Artistically, I am on a futuristic kick. Instead of working in a crappy library basement, I am in such a high-rise building that there are space vehicles flying around outside my window. I can see the Horsehead Nebula from here. My computer is a holographic interface connecting me to people from different parts of the galaxy in six million forms of ( Read more... )

I came across a slightly older book in my library when updating records and it had a couple of interesting, often amusing, summary descriptions.

Book: Dreams of millennium : report from a culture on the brink, by Mark Kingwell. Originally published in 1996 ( Read more... )

Grounded! is the sequel to Chris Claremont's Firstflight, which I have reviewed previously ( Read more... )

Firstflight is a futuristic sci-fi novel by Chris Claremont, 1987. I didn't know what Chris Claremont was famous for until I looked him up. I've never really been into the X-Men, saw the first movie, thought "ehhh." I thought the same thing of this book. It wasn't very different from the books by Cary Osborne, especially terms of what I liked and ( Read more... )

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Your results:
You are Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command)
Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command)
80%
Wash (Ship Pilot)
75%
Malcolm Reynolds (Captain)
70%
Jayne Cobb (Mercenary)
70%
Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic)
60%
Derrial Book (Shepherd)
60%
Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic)
55%
River (Stowaway)
55%
Alliance
45%
Inara Serra (Companion)
35%
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Your results:
You are Jean-Luc Picard
Jean-Luc Picard
75%
An Expendable Character (Redshirt)
75%
Data
70%
Spock
62%
Mr. Sulu
55%
Beverly Crusher
55%
Will Riker
55%
Worf
55%
Deanna Troi
50%
James T. Kirk (Captain)
45%
Mr. Scott
45%
Geordi LaForge
45%
Leonard McCoy (Bones)
35%
Chekov
35%
Uhura
35%

A lover of Shakespeare and other
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While reading some new books, I often have the thought, "this is pretty good, I wonder why it isn't more famous." I had that thought with the book by J.F. Rivkin, and I had it with the book I just finished, Deathweave, by Cary Osborne. But in both cases, even though the book had something strong going for it, it also had some things going against ( Read more... )

I finally read the book I'd heard and read so much about. Starship Troopers originally came out in 1959 and its rather recent movie pretty much only superficially resembles it. It has a main character called Johnnie (that is, Juan Rico), it takes place some hundreds of years in the future, there's a problem with Bug attacks, Johnnie enlists against ( Read more... )

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