters with good designs, excellent creepy ambiance, an 8. not humor tho there are funny bits, not horror tho a bit creepy, sort of an action/romance/fantasy. well done, deserving of the Oscar.

John Q. 200304. good as I'd thought it might be.

Wedding Singer, the - -much funnier than I expected. very good,kind of hokey but fun, an 7.
20041022. watched again on tape. a great funny movie drew & sandler are a good pair. great soundtrack, amusing story. great performances by the older secondary actors. an 8.

007: Goldeneye 007 - I didn't like the beginning (which is often the best part of a 007 movie) and it was so obvious who the villain was going to be. a disappointment. it seems that w/o a book to base it on the 007's aren't too hot. - 3 -

007: World is Not Enough - worst bond yet, dumped all the intro stuff no t&A cute chicks but dumb story, rotten use of Cleese! a 1 just 'cause it had cleese

3000 Miles to Graceland. cool one of the best movies he's done, as good as escape from NY

Alice in Wonderland - DeBell 'R' version (well an NC-17 version anyway)

Alien 4: the resurrection - -hella better than #3! very good - guys from city of lost children an 8

American President, the(an?) okay fairly humorous and with an upbeat social commentary fix the environment ending - 5 -

American Strays - -interesting - tilly - 3 near separate stories a 6

American Werewolf in Paris - -ok, a 5 - good FX

Antz - -good 7 -

Armageddon (WideScreen) - -damn good. a 9

As Good as it Gets (nicholson) - -pretty good a 6

Asswoman in Wonderland - xxx - -great! xxx version! funny as all hell 8 -

Avengers, the (Uma, Connery) - -eh. a 3 liked her evil twin better

Bad Boys - Action, okay no big deal some small funny bits but not enough. - 3

BASEketball - -ok 5 - a disappointment after their other stuff -(like Cannibal the musical drunken director's cometary!!)

Batman forever - (please be forever before I have to see it again)

Big Lebowiski, the - funny!

Billy Madison - good funny

Biodome - good funny

Birdy the Mighty -anime - bleah

Blade - -pretty good. a 7 great action - dumb actor

Blue Thunder - McDowell played The Bad Helicopter Guy -

Underworld. ok. vamps vs. weres. a 5.

Blues Bros - -neat, kinda funny, some ok blues stuff even if it was a musical - a 6 -

Blues Brothers 2000 - -awful a 2

Bound (theft comedy) - a neat sexy thief-mobster girls night out and putting one over the bader guys - very sexy lesbian stuff, and fair suspense. - 8 -

BraveHeart (gibson) - v good, very real battle scenes, gripping, epic - 8

Bride with white Hair, the & The Bride with white Hair 2 - -(jap fantasy/martial arts, w/leslie cheung) - saw a dubbed vers and it was pretty neat, sfx tho not super expensive were good action interesting in the interview a section shown with subtitles translated totally different than what it was dubbed as - so how much of interesting subplots were lost? - 2 was subtitled and the story was mildly more interesting but the ending is not a really happy one more or less the 2nd half of the movie a 7 for the pair -

Buffalo '66 (Ricci) -good, ricci - wide screen would rock 7-8 -

Bullets Over Broadway _ very funny, good twists of black humor, - 8 -

Camp Nowhere (lloyd) - i like lloyd

Can't Hardly Wait - -eh 3 - I could've waited a looong time

Cemetery Man - -hilarious black comedy/surrealism - 9

Chase, the - ok not bad thievery and the ending was nice but no big deal - 5 -

Chasing Amy (clerks, mallrats) - -an 8 - -neat! comix and lesbians, and very much connected to clerk and mallrats but more adult and more relationships,
fun but not happy story

City of Industry - -good tarentino like 7 -

Clerks - weird, b&W very funny but the thing with the dead guy was sicko - 8 -

Clueless - cute

Coneheads - bleah

Conspiracy Theory - -A great movie - it's all true! and the ending was very well done, didn't kill him off but didn't ruin it by giving a 'happy' ending with girl. - 9

Crow, The. a 10. one of my favorite adaptions of all time, not 'right on' but the feel was good, wished for a better actor for that black cop, but.. the main villain was cool (even if a extra addition) excellent soundtrack,

Crow, the: the city of angels - they killed off the girl! that was extra disappointing - besides the fact that it just wasn't 'right' enough. some nice visuals, but a major disappointment - 5 -

Dark City (dir crow) - -cool atmospheric a 7-8

Dear God - An amusing thing sort of funny and such but no great winner - 4 -

Desert Blue =- bittersweet cool story Ricci character an odd one (as usual) but was quite a neat story sky blue empire cola. an 8

Desperado - not as good as the low budget original version - el mariachi (or however you spell it)

Die Hard with at vengeance (3) © terrible © all the connecting aspects of the DH series were dropped, xmas, his wife, and what was left was mediocre, -2

DRAGONHEART _ loved the part where the dragon and the knight team up to scam the villages the rest was no big deal - 6 -

Dumb and Dumber - very bad - sick in parts, toilet humor sicko - 1 -

Ella Enchanted. hmm. the book is much different and perhaps much better, or at least a lot different. this is fun modern/fantasy/fairy-tale mixed all up. added different villain. changed a lot.but. liked the music. a 6.

Peter Pan (2003) very good version an 8. excellent hook!

Ed Wood © very good, the guy who did bella was awesome, - 9 -

EMPIRE RECORDS - GWAR APPEARANCE - This movie is about a record store. One of the employees (who wants to be a rock star) dreams about being fed to the World Maggot (or something like that). - -a fun movie too unreal not like a place 'I've' ever worked! - 7

Escape from L.A. - as bad as you would expect - tho I really liked the end. campy funsville - 6 -

Ever After (Drew) -good 8 - great visuals

Everyone Says I Love You (drew)...

Exit to Eden (anne rice-comedy!) - I actual only saw parts of it - kind of sexy, but very dumb nothing like the book (which is ok, I wasn't thrilled with
the book either) but the comedy was weird -my god how they ruined that book, it turned out to be kind of a funny movie but geeze - 4 -

Faculty - -good rip off of invasion of the body snatcher which was a rip off of Heinlein's puppet masters(book) - but good action 7 -

Fallen, the (denzil, demon) kinda creepy

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (ricci,thompson, Depp, Gilliam) - excellent! 8

Fifth Element, the - a great visual sf movie, mobieus' set designs were spectacular, flying 30's cabs most of the aliens were good too, campy plot,
but xianity being from some aliens was great - 8 - but that dj guy was too annoying!

Final Fantasy = great CG animation, okay story. a 7 not perfect but getting better human cg ani, prob better if I'd ever played the game

Fire & Ice (bakshi & Frazetta!) but still bakshi! ummm

First Wives Club, the - blah

Four Rooms - some were very good, some not so. -

French Kiss - funny, cute, good romantic - 7 -

From Dusk 'til Dawn - the 2nd half is especially great - 8 -

Get Shorty - very funny, the best thing travolta's done since pulp fiction - 7

Godzilla - -not so hot. a 4 -

Gone in 60 sec. remake - cool cars - makes you race around on the way home from the theatre, don't really like cage but this was an excellent flick good balance of fast cars & theft stuff. an 8

Grosse Point Blank (highschool assassin reunion, cusack) - funny but doesn't go far enough - a 7 -

Guncrazy (drew) - -not bad a 6 -

Gundam 0083 eps ? & ? - -good would like to see the series -

Hackers - kind of cutesy at parts, sort of derivative but interesting view of the culture, and him as a kid was neat - 7 -

Happy Gilmore - actually much better than it looks, or our best testing would seem to indicate - 6 -

Hard Rain - -ok 5 -

Heat - a bit depressing - 4 -

Hellraiser 4 - parts were good, but too many parts, and not long enough for them all - 5 -

Highlander (dir cut) - extra flash back scene to ww2, and letter boxed - extra good an 10 -

Holly Man - eddie murphy - -funny but not wildly - good but not that type of comedy 6-7 -

Home Fries (Drew) - ok, 6 - sexy preggers Drew

Hunt for Red October, The (1990. Doctor Petrov Tim Curry) -

Hunted, the (lambert) - not bad - he got a jap sword again! (near the end) and it was a pretty good modern ninja movie - 6 -

Hurricane Street - -ok, but very bittersweet ending 5 -

I Worship His Shadow - prequel Tales from a Parallel Dimension, showtime) - 7 great series!

Ice Storm, the (ricci, kline) - -cool a 6-7 -

Independence Day - ugg - the spfx weren't bad, one or 2 neat lines, - 3 -

Jackal, the remake (willis was good as a villain!), good! some bad camera work, but a good action movie - good a 7 -

James and the Giant Peach - not bad at all, added some to the book (mechanical shark thing!) and didn't kill the aunts (brought them back at the end) and added the north sea pirates stuff (Jack reprise!), and toned down and changed some of the end but was still quite good, most of the spirit of Dahl. - 8 -

Joe's Apartment - actually really good. 7 funny, surprising from MTV

Johnny Mnemonic - a disappointment - cut down the best part of the story, the dolphin, to a mere cameo, and what was that rap guy doing in there!? - 5 -

Judge Dredd _ fair action, god_awful acting. ok sfx. only one of the freaky villains. mean machine. dredd's character changed _ unlike the comix _ but the rest was mostly fairly close. - 4 - but didn't use the Anthrax song!!!

Jury Duty - was ok not a good as the college one but not bad - not really a parody of oj as the preview's tried to say but it had some funny bits. - 6 -

Killing Zoe (from creators of pulp fic + true rom) _ quite good, comparable to true romance. - 8 -

Kingpin - funny

Kite (anime) - actually the edited version is a better story than the uncut dir vers. add more sex but mostly for no effect.

Knock Off - DVD pretty bad some interesting camera-editing work but overall poor dir & acting 3

Serial Experiments Lain: (anime) seen eps (layer) 1-7 the 1st 2 DVD's excellent surreal cyberpunk schoolgirl Techo-rave wired story, bizarre and really neat an 8 so far but will get better if ending makes any sense at all! - a 9 for the series.

Last Action Hero - surprisingly good for all the reviews that panned it. it certainly could have been better if they'd left the funny bits in but it was good. - 6 -

Last Man Standing - willis 30's western/gangsters thing great gunfights 7

Lawnmowerman 2 - boo 4

Lethal Weapon 4 - blah

LEXX: Tales from a Parallel Dimension - -tim curry! - excellent series

Liar, Liar (carry) - not bad funny stuff and a good vehicle for carry - a7 -

Lord of the Rings (live action 2001) 10!

Lord of the Rings (Bakshi,ani) - well it's a bakshi, AND it's also only half the story. - 5 -

Lost in Space - yuck, little girl is cute but... 3. chandler as the pilot!? :)

Mask of Zoro, the (banderas) - -ok a 4 -

Matilda - good, left quite a bit of the stuff in a 7

Maximum Risk (van damme) - very forgettable, I can't remember it. - 2 -

Meet Joe Black - -good 7 - meet the incarnation of death on vacation

Men in Black - quite funny but they had to put in a plot and it wasn't so great, but all the little bits were great - 7 - rap shit at end sucked

Mercury Rising (willis, kid-codes) -found myself agreeing with the villains! should just off the kid. blah, don't _want_ to agree with the villains!

Michael - -ok 4 - angel

Mimic - -ok 4 - mira

Mortal Kombat (lambert) - lambert was great! as the wizard, the rest was so-so, but he was cool! - 4 (lambert - 8) -

Most Wanted - much forgettable

Much Ado About Nothing (Branagh) -amusing - 7 -

Mulan - -diz - funny dragon - not bad story 6 -

Multiplicity - another that could have been great but - he did do a good job of acting against himself - a 7 -

Muppet Treasure Island (1996, Long John Silver- Tim Curry) curry was great! but there was far too much singing - 3 (curry 7) -

My Boyfriend's Back - -great cult comedy horror zombie madness 6 -

Mystery Men - excellent!! 9 next time I play a superheroes game I gotta be Carmine the bowler (as he is now!)

Natural Born Killers - very good equal to pulp fiction but darker, i loved the jagged production aspect with toons and b&W. - 9 -

Negotiator - -ok 4 -

Net, the - a more realistic hackers - but with less to it. 5

Niagra Niagra (action/kidnap/turetts)

Ninth Gate, the - DVD Lots cool antiquarian book stuff, freaky satanismentalist neat book movie 7

Nothing to Loose (martin) - -ok, some funny bits, but very very obvious, and the combination of black social cometary with the buddy humor wasn't so great, and martin is too much a 4 -

Opposite of Sex - -great! ricci 8 -

Orgazmo - 10 - absolutely funny, much better than BASEketball, -

Oscar (1991, Dr. Thornton Poole=Tim Curry) -

Pam & Tommy Lee -slightly xxx -mostly boring 1 -

Patch Adams - -funny but with short horribly sad bits 7 -

Patriot (gibson) great rev. war story, (my favorite US war <g> ) good story, only minorly jingoistic. good action, 'realistic' battles (much like braveheart in that respect) a 7

Patriot (segal) dvd ok not much action 4

Peacemaker - ewww action of sorts s - a 3 -

Pecker (Ricci, John Walters) - v.good 9 -

People vs. Larry Flint, the - a really good movie - strong, not that much t&a (not that I mind...just sort of expected more) creepy - didn't know he'd been shot and paralyzed - 9

Playing God - -ok 6 -

Powder - good, few movies make me get all teary eyed and this one did - it must have some emotional impact. and it does plus it's a good light (as in social) SF piece with a bit of religion but it wasn't 'god' stuff and was nice enuf. - 8

Practical Magic - -very good 8 - great witches

Princess Caraboo - really cute, bit of a steal from moll flanders at times but also very neat - an 8 -

Professional - -great ! 10 - really really want to see uncut french version

Prophecy, the - great cometary on xtian religion - pretty good movie too - 8

Whole Nine Yards, the a 6.
Whole Ten Yards, the a 4.

Puppet Masters, the ©(Heinlein) low budget and far from the book, not even in the future and cut out the whole aspect of nudity as a defence. - 5 -

Van Helsing. 2004 great horror-adventure with comedy. exactly what I expected. fun. an 8

Quest, the (vandame) - -god awful - but r.moore was cool - 2

Quick and the Dead, the _ okay a western a little over done at the end. - 6 -

Replacement Killers, The (chow yung-fat, sorvino,Woo) I expected far better things from them... 5

Reservoir Dogs - good gritty and hard - 7 -

Ring Master - -jerry springer - ick 2 - girls were cute

Road to Wellville - funny! and a bit suspect i think - 7 -

Rob Roy _ a bit too real at times more than braveheart not as epic again slightly over done ending - 7 -

Rocky Horror Picture Show, The (1975, Doctor Frank-N-Furter= Tim Curry) - a classic, but must see at theatre - 8-9 (on video 4) -

Romeo & Juliet (new '90's vers) decaprio -really cool! the update was great! - 9 -

ROMY AND MICHELE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION - funny silly, and ditzy - a 6 -

Ronin - quite disappointing for the great cast it had, 4 -

Rounders - -ok - poker isn't got much action to it 5 -

S.F.W. _ interesting and fun darkish comedy - 7 -

Saint, the (val) - -eh, ok, some neat stuff, much better than the phantom, but not as good as the Shadow - -a 4 - it could have been much better with just a little care -

Screamers - creepy sf from p.k.dick 5 not much money on sfx

Siege - -ick 3 -

Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD. amusing, but tromeo & Juliet was way better. 5

Shadow Conspiracy (sheen sutherland hamilton) - sort of obvious and silly - a 3 -

Shadow, The (1994, Farley Claymore -Tim Curry) - good a 6

She's All That - -had ok parts but gaah rich kids in high school dumbnesss 2

Six Days / Seven Nights. eh. 4

Small Soldiers - -ok 5 -

Snatch: brit with deltorro & pitt, diamonds & boxing, very very funny shit, pikers & thugs, &goofs, similar feel as lock stock & 2 smoking barrels or trainspotting but with a larger body count & less drugs. :) a British pulp fiction has the mcguffin - diamond in this case, a great! cast of characters with the best! names I've seen ever, a great editing job quick cuts to stills on the introduction of the characters, - much like a sequel in spirt to lock stock & 2 smoking barrels - a 9

Soldier - -good, tough- despite having russel ,<g> 7 -

Sorcerer Hunter vol 2 anime - -horrible!! just bad pseudo comedic love 0 -

South Park vol 7, 8, 9 - -8

Starship Troopers. well finally did a Heinlein movie with lots of FX but... no actors... 5

Strange Days (dir Cameron) - neat - quite millenialish - 7

Striptease -demi moore - -funny a 6 -

Tank Girl - the toon stuff was good, but all around not surreal enough to compare with the comix - 5 -

Taxi Driver - -disturbing but slow 5 -

Terminal Velocity - okay no big deal, action sky diving was neat - 5 -

There's Something About Mary - -eh 2 -

Things to do in Denver When you're Dead - good 7

Three Musketeers, The (1993, Cardinal Richelieu =Tim Curry) - and in the theatre at the end when king asks what they want someone in the back of the theatre yells out "to sleep with your wife" - very rocky horrorish cracked me up.

To Die For - great black comedy 5-6

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar - funny -7

Touch - -weird religious crap - good tho 6 -

Toy Story - ok 6

Trainspotting - totally great - 10 -

Tromeo and Juliet (dir cut, Troma, soundtrack sublime, motorhead+) -sick and very funny - a 9

Truman Show - -slow but ok 5 -

Twelve Monkeys - Gilliam - 9 -

Undercover Blues - very bad © some funny bits but.... - 1 -

Unstrung Heros (weird uncles) - they advertised this tear jerker as a comedy!!! - a good story for all that kids mom dying and dad's a funky inventor - and uncles a bit nuts - a 7 -

Vampire in Brooklyn - pick what movie it's gonna be a comedy or horror you really can;t do both! and not creep people out -

Vampire$ - very bad adaption! 3 of what was rather a good book, not as good as Armor but ..

Very Bad Things - -very bad- -sick black humor 4 - too disturbing for me very creepy black comedy - funny! but... ewww.

Waking Ned Devine - -good- amusing 6 -

Water Boy - -eww 4 -

WATERSHIP DOWN - good but the book was better, mixed up some stuff and not long enough. - 6 -

Waterworld - oh horror the horror this is such a awful movie, I could happily strangle the little screaming tattooed girl! - a 0 freaking zero! - © far too over done © mad max in the water © no big deal. I hate!!! that little girl!!! she was sooo annoying!

What Dreams May Come (williams ) - -great 8 -

King Arthur. (2004) not too bad a historical action/fantasy but not really Arthurian. a 5.

White Dwarf (Francis Ford Coppola & Bruce Wagner) pilot so is severely lacking in the finish - since it's only the pilot! , but very stylish, even if I didn't like the main actor - a 7 -

Wild Palms (Oliver Stone & Bruce Wagner) tv miniseries - neat, not the best actors, or acting from them but the story was good - a 7 -

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory _ kept surprisingly close to the book, good even for a musical - 6 -

Wizards (bakshi/Frazetta) - -usual bakshi ani -ok - 4

Shaolin Soccer - amusing - if you are somewhat of a soccer fan or martial arts fan it's good if you're too into it - it's probabaly insulting, but it's fun. a 7

old stuff

ADAMS, DOUGLAS. LONG DARK TEA-TIME OF THE SOUL, THE. R,


ADAMS, DOUGLAS. MOSTLY HARMLESS (hitchhiker 5). R,


ADAMS, DOUGLAS. THE MORE THAN COMPLETE HITCHIKER'S GUIDE. HB,DJ,INCLUDES:
ADAMS, DOUGLAS. 1: THE HITCHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, R,
ADAMS, DOUGLAS. 2: THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE, R
ADAMS, DOUGLAS. 3: LIFE, THE UNIVERSE, AND EVERYTHING, R
ADAMS, DOUGLAS. 4: SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH, R
ADAMS, DOUGLAS. SHORT STORY = YOUNG ZAPHOD PLAYS IT SAFE


ADAMS, RICHARD. PLAGUE DOGS . R,X


ADLER. MAGICAL COACH (THE SILVER COACH). YA,R,


SHEPHERD, MARK. ELVENDUDE. R,X. from lackey's serrated edge, but not nearly as good.


SHETTERLY & BULL. LIAVEK 1: LIAVEK
SHETTERLY & BULL. LIAVEK 2: THE PLAYERS OF LUCK
SHETTERLY & BULL. LIAVEK 3: WIZARDS ROW
SHETTERLY & BULL. LIAVEK 4: ANT,R. a real neat magic system. there is at least 1 spin off bk


SHETTERLY. ELSEWHERE. A BORDERLANDS SERIES NOVEL


SHETTERLY, WILL. CATS HAVE NO LORD. GREAT CAT STORY WITH TELEPATHIC HORSE AND NEAT CAT LORD MORE! an 8 or 9


SILKE & FRAZETTA. FRANK FRAZETTA'S DEATH DEALER 1: PRISONER OF THE HORNED HELMENT
-X. the cover is great <g> but the story eh. a 3 or 4


SILVERBERG. AT WINTER'S END. MONKEYS THINK THEY'RE HUMANS!
SILVERBERG. NEW SPRINGTIME, THE. PB. SEQUEL TO AT WINTER'S END


SILVERSTEIN, SHEL. A LIGHT IN THE ATTIC. HB,DJ. a 9


SILVERSTEIN, SHEL. A GIRAFFE AND A HALF. HB,DJ TEARS,CH. R?


SILVERSTEIN, SHEL. DIRTY FEET. New York Hollis Music, Inc. 1969. TPB. near fine, some light. dustiness at edges. SHEL Silverstein's songs for little and big children are a treasury, and this trove includes "A Boy Named Sue" and "Unicorn. Illustrated just by photos of dirty feet. (Keywords: music feet humor novelty children's songs poet lyrics lyricist illustrated by just photos of dirty feet. ) 98US$23. 00 R?


SILVERSTEIN, SHEL. LAFCADIO, THE LION WHO SHOT BACK. HB,N DJ,WATER WARP, CH


SILVERSTEIN, SHEL. PLAYBOY'S TEEVEE JEEBIES. n. p. : Playboy Magazine, 1963, 1st ed, -oblong wraps, WORN G-, '59=63, VG. - a collection of b&w movie stills with humourous
captions by the one and only Shel. - some peeling of laminate on back cover. - minor wear. (Wrong! it's pealing all around edges, reglued 1st pages poorly seated rather general wear all around - G. at best!) 98$13. 00 R?


SILVERSTEIN, SHEL. UNCLE SHELBY'S ABZ BOOK. tpb. Excellent a 9


SILVERSTEIN, SHEL. WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS. hb, dj. a 9


SILVERSTEIN, SHEL. WHO WANTS A CHEAP RHINOCEROS?. HB,CH, WIDE, 98US$6. 50


SLEATOR, WILLIAM. AMONG THE DOLLS. CH,YA,PB. SCARY AND EVIL STORY AND REALLY REALLY STRONG. MAGIC DOLL HOUSE. HE DOES. GOOD STUFF. an 8 or 9


SMITH, CORDWAINER. NORSTRILIA. PB. NEAT, COOL IDEA KID BUYS EARTH, MOSTLY, AS THE ONLY WAY TO GET OUT OF HIS PROBLEMS, LOTS OF TELEPATHY AND HE'S SHORT IT, NOT FUNNY THE WAY THE BACK CVR MAKES IT SOUND BUT GOOD. THE AUTHOR'S NOTE/HIST IS PROB MORE INTERSING THAN ANY STORY HE WROTE! HE WROTE 'THE' TEXTBOOK ON PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE. AFTER THE KOREAN WAR. MEGA-DIVIRSIFICATION OF HUMANKIND, INTELEGENT HUMAN FORM ANIMALS, AND SOCIAL STUFF AND A PLANET OF SUPER RICH OUTBACK AUSTRAILIAN HICKS. an 8


SMITH, CORDWAINER. SPACE LORDS. PB. SHORT STORIES FROM THE UNIVERSE OF NORSTRILIA


SNYDER, MIDORI. FLIGHT OF MICHAEL MCBRIDE, THE. R,. SF WESTERN! with elves!! Celtic stuff chases Michael as he flees out west in the late 1800's - very delintISH very good. an 8


SOMTOW. MOON DANCE. X


SPENCER, WILLIAM BROWNING. RESUME WITH MONSTERS. PB. CTHULHU a 9, very dark funny humor


SPINRAD. LITTLE HEROES. PB,R. CYBERPUNK AND ROCK N' ROLL AND REVOLUTION AND 'DRUGS' GOOD


SPINRAD, NORMAN. PICTURES AT 11. pb,R,X. modern sf just barely future, very anti?-media very 'Green' good but no real SF to it. terrorists on TV. A 4



STACKPOLE, MICHAEL A. TALION: REVENANT. R,. his 1st written novel revised and finally published, quite a good one too, many surprizing little magical details, well designed fantasy world an 8.


STANTON, M. HEAVENLY HORSE FROM THE OUTERMOST WEST, THE. R


DALEY. STAR WARS; HAN SOLO & THE LOST LEGACY. R
DALEY, B. STAR WARS; HAN SOLO AT STARS' END. R


ZAHN, TIMOTHY. STAR WARS 3: LAST COMMAND, THE. HB,DJ


THOMAS & CHAYKIN. STAR WARS B&W 1ST. X. COMIX ADAPTATION , ANT,


STASHEFF, CHRISTOPHER & FAWCETT. CRAFTERS 1:. X?, R a 3


STASHEFF, CHRISTOPHER. ESCAPE VELOCITY , R, the future and the SCA!
STASHEFF, CHRISTOPHER. WARLOCK HERETICAL. X,R.
STASHEFF, CHRISTOPHER. WARLOCK IN SPITE OF HIMSELF. R
STASHEFF, CHRISTOPHER. WARLOCK IS MISSING. -X,R
STASHEFF, CHRISTOPHER. WARLOCK WANDERING. -X
STASHEFF, CHRISTOPHER. WARLOCK'S COMPANION. X-unread�


STEAKLEY. ARMOR. R. A 10 even if the 2nd half is not at good - the only book I've just had to reread the second I finished it the first time. even if that meant I was up til 6 am.


STEAKLEY. VAMPIRE$. PB. far far better than that awful movie A 6


STEPHENSON, NEAL. ZODIAC. R. the spine says SF but it isn't it is a really good eco-thriller/druggie- adventure in Boston, very much like Brunner's - the sheep look up - but a _bit_ more upbeat, fighting back against and with some success - pollution. an 8 his other are better - but this fails to match them by just a small margin.


STERLING, BRUCE. HEAVY WEATHER. PB,R. Really good but the end was rather - well not disappointing - they lived - but really they probably shouldn't have - at least he should have died. but there was lots of neat cyberpunk stuff, hacking weather, pogo cars, illegal medical supplies lung enemas!!. an 8 for the soft end.


STERLING, BRUCE. HOLY FIRE. HB,1ST,DJ,R. Longevity and cyberpunk and art. some really neat stuff, immortality, photography, (really cool cvr) a great book a 9


STERLING, BRUCE. MIRRORSHADES (). ANT,


STEWART, Mary. A WALK IN WOLF WOOD. CHILDRENS, GOOD, GERMAN FAIRY TALE, WEREWOLF, KIDS GO INTO FANTASY PAST a 7


STEWART, SEAN. NOBODY'S SON. PB, R. REALLY NEAT FANTASY TAKING THE STORY PAST THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER, HE LIFTS THE CURSE FROM THE WOODS AND CLAIMS THE KINGS DAUGHTER FOR HIS REWARD AND THINGS GO DOWNHILL FROM THERE. VERY WELL DONE AND A NEW TAKE ON THE IDEA. a 9


STIRLING. SNOW BROTHER , R?


STIRLING & MEIER. CAGE. R?


STIRLING, S. M. MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA. UNDER THE YOKE. X. DEPRESSING


SULLIVAN, TRICIA. LETHE. R. strong book, a terrible future of bio war and devastated earth, also a weird thing in space that teleports, and a living planet and merpeople, and rather good, an 8 best dolphins since startide rising (not mind you, that there have been many)


TEPPER, SHERI S. AWAKENERS, THE (NORTHSHORE & SOUTHSHORE) TPB,R. collects 2 pbs (NORTHSHORE & SOUTHSHORE). As good as the true game stuff and a very similar flavor, SF in a fantasy setting. several alien species on the planet. weird but good an 8 or 9


TEPPER, SHERI S. BEAUTY. R. VERY GOOD, COMBINATION OF SEVERAL FAIRY TALES, BEAUTY, CINDERALL, SNOW WHITE, MORE, AND MAGIC, AND TIME TRAVEL, AND GREAT STORYTELLING. a 10


TEPPER, SHERI S. REVENANTS, THE. R. STARTING TO GET AWAY FROM FANTASY BECAUSE YOU CAN JUST SEE ALITTLE SF IN THIS ONE FROM 84, NEAT ESPECALLY THE PARTS WITH THE 'MYTHICAL' BEASTS CHARACTERS WEREN'T DEVELOPED ENOUGH, BUT NOTFOR LACK OF TRYING, JUST TOO MANY WERE FOCUSED ON. A GOOD BOOKBUT PERHAPS NOT A GOOD AS THE TRUEGAME/MAVIN MANYSHAPED SERISES. a 7


TEPPER, SHERI S. TRUE GAME 1: NECROMANCER NINE
TEPPER, SHERI S. TRUE GAME 2: KING'S BLOOD FOUR
TEPPER, SHERI S. TRUE GAME 3: WIZARD'S ELEVEN. R. these are great and life is like a large game people are the pieces I think this series (and Mavin which is connected) are better than most of her later stuff (except for beauty which is tremendous) 10 FOR SERIES
TEPPER, SHERI S. TRUE GAME 7, 8, & 9: THE END OF THE GAME (JINIAN FOOTSEER, DERVISH
DAUGHTER, JINIAN STAR-EYE), BC,R, Excellent series - ok ending a 10 for it all.


TERAOKA, MASAMI. WAVES AND PLAGUES. L,TPB,ART. JAPANESE, MODERN ART, GREAT STUFF- MODERN TOPICS AND SUBJECTS MIXED WITH ANCIENT JAPANESE AND DONE IN THE OLD STYLE


ASPRIN & ABBEY. THIEVES' WORLD 1: THIEVES' WORLD
ASPRIN & ABBEY. THIEVES' WORLD 2: TALES FROM THE VULGAR UNICOR
ASPRIN & ABBEY. THIEVES' WORLD 3: SHADOWS OF SANCTUARY
ASPRIN & ABBEY. THIEVES' WORLD 4: STORM SEASON
ASPRIN & ABBEY. THIEVES' WORLD 5: THE FACE OF CHAOS
ASPRIN & ABBEY. THIEVES' WORLD 6: WINGS OF OMEN
ASPRIN & ABBEY. THIEVES' WORLD 7: THE DEAD OF WINTER
ASPRIN & ABBEY. THIEVES' WORLD 8: SOUL OF THE CITY
ASPRIN & ABBEY. THIEVES' WORLD 9: BLOOD TIES , ANT,


BRADLEY, MZ. LYTHANDE; (Partialy THIEVES' WORLD)


THOMPSON, JULIAN F. A BAND OF ANGELS. HB,dj,1ST,R, Haven't read one yet that wasn't really good. an 8


THOMPSON, JULIAN F. A QUESTION OF SURVIVAL. YA. prob 2 copies


THOMPSON, JULIAN F. GROUNDING OF GROUP 6, THE. pb,R. excellent as always, tho much '60's attitudes, free-form schooling, etc. the survivalist stuff was good, and the relationships which are his strong point, a 7


THOMPSON, JULIAN F. TAKING OF MARIASBURG, THE. YA. NEAT, KIND OF DIFFICULT TO SWALLOW THE MILLIONARE THING AT FIRST BUT EVERYTHING FOLLOWS SO SMOOTHLY IT WORKS. A GREAT FANTASY OF WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU GOT A MILLION DOLLARS AS A HIGH SCHOOL KID. A 9


TILLEY, P. AMTRAK WARS 1: CLOUD WARRIOR
TILLEY, P. AMTRAK WARS 2: THE FIRST FAMILY
TILLEY, P. AMTRAK WARS 3: IRON MASTER. -X. THIS IS A NEAT SERIES, THE NAMES OF THE MUTES ARE VERY FUNNY TAKEN FROM CURRENT WELL KNOWN NAMES. BUT IT'S KIND OF SLOW AND...


TOLKIEN, J.R.R. LORD OF THE RINGS 0: HOBBIT, THE
TOLKIEN, J.R.R. LORD OF THE RINGS 1: FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE
TOLKIEN, J.R.R. LORD OF THE RINGS 2: THE TWO TOWERS
TOLKIEN, J.R.R. LORD OF THE RINGS 3: RETURN OF THE KING, THE


TURTLEDOVE, Harry. MISPLACED LEGION, THE: VIDESSOS CYCLE 1
TURTLEDOVE, Harry. AN EMPEROR FOR THE LEGION: VIDESSOS CYCLE 2
TURTLEDOVE, Harry. LEGION OF VIDESSOS, THE: VIDESSOS CYCLE 3
TURTLEDOVE, Harry. SWORDS OF THE LEGION: VIDESSOS CYCLE 4
TURTLEDOVE, Harry. KRISPOS: TALE OF KRISPOS 1 (2nd series)


TURTLEDOVE, Harry. GUNS OF SOUTH, THE


VAN SCYOC, SYDNEY J. DARKCHILD (1). very like the early Tepper, and just as good. child clones as living recorders and near magic with the stones an 8
VAN SCYOC, SYDNEY J. BLUESONG (2). the thing is each of the books in the trilogy start out with new characters who are connected but... the daughter of Rauth's clone brother
an 8
VAN SCYOC, SYDNEY J. STARSILK (3). I don't know why the daughter had to do this! I'd really have thought that one of the Rauth's would try and rescue him. the Living silk is such
a cool image/idea/thing. an 8


VAN VOGT, A. E. SLAN. X. sort of dislike the take over humanity for their own good aspect but, fair superman intellectual, ok a 4. freaky tentacled telepaths!!


VAN VOGT, A. E. THE UNIVERSE MAKER. R, X. INTERESTING & SOME BIZARE = PARADOX = HE CREATED HIMSELF = NOT LITERARLY BUT HE WENT BACK IN TIME AND DID STUFF TO HIMSELF WHICH MADE HIM WHAT HE IS NOW, AND THE FLOATING POD MOTORHOMES WERE NEAT. IDEAS 9, STORY 6, WRITING 8


VARDEMAN, ROBERT E. THE SCREAMING KINFE. X. MYSTERY WITH PSYCHIC DECTIVE/STAGE MAGICIAN, PSYCHOMETRY = READING INANIMATE OBJECTS


VARDEMAN, ROBERT E. & PROCTOR. SWORDS OF RAEMLLYN 1: TO DEMONS BOUND. R
VARDEMAN, ROBERT E. & PROCTOR. SWORDS OF RAEMLLYN 2: A YOKE OF MAGIC. R
VARDEMAN, ROBERT E. & PROCTOR. SWORDS OF RAEMLLYN R?
VARDEMAN, ROBERT E. & PROCTOR. SWORDS OF RAEMLLYN 4: DEATH'S ACOLYTE R?
VARDEMAN, ROBERT E. & PROCTOR. SWORDS OF RAEMLLYN 5: THE BEASTS OF THE MIST R?


VINGE, Vernor. ACCROSS REALTIME: THE PEACE WAR
VINGE, Vernor. ACCROSS REALTIME: THE UNGOVERENED (SS)
VINGE, Vernor. ACCROSS REALTIME: MAROONED IN REALTIME. PB. 2 NOVELS AND A SHORT STORY COLLECTION


VINGE, Vernor. TATJA GRIMM'S WORLD. TO BE -X'D. YOU keep expecting Tatja to be the 'good guy' and she never is, and the end is unhappy but the tech level of the planet and their discoverys were neat reminds me of the latest Pern books. they'd have had space flight if there were more metals on the planet.


VOIGT, CYNTHIA. KINGDOM 1: JACKAROO


VOIGT, CYNTHIA. TILLERMAN CYCLE. HOMECOMING. R, a 10
VOIGT, CYNTHIA. TILLERMAN CYCLE. DICEY'S SONG. R a 10
VOIGT, CYNTHIA. TILLERMAN CYCLE. A SOLITARY BLUE. R GOOD, (THEY ALL ARE) NOT REALLY TILLERMAN, IT'S ABOUT DICEY'S BOYFRIEND, HIS LIFE AND STUFF UP TILL THE END OF THE 2ND DICEYBOOK. a 7
VOIGT, CYNTHIA. TILLERMAN CYCLE. THE RUNNER
VOIGT, CYNTHIA. TILLERMAN CYCLE. COME A STRANGER; (MINA) Not read
VOIGT, CYNTHIA. TILLERMAN CYCLE. SONS FROM AFAR. the 2 boys
VOIGT, CYNTHIA. TILLERMAN CYCLE. SEVENTEEN AGAINST THE DEALER


VONNEGUT, Kurt. HOCUS POCUS. A book written on scraps of paper, each 'page'break delineated by a line across the page. "At least the World will end, an event anticipated with great joy by many. It well end very soon, but not in the year 2000, which has come and gone. From that I conclude that God Almighty is not heavily into Numerology. " which quote generally sums up the book actually. great fun if depressing, after all the world does come to and end in the end of the book. or something.


WALDROP & SAUNDERS. THE TEXAS-ISRAELI WAR: 1999. QUITE DATED BECAUSE THEY NAMED YEARS IT IS NONE-THE-LESS A GOOD FUTURE WAR STORY ON PAR WITH DRAKE & POURNELLE


WANGERIN, WALTER, JR. THE BOOK OF THE DUN COW. X. Animal fantasy but much Christian mythology rooster is 'king' and defends his barnyard (a barnyard but no people) subjects from evil basilisk and it's young as they try to take over the world, some good stuff in here but not my type, the dun cow was Jesus and the sun god not a bad book but too derivative of the bible etc. a5
WANGERIN, W. BOOK OF SORROWS, THE. 1ST,HB,DJ SEQUEL TO THE BOOK OF THE DUN COW - R? think unread


WATKINS. GOING TO SEE THE END OF THE SKY. R


WATKINS. LAST DEATHSHIP OFF ANTARES, THE. R


WATT-EVANS, LAWRENCE. MISENCHANTED SWORD, THE. excellent an 8 or 9.


WATT=EVANS, LAWRENCE. DENNER'S WRECK R?


WEHRSTEIN, KAREN. LION'S HEART
WEHRSTEIN, KAREN. LION'S SOUL. R,X. wehrstein's 5th millennium stuff is rather depressing and eh. a 4


WEIS & HICKMAN. DRAGONLANCE; CHRONICLES 1 V 3: DRAGONS OF SPRING DAWNING. R


WEIS, MARGARET. STAR OF THE GUARDIANS 1: THE LOST KING
WEIS, MARGARET. STAR OF THE GUARDIANS 2: KING'S TEST
WEIS, MARGARET. STAR OF THE GUARDIANS 3:. R,X. the series is good, kind of too much star wars in it, but all together too much religion not xian but not not xian, also damn depressing, good but geeze! a 5


Martin, George R. R. & GREENBERG. WILD CARDS 01:; WILD CARDS. ANT, R
Martin, George R. R. & GREENBERG. WILD CARDS 02:; ACES HIGH. ANT, R
Martin, George R. R. & GREENBERG. WILD CARDS 03:; JOKERS WILD. ANT, R
Martin, George R. R. & GREENBERG. WILD CARDS 04:;. ACES ABROAD. ANT, R
Martin, George R. R. & GREENBERG. WILD CARDS 05:;. DOWN & DIRTY. ANT,R
Martin, George R. R. & GREENBERG. WILD CARDS 06:;. ACE IN THE HOLE. ANT,R
Martin, George R. R. & GREENBERG. WILD CARDS 08:;. ONE-EYED JACKS. ANT, R?
Martin, George R. R. & GREENBERG. WILD CARDS 09:;. JOKERTOWN SHUFFLE. ANT,R?
Martin, George R. R. & GREENBERG. WILD CARDS 10:;. DOUBLE SOLITAIRE. ANT, R?


WILLIAMS, TAD. DRAGON BONE CHAIR, THE: MEMORY, SORROW & THORN 1
WILLIAMS, TAD. STONE OF FAREWELL: MEMORY, SORROW & THORN 2
WILLIAMS, TAD. TO GREEN ANGEL TOWER PT 1: MEMORY, SORROW & THORN 3 PT 1. R TO X. LONG and slow and generally well done but nothing dramatically new.


WILLIAMS, WALTER JON. CROWN JEWELS, THE. pb,R. Baaad pun, the mystery container has the dying emperor's sperm, good high imperial rich theif story, some good back plot. fun. (voice is still better) an 8


WILLIAMS, Walter Jon. ANGEL STATION. R. Starts of depressing but once the aliens come into it, it gets much better, the U is very well developed or at least the culture of the
peoples met is developed. little else is seen. the end is interesting, the characters change dramatically and it works well. I can't say I liked it as much as Whirlwind but it was okay all in all the 2nd half was quite good, the first not so.


WILLIAMS, Walter Jon. VOICE OF THE WHIRLWIND . R,. COOL CLONE STUFF An 8


WINDLING, TERRI & ARNOLD, MARK ALAN. BORDERLAND. ANT SERIES. A BORDERLAND SERIES NOVEL. GREAT FANTASTIC, MOSTLY, IT'S GOT A STEVEN R. BOYETT (THE ARCHETICT OF
SLEEP) STORY WHICH TAKES OF THE 1ST THIRD OF THE BOOK, AND IS VERY SIMMILAR TO HIS NOVEL ARIAL.


WINSOR. FOREVER AMBER, V1. X


WOLD, A. EYE IN THE STONE, THE. NEAT MAGIC IN CURRENT TIME, LODGES, AND MAGES AND FaIMILARS (HIS CAT/DRAGON CROSSBREED!) GREAT A 9 OR 10


WOLD, A. JEWELS OF THE DRAGON. 1ST OF 2 BOOKS (THAT I'VE FOUND) IN 'SERIES' OR PERHAPS i SHOULD SAY IT HAS A SEQUEL It's a neat book all the right ingredients of action super quick gunfights, aliens, treasure, near magic technology, and a planet of thieves and villains. He's searching for his father a famous thief/adventurer who disappeared 11 year ago. and in doing so becomes in his fathers image. You won't get the title until the book is nearly finished.


WOLFE, GENE. DEVIL IN THE FOREST, THE. R. a simple little fantasy/history, medieval story with just a touch of magic. a 6


WRIGHT, HELEN S. A MATTER OF OATHS. PB,R. interesting future - some people are just born immortal So far 3!!, and the 2 are emperors OF opposing empires and the 3rd is rafe. vat and mind mesh with the ships to fly and stuff - some good stuff. a 7.


WURTS, J. CURSE OF THE MISTWRAITH; WARS OF LIGHT AND SHADOW 1. PB. Long book, good, but long, delves into both the main characters which are juxtaposed the shadow is more the good guy but most don't agree and the light brother is downright nasty when the ends justify the means and they now do after he got the curse. seems like a long series to come but is should be at least okay.


WURTS, JANNY. WARS OF LIGHT AND SHADOW 2a: SHIPS OF MERIOR PART 1
WURTS, JANNY. WARS OF LIGHT AND SHADOW 2b: WARHOST OF VASTMARK: SHIPS OF MERIOR PART 2
PB,R still a bit slow paced. but richly detailed, strong characters, and interesting situations make it worth while. a 7


WURTS, Janny. CYCLE OF FIRE 1: STORMWARDEN
WURTS, Janny. CYCLE OF FIRE 2: KEEPER OF THE KEYS
WURTS, Janny. CYCLE OF FIRE 3: SHADOWFANE


ZAHN. STAR WARS 3: LAST COMMAND, THE. HB,DJ


ZEDDIES, ANN TONSOR. DEATHGIFT. PB,R. despite the cover and title giving a totally different idea of what the book was - it's quite good, strong emotional science fiction/mental powers - first half is regressed colony with some psychic powers, and rest follows one of the autochones as he's captured by hidden invading waring groups and he fights them - very vietnamish. an 8 a bit confusing at the transition - purposely but it throws you.


ZETTEL, SARA. FOOL'S WAR. PB,R. Definitely a writer to watch. reclamation was great and fool's war is just as good, AI's in artificial bodies! a Fools guild! another interesting
universe. a great job. a 9.


ZETTEL, SARAH. RECLAMATION. R. should have called the book something else = 'the nameless powers' would have been good, or the name of the planet. but it was a good book, pre tech planet with some psi's on it and many types of humans, the 1st? AI cyber hacking with telekinesis tattooed hands to tell your caste, and an entire planet as one huge device. good a 9


SCHULMAN, J. NEIL. ALONGSIDE NIGHT. R. super inflation: hey buddy can you spare $500 for a cup of coffee. Agorist Cadre - social capitalist anarchists! and underground movement & revolution of the US. great story as well teen love, an 8. 199907


SHECKLEY. 10TH VICTIM, THE

SHELLEY, Rick. UNTIL RELIEVED. to x - he kinda sucks a 2


SHELLEY, RICK. BUCHANAN CAMPAIGN. X,R. rather boring SF War, imperial Commonwealth vs. evil democratic federation, not much battle until way near the end , 1st battle of war mostly creation of tactics much stuff went on waaay to easy. A 3

Previous Books

3 investigators. 20031014. R.X. modern revamp of the series. blah. a 1.


Adams, Scott. God's Debris. R.X. 200212. interesting, but kinda dull. not funny, but has some ideas. a 3.


ADAMS, DOUGLAS & MARK CARWARDINE. LAST CHANCE TO SEE. HB,1ST,R,NF. Sent Adams around the world to write about endangered species not what you'd think to do but it's a rather interesting book, and a bunch of really odd things. a 6 or 7 , some funny bits but not that kind of book really. The audiobook version is read by Douglas Adams, and is quite well done.


ADAMS, SCOTT. THE DILBERT PRINCIPLE. hb,DJ,R. funny lots of strips and the book is fairly amusing as well.



Alexander, Lloyd. Prydain Chronicles 1 The Book of Three
Alexander, Lloyd. Prydain Chronicles 2 The Black Cauldron
Alexander, Lloyd. Prydain Chronicles 3 The Castle of Llyr
Alexander, Lloyd. Prydain Chronicles 4 Taran Wanderer
Alexander, Lloyd. Prydain Chronicles 5 The High King
Alexander, Lloyd. Prydain Chronicles 0 The Founding & Other Tales of Prydain.


ALEXANDER, LLOYD. THE PRYDAIN CHRONICLES 0 THE FOUNDLING AND OTHER TALES OF PRYDAIN
ALEXANDER, LLOYD. THE PRYDAIN CHRONICLES 1 THE BOOK OF THREE
ALEXANDER, LLOYD. THE PRYDAIN CHRONICLES 2 THE BLACK CAULDRON
ALEXANDER, LLOYD. THE PRYDAIN CHRONICLES 3 THE CASTLE OF LLYR
ALEXANDER, LLOYD. THE PRYDAIN CHRONICLES 4 TARAN WANDERER
ALEXANDER, LLOYD. THE PRYDAIN CHRONICLES 5 THE HIGH KING
BC,no DJ,R. A BC HB THAT COLLECTS ALL 5 NOVELS IN THE SERIES PLUS THE BOOK OF CONNECTED SHORT STORIES. doesn't age that well. it's wonderful-great if you catch it at the right age tho. a 7


ALEXANDER, LLOYD. WESTMARK.
ALEXANDER, LLOYD. KESTREL.
ALEXANDER, LLOYD. BEGGAR QUEEN. YA,R, even better than cauldron for teenagers 13-16, and is great a 9+


Anderson, M.T. Thirsty. R.X. TPB. 20051229. teen vampire. interesting world very modern with addition of all occult and fairy in the background and the media and the tabloids. all to be hunted and killed. black humor. normal teen angst, girl problems, and he's turning into a vampire. even the forces of light aren't really very nice beings. didn't care for the end, but quite good up to then. a 4.


Anderson, Poul & Gordon R. Dickson. Hoka. R. Great! really funny. (TOR pb 1st, signed by Anderson) an 8-9


Anderson, Poul. Brain Wave. everyone gets smarter. R.k. a good one. one of my favs by Anderson. a 9.


Anderson, Poul. New America. R.k. revolutionary war on another planet.


ANDERSON, KEVIN J. & DOUG BEASON. ILL WIND. PB,R,X. stuff up. not very apocalypse tho. multi character viewpoints, some were a lot better than others, "Civilization might come to an end but Rock and Roll will never die"!!! that was so corny and actually very funny too. best line in the book. a 5


ANDERSON, KEVIN J. CLIMBING OLYMPUS. R,X. Why do all the mars books seem so similar - even with totally different characters and plot? the adin and dva's were interesting but no character was really that great. terraforming mars and altered men who do it.


ANDERSON, POUL. HIGH CRUSADE. R. great stuff - medieval knights vs. aliens in spaceship & the knights win ) !


ANDERSON, POUL. LONG WAY HOME, THE. R,X. hyperspace discovered ftl travel or so they thought, it is only ftl for them the universe still ages a year for each light year they cross, so 500,000 years later they come home! Sol and Centarui are human occupied but decadent and slave ridden, ugly future and even Anderson didn't think it was a
great story but it has a good adventure feel to it if only a 5


Anthony, Patricia. Conscience of the Beagle. pb,x,r. not as good as cold allies, but not bad, cream of the cops but each picked to fall apart, more of a SF mystery, a 5


Anthony, Piers & Robert Kornwise. Through the Ice. X. posthumous collaboration.


ANTHONY, PIERS. ADEPT 1 SPLIT INFINITY. X, ONE OF HIS GOOD SERIES (AT LEAST THE FIRST 3 ARE) a 6
ANTHONY, PIERS. ADEPT 2 BLUE ADEPT. X, ONE OF HIS GOOD SERIES (AT LEAST THE FIRST 3 ARE)
ANTHONY, PIERS. ADEPT 3 JUXTAPOSITION. X, ONE OF HIS GOOD SERIES (AT LEAST THE FIRST 3 ARE)
ANTHONY, PIERS. ADEPT 4 OUT OF PHAZE. X,R. BEGINNING OF SECOND TRILOGY not recommended a 4
ANTHONY, PIERS. ADEPT 5 ROBOT ADEPT. X,
ANTHONY, PIERS. ADEPT 6 UNICORN POINT. X,R
ANTHONY, PIERS. ADEPT 7? PHAZE DOUBT. R,


ANTHONY, PIERS. INCARNATIONS OF IMMORTALITY 5 BEING A GREEN MOTHER. HB,DJ,1ST,R, quite an interesting series an 8 the series


ANTHONY, PIERS. XANTH GOLEM IN THE GEARS. x,R. AS THE SERIES GETS ALONG THEY GO DOWNHILL a 3


Antieau, Kim. Jigsaw Woman, the. pb,r. excellent revised Frankenstein, metaphysical past-live memory, feminist, very Tepper-ish, a 9


Anvil, Christopher. Pandora's Planet. R. 20051212. excellent old space opera SF. lion-aliens gigantic empire attacks earth, has hard time overcoming tricksy humans, co-ops them into empire - looses all the myriad screwballs of earth on the cosmos, war of empires ensues, eventual assimilation - good story, lacks depth of character, but is only
175 pages - a modern novella length - a 6.


Applegate, K.A. EverWorld 01 R. YA. a very good series, all worlds mythology all mixed together. like it, an 8
Applegate, K.A. EverWorld 02 R
Applegate, K.A. EverWorld 03 R
Applegate, K.A. EverWorld 04 R
Applegate, K.A. EverWorld 05 R
Applegate, K.A. EverWorld 06 R
Applegate, K.A. EverWorld 07 R
Applegate, K.A. EverWorld 08 R
Applegate, K.A. EverWorld 09 R
Applegate, K.A. EverWorld 10 R
Applegate, K.A. EverWorld 11 R
Applegate, K.A. EverWorld 12 R. didn't really like the ending should have had 2 or 3 more books, should have seen them defeat Ka Anor, should have gotten the scroll the 'software', what happens with Christopher?, Doesn't April go back?, etc. too much unanswered. But a good series up 'til then.


Applegate, K.A. Remnants. R.YA. 200302. end of the world via asteroid. a select few escape via space shuttle & cryonics. an 8.


Armstrong, Kelley. Bitten. Women of the Otherworld 1. TPB R. 200908? good werewolf story, keep for maybe sequel. reminds of Laurel Hamilton. a 7
If you like this try Laurell K. Hamilton - Anita Blake. Charlaine Harris. Robin Mckinley - Sunshine. Nancy Collins - Sonja Blue. Kim Harrison. Carrie Vaughn.


ASHER, MARTY. SHELTER. TPB,R. JOHN LENNON TELLS HIM TO FIX THE NUCLEAR WAR PROBLEM = TRIPPY


Asimov, Isaac. Foundation 4 Foundation's Edge. R.X.


ASIMOV, ISAAC & CARR & GREENBERG. 100 GREAT FANTASY SHORT SHORT STORIES. ANT,R, A marvelous selection of true gems tiny little gems but a terrific collection. a 9 only because shorts are harder to get into.


ASIMOV, ISAAC & SILVERBERG. NIGHTFALL. R,X. MORE COMPLEX AND PERHAPS MORE TECHNICALY 'REAL' BUT I THOUGHT THE ORIGINAL SHORT STORY WAS AS GOOD OR BETTER. A 5


ASIMOV, ISAAC. END OF ETERNITY, THE. -X. THE CHARACTER IS NOT REALLY ALL THAT LIKEABLE, AND THE STORY BOGGS DOWN IN THE EXPLORATION OF ASPECTS OF TIMETRAVEL TO THE DETREMENT OF THE PLOT, WHAT THERE WAS OF IT. END'S NEAT. A 3


ASIMOV, ISAAC. FOUNDATION AND EARTH. -X, NOT BAD BUT VERY COMAN THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE ROBOT MYSTERIES AND THE FOUNDATION SERIES, THE FOUNDATION FINDS EARTH


Asprin, Robert & Linda Evans. For King & Country. R.X. 20051101 time travel to the past into someone's head. King Arthur in a very historical context. IRA vs. Orangemen - Irish troubles - a bit overdone. good king Arthur stuff. a5. worthwhile but there's so much king Arthur stuff around, and the IRA stuff was a bit overly politically done.


ASPRIN, ROBERT. BUG WARS. R


ASPRIN, ROBERT. COLD CASH WAR, THE. R


ASPRIN, ROBERT. MYTH 1 ANOTHER FINE MYTH. R,
ASPRIN, ROBERT. MYTH 2 MYTH CONCEPTIONS. R
ASPRIN, ROBERT. MYTH 3 MYTH DIRECTIONS. R
ASPRIN, ROBERT. MYTH 4 HIT OR MYTH. R
ASPRIN, ROBERT. MYTH 5 LITTLE MYTH MARKER. R-X
ASPRIN, ROBERT. MYTH 8 M.Y.T.H. INC. IN ACTION. R-X
ASPRIN, ROBERT. MYTH 9 SWEET MYTH=TERY OF LIFE. R,X. TPB, ILL FOGLIO, R. NOT HIS BEST, THEY'VE BEEN GOING DOWNHILL SINCE THE 4TH OR 5TH, TOO MANY CHARACTERS AND NOT ENOUGH ACTION. I MUST SAY THO I LOVE THE QUOTES.


ASPRIN, ROBERT. PHULE'S COMPANY. R,X.
ASPRIN, ROBERT. PHULE'S PARADISE. R,X. THE CASINO ONE


Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. In the Forests of the Night. 20050703 ReRead.k. mini-HB amazing for a 13 year-old-girl's first novel, short juv vampire story, quite good, interesting modification/modernization of the vampire mythology. Raisika the Tyger. a 7.
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. Demon in My View. 20050703 R.k.mini-hb/DJ. sequel of sorts to Forests, the villain of Forests, Aubrey, and the girl who writes the true history of the vampires all unknowingly - at first. a bit more of a standard vampire-story plot, more about the Witches vampire-hunters. considerably more polished. a 6.


Austin. J.D. Bobby's Girl. R.X. film industry & aliens... ok trying for humor. a 4


Babbitt, Natalie. The Search for Delicious. R. TA.- like nesbit. cute & amusing and fun a 7


BABBITT, NATALIE. SEARCH FOR DELICIOUS, THE. R. OS,CS. a nice story aimed at a young audience, boy searches out kingdom for definition of delicious and helps mermaid regain doll saves kingdom from civil war. AN 8


BABBITT, NATALIE. TUCK EVERLASTING. CH,OS, & PB,R,YA. frontier family finds fountain of 'youth' (immortality), regrets it, but are nice. interesting a family of pioneers drinks from a small spring(the fountain of youth) and thereafter never age. they grow to regret it but cannot be killed! aimed at a young audience but a good story a 7


BALDWIN, BILL. CANBY'S LEGION. X. Fairly good large cast legionary to mercenary story - very corrupt and nasty earth at times a bit much. 5


Ball, Margaret. Mathemagics. R.X. continuing from the short story in Chicks in Chainmail. but it worked better as a short. a 4


Ball, Margaret. Weaver 1 Flameweaver. R.X. Russian vs. British raj. Gandhara magic
Ball, Margaret. Weaver 2 Changeweaver. R.X. into forbidden china and change the world into 'real' past. they get too romancy & don't really like the setting Tibet/china/Mongol etc. area all that much. a 4 not bad. 200211


BALL, MARGARET. MATHEMAGICS. R,X. 199902. doesn't make a lot of sense lest you read the short story in the chicks in Chainmail anthology. but isn't all that great afterwards either. good short story material but.. as a novel it lacks. some cute SF in jokes, Michael valentine, Dune, others, a 4


BANKS, IAIN M. USE OF WEAPONS. R,X. 199901. extremely creepy (practically military Sf/horror) - very especially the end. The Chairmaker!. if that doesn't remind me... a 7


Barnes, John. Kaleidoscope Century. R. a 7 really well written you really get to like the guy as he's finding his memories & then you both discover he's really rather an evil guy - creepy Memes, the Organization, CTC time line loops.


BARNES, STEVEN. STREETLETHAL 1 STREETLETHAL. PB,R. BEGINNING OF A TRILOGY good, somewhat unpolished but strong, strong main character in more ways than one. a 6
BARNES, STEVEN. STREETLETHAL 2 GORGON CHILD. pb, r. continuation from streetlethal better polished but sort of retread of the interior conflict of Aubrey an 8
BARNES, STEVEN. STREETLETHAL 3 FIREDANCE. pb, R. continuation from gorgon child, the kid is cool, lethal but cool, again Aubrey seems to have lost the resolution he gained at the end of the last book, but it ends well, perhaps over polished an 8, would love a sequel strictly from the kids pov.


Barry, Dave. Big Trouble. R. funny mystery, hilarious characters. expected barry quality. humor as per expectations. a 7 (there was a movie made - )


Barton, William. Acts of Conscience. R. Alice. ick. get over himself, sex, little fuzzies, sex, lots of sex problems, and never got anywhere. Well written and strong character, but a 2. all social & psych, not space. loneliness, trust, fear, sex, lots of depression.


BAUDINO, GAEL. DRAGONSWORD 1 DRAGONSWORD.
BAUDINO, GAEL. DRAGONSWORD 2 DUEL OF DRAGONS
BAUDINO, GAEL. DRAGONSWORD 3 DRAGON DEATH. R. 199901, good series, which get better as it goes. a 'created' world from the strong emotions of a few people from earth, lots of Kent State flashbacks wraps up well. a7


BAUDINO, GAEL. GOSSAMER AXE. R. SORT of modern Celtic fant - delintish


BAUDINO, GAEL. GOSSAMER AXE. R.X.


BAUDINO, GAEL. STRANDS OF STARLIGHT. R,X. OKAY SERIES a 4
BAUDINO, GAEL. MAZE OF MOONLIGHT. R,X. SEQUEL TO STRANDS OF STARLIGHT A 4
BAUDINO, GAEL. STRANDS OF SUNLIGHT. pb. SEQUEL TO SHROUD OF SHADOW


BAUER, STEVEN. SATYRDAY. R. GREAT FANTASY mythic woods



BAUM, L. FRANK. LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF SANTA CLAUS, THE. R. A very different legend of Santa's beginnings from the usual, foundling of fairies and lastly made immortal. a 7


Baum, L. Frank. 01 THE WIZARD OF OZ. R
Baum, L. Frank. 02 THE LAND OF OZ . R
Baum, L. Frank. 03 OZMA OF OZ. R. mostly the story of Ev a kingdom off to the side of oz, with Dorothy and tic tok. Against the Nome king, they steal/win his magic belt. the one in which ozma says she'll check on Dorothy with the magic picture. a 7
BAUM, L. FRANK. OZ 04 DOROTHY AND THE WIZARD IN OZ R. Actually they're only in oz at the very end, mostly they're in the center of the earth fallen thru a crack from an earthquake, with the vegetable people and guy who makes rustles, some very strange wooden gargoyles and
dragonettes! a 7
BAUM, L. FRANK. OZ 05 THE ROAD TO OZ. R. The shaggy man and polychrome the rainbows daughter go with Dorothy to ozma's birthday party. Also there are Santa Claus, Queen Zixi of Ix, the John Dough and the Cherub, and others from Baum's other books. light hearted cute a 7
BAUM, L. FRANK. OZ 06 THE EMERALD CITY OF OZ. R. Dorothy brings her Aunt & Uncle to OZ, the Nome king tries to invade with a tunnel under the desert and Glinda makes OZ invisible to all so it won't happen again = says is the last oz story (tho it isn't) one of the better ones, an 8
BAUM, L. FRANK. OZ 07 THE PATCHWORK GIRL OF OZ. R.
BAUM, L. FRANK. OZ 10 RINKITINK IN OZ.
BAUM, L. FRANK. OZ 11 THE LOST PRINCESS OF OZ.
BAUM, L. FRANK. OZ 13 THE MAGIC OF OZ. PB
BAUM, L. FRANK. OZ 14 GLINDA OF OZ. LAST BAUM OZ.


BAXTER, STEPHEN. RING (4th in series) R,-X. REALY huge story, extremely long and near immortality and end of the universe and the end of his long timeline. interesting lisel and stuff, ok but as read the end first don't know how compares w/previous. at times too hard sf tech and I just skip it.


BEAGLE. FOLK OF THE AIR. R


BEAGLE. LAST UNICORN. R


Bear, Greg. Vitals. R.X. 20060812. ugh, a disappointment, actually rather reminded me of Tim Powers last - Declare. starts off as if it's going to be an interesting immortality story and ends up a spy/intrigue/mind-control story. Never really got into the biologist character - I remember being at pg 80 and thinking, when is it going to get good... The historian character (2 character pov story, half way thru switches) was much more interesting - but it could have been that the plot was going strong by then. but worst of all he loses, and never really figures out exactly what was going on... bah. I'd expected much better from BEAR, GREG. since THE INFINITY CONCERTO. was amazing, but this isn't up to his old stuff. It is a good spy/mind control/mild sf story, and might appeal to the Dan Brown Da Vinci Code crowd, if they weren't too much into the art & religion aspect of that story. a 4.


BEAR, GREG. BEYOND HEAVEN'S RIVER. R. JAP PILOT IN WWII CAPTURED BY ALIENS AND MADE NEARLY IMMORTAL, MILENIA LATER LEFT OF PLANET AND TAKEN IN BY HUMANS - CULTURE CLASH AND PUZZLES


BEAR, GREG. THE INFINITY CONCERTO. R.
BEAR, GREG. THE SERPENT MAGE. R. series very well described musical aspects really recommended to those who like classical music even a little, also a very admired world view, God is an Elf=mage! or was, fairyland is an alternate 'world' created by the elf=mage, and elves are back to being haughtily evil or not caring or some few liking humans. Michael, goes to fairyland and comes back 5 years later and saves the world. Fairyland collapses and elves return to earth, could easily be classified as a modern fantasy like the borderlands, dozens of 'races' tho few are met, an ancient human mage from before the garden of Eden who was the snake, elves stealing the best artisans from all history and hiding them away in the realm (fairyland), music a magic, Mozart!, the mage of birds, ancient half=elves. and much more, this is a marvelous fantasy. an 8 for the series. bk 1 drags slightly, and there is no real surprize at how it ends.


Beard & Kenney. Harvard Lampoon's Bored of the Rings. R.X. amusing but not really well done. Dildo Bugger a Boggle of the Sty. a 4.


BENARY-ISBERT. THE WICKED ENCHANTMENT. YA.R. COOL, IT WAS SO OBVIOUS, AND I DIDN'T GUESS UNTIL THEY HIT ME OVER THE HEAD WITH IT. THE STATUES CAME ALIVE WITH THE OWL KING WHO CAME
BACK TO LIFE! OF COURSE, REMICENT OF DR. DOLITTLE WHAT WITH SO MANY ANIMALS WHICH SEEM TO BE ABLE TO TALK. FUN, AIMED AT BOTH CHILDREN AND ADULTS.


BENNETT. BEYOND THE DRAAK'S TEETH. R.
BENNETT. WHERE THE NI-LACH. R.


Berg, Carol. Song of The Beast. R. 20061204. good fantasy, interesting dragons, bard, dragon riders. a 7. very strong moral character - won't kill for revenge, just doesn't think it worthwhile. an interesting beginning reminds me of Bujould's Curse of Chalion.


BISCHOFF & BROWN & RICHARDSON. A PERSONAL DEMON. R. NEAT IDEA AND PRETTY NEAT BOOK, PERHAPS A LITTLE OVER DONE 'TOO MANY COOKS' AND ALL THAT


Bishop, Anne. Black Jewels 1 Daughter of the Blood. R.txt files.
Bishop, Anne. Black Jewels 2 Heir of Shadows
Bishop, Anne. Black Jewels 3 Queen of Darkness. a good series. an 8 overall. had to read #2 on computer. interesting setting. a sort of elvenland 3 layers of the world, (and would have been _much_ easier to understand if they'd been a tad explained 1st!) sort of mortal land, shadow land, and underworld. interesting as lots of the characters would be 'evil' but do 'good' - bit creeps with lots of child molest in #1 but gets over it. a tad too much unrequited love , but over all comes off great.
Bishop, Anne. Black Jewels The Invisible Ring. R.20030410.X a 5. taking a small story from the trilogy expanded and explained it. but really should have spent the time on something new or.. didn't have the impact of the trilogy because you already know how it turns out in the broad sense. did have some good stirring stuff at the climatic battle, but the characters weren't as strong as in the trilogy.


BISHOP, MICHAEL. UNICORN MOUNTAIN. R,X, Aids and unicorns. the spirt world of the Indians - the land of the dead has unicorns (who come back sometimes) there all these dead people do the
normal stuff they did in life - have tv shows and everything!!@ too much real life and rather depressing. a 4.


BLAIR. FINAL FAIR. R. REN FAIR mystery


BLAYLOCK, JAMES. LAST COIN. R,-X. SLOW AND BORING FOR SUCH A NEAT IDEA, JUDAS' silver coin made into a sliver spoon, a 4


Block, Francesca Lia. Weetzie Bat. ya. R. a really cool book, that's her name for one thing. and all set in the late 60's but you figure it out not told, set in LA/Hollywood, with a Genie a neat book great writing packed for such a skimpy little thing. a 9
Block, Francesca Lia. Weetzie Bat 2 Witch Baby. ya. R. sequel to Weetzie bat, Witch baby is the sort of daughter of Weetzie and her adventures in the 70's & 80's and finding herself, and she's a genie type magical being, just as good, a 9
Block, Francesca Lia. Weetzie Bat 3 Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys. ya.R. 3rd in the series of sorts Weetzie's real daughter and her friends and witch baby and their band the goat guys and magic things they get and loose a 9 the 'series' in toto is a 9 very neat and cool, which to it would be the greatest of compliments.


Block, Lawrence. Burglar 01 Burglars Can't be Choosers. R. reread 200408?. amusing and a good fun mystery. a 7.
Block, Lawrence. Burglar 02 The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling. R. fun bookish mystery.


BORDERLAND; SHETTERLY. ELSEWHERE. R, A BORDERLANDS SERIES NOVEL


BORDERLAND; WINDLING, TERRI & ARNOLD, MARK ALAN. BORDERLAND. ANT SERIES. A BORDERLAND SERIES NOVEL. R. GREAT FANTASTIC, MOSTLY, IT'S GOT A STEVEN R. BOYETT (THE ARCHETICT OF
SLEEP) STORY WHICH TAKES OF THE 1ST THIRD OF THE BOOK, AND IS VERY SIMMILAR TO HIS NOVEL ARIAL.


BOVA. PRIVATEERS. R.


Boyer, Elizabeth H. Keeper of the Cats. R.X. highland historical fantasy mystic cats, good but only 4





BOYETT, STEVEN R. ARIEL. post apocalypse fantasy semi-elsewhere style. an 8.R.


BRADBURY, RAY. OCTOBER COUNTRY. R. one of my favorite bradbury's the Autumn people, The Traveler, Uncle Einar, Homecoming. an 8-9


Bradley, Marion Zimmer & Holly Lisle. Glenraven R.X.
Bradley, Marion Zimmer & Holly Lisle. Glenraven 2 Into the Rift. R.X. okay, but not up to standard for either of 'em! a 4 the set


BRADLEY, Marion Zimmer & ZIMMER. HUNTERS OF THE RED MOON
BRADLEY, Marion Zimmer & ZIMMER. HUNTERS OF THE RED MOON 2 SURVIVORS. R.


BRADLEY, Marion Zimmer. LYTHANDE. R. (Partially THIEVES' WORLD).


BRADLEY, Marion Zimmer. SWORD OF THE ALDONES, THE / PLANET SAVERS, THE (ACE double F-153) PB


BRADLEY, Marion Zimmer. DARKOVER FOUR MOONS OF DARKOVER (FM).ED.
BRADLEY, Marion Zimmer. DARKOVER HAWKMISTESS!. R.
BRADLEY, Marion Zimmer. DARKOVER HERITAGE OF HASTUR. R.
BRADLEY, Marion Zimmer. DARKOVER LERONI OF DARKOVER. ED..
BRADLEY, Marion Zimmer. DARKOVER PLANET SAVERS, THE & THE SWORD OF THE ALDONES +(THE WATERFALL). R. PB.
BRADLEY, Marion Zimmer & LACKEY, MERCEDES. DARKOVER REDISCOVERY; A NOVEL OF DARKOVER.
PB,-R. DARKOVER AGAINST THE TERRANS; THE 1ST AGE.
BRADLEY, Marion Zimmer. DARKOVER RENUNCIATES OF DARKOVER (). ED. R.
BRADLEY, Marion Zimmer. DARKOVER STORMQUEEN. R.
BRADLEY, Marion Zimmer. DARKOVER SWORD OF CHAOS (). ED.. R.
BRADLEY, MARION ZIMMER. DARKOVER EXILE'S SONG. R, Good, but too much romance novel influence = i don't remember the others being so much like that, but well done, start of a new trilogy after the shara rebellion, with lew's daughter, an 8


BRIN, DAVID . UPLIFT WAR R. A 9.
Brin, David. Uplift Trilogy 2 #1 Brightness Reef. R.X. Bantam. 553573306 1996
Brin, David. Uplift Trilogy 2 #2 Infinity's Shore. R.X. Bantam. 553577778 1997
Brin, David. Uplift Trilogy 2 #3 Heaven's Reach. R.X. Bantam. 553574736 1999. not quite as good as the original uplift books, but definitely a galactic space opera.



BRIN, DAVID & BENFORD, GREGORY. HEART OF THE COMET. R, good, a bit technical and hard sf at the beginning and turns soft sf at the end, woman in the machine, symbiotics and mega symbiotics with hugely ancient lifeforms which created life on earth, pre=uplift but there is a small mention of uplift institute on Hawaii, so the comet men
could return and find lots of aliens! better than sundiver but not as good as uplift, the end was better than the beginning, an 8.


Britain, Kristen. Green Rider. R.x. 20040902. nicely written takes a little long to get into the characters, never do like it when it starts with the villains pov. very reminiscent of Lackey's Heralds the green riders are messengers with magic in a land where magic is mostly gone & feared. was a good villain tho & a good resolution. 6.
Britain, Kristen. First Rider's Call. R.x. 20041214. better than the 1st one, more mature, lots of 'romance' but unsuccessful, obviously set for a 3rd. still not a bad story, some time travel, lots of ancient history learned, no defeat of evil just a putting off. a 7.


Brizzolara, John. Empire's Horizon. R.X. Africa in space


Brooks, Terry. Trolltown 1 Running with the Demon. R. Ballantine. 345422589 1998 FANTASY CONTEMPORARY. uber-prequel to Shanara stuff. reread 20040127
Brooks, Terry. Trolltown 2 A Knight of the Word. R. Ballantine. 345424646 1999 FANTASY CONTEMPORARY reread 20040127
Brooks, Terry. Trolltown 3 Angel Fire East. R. 20040128. good stuff! sorta sad bittersweet end, but good characters and the knight of the word is an excellent invention. an 8 or 9 for the trilogy.


BROOKS HERITAGE OF SHANNARA 2 THE DRUID OF SHANNARA -X HB,1ST THE HERITAGE SERIES WASN'T ALL THAT GREAT, TOOK 4 BOOKS TO DO WHAT HE'D DONE IN 1 BEFORE


Brown, Mary. Pigs Don't Fly. R. 7
Brown, Mary. Master of Many Treasures. R. sequel to Pigs Don't Fly. she goes across the world to find her dragon lover. 6
Brown, Mary. Strange Deliverance. R. not bad a 5. again with the unicorn horn ring. Alice reference pg 76. post apocalypse reconstruction with aliens & magic stone circles.
Brown, Mary. Dragonne's Eg. R. 200407? continuation of the series.. of sorts. late 1800's Victorian era woman gains the unicorn ring & returns the eg to china. opens orphanage in countryside for poor Londoners. really the least of them. a 4. series starts off strong but gets less as it goes - a disappointment. recommend #1 but not the rest.


Brown, Simon. Keys of Power 1 Inheritance. R.X. 20060621
Brown, Simon. Keys of Power 2 Fire and Sword. R.x. 20060622
Brown, Simon. Keys of Power 3 Sovereign. R.X. 20060623. not bad, a bit formulaic, but very well done battle sequences, and quite an interesting vampire - the wood vampire. somewhat standard, youngest royal sun betrayed seeks vengeance, and sort of a butler did it, the chancellor regicide. but good adventure getting there. a 6-7 the series.


BROWN, RITA MAE. VENUS ENVY. R. 35 YR-old woman thinks she is dying and writes letters to everyone she knows telling them she was gay. then she doesn't die (it was all a mistake) and goes around the town trying to live with it, it's funny and at the end 1 of her paintings (she owns a gallery) "comes alive" and she meets the Greek gods and has a nice orgy with Venus. it's strange. and only mildly sf (fant) but I thought it was fun.




BRUNNER, JOHN. MORE THINGS IN HEAVEN. PB,R,X. weird hyperspace monstrous beings 'borrow' the bodies of the 1st spacemen. really rather creepy, and stuff about how 'men' were from hyperspace but have 'fallen' and don't remember why, etc. a 5.


BRUST, S & LINDHOLM GYPSY, THE R


BRUST, S BROKEDOWN PALACE IN THE EASTERN (HUMAN) LANDS OF TALTOS R


BRUST, S TALTOS 1 JHEREG R
BRUST, S TALTOS 2 YENDI R
BRUST, S TALTOS 5 PHOENIX R
BRUST, S TALTOS 6 ATHYRA R
Brust, Steven. Jhereg 08 Dragon. 20031028. reread. a good look at fantasy medieval warfare from the pov of a grunt, and an interesting Jhereg story, but probably not the best of the series. a 6 this read thru.



BRUST, STEVEN & EMMA BULL. FREEDOM & NECESSITY. PB,R. a good one, mostly historical english, with a tiny little bit of magic thrown in. very stylistic. an 9. another epistolary novel!




BUDRYS, ALGIS. HARD LANDING. PB,R,X. a 50's sf book (written by a 50's sf writer) in the 90's- not bad but sort of nostalgic - there were some neat Nixon connections. stranded aliens who look superficially human were supposed to keep hidden but one uses his knowledge to gain wealth - but eventually catches or even causes AIDS and dies a 4


Buettner, Robert. Orphanage. R. 20060615. good very gungho pro military sf. believable excuses for using 'antique' modern weapons in space infantry warfare. well done overall. a 7. there's a sequel



Bujold, Lois McMaster. Vorkosigan 00 Falling Free. R.k. Quaddies
Bujold, Lois McMaster. Vorkosigan 01 Shards of Honor. R.X. 20021224. Cordelia & Aral
Bujold, Lois McMaster. Vorkosigan 02 Barrayar. R.X. Cordy preggers
Bujold, Lois McMaster. Vorkosigan 03 The Warrior's Apprentice. R.X. miles fails physical, dendarii.
Bujold, Lois McMaster. Vorkosigan 04 The Vor Game. R.X. rescue emperor
Bujold, Lois McMaster. Vorkosigan 05 Cetaganda. R.X. star crèche
Bujold, Lois McMaster. Vorkosigan 07 Brothers in Arms. R.X. clone on earth
Bujold, Lois McMaster. Vorkosigan 08 The Borders of Infinity. R.X. shorts, prison break
Bujold, Lois McMaster. Vorkosigan 09 Mirror Dance. R.X. miles killed on Jackson's whole
Bujold, Lois McMaster. Vorkosigan 10 Memory. R.X.
Bujold, Lois McMaster. Vorkosigan 11 Komarr. R.X. meets ekaterian
Bujold, Lois McMaster. Vorkosigan 12 A Civil Campaign. R.X. wedding romancing, internal politics
Bujold, Lois McMaster. Vorkosigan 13 Diplomatic Immunity. R.X. 20030102 married & quaddies plague ceta liked the Dendarii stuff better, action rather than politics as the last few, good series overall tho necessary to read them all to get the latest. a 7 the series
Bujold, Lois McMaster. Ethan of Athos. R.X. 20060616. not a Vorkosigan book, but in the same universe has Quinn in it. planet of only men, and spy intrique on a space station. not bad, surprising the way it ended. I'd expected - in general that Athos would be changed to add women, but no.. a 6.


Bull, Emma. Finder. TOR. c.1995. BORDERLANDS R. excellent a 9.


BULL, EMMA. Bone Dance. R. 199901. psychic powers and post apocalypse and Voodoo and artificial people and without the normal post apocalypse feel. very well done. an 9


BULL, EMMA. FALCON. PB,R. Celtic sf! at least the 1st half - seems 2 books in one. 1st is Celtic planet in civil war with near monarchy system and royal kid helps with rebels. then kid is starpilot and at end develops power of teleportation!! - could have a really neat sequel if wanted. a 7 or 8, the 1st half was better.


BULLA, CLYDE. CHALK BOX KID, THE. CH, OS , R


BulletProof Monk. TPB, comix. Michael Avon Oeming art. reread 20040215 sun. R.X. interesting, good art, disjointed story, but works well, disappointing ending. better than the movie, but mostly because didn't like the kid in the movie, otherwise the movie had a better plot.


Bunch, Chris. Last Legion 1 Last Legion. R.x. 20040812
Bunch, Chris. Last Legion 2 Firemask. R.x. 20040814.
Bunch, Chris. Last Legion 3 Storm Force. R.x. 20040815.
Bunch, Chris. Last Legion 4 Homefall. R.x. 20040817.
military sf not bad, not as good as drake or weber but interesting characters pretty good battle scenes. a 5 the series.


Bunting, Eve. Will You be by POSSLQ? R. YA. cute & with cancer & 1st sex & stuff. 7




BURT, K . GIRL ON A BROOMSTICK OS,CH =X sort of sappy girls book, no real witchcraft just coincidence, but strong character and likeable, young romance, nice a 5


BUSBY, F.M. RISSA 1 YOUNG RISSA X, R RISA/TREGARDE 1 TRILLOGY - they get better the 3rd is actually fairly good but you'd need the background of the 1st 2 to get much. in total a 4
BUSBY, F.M. RISSA 2 RISSA AND TREGARE X, R RISA/TREGARDE 2
BUSBY, F.M. RISSA 3 THE LONG VIEW X, R RISA/TREGARE 3
BUSBY, F.M. RISSA 4 ALIEN DOUBT x,R continues risa/tregarde after end of long view
best of the 4 he was getting better but still too stilted style and long boring segments


Butcher, Jim. Dresden Files 01 Storm Front. black magic
Butcher, Jim. Dresden Files 02 Fool Moon. werewolves
Butcher, Jim. Dresden Files 03 Grave Peril. Vampires
Butcher, Jim. Dresden Files 04 Summer Knight. faerie war
Butcher, Jim. Dresden Files 05 Death Masks. shroud of Turin. 20040319-23. R.k. good series. sorta a male anita Blake. a wizard in the modern world. 1st book isn't written all that great a 5., but gets better in 2 and much better by 4 is up to an 8.


CADIGAN, PAT. MINDPLAYERS. PB,R,X. cyberpunk, mental weirdness - legal psychosis etc. franchises personalities, mindwipe, she becomes like a psychologist. ok a 5 didn't;t like
that there was no major plot.


CADIGAN, PAT. SYNNERS. R. A good cyberpunk book, speed thrash, corp scum, just breaking tech to plug into 'net' Artificial intelligence, Rock Video instead of music, post big
one L.A. It was sometimes difficult to figure out which character we were with nearly the first half of the book, minor notices at chapter heads with the name of the current main character would have helped greatly to keep the flow going, mostly it took all of a page or so to get who it was, after a while they all got together and it became
easier to tell them apart. much surreal stuff, neat. a 9


Callahan - Levels of Insanity. 200410?. cartoons, some good stuff but nothing outstanding in this one. a5.


Card, Orson Scott. Ender's Shadow 1. R.X.
Card, Orson Scott. Shadow of the Hegemon 2. R. very military not much like the later Ender books, a 6
Card, Orson Scott. Shadow Puppets 3. R. 20031230. but good a 7.


Card, Orson Scott. Homecoming 1 Memory of Earth. R.X. a 4 for series ok but not good sf
Card, Orson Scott. Homecoming 2 call of earth. R.X.
Card, Orson Scott. Homecoming 3 ships of earth. R.X.
Card, Orson Scott. Homecoming 4 earthfall. R.X.
Card, Orson Scott. Homecoming 5 earthborn. R.X.


Card, Orson Scott. Songmaster. TOR. c.1987. R.X.


CARD, ORSON SCOTT. ENDER 3 XENOCIDE R HUMANITY TRIED TO DESTROY THE NEW WORLD WITH 3 INTELIGENCES ON IT. AND 1 OF IT. NOT AS GREAT AS ENDER'S GAME BUT.. A 7


CARD, ORSON SCOTT. TREASON . R, GOOD STUFF


CARROLL, JIM. THE BASKETBALL DIARIES. PB,R,bio. Quite a psycho junkie boy he was and way young at it! good stuff. an 8.


Cassutt. Michael. Dragon Season. R.X. a rather neat modern/alternate reality fantasy/sf. Men as God. vs. atomic missiles. neat plot, interesting alternate world where everything is grown/bio where prayers are answered if God is interested, where God is just this guy. But too much Xian stuff in our world at the end. a 5


CHALKER & RESNICK & EFFINGER . RED TAPE WAR . X, R, too many cooks...


CHANDLER, A. BERTRAM. STAR COURIER. R. TALK ABOUT THE COVER NOT HAVING ANYTHING! TO DO WITH THE STORY 'A BARBARIAN ON HORSEBACK' NO HORSES AT ALL AND I DON'T REMEMBER A SWORD
EITHER = A DEEPSPACE VERSION OF HORNBLOWER STUFF = GOOD ADVENTURE A 6


Chant, Joy. Red Moon and Black Mountain. 20030624. R. an 8 an excellent YA Fantasy, quite readable by adults. childrens zapped to fantasy land and overthrow the evil due to prophecy, but well done. good writing. nice ending. unicorn horses, star magic, moon magic, gods & evil (very xian setup fallen 'god' as the evil but done well) [first of 3 books set in this world]


Chaykin - American Century Scars & stripes (14) tpb Comics Vertigo. 20040809. R.x. Chaykin story & covers - but not art which was somewhat disappointing. still it was well done and a good action story. but not a type I'm really into - 50's era Latin America drugs revolutions and gun running CIA & USSR, murder and dogfights. well done for what it
was. a 5.


Cherryh, C. J. Cyteen Pt. 1 The Betrayal. c.1989 R.X.
Cherryh, C. J. Cyteen Pt. 2 The Rebirth. c.1989 R.X.
Cherryh, C. J. Cyteen Pt. 3 The Vindication. c.1989 R.X. good series, but not great. I always like her stuff, and she has a few outstanding books, but mostly just good enough. a 5.


CHERRYH, C. J. FADED SUN KUTATH . R
CHERRYH, C. J. FADED SUN KESRITH . R
CHERRYH, C. J. FADED SUN SHON'JIR R


CHERRYH, C. J. CHANUR 1 THE PRIDE OF CHANUR . PRETTY GOOD, INTERSETING THAT SHE BARELY LET THE HUMAN COMMUNICATE. the series as a whole would get a 4
CHERRYH, C. J. CHANUR 2 KIF STRIKE BACK, THE
CHERRYH, C. J. CHANUR 3 CHANUR'S VENTURE . THRID CHANUR BOOK
CHERRYH, C. J. CHANUR 4 CHANUR'S HOMECOMING . It's not a bad series, a bit long, being a single adventure split into three books, (the 1st is separate) but okay and the Knnn and
the methane breathers are some of the most interesting and bizarre aliens I've ever seen, Knnn esp where they'd been taught to 'trade' so instead of just taking and pillaging anything they wanted, they first dump something off then take anything they wa1nt. The 4th book in the series
CHERRYH, C. J. CHANUR 5 CHANUR'S LEGACY . TPB, ADVANCE, SIGNED TO ARIC . It's Hilfy instead of Panfar and the Legacy instead of the Pride and no Tully (which annoys Hilfy to no end) this is not the best of the series #4 or #1 was but the whole series is not so hot. The reverse sex discrimination thing is just too overdone and been dragged out too much. it works good but you can get tired of it. I would love to see one with humans in it more tho. a 4


CHERRYH, C. J. GATE 1 GATE OF IVEREL R, A GREAT SERIES - FANTASY WITH SF
CHERRYH, C. J. GATE 2 WELL OF SHIUAN R
CHERRYH, C. J. GATE 3 FIRES OF ASEROTH R
CHERRYH, C. J. GATE 4 EXILES'S GATE R, GREAT sf-fantasy series


CHERRYH, C. J. FAERY IN SHADOW. PB. R. 6 not one of her greatest, very Celtic, powerful sidhe, hero very reminiscent of Elric, but often disjointed too much bemoaning his fate not enough action. no resolution to the heros real problem. Caith and his sidekick help a pair of twins from a evil witch, the twins selkie father from the sea and the boy get killed cause of Caith and she turns pure sidhe and Caith is left with sidekick and no change in his
fortune for all that trouble. 980330


CHERRYH, C. J. HEAVY TIME. -X, R. SORT OF BORING, VERY TECHNICAL, THE REBELLION WAS NEAT BUT IT WAS ONLY A FEW CHAPTERS NEAR THE END, THE END WAS DISAPOINTING, TOO 'REAL' NO WINNERS.


CHERRYH, C. J. PALADIN, THE. Quite liked this one, the farm girl forces the older paladin to train her (and boy does he have a 'different' view of women, and a high value of his sexual prowess.) They fall in love (kinda, actually it's real slow and mostly him) and then they go off to tear down the evil regent. She does a great job of showing the action especially of the swordfights so that you know without being told that they're using Japanese technique and style weapons with out any mention of any asian words. I thought that that was very well done and difficult to do, esp so well as she did it. The plot is tame and 'tho there are a few twists (mainly with the girl) it is the development and the great action which make the book. an 8 or 9

CHERRYH, C. J. PORT ETERNITY. R. CLONES AND THE ARTHURIAN LEGEND, I'D LIKE TO WRITE A SCREENPLAY AND/OR PLAY BASED ON THIS ONE, CLONES NAMED AFTER ARTHURIAN LEGENDS, ILLEGALY GET AHOLD OF A MINDTAPE PLAY OF THE LEGEND AND THEN BEGIN TO ACT OUT THEIR PARTS - ON A SPACESHIP TRAPPED IN HYPERSPACE. WITH METHANE BREATHERS ON THE ATTACK. a 9


CHERRYH, C. J. RUSALKA. PB,R good different fantasy, 1st Russian fantasy.


CHRISTOPHER, JOHN. WHITE MOUNTAINS 1 THE WHITE MOUNTAINS
CHRISTOPHER, JOHN. WHITE MOUNTAINS 2 THE CITY OF GOLD AND LEAD
CHRISTOPHER, JOHN. WHITE MOUNTAINS 3 POOL OF FIRE, THE. CH, YA, R. GOOD KIDS SCI-FI


CLAREMONT, CHRIS. FIRST FLIGHT (have 1ST signed? pb-keep)
CLAREMONT, CHRIS. GROUNDED
CLAREMONT, CHRIS. SUNDOWNER. R,X. Good, nothing like his x-men sf, recent warp drives, 1st contact trilogy, alien intelligences cat-men, altered DNA stuff, virtual reality. but mostly fighterjock actions /boredom. a 5 - great stuff about Lila Cheny (sp) the rocksinger from the x-books!!


Clayton, Jo. Duel of Sorcery 01 Moongather. DAW c.1982. R.
Clayton, Jo. Duel of Sorcery 02 Moonscatter. DAW c.1983. R.
Clayton, Jo. Duel of Sorcery 03 Changer's Moon. DAW c.1985. R.
[unread RETURNING TO THE "DUEL OF SORCERY" UNIVERSE"Dancer" 1)Dancer's Rise, 2)Serpent Waltz, 3)Dance Down the Stars]


CLAYTON, JO. DIADEM 1 DIADEM FROM THE STARS. R. interesting human aliens and space faring and the fantastic diadem. part of a long series, a good story a 6
CLAYTON, JO. DIADEM 2 Lamarchos
CLAYTON, JO. DIADEM 3 IRSUD. R
CLAYTON, JO. DIADEM 4 Maeve
CLAYTON, JO. DIADEM 5 STAR HUNTERS. R
CLAYTON, JO. DIADEM 6 The Nowhere Hunt
CLAYTON, JO. DIADEM 7 Ghosthunt
CLAYTON, JO. DIADEM 8 THE SNARES OF IBEX. R
CLAYTON, JO. DIADEM 9 QUESTER'S ENDGAME. R. end [1939 02 15 to 1998 02 13]


CLEARY, B . MOUSE & THE MOTORCYCLE L
CLEARY, B . RUNAWAY RALPH HB
CLEARY, B . RALPH S. MOUSE

CLEARY, BEVERLY. STRIDER. CH PB,X. Sequel to Dear Mr. Henshaw. and interesting - meets girl, refriends dad,


CLELAND, JOHN . MEMOIRS OF A WOMAN OF PLEASURE (FANNY HILL) . TPB,XXX




CONSTANTINE, STORM. WRAETHTHU 2 THE BEWITCHMENTS OF LOVE AND HATE. PB,R. a really interesting and mental post apocalypse and alternate humanity - new race.


COOK, GLEN. STARFISHERS 1 SHADOWLINE. R, interesting and not really connected with the others except as background for mouse who is only the sidekick in the others. - very LIKE David drake merc's stuff. a 7
COOK, GLEN. STARFISHERS 2 STARFISHERS. R, infiltrate starfishers and begin stuff a 7
COOK, GLEN. STARFISHERS 3 STAR'S END. R. the war against the enemy - bio terraforming machines a race that destroys all to make planets for it's owners = who are long dead!! and worse yet the book doesn't hold out much hope for their success!! and then ends!! a 7


COOK, GLEN. SWORDBEARER, THE. R, poor guy gets a magic sword, no really you would not want to get a magic sword in this place, very much like the Elric stories but with some twists that make it cooks story not Moorcock's, an early book but still good, not the happiest of endings. a 6.


COOPER, LOUISE. BOOK OF INDIGO 05 TROIKA. R
Cooper, Louise. BOOK OF Indigo 06 Avatar. R. demon=fear. dark jungle. not bad a 5.
COOPER, LOUISE. BOOK OF Indigo 07 Aisling. R. TOR 812508084 1994 They get less great as the series goes on the first 4 or so were really good and the rest less so, her descriptions are great and character development does go on but the story seems to lag especially when compared to the 1st episode. this one's about a village (which
seems vaguely oriental and very communist) in which logic and wealth are king, anything else is deemed unproductive and there is no greater disparagement. yet there are childish laughing 'ghosts' following the townsfolk about or at least Indigo sees them.
Cooper, Louise. Indigo 08 The Revenant. R. TOR. 812508076 1993. end of series... finally... started out so good, but the last 3 or 4 sort of dragged...


COOPER, LOUISE. TIME MASTER 1, INITIATE. X, R. GOOD SERIES ESPECLALLY IF IT WAS HER FIRST (WHICH IT SEEMS) INTERESTING WAS THE SMALL SIZE OF THE 'PLANET' A SINGLE CONTINENT
WHICH COULD BE CROSSED BY HORSE IN 15 WEEKS (DAYS? I DON'T REMEMBER), it seemed VERY SMALL. AND THE RELEGIOUS ASPECTS SHOWING THAT TOO MUCH ORDERS IS JUST AS BAD AS TOO MUCH CHAOS. I DIDN'T KEEP 'EM 'CAUSE I SEE THEM ALL OVER AND THEY ARE THE WORST-WRITTEN OF HER BOOKS, THE REST OF WHICH ARE MUCH BETTER. a 6 or 7 (of course now that I'd like to reread them there no where to be found!)
COOPER, LOUISE. TIME MASTER 2 THE OUTCAST. X, R
COOPER, LOUISE. TIME MASTER 3 MASTER. X. R.


COOPER, SUSAN. DARK IS RISING 1 OVER SEA, UNDER STONE. YA, R. one of the best YA series! the 1st isn't as good as the later, but the series as a whole is a 9 Arthurian-ish ya fantasy
COOPER, SUSAN. DARK IS RISING 3 GREENWITCH. HB,DJ,YA , R.
COOPER, SUSAN. DARK IS RISING 4 THE GREY KING. YA, R.
COOPER, SUSAN. DARK IS RISING 5 SILVER ON THE TREE (END). HB,DJ,YA,R. SUPER GREAT CELTIC/ARTHURIAN MODERN FANT A 9! FOR SEIES


Cooper, Susan. King of Shadows. Clapp, John (illustrator). Simon & Schuster
Children's. c.1999. ARC Proof. R. back in time to Shakespear.


Cornwell, Bernard. Gallows Thief. R.X. 20060614. 2 years after the battle of waterloo an english gentry after his father lost all their money is looking for work. he gets a one shot employment as an investigator, and actually tries to do it, annoying his employer. newgate prison, murder, lords, painters, money. an interesting murder mystery, an interesting character, and setting, well shown, and well written. some of the minor supporting characters were actually better than Rider Sandman. a 5.


COWPER, RICHARD. BIRD OF KINSHIP 1 THE ROAD TO CORLAY. R. In the 1st bk there are flashes back the present and minds flying to the far future of corlay but it falls off in the later books, and the 3rd is so far in the future that the 1st story is legend! very religious and x=ian but also much anti=x=ian a good trilogy an 8
COWPER, RICHARD. BIRD OF KINSHIP 2 A DREAM OF KINSHIP. R
COWPER, RICHARD. BIRD OF KINSHIP 3 A TAPESTRY OF TIME. R


Crane, Jordan. The Last Lonely Saturday. small GN. 2004? R.x. excellent nearly all 'silent' little short of a lonely old man visiting his wives grave, and dies & her ghost welcomes him, touching. a 6.


Crean, Michelle Shirey. Dancer of the Sixth. R.X. 20060804. an excellent 1st book. Military, Spy, fighter jock, secret spy organization, in depth secrets, multiple races of men, torture death. well written for the most part, just a few bits where it gets confusing, unfortunately the end is one, not the big finish, but the denouement is off, bit of romance. a solid 6. great potential for further stuff. good plotting. excellent detail filled setting. One of the fighter-jock sf sub-sub-genre. Dancer code name of a former hot shot pilot now assumed KIA, joins the 6th - apparently the clean up crew war, sort of well armed spies, full of vengeful Aruyx a race of minor telepaths massacred by the enemy who has an odd love of torture. She finds a double has taken her place in the 4th (the fighter-jocks) and is in their version of the Blue Angels. There are some excellent twists and revelations. It's set up for a sequel without truly needing it to finish the story. I would have said she was a writer to watch out for - great things might be forthcoming - if it didn't look like this book from 1993 is her one and only book. A shame, she had a good voice, and this could have been expanded to an excellent trilogy. If you like this you might like LEWITT, S.N. CYBERSTEALTH, & DANCING VAC.


Crichton, Michael. Eaters of the Dead. ill ed. R.k. (made movie 13th warrior). excellent story, the footnotes are hillarious. at least an 8.


CRICHTON, Michael. EATERS OF THE DEAD. R. Great! Crichton best ever, made into
not so good movie 13th warrior. the footnotes in the book are really cool, and amusing


CROWLEY. BEASTS. REALLY NEAT SORT OF BEAUTY AND THE BEAST AT FIRST AND THEN HE GETS
INTO HOW HUMANOID BEASTS WOULD REALLY BE AND THEY'RE AS ALIEN AS ANIMALS, THE FOX-MAN RENYARD (OF COURSE) IS A NEAT CHARACTER, WELL DONE AND INTERSETING AS ALL CROWLEY'S ARE. PERHAPS NOT UP TO LITTLE, BIG, BUT IT'S SHORTER AND EARILER. so an 8 or 9.


Czerneda, Julie E. In the Company of Others. 20040909. R.x. she's an excellent writer - but this exploration into 3rd person wasn't as successful as her 1st person narratives. Still it's an excellent self contained story. a 6.


Dahl, Roald. James & the Giant Peach. YA. the movie was nearly as good.! R. 9


DAHL, ROALD . MATILDA . CH,OS,R, very good a 9


DAHL, ROALD . ENORMOUS CROCODILE, THE . OS,CH , R. young childrens book, a 5




DAHL, ROALD . MAGIC FINGER, THE . CH,OS,PB . ONE OF HIS BOOKS FOR YOUNGEST AUDIENCE, VERY SHORT.


DAHL, ROALD . BFG, THE . YA,PB,R,. interesting language the giants use and it's neat of course, it's dahl after all. a 6


DAHL, ROALD. MY UNCLE OSWALD. BRIT PB. FUNNY AND RISQUE, SORT OF, NOT FANTASY, or kids stuff.


DAHL, ROALD. WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR & SIX MORE. L,CH,R, good, NF and stuff, a 7

DALEY, B. HAN SOLO & THE LOST LEGACY. R
DALEY, B. HAN SOLO'S REVENGE. R
DALEY, B. HAN SOLO AT STARS' END. R. fun pre-star wars setting, good smuggler stuff.


Daley, Brian. Gammalaw 1 Smoke on the Water. X.Read
Daley, Brian. Gammalaw 2 a Screaming Across the Skyx. X.Read
Daley, Brian. Gammalaw 3 the Broken Country. X.Read


DALKEY, KARA. CURSE OF SAGAMORE. R. a neat little fantasy and some good funny bits.

DALMAS. FANGLITH. RETURN TO FANGLITH. R,X. Fanglith is medieval earth! and kind of obvious stuff happens


Dalmas, John. Kalif's War. Baen. c.1991. R.
Dalmas, John. The Three-Cornered War. Baen. c.1998. R.
Dalmas, John. The Regiment's War. Baen. c.1993. R. Military SF.
DALMAS, JOHN. REGIMENT 1 THE REGIMENT. R,PB. good war sf. a 6 or 7


DANIELS, LES. BLACK CASTLE. vampire. R,X.
DANIELS, LES. SILVER SKULL.vampire. R,X.
DANIELS, LES. CITIZEN VAMPIRE. R,X.


HAWKE, SIMON. DARKSUN TRIBE OF ONE 1 THE OUTCAST. R,X.
HAWKE, SIMON. DARKSUN TRIBE OF ONE 2 THE SEEKER. R,X.
HAWKE, SIMON. DARKSUN TRIBE OF ONE 3 THE NOMAD. R,X.
a very interesting idea many minds in one body was very disappointed at the end to see that they were not many parts of his mind but really other minds, the story was interesting but constrained by the darksun rules not as good as it felt it could have been for the total series a 6


David, Peter. Knight Life. R. Ace. 441451306 1987 Humor/Fantasy/King Arthur.


DAVIDSON, AVRAM. PEREGRINE PRIMUS. R. VERY ANTI ESTABISHED CHRISTIANITY = MAKE IT SEEM LIKE A SCATTERING OF CULTS, PRINCE OF THE LAST PAGAN COUNTRY IN EUROPE! A 6 BUT NEAT.


DAVIS, MARGARET. MINDLIGHT. R,. good, very similar plot to something else I've read but finishes out different. another 1st contact story. a 6


de Lint, Charles (Samuel M. Key). Angel of Darkness. R.X. 20050820. more a horror than a modern fantasy, otowa as usual, magic evil, some rather gruesome & vile sexual assaults & deaths. bittersweet ending. a 5. well written but too many POV's and too horror.


De Lint, Charles. Someplace to be Flying. R. 20030210. 3alice. excellent, modern fantasy, Amerindian shapechangers, crow, fox, coyote, raven. very _nice_ tricksters rather than villain except for the cuckoos. an 8 a strong full novel (rather than coll of linked shorts as is usual from him)


De Lint, Charles. Svaha. future sf/fant with Indian myth. not really much like his modern fant stuff, but good.


DE LINT, CHARLES. DREAMING PLACE, THE. PB,R. Sort of a ya delint, girls get put into animal bodies, and the homeless person is a witch.

DE LINT, CHARLES. GREENMANTLE. R. This is good, but not as great as moonheart, but very similar (and I think it came earlier) the green man and the God Pan and such living in a small wood in upstate Canada and murder and mayhem from the American Italian mob, and an assassin who quit. a 6




DE LINT, CHARLES. JACK OF KINROWAN. R. includes jack the giant=killer and sequel a 9
DE LINT, CHARLES. JACK, THE GIANT-KILLER. R. good, very much like moonheart, a 9 (to X)

DE LINT, CHARLES. LITTLE COUNTRY, THE. R. in Ireland(I think) and with old Celtic stuff


DE LINT, CHARLES. SVAHA. X,R. The only problem is how they got the tech in the first place, the Indian enclaves of native peoples all across the world, but the story was good
action as well, much cyberpunk around the edges.

DE LINT, CHARLES. WOLF MOON. R. a good werewolf hunted by an evil bard odd twist, good characterization nice fantasy an 8

DE LINT, CHARLES. YARROW. R. A GOOD ONE, ANOTHER OF HIS MODERN FANTASY BOOKS, LESS OF FEY MORE DREAM MAGIC BUT GOOD, AN 8, rotten cover for it tho.


DE CAMP. DIVIDE & RULE. R


DE HAVEN, TOM. CHRONICLES OF THE KING'S TRAMP 1 WALKER OF WORLDS. R.199901. a great fantasy series with the feel of SF, unique magic and creatures with a strong feel of history about them, tons of truly 'alien' stuff. a 9
DE HAVEN, TOM. CHRONICLES OF THE KING'S TRAMP 2 THE END-OF-EVERYTHING MAN. R.199902 a great fantasy series with the feel of SF, unique magic and creatures with a strong feel of history about them, tons of truly 'alien' stuff. a 9
need #3 The Last Human


Deakins, John. Barrow. pb,R. neat connected short stories - original? or 1st done as SS'
s? - can't tell, about a God-like magician and the place where he dwells, and the people around about the town, reminds me much of the thieves world at the end of the series, good a 6 - could be a sequel


DEAN, PAMELA C. SECRET COUNTRY, THE. R.
DEAN, PAMELA C. HIDDEN LAND, THE R. SEQUEL TO THE SECRET COUNTRY


DeCHANCIE, J. Castle 2 CASTLE PERILOUS -X


Deitz, Tom. Windmaster's Bane. Rx. 200501?. reread. Celtic Sidhee in the Appalachian mtns. help the good faerie vs the bad one. a 6.
Deitz, Tom. Fireshaper's Doom. Rx. 20050106. reread. new plot but continues with the same villains & characters. in faerie. a 6.
Deitz, Tom. Darkthunder's Way. Rx. 20050106. the Indian with the Irish name, Alex does a bad thing. a 6.
Deitz, Tom. Sunshaker's War. R. 200501? the war in Faerie is wrecking the Indian myth land & need to stop it. a 5.
Deitz, Tom. Stoneskin's Revenge. Rx. 20050116?. something let out leftover from the previous book, this one's all Cherokee mythology. a 6
Deitz, Tom. Ghostcountry's Wrath. Rx. 20050118. another leftover a year later from the last book. again all Cherokee, but with Dave and crew back again. a 6.
Deitz, Tom. Dreamseeker's Road. Rx. 200502?. back to faerie and David and his pals, the wild hunt, and more. a 6.
Deitz, Tom. Above the Lower Sky. Rx. 20050120. 25 years in the future of the same series - a son of a minor character, & dolphin mages. not bad, nice future building Indian style. a 5.
Deitz, Tom. The Demons in the Green Rx. 20050206. direct sequel to "Above the Lower Sky" just days later. a bit bloodier, a bit better. a 7.


DEITZ, TOM. GRYPHON KING, THE. R. stand alone?


Devenport, Emily. Scorpianne. R. mars, bioengineered people, child octogenarians, porn machines. cool looking cover that has absolutely nothing to do with the book. interesting odd ideas a 6


Devenport, Emily. Shade. N A L c.1991 R.
Devenport, Emily. Larissa. N A L. c.1993 R. excellent SF series and 8 or 9


DICK, PHILLIP K. & ZELAZNY. DEUS IRAE. CORBEN CVR,PB. NOT THE GREATEST - DIFFICULT TO GET INTO, NOT VERY SIMPATHETIC CHARACTERS. shame with such great authors, but guess didn't add up well. a 3


DICK, PHILLIP K. WE CAN BUILD YOU. R,X?. THE PYCOITICS & LINCOLN ROBOT,


Dickinson, Peter. The Changes 1 The Devil's Children. R.x. a 5
Dickinson, Peter. The Changes 2 Heartsease. R.x. a 4
Dickinson, Peter. The Changes 3 The Weathermonger. 20040311. R.x. 3 connected books, but different characters in each. an interesting sf/fantasy. England suddenly reverts to the dark ages, madness ensues. finally 2 kids figure it out and put Merlin back to sleep. a 6


Dickson, Gordon R. Dorsai/Childe Cycle 01 Necromancer. R.k. Ace. 441568548 1983.DAW
Dickson, Gordon R. Dorsai/Childe Cycle ? The Genetic General. R.k.
Dickson, Gordon R. Dorsai/Childe Cycle ? Soldier, Ask Not. R.k.DAW
Dickson, Gordon R. Dorsai/Childe Cycle ? The Spirit of the Dorsai. R.k. up to here this is excellent military sf 6 to 8
Dickson, Gordon R. Dorsai/Childe Cycle 05 Lost Dorsai. R.k. Ace. 441493009 1981. the early Dorsai stuff is the epitome of military SF, but the end stuff is too politically oriented and slow. a 4 or 5
Dickson, Gordon R. Dorsai/Childe Cycle 07 The Final Encyclopedia. r. x. boy does this get long. a4
Dickson, Gordon R. Dorsai/Childe Cycle 09 Chantry Guild. R.x. too much a4
Dickson, Gordon R. Dorsai/Childe Cycle 10 Young Bleys. R.x. I just don't really like the stories where you already know the main character is the villain - you can see _some_ good in what he does but it's all downhill. a4
Dickson, Gordon R. Dorsai/Childe Cycle 11 Others. R.x. I just don't really like the stories where you already know the main character is the villain - you can see _some_ good in what he does but it's all downhill. a3


Dickson, Gordon R. Magnificent Wilf, the. X,R.199902 ok, reminds me of retief the galactic diplomat a lot, and was interesting and funny but not a whole lot so. a 4


Dickson, Gordon R. Spacepaw. R. sequel to spacial delivery. okay a 4


DICKSON, GORDON, R. NONE BUT MAN. R,. (with extra chapter at beginning) Highjack spaceliners for rebellions ships, revolutionary war in space again. but dickson does it pretty good.

DICKSON, GORDON R. OUTPOSTER, THE. R, the meda V'dan space nomads and barbarians.


Dietz, William C. Freehold. R.k. 200408? rotten cover. military sf mercs - coming 'home' to the planet they fight for. good adventure story desert planet (sort of dune-ish) pirates & aliens & evil big corps. an 8.


Dietz, William C. Halo the Flood. 2005061?. gah video game novelization, but not bad military stuff, Dietz has done much better tho. a 4.


Dietz, William C. Legion of the Damned 1 Legion of the Damned. R. 200408? good military sf foreign legion in space, cyborgs, camoronne. a 7.
DIETZ, WILLIAM C. LEGION 2 FINAL BATTLE. R, GOOD MILITARY SF FORIEN LEGION OF CYBORGS, AN 8 OR 9
Dietz, William C. Legion of the Damned 3 By Blood Alone. R. 200408?
Dietz, William C. Legion of the Damned 4 By Force of Arms. R. 20040901. 2 linked sets of dualogys 1+2 and 3+4 but they all go together. 3+4 are bill booly 3rd, 3 = mutiny and takeover of earth. 4 = aliens chased by killer robots. - not really sure I like the rather deux ex machina (literally!) ending for 4 but it works okay, just too fast and not really pat enuf. a 7 the series.


Dietz, William C. Prison Planet. R.k. 200408?. a quickie adventure -with really good cyborg stuff. killer planet makes man of mouse... etc. gets 'revenge' & the girl. classic stuff. but well done a 6.


Dietz, William Drifter. R. ends as if it were starting the 2nd book already, pirate sf very very hansoloish. not bad written tho. a 6. main characters name is Lando )


Douglass, Sara. Wayfarer Redemption, the. 1 of 6. 20030506. R.X. a 4. not bad writing, but one of those prophecy series (like Jordan's) & I'm just kinda sick of 'em. Pretty interesting characters, but a few too many to know them well. non-standard fantasy races, treefolk, wingfolk, underground charons, and humanfolk.


Downer, Ann. The Spellkey Trilogy (Spellkey, Glass Salamander, Books of the Keepers) R. 200303?. like the last best - bookmakers } a 7 the 1st 2 a 5 sometimes hard to follow.


Doyle, Debra & James D. Macdonald. Mageworlds 1 Price of the Stars. 20031116. a good adventure with some mystic (sorta star wars force magic) stuff. actually a lot of star wars the extra fast, armed merchant ship, did the net in 6.21 hours(like the falcon and the kessel run) but good characters even if elements were lifted from pop movies.
Doyle, Debra & James D. Macdonald. Mageworlds 2 StarPilot's Grave. 20031117.
Doyle, Debra & James D. Macdonald. Mageworlds 3 By Honor Betray'd. 20031118. 1st 3 = a 7
Doyle, Debra & James D. Macdonald. Mageworlds 4 The Gathering Flame. 20031119. the prequel the parents of and & older characters from the first 3 books. seemed a bit short. a 6
Doyle, Debra & James D. Macdonald. Mageworlds 5 The Long Hunt. 20031120. the kids of the characters in the 1st 3 books. a 4, not much to it, reuses the villain of the 1st story arc to not really that great effect.
Doyle, Debra & James D. Macdonald. Mageworlds 6 The Stars Asunder. 20031120. the professor as a youngin' (part 1 of a new story arc) a bit flat, as you know the ending already, but interesting enough, some excitement, but since you already know he gets thru it all alright it does sorta fall a bit flat. a 6. of all the series the 1st 3 are best.


Doyle, Debra; MacDonald, James D.. The Knight's Wyrd. R. Harcourt. 152015205 1997 KNIGHTS MAGIC MIDDLE AGES JUVENILE HISTORICAL MEDIEVAL ROYALTY Fantasy. dark fantasy and strong and good characters. an 8.


DR. BONES 1; LEIGH, S. THE SECRET OF LONA. R. THIS ONE WAS GOOD BUT THE OTHERS IN THE SERIES...


DRAGONLANCE; WEIS & HICKMAN. CHRONICLES 1 V 1 DRAGONS OF AUTUMN TWILIGHT. R.x. THE BEST TRILOGY OF THE BATCH (ALSO THE 1ST)
DRAGONLANCE; WEIS & HICKMAN. CHRONICLES 1 V 2 DRAGONS OF WINTER NIGHT. R,x
DRAGONLANCE; WEIS & HICKMAN. CHRONICLES 1 V 3 DRAGONS OF SPRING DAWNING. R.x.


Drake, David (editor); Miesel, Sandra (editor). A Separate Star. Baen. c.1989.R.


Drake, David & Eric Flint - Belisarius 01= An Oblique Approach. R.Reread 200512
Drake, David & Eric Flint - Belisarius 02= In the Heart of Darkness.R. Reread 200512
Drake, David & Eric Flint - Belisarius 03= Destiny's Shield. R.Reread 200512
Drake, David & Eric Flint - Belisarius 04= Fortunes Stroke. R. Reread 20060123 an 8 for the series so far.
Drake, David & Eric Flint - Belisarius 05= The Tide of Victory. R. 20031223. Great historical military SF. SF not fantasy - which is interesting, Roman empire vs. India, with beings from the far future giving advice & technology, romans and machine guns!, cannon & war galleys. but overall very good characters & character development, a lot of characters - but not too many to keep track of, usually, - (some times the names are hard to separate, but that's prob historical accuracy getting in the way of the story ). excellent military stuff, both in detail & in large overall strategy. as good as anything either has done on their own. better than the 1632+ universe by a slim margin (but getting better faster), the military stuff is more 'real' & I suspect that's Drake's attribute. a 9
Drake, David & Eric Flint - Belisarius 06= Dance of Time. R.reread.20061014. excellent finish to a great series. bittersweet end, but fitting. a 9. Drake says (on his website) this whole series is mostly Flint's work, so my estimation of Flint is up tremendously.


Drake, David. Cross the Stars. a hammer's slammers tie-in novel. ReRead 200505?. more space fantasy than military fiction in this one. Good, liked it better before tho. a 7 & a 6.


Drake, David. Fortress. R. TOR. 812536207 1988. terrorism, post-modern day, space-station, spy-intrigue-action.


Drake, David. Lt. Leary Commanding. R. sequel to With the Lightning's. neat warp tech, sails & veins & such, Good a 7.


Drake, Emily. The Magickers. R.X. 20041225. sort of a an American harry potter at summer camp. but not as good. not bad, but took too long to get into the magic, and the threat - tho spoken of was too far off until the very very end. has potential, but feels like a HP knockoff. a 4. there's a sequel the curse of arkady. Emily was at comiccon04, but I missed her.


DRAKE, DAVID & WAGNER, K E. KILLER. X,R. PRETTY GOOD, THEY REALLY LIKE ROMAN STUFF (THIS IS THE THRID DRAKE, DAVID I've SEEN USING IT) AND THEY GET THAT ACCROSS FAIRLY WELL BUT IT'S
NOT CLOSE TO HIS BEST, AND COMMAN. a 5


DRAKE, DAVID. HAMMER'S SLAMMERS, R.X. (reissued in different order in Tank Lords, Caught in the Crossfire, & The Butchers Bill)
DRAKE, DAVID. Rolling Hot. R.X. (reissued in Tank Lords)
DRAKE, DAVID. Counting the Cost. R.X. (reissued in Caught in the Crossfire.)
DRAKE, DAVID. HAMMER'S SLAMMERS THE SHARP END. R all 8


DRAKE, DAVID. IGNITING THE REACHES. R. VENUS BREAKING FROM EARTH IN SPACE MERCHANTS = CERMAMIC SHIPS, FIGHTING BUT NOT REALLY A WAR NOVEL, GOOD, BUT NOT AS SLAMMERS, A 7


DRAKE, DAVID. OLD NATHAN. R fantasy


DRAKE, DAVID. PATRIOTS. PB,R. a sf take on early revolutionary war, green mountain boys. The best part is in the into where he talks about Allen and the green mountain boys. but it's not bad, much less battle than in most of his books, a 7.

DRAKE, DAVID. REDLINERS. a whole company of troops (or what was left) pushed a little to far a gone slightly haywire, or to be redlined, but the bureaucratic head of the humanity feels mad about it and to redeem them and himself drags them thru hell on a nasty planet which does not like them at all! some very good characters and great military writing as is usual from drake. one of his better books, up there with the slammers novels, an 8.


DRAKE, DAVID. STARLINER. R

DRAKE, DAVID. THE VOYAGE. R. A SF RETELLING OF THE PLOT OF JASON AND MEDA (WITH THE SEXES REVERSED) WITH PLANETS INSTEAD OF ISLANDS, NOT HIS BEST BUT I LIKE THE IDEA AND HIS
WRITING IS Polished, a 7


Drake, David. Isles 01: Lord of the Isles. Reread 20061231. excellent epic high fantasy series. a 9. mulitple characters, but kept within a reasonable and rememberable number, excellent magic, and lots of alternate worlds. but mostly just great characters, and good battles.
Drake, David. Isles 02: Queen of Demons. Reread 20061231. an 8.5
Drake, David. Isles 03: Servent of the Dragon. ReRead 20070101. again great characterization, epic -cross-dimensional battles, necromancy and armys of undead. an 8.5
Drake, David. Isles 04: Mistress of Catacombs. R. 20070103. further adventures, and bring more islands into the kingdom, some time travel as well as dimension hopping, all leading to the same point, woven toghether quite well. Giant spiders. an 8
Drake, David. Isles 05: Goddess of the Ice Realm. R. 20070110. more in a similar vein. The group is split each to their own quest, then reunites at the final battle at the end. Ilna - the evil version. an 8.


Duane, Diane. Wizard 01 So You Want to Be a Wizard. R. great YA modern magic a 9
Duane, Diane. Wizard 02 Deep Wizardry. R. not quite as good a 7
Duane, Diane. Wizard 03 High Wizardry. R.
BCE HB 1st 3 books. K.
Duane, Diane. Wizard 04 A Wizard Abroad. R. Ireland a 7-8
Duane, Diane. Wizard 05 The Wizard's Dilemma. R. 20051016. HB. Neet's Mom. Very sad an 8
Duane, Diane. Wizard 06 A Wizard Alone. R. 20051017. HB. 7 autism.


DUANE, DIANE. TALE OF THE FIVE 1 DOOR INTO FIRE, THE. X,R. EACH IS WRITEN FROM THE POV OF A DIFFERNT CHARACTER IN THE GROUP, THOUGH THE 3RD BOOK BEGINS TO SWAP CHAPTERS SOMETIMES.
DUANE, DIANE. TALE OF THE FIVE 2 DOOR INTO SHADOW, THE. X,R
DUANE, DIANE. TALE OF THE FIVE 3 DOOR INTO SUNSET, THE. X,R. THIS SERIES HAS REALLY NEAT IDEAS FOR DRAGONS, ALIENS WHO DON'T EAT AND USE MAGIC, BUT IT'S OVER WEIGHED BY THE HOMOSEXUAL AND RELIGIOUS ASPECTS. THERE'S TO BE A NUMBER 4 DOOR INTO STARLIGHT


Duncan, Dave. King's Blades 1 The Gilded Chain. R. 200302?. a 8 an interesting gimmick both the bonding of the blades, (which was quite a good new? idea) and the trilogy which was also a neat idea but didn't quite pull off as well.
Duncan, Dave. King's Blades 2 Lord of the Fire Lands. Rx a 5
Duncan, Dave. King's Blades 3 Sky of Swords. R.x a 4
Duncan, Dave. King's Daggers 1 Sir Stalwart. R.x. a 5 YA. not bad but with nothing new


Duncan, Dave. The Cursed. F,X,R.199704. interesting idea sickness brings psychic powers 'curses' to those who don't die. but it seems that the fact of foreknowledge wrecked the ending could have been a trilogy but just skipped over the building of the empire and then 'the end'. okay book by okay writer = a 5 an average book.


DUNCAN, DAVE. A MAN OF HIS WORD 1 MAGIC CASEMENT. PB,R,X
DUNCAN, DAVE. A MAN OF HIS WORD 2 FAERY LANDS FORLORN. PB,R,X
DUNCAN, DAVE. A MAN OF HIS WORD 3 PERILOUS SEAS. PB,R,X


DUNCAN, LOIS. A GIFT OF MAGIC. YA,R my favorite of hers.


DUNCAN, LOIS. FIVE WERE MISSING (AKA RANSOM). YA, R =X. kidnapers take a bus near the end of it's route and parents manage to get them back while kids manage to escape. Good interpersonal of teenagers, personal growth of each of the 5 or 4 at least. and some good adventure. okay not her best by far but she's a good author. Done in '66
so it is kind of old fashioned in one or two spots, but not greatly so. A 4



DUNNING, JOHN. BOOKED TO DIE. MYS,R. A really good mystery if you're in the book trade, lots of hints for bookscouts, the mystery part wasn't really all that interesting to me. but the book stuff was really neat, an 8.
DUNNING, JOHN. BOOKMAN'S WAKE, THE. mys,R. more of a mystery less bookdealerish, but a lot about small press stuff, also very interesting, more interesting people, a 7.
Dunning, John. The Bookman's Promise (3). 20060522. A good mystery, Sir Richard Burton as the theme. A bit depressing at the end, but not as much as the 1st one in the series. Overall not as gripping as the 1st book, maybe I just wasn't as interested in Burton as I was with a used bookstore. Did like the burton stuff, but didn't feel the
murder was really necessary, could have had an excellent mystery without killing her. imo. still, ends on a bit of an up.a 7.



DUNSANY, Lord. CHARWOMAN'S SHADOW, THE. R


Durgin, Doranna. Touched by Magic. R. X. magic comes back. 4 something annoying...


Durgin, Doranna. Wolverine's Daughter. R.X. 20030304 good barbarian characters (destroy magic, etc.) ap hugh did a better female warrior, not superb writing but good, enough. author of dun lady's jess (and better than it). a 4.

DURGIN, DORANNA. DUN LADY'S JESS. R,X. NEAT STORY, THE IDEA WAS GREAT AND KEPT WELL, THE CROSSING OF THE MAGICAL AND 'NORMAL' WORLDS WERE GOOD, AND IT WAS INTERESING, NEAT TO BE A reverse TRANSFORMATION FROM A HORSE TO A HUMAN. a 4


Eddings, David & Leigh. The Redemption of Althalus. R. great his/their best a 10. wonderful fun cat goddess, (rather creepy cover for the story tho) thief & murderer & rather nice guy overall ) Althalus gets caught up with the goddess & the fight of law vs. chaos. lots of great stuff. the evolving relationships are well done & satisfying
endings. Reread, 20050926 still excellent -some great humor, insights, and fun adventure & good evil.



Eddings, David. The Losers. 200305. R an 8. really cool non-sf. finding out about self, become self-reliant, & overcoming the depression, 'evil' 'friend' cripples. and a very scathing commentary on the welfare system and social workers. excellent!
NOT AN SF NOVEL (despite recent covers) BUT GOOD strong character = 8


EDDINGS, David. Belgariad 1 PAWN OF PROPHECY. R.X.
EDDINGS, David. Belgariad 2 QUEEN OF SORCERY. R.X.
EDDINGS, David. Belgariad 3 MAGICIAN'S GAMBIT. R.X.
Eddings, David. Belgariad 4 Castle of Wizardry. R.x. standard fantasy series. a 5.
Eddings, David. Belgariad 5 Enchanters' End Game. R.X.standard fantasy series. a 5.


Eddings, David. Malloreon 1 Guardians of the West. R.X.
Eddings, David. Malloreon 2 King of the Murgos. R.X.
Eddings, David. Malloreon 3 Demon Lord of Karanda. R.X.
Eddings, David. Malloreon 4 Sorceress of Darshiva. R.X. repetitious - overall a redo of the plot from Belgariad. a 4
Eddings, David. Malloreon 5 Seeress of Kell. R.X. repetitious a 4


EDDINGS. ELENIUM 1 DIAMOND THRONE. r. prob 2 copies to X


EDWARDS, JULIE. LAST OF THE REALLY GREAT WHANGDOODLES, THE. CH,R,. REALLY JULIE ANDREWS (Edwards)


EFFINGER, GEORGE ALEC. WHEN GRAVITY FALLS. R,. Arabic cyberpunk Mafia story more Arabian futurist than cyber but chipping personalities etc.great series an 8
EFFINGER, GEORGE ALEC.A FIRE IN THE SUN. R. SEQUEL TO WHEN GRAVITY FALLS. an 8
EFFINGER, GEORGE ALEC. EXLIES KISS, THE. TPB. THIRD FROM WHEN GRAVITY FALLS, cyberpunk in the middle east. A 7


EFFINGER, GEORGE ALEC. WOLVES OF MEMORY. R. creepy, but good sf and weird memory stuff. and interesting AI


Elder, Joshua & Erich Owen. Mail Order Ninja v1. R. 20061110. Graphic Novel. Amusing idea, adequate art, a few in jokes (like the article by Charles 'Eastman-Laird', or the Asimovian aliens). Overall quite pointedly aimed at 5th graders. similar to ninja high-school, only it's grade school, and while it has it parts, there's a bit too much kiddie to it. a 4.


ENGH, M.J.. WHEEL OF THE WINDS. to be -X'ed when found. AN EPIC OF PLANETARY Circumnavigation - Not at all, the outside just doesn't sound like the book inside, not that it's bad, interesting but the pov and way it was written was not conductive to great enjoyment, in short it was kind of boring even though it has great interesting things
about the planet and races etc.


ETHERIDGE, RUTLEDGE. LEGEND OF THE DUELIST. R,X. A 6, not bad, reminiscent of Steve perrys first 3 matador books, but the end with the aliens was kind of odd, and a bit to quick, several bits I just didn't quite get. bunch of aliens who think they're god because they can't remember anyone else creating them so they must have created it all
themselves. yeah makes perfect sense !!?, good action, sort of wrestlemania/boxing to the death kind of bloodsport stuff,


Fabri, Mark. Wyrm. R. a 10 super excellent as good in it's way as snowcrash. as charles Sheffield's review says in the blurb - "All Hackers should have this book; so should anyone interested in; the internet, computer viruses, role-playing games, mythology, science fiction, Lewis Carroll, or Monty Python. Anyone not in this group has my sympathies." very 'real' hacker stuff, and very fun online-games stuff. interesting ideas religion as an 'information' virus running in human brains. (meme programs - like in the very creepy Barnes - Kaleidoscope Century)


FARMER, NANCY. THE EAR, THE EYE, AND THE ARM. YA ch,R,. YA sf in Africa of the far future! mutants with powers and spoiled rich kids,


FARMER, PHILIP JOSE. RIVERWORLD 1 TO YOUR SCATTERD BODIES GO
FARMER, PHILIP JOSE. FABULOUS RIVERBOAT, THE; RIVERWORLD 2
FARMER, PHILIP JOSE. DARK DESEIGN, THE; RIVERWORLD 3


FARREN. PHAID THE GAMBLER. R
FARREN. VICKERS. R. SAME UNI AS PHAID


Feinberg, Jennifer & Todd Meister. Little Scrowlie 1 The Call of Cuthbert. 20041018. GN collection. cool detailed art - the lettering is very interesting but often a bit hard to decipher. the cats are cool & the people often brainless. fun. an 8.


Feintuch, David. The Still. R.X. okay so having the kid be an annoying brat at the beginning was to show how he grew later on but it went on too long and just didn't like him much at all. a 5


Feintuch, David. Voices of Hope. Warner. c.1996. R.X. gah depressing, great military sf, but..


FEINTUCH, DAVID. THE STILL. X,R. Not bad. but not great. Magical kingdoms that each give the rulers some minor power, kid (brat) to be king learns to like peasants etc. gains power gets kingdom. has to stay virgin so he messes around with boyfriend. a 4 not much original but really not too over done. His 'Hope' stuff was better, but much more
depressing.

FEIST. RIFTWAR 1A MAGICIAN APPRENTICE.
FEIST. RIFTWAR 1B MAGICIAN MASTER.
FEIST. RIFTWAR 3 A DARKNESS AT SETHANON
FEIST & WURTS. MISTRESS OF THE EMPIRE
FEIST & WURTS. RIFTWAR SERVANT OF THE EMPIRE
FEIST, RAYMOND & JANNY WURTS. DAUGHTER OF THE EMPIRE. PB,R,SIGNED!.
FEIST. KING'S BUCCANEER, THE. PB,R.
FEIST, RAYMOND E. SERPENT WAR SAGA 1 SHADOW OF A DARK QUEEN, RIFTWAR. REG PB
FEIST, RAYMOND E. SERPENTWAR SAGA 3 RAGE OF A DEMON KING. R,pb. A Good conclusion to the trilogy but not as good as the 2 books before it. calis & thomas loose their valerhu-ness! poor pug = everybody dies on him, but good, an 8


FENN, LIONEL. SEVEN SPEARS OF THE W'DCH'CK, THE .-X


Fforde, Jasper. Next 1 The Eyre Affair. 20050625. R. hav signed HB. very good, very literate, with more adventure/action than I'd expected. alternate universe, books & authors as if sports & entertainment, characters in books as real, time-travel, oppressive authoritarian corporation in control of England. packs a lot into it. An 8 or 9. [alice
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Fforde, Jasper. Next 2 Lost in a Good Book. 20050627. R. hav signed HB. very good, better than the 1st, (esp for the introduction of the Cheshire Cat & Red Queen). packs even more oddity into it, finally get well into the jurisifiction, book travel, time travel, alternate universes, well written very literate. an 8.
Fforde, Jasper. Next 3 The Well of Lost Plots. 20050630.R. hav signed HB. nice continuation, best ending of the 3 so far, multiple plots going all over, but all concluding or continuing, none lost. an 8 or 9. fun well written series.


Fforde, Jasper. The Big Over Easy (A Nursery Crime). R. 20061112. a crime noir mystery, with characters from children's nursery rhymes, as real. Humpty is murdered, Jack Spratt (the giant killer) investigates, with Sergeant Mary Mary. A wild cast of characters you instantly recognize, or eventually recognize with surprize, including Prometheus, Old Mother Hubbard, all the famous detectives of fiction from Sherlock Holmes, to Mrs Marple, Solomon Grundy, Georgie Porgie, the woodcutters, 3 Little Pigs, Big Bad Wolf, and many many more, all for some reason living in Reading. A true crime mystery with all the trimmings, and all the extra's you'd expect from Fforde. an 8.


FIORE & MCLUHAN. MEDIUM IS THE MASSAGE, THE. R.X. - photographic juxtaposition of text as art - no real story, but a message - and philosophy -eh. a 3.


FITZHUGH, BILL. PEST CONTROL. PP,MYS. R.199903 Very funny, lots of bugs (oops insects) great you got the wrong person plot. lol funny. a 9


Flint, Eric. 1632. R.k+file 20040130. good alternate history, modern day town sent to the year 1632 in Germany - gustav the 'father' of modern warfare general of guns & artillery. an 8. good military sf (historical military...) large cast tho.
Flint, Eric & David Weber. 1633. R.k+file 20040131. if anything better than the original, more political, a bit less action perhaps, but more emotional & stronger purpose showing in the characters. an 8. good stuff.
Flint, Eric. Ring of Fire. R.20060127. sequel anthology to 1632. pretty good a 6.
Flint, Eric & Andrew Dennis. 1634 The Galileo Affair. R. 20060129. Good, lots of political, stuff, intrigue and such, not much action. a 7.
(apparently going to be a long series, the afterword mentions at least 4 more novels in the works) interesting Protestant vs Catholic wars give new view to the troubles in Ireland, not something 'new' or unique, been going on for centuries!


FORGOTTEN REALMS; NILES. MOONSHAE 1 DARKWALKER ON MOONSHAE. R,-X
FORGOTTEN REALMS; NILES. MOONSHAE 2 BLACK WIZARDS. X
FORGOTTEN REALMS; NILES. MOONSHAE 3 DARKWELL. X-unread


Forward, Eve. Villains by Necessity. R. very good a 9 or 10. good has triumphed & the world is BORing! ) so the last assassin, thief, an evil sorceress, warrior, and a druid who wants to fix the 'balance' set off to try & rescue evil. some really good stuff, the nifty gnomes (smurfs) were hilarious, great characters showing evil doesn't mean crazy or unloyal traitorous. the assassin is strictly lawful evil the thief is a good friend, they're just not 'good', very very AD&D like spells & monsters with different names, really familiar seeming, esp. with all the alignment stuff. Great fun.


Foster, Alan Dean. Commonwealth 1 Phylogenesis. R.20050213.X. the 1st 'mad' thranx poet.
Foster, Alan Dean. Commonwealth 2 Dirge. R.20050213.X. The Pitar war.
Foster, Alan Dean. Commonwealth 3 Diuturnity's Dawn. R.20050214.X. the coming together & signing of the commonwealth, the united church. overall interesting, but all really just background stuff, bits and pieces already known from other humanix stories, the 2nd with the Pitar was the most interesting. lots of characters, and large jumps in
time between novels, (like the structure of his the Damned series) sort of like the simillarion vs. LotR interesting background but not really necessary, and with only one book each, don't get so into any one character to want it to continue. a 5.


Foster, Alan Dean. Interlopers. R. 20061021. very lovecraftian, invisible tenticled things from other dimensions feed on bad thoughts, and cause them. not bad a 5.


Foster, Alan Dean. Jed the Dead. R.x. 20041217. good amusing, but not on par with his great Glory Road or Quzol. dead alien, amusement, bit of thwarted romance, not too evil army intelligence, interesting aliens, death not withstanding. a 5.


Foster, Alan Dean. Pale Rider. R.X. Clint Eastwood western movie novelization. well done.


FOSTER, ALAN DEAN. BLOODHYPE. R


FOSTER, ALAN DEAN. CODGERSPACE. R,X,. not one of his best, it takes forever to get to the point where it even introduces the main characters. a good quarter of the way into the book, and hey old farts aren't the best character if you make them 'be' old farts! okay they got better some, but not great, not nearly on par with Quzol or glory lane with which it was compared on the cover, 2 of his very funniest books, it had some funny bits as all the AI's in the humanity started to try and find a higher intelligence because well, humans just couldn't be the top!, but not much was done with them, the end was interesting but really zipped by. amusing a 4, but not more.


FOSTER, ALAN DEAN. FOR LOVE OF MOTHER-NOT. R

FOSTER, ALAN DEAN. GLORY LANE. R. VERY very funny a 9


FOSTER, ALAN DEAN. HOWLING STONES, THE. R,. a new humanx book, but not as good as the flinx stuff- superscience/magic and alternate dimensions/universes and HELL and the Devils as a scientific presence!! slow beginning and kind of a let down ending. but interesting. a 6
FOSTER, ALAN DEAN. ICERIGGER. R, X. not bad, just too cold.


FOSTER, ALAN DEAN. LAST STARFIGHTER, THE. R,-X novelization

FOSTER, ALAN DEAN. MAN WHO USED THE UNIVERSE, THE. R. from master criminal to master politico, to savior of the universe by putting on the biggest hoax in the galaxy!


FOSTER, ALAN DEAN. MIDWORLD. R

FOSTER, ALAN DEAN. SPELLSINGER 1 SPELLSINGER. R,-X
FOSTER, ALAN DEAN. SPELLSINGER 2 THE HOUR OF THE GATE. R,-X
FOSTER, ALAN DEAN. SPELLSINGER 3 THE DAY OF DISSONANCE. R,-X
FOSTER, ALAN DEAN. SPELLSINGER 4 THE MOMENT OF THE MAGICIAN. R,-X
FOSTER, ALAN DEAN. SPELLSINGER 5 THE PATHS OF THE PERANBULATOR. R-X
FOSTER, ALAN DEAN. SPELLSINGER 6 THE TIME OF THE TRANSFERENCE. R-X
FOSTER, ALAN DEAN. SON OF SPELLSINGER. R,X a 2 rap-magic!!?


FOSTER, ALAN DEAN. THE DAMNED 1 A CALL TO ARMS. R
FOSTER, ALAN DEAN. THE DAMNED 2 THE FALSE MIRROR. R
FOSTER, ALAN DEAN. THE DAMNED 3 THE SPOILS OF WAR. R. one of the best "aliens come to get humans because they can fight and use them to fight the great galactic war" stories. See John Ringo,


FOSTER, ALAN DEAN. TO THE VANISHING POINT. R

FOSTER, ALAN DEAN. WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE... (). R


Frankowski, Leo. A Boy and his Tank. 20030428. R. a 5. like it says sort of Bolos & Slammers, but not really quite as good, took a long time to get to the action, the dreamworld was interesting, a lot of European politics as history Yugoslavia, but good character & well written. - keep for sequel.
Frankowski, Leo & Dave Grossman. The War with Earth. (sequel to A Boy and his Tank) R.20060625. excellent characters, they have such fun building their dream palaces. AI's very much infused with the spirit of Heinlein. a 6. excellent sequel, pretty good military stuff when they got around to it. there is a 3rd too.


FRAZETTA & SILKE. FRANK FRAZETTA'S DEATH DEALER 1 PRISONER OF THE HORNED HELMENT. -X great art, didn't really get much story there. a 3.


FREIREICH, VALERIE J. BECOMING HUMAN. R. GOOD STUFF, CLONE SLAVES GENETICLY 'INFERIOR' (EVEN THO GENETICLY BETTER SENSES AND SUCH) HE BRINGS SOME CHANGE TO THE SOCIETY = A 9


FREZZA, ROBERT. A SMALL COLONIAL WAR. R,X. AN Interesting book the beginning was too full of jargon and too disjointed but it got better further on and became not bad, the regiment was mostly Russians and but the leaders of the future are jap imperials and the war is corporate and cowboys = very reminiscent of a slammers books but not quite as good. a 5 = See David Drake - Hammer's Slammers


FRIEDMAN, C. S. COLDFIRE 1 BLACK SUN RISING. R. ONE of the most intriguing evil characters I've ever read is Tarrent, off to rescue the priests new girlfriend, and fight the natives of the planet.
FRIEDMAN, C. S. COLDFIRE 2 WHEN TRUE NIGHT FALLS. R. off to find where the villains from last time came from and defeat them.
FRIEDMAN, C. S. COLDFIRE 3 CROWN OF SHADOWS. R. to defeat the force behind the villains behind the 1st bk. and find the other space traveling aliens on the planet! most of whom didn't even know of their own existence! Quite a good series a 8 or 9, one of the best 'Cleric' characters.


FRIEDMAN, C.S. IN CONQUEST BORN. X. the fantasy series was good, this is very similar but not as well developed. a 3 too many characters too few sympathetic.


Gaiman, Neil. 1602. rx. 20061012. Graphic Novel. the beginning of the marvel universe as it would have happened in 1602. All the greats, Fury, Strange, X-men, Doom, daredevil, Magneto, Thor. and he even made it work without being an elseworlds story, (although I think that would have worked just as well) excellent cover art by Mckowen very much in the style of woodcuts. An interesting story but more a gimmick than anything great. a 5.


Gaiman, Neil. Coraline. 20040218. R. TPB. quite a good kids novel. perhaps a bit lower written than I would have thought for 8 year olds, but the story was good, creepy and interesting, not his best tho, and good for the age level it was aimed at but not the best ever, reminded me of Sleator or Avi. a 7.


GAIMAN, NEIL & JONES, S. NOW WE ARE SICK. ANT,, TPB. COLLECTION OF HORRIBLE POEMS - REALLY GREAT STUFF, GAHAN WILSON CVR


GAIMAN, NEIL & PRATCHETT, TERRY. GOOD OMENS. HB,DJ,1ST,R a 9 or 10


GAIMAN, NEIL. NEVERWHERE. BCHB,DJ,R. A great sort of de lint=ish faery tale story set in London, or rather Under London, creepy, and more intricate than most de lint stuff, reminds me of the modern elves stuff but with a darker feel, He helps and is caught in the underground, tags along, saves the day (sort of) and is able to return, regrets it and is able to go back. sort of standard plot wise but a nicely done bit, applaud the angel a 9. easily as good as his sandman stuff and sustained only by the prose. 19980510


GARDEN, NANCY. LARK IN THE MORNING. HB,YA,1st,DJ,R. Very reminiscent of Voigt's Dicey stories - the 1st one, but stuff about homosexuals, and suicide and runaways pretty good, a 7


Gardner, Craig Shaw. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2 Return to Chaos. R. druids, ethan good a 6.


GARDNER, JAMES ALAN. EXPENDABLE. R. Bizarre super intelligent aliens which tho aren't 'seen' are out there, humanity is one of the lesser races, but of course they don't really
think so. physically deformed people 'ugly' but not in any other major way defective, (easily cure able but of course they are needed so... they 'can't' be.) festina and her partner and an admiral are sent to explore a planet from which no one has ever returned, sort of a legal way to dump them with out killing which is not allowed by the higher races, = after all the planet is perfectly capable of supporting human life, but.... there are some interesting secrets. Invisible people who live forever and eat N sunlight! (radiation) for just starters. sort of dirty dozen feel to the ending but it was very good. a 7. definitely a great 1st novel.


GARNER, ALAN & FOREMAN, MICHAEL. THREE GOLDEN HEADS OF THE WELL, THE. SPB,CH,R. A very funny little kids fairytale with a horrible ending for the bad guys. GREAT AN 8 OR 9


GARRETT, RANDALL & HEYDRON, VICKI ANN. GANDALARA CYCLE 1-3 GANDALARA CYCLE I THE STEEL OF RAITHSKAR, THE GLASS. OF DYSKORNIS, THE BRONZE OF EDDARTA. pb no cvr
GARRETT, RANDALL & HEYDRON, VICKI ANN. GANDALARA CYCLE 1 THE STEEL OF RAITHSKAR
GARRETT, RANDALL & HEYDRON, VICKI ANN. GANDALARA CYCLE 2 THE GLASS OF DYSKORNIS
GARRETT, RANDALL & HEYDRON, VICKI ANN. GANDALARA CYCLE 3 THE BRONZE OF EDDARTA
GARRETT, RANDALL & HEYDRON, VICKI ANN. GANDALARA CYCLE 4-6 GANDALARA CYCLE II THE WELL OF DARKNESS, THE SEARCH. FOR KA, RETURN TO EDDARTA
GARRETT, RANDALL & HEYDRON, VICKI ANN. GANDALARA CYCLE 4 THE WELL OF DARKNESS
GARRETT, RANDALL & HEYDRON, VICKI ANN. GANDALARA CYCLE 5 THE SEARCH FOR KA
GARRETT, RANDALL & HEYDRON, VICKI ANN. GANDALARA CYCLE 6 RETURN TO EDDARTA pb no cvr
GARRETT, RANDALL & HEYDRON, VICKI ANN. GANDALARA CYCLE 7 THE RIVER WALL. pb. conclusion


GEAR, W. MICHAEL. WARRIORS OF THE SPIDER, THE. R.
GEAR, W. MICHAEL. THE WAY OF THE SPIDER. R.
GEAR, W. MICHAEL. THE WEB OF THE SPIDER. R. good series, a 7 , got better written as it went on, perhaps a few too many characters, very plot driven. Spider is God and the directorate is Sheep.



GEAR, W. MICHAEL. FORBIDDEN BORDERS 1 REQUIEM FOR THE CONQUEROR.R,X.
GEAR, W. MICHAEL. FORBIDDEN BORDERS 2 RELIC OF EMPIRE.R,X.
GEAR, W. MICHAEL. FORBIDDEN BORDERS 3 COUNTERMEASURES.R,X. extremely long, better at the beginning - too many characters. good concept, but ends with freedom -too soon. okay 5


Gemmell, David The Stones of Power 1 Ghost King
Gemmell, David The Stones of Power 2 Last Sword of Power
Gemmell, David The Stones of Power 3 Wolf In Shadow (The Jerusalem Man)
Gemmell, David The Stones of Power 4 The Last Guardian good series 1st 2 are king Arthur 2nd 2 are post-apocalypse and much creepier & perhaps better because I'm kinda tired of king Arthur. but it was an interesting series - recurring characters between the 2 stories. good adventures a 6 -X


Gemmell, David. Drenai Quest for lost Heroes. R. 3 old men out of retirement to kick ass. a 7.
Gemmell, David. Drenai Waylander. R. 200303 good an 8 the start of the 30.
Gemmell, David. Drenai Winter Warriors. 200303 R. seems quest over again a 7.
Gemmell, David. Drenai 3? The King Beyond the Gate. R. cross-breed king. a 6.
Gemmell, David. Drenai 1 Legend. R. excellent last stand of the old hero. possibly his best. an 8. BRIT CVR. -X. GOOD SEIGE WARFARE, BUT ALL THE SUDDEN AT THE END ALL THIS MAGIC STARTS HAPPENING AND YOU DIDN'T EVER REALIZE SUCH STUFF EXISTED IN THIS LAND. OKAY BUT NOT GREAT.
GEMMELL, D. KING BEYOND THE GATE, DRENAI 2. -X. GOOD PLOT AND ACTION BUT...
Gemmell, David. Drenai The First chronicles of Druss the Legend (prequel to Legend). 20031128-9. quite good an 8 only because it's a prequel so there is not any real suspense, but good strong adventure.


Gemmell, David. Morningstar. R.x. 200408? standard Gemmell - good story but not great plots. another or those where the future is set and can't change it. he's going to be the mythic hero of the past - time travel etc. not bad story tho. a 5


GERROLD, DAVID. WHEN HARLIE WAS ONE. PB,R. A REALLY GREAT ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE STORY 'RUINED' BY A BAD ENDING. HARLIE IS TERRIFIC BUT THE EXPLAINATION AT THE END RUINS THE FEEL.
A COMPUTER THAT THINKS IT'S HUMAN, OR A MAN IN THE BODY OF A COMPUTER. AND THE COMAPANY IS TRYING TO SHUT HIM DOWN, WHICH TO HARLIE IS THE SAME AS IF THEY WANTED TO KILL HIM SO HE FIGHTS BACK, WITH INTERESTING RESULTS. 8 OR 9


Gibson, William & Bruce Sterling. The Difference Engine. R.X. 200407? read when helping Aron with move to Seattle. cyberpunk of the 1800's too many characters tho hard to really get into any one of them. not as good a their stuff individually has been. a 5.


GIER, SCOTT. GENELLAN PLANETFALL. -X. NOT BAD FOR A FIRST BOOK, NEAT ALIENS, INTERESTING SITUATION, BUT NOT ANYTHING SPECTUALR EITHOR, GOOD BUT... a 5


GILDEN. Mel. HAWAIIAN U.F.O. ALIENS. R,


GILMORE, KATE. ENTER THREE WITCHES. YA,R. his mom is a witch, not really a bad witch more like a wicca witch, but the old lady in the basement apt is a voodoo sorceress, it's a neat story he finds a girlfriend but is afraid to bring her home and reunites his estranged parents. a 6


Godwin, Parke. Limbo Search. Morrow/Avon. c.1995. R.


Godwin, Parke. Waiting for the Galactic Bus. Bantam c.1989. R.


Golden, Christopher & Nancy Holder. Buffy The Vampire Slayer 1 Child of the Hunt. R. much better than I expected for a media Tie-in novel. quite good the wild hunt & slayers past. A Ren-Faire. Runaways, set after "Anne" an 8


Golden, Christopher & Nancy Holder. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 3 The Gatekeeper Trilogy 1 Out of the Madhouse. R. alice. not bad
Golden, Christopher & Nancy Holder. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 4 The Gatekeeper Trilogy 2 Ghost Roads. R. alice. not bad
Golden, Christopher & Nancy Holder. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5 The Gatekeeper Trilogy 3 Sons of Entropy. R. alice. not bad a 5 the series


GOLDIN & MASON. REHUMANIZATION OF JADE DARCY 2 JADE DARCY & THE ZEN PIRATES. GREAT STUFF 9 OR 10 hoping for more - there were rumors - but so far... don't know if they continued the series.


GOLDIN, S. ASSAULT ON THE GODS. GOOD ADVENTURE STORY, HI=TECH, (SILLY MAN DOESN'T BELIEVE COMPUTERS CAN BE WEAPONS THOUGH) TAKES CREATION MYTH AND MAKES SCIENCE OUT OF IT, WORKS
WELL, COULD HAVE SEQUEL = SHE HAS ALIENWARSHIP NOW. 6=7


GONICK, LARRY. THE CARTOON HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE (VOL 1=7) FROM THE BIG BANG TO ALEXANDER THE GREAT. TPB,COMIX,HIST,R,. a marvelous, humorous, and very factual history book.



GOODKIND, TERRY. THE SWORD OF TRUTH 1 an 8.
GOODKIND, TERRY. THE SWORD OF TRUTH 2 STONE OF TEARS. R. a very long book but also very good, a 9.
GOODKIND, TERRY. THE SWORD OF TRUTH 3 BLOOD OF THE FOLD. R. a 7. sort of confusing and kind of slow beginning = I think if I'd read it directly after the 1st 2 it would have been fine.. but. it got better, 2 had felt kind of finished but he expanded a new villain, continues to be a good story, with good old standard wizardly not the psychic stuff that's everywhere else these days, he finally gets together with the girl at the end. seres as a whole is an 8 so far tho this is not the best of the 3, a 7.
GOODKIND, TERRY. SWORD OF TRUTH 4 TEMPLE OF THE WINDS. BC,DJ,R,x, well they finally get married at the very end, haven't beat the dream king guy yet, but Nathan the prophet is coming along neat. reunited boy and g'father. better than 3rd, an 8
Goodkind, Terry. Sword of Truth 5 Soul of Fire. Mother & Rahl finally get some '} sort of strings on but tis a good series. R. a 6
Goodkind, Terry. Sword of Truth 6 Faith of the Fallen. Rahl captured and taken to empire, does capitalist (very soviet empire) becomes sculptor, creates revolution. R. an 7
Goodkind, Terry. Sword of Truth 7 The Pillars of Creation. R. 200304. a 5. new characters, not Richard & Kahlan, boo. also stepping back for most of the story (about kin of richard) so you know how it has to end out. #6 was far better. reread 20041009 trying to remember the story so to go on to book 8.
Goodkind, Terry. Sword of Truth 8 Naked Empire. 20041011. R. beh the last 2 have been sidetracks from the main story and not really very good - this one was a thinly veiled philosophy of life and pro-death penalty mentality anti-caseworker thought - not that I necessarily disagree but I don't need it rammed down my throat. a 5 maybe - story
was okay written but not as well done as previous stuff has been - get on with it!
Goodkind, Terry. Sword of Truth 9: Chainfire. R.20060624. much better in that it gets back to Richard, still the whole book is nothing but a side plot, a good one, but wished it could have gotten to the point faster. Kahlan out of mind and memory. a 7. seems to be building to a conclusion of everything could happen in the next one, but prob 2 or even 3 more.


GOULD, STEVEN. JUMPER. R, TREMENDOUS 1st book, well wrought, very realistic, if you suddenly found you could teleport this is the kind of stuff you'd use it for. a 10. 20050819 2am reread. still excellent, getting a little bit long in the tooth due to anachronisms ( of terrorism, but one of the greats.
Gould, Steven. Reflex. R. 20061126. sequel to Jumper. a good story but doesn't have the umph of jumper. much more a spy story with teleportation than a teleportation