A look at John C. Wright’s Count to Trillion

Count to a Trillion John C. Wright Tor, 2011 Count to a Trillion by John C. Wright is the first in a new transhumanist space opera series. The novel follows Menelaus Montrose, resident of the war ravaged Texus and a lawyer (disputes are arbited via pistol duels so there is very little traditional law infvolved) [...]

Review: Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey

Leviathan Wakes James S.A. Corey Orbit, 2011 When I finally purchased The Dragon’s Path on my e-reader of choice I was pleasantly surprised (that is an egregious understatement) to note that it included a free advance copy of Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey (aka Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck). Advance advance buzz, the [...]

Review: Dauntless (Lost Fleet) by Jack Campbell (audio)

The Lost Fleet: Dauntless Jack Campbell Audible Frontiers, 2008 Audible Frontiers has so far done a bang up job of producing accessible and quality productions of recent and classic science fiction and fantasy works and their release of Jack Campbell’s Lost Fleet: Dauntless is no exception.  One of my favorite things so far is that [...]

Review: Mission of Honor by David Weber

Mission of Honor David Weber Baen, 2010 Mission of Honor marks David Weber’s twelth main entry into the Honorverse as it’s known amongst fans; though it is in truth a follow up to Storm from the Shadows; which Baen is marketing as a Disciples of Honor novel.   Mission of Honor returns the titular character [...]

Review: Heretics by S. Andrew Swann

Heretics (Apotheosis: Book 2) S. Andrew Swann DAW, 2010 Heretics is the sequel to 2009′s Prophets and is the second book of the Apotheosis series.  It picks up with events mere minutes after the previous volume though Swann uses the early section of the novel to bring readers somewhat up to speed, at leave when [...]

Review: Up Jim River by Michael Flynn

Up Jim River Michael Flynn Tor, 2010 First Line:  This is her song, but she will not sing it, and so that task must fall to lesser lips. Up Jim River is the sequel to Flynn’s 2008 novel The January Dancer (review), picking up almost immediately at where the first novel left off.  Where The [...]

Review: Redemption Ark by Alistair Reynolds

Redemption Ark Alistair Reynolds Ace, 2003 (mmpb, Ace, 2004) First line: The dead ship was a thing of beauty. Redemption Ark is the third book in Reynolds Revelation Space series.  I inadvertently skipped the second novel Chasm City but thankfully Reynolds’ fiction, despite being part of a larger overarching story, manages to stand well enough [...]

Review: Nova War by Gary Gibson

Nova War Gary Gibson Tor, 2009 Nova War is the sequel to 2008′s Stealing Light a book that, surprise surprise, has yet to get a release here in the states.  Nova War dispenses with some of the mystery of the first novel and trading it instead for some serious action.  Indeed things are ratcheted right [...]

Review: The Quiet War by Paul McCauley

The Quiet War Paul McCauley Pyr, 2009 In a future where Earth has been ravaged by economical disaster humanity is split down two divergent paths.  Down one path are the Outers, exiled first to the moon then to Mars and now settled on the moons surrounding Jupiter and Saturn they espouse the ideas of Ancient [...]

Review: Seeds of the Earth by Michael Cobley

Seeds of the Earth Michael Cobley Orbit UK, 2009 (MM, Jan 2010) Seeds of the Earth is the first in a new space opera series by Michael Cobley.  The cover features a nice one line quote from space opera master Iain M. Banks describing the novel as “Proper galaxy-spanning space opera.”  A statement that couldn’t [...]