Introduction:  When David Drake (author of the "Hammer's Slammers" interstellar mercenary series) and Karl Edward Wagner (author of the "Kane" fantasy series about the eponymous cursed warrior-wizard) get together, you know they're not going to write a story about happy little Smurfs.  Killer is no disappointment in this regard.

Synopsis:  In the ( Read more... )

Backstory:  Sometime, probably in the early 22nd century, starships from Earth established fueling stations in systems relatively close to the Solar System.  One such fueling station was on The Leeshore, a habitable but unpleasant ocean world on which huge mats of aerostatic vegetation form a living layer in the sky which blocks out easy access ( Read more... )

Introduction

I just re-read Greg Bear's epic The Forge of God, the first of his duology (including Anvil of Stars) about

( SPOILERS for Greg Bear's The Forge of God and Anvil of Stars; and Pellegrino's The Killing Star )