I love sci-fi books where the author has put serious effort into a fully-realized world (or galaxy or universe). Not to say that good sci-fi is impossible without this; indeed, lots of great books have been written in what is "merely" a future Earth. But then, sometimes, you get an author who has really fully imagined a huge new world with ( Read more... )

Just a quick note on my book reviews... I've been giving each one of them a star rating (which will also apply to other sorts of reviews [movie, software, music] if I ever do any). So, a quick explanation (not that anybody's asked):

• 0 stars: Couldn't finish the book, it was so awful. (I'm the sort of person who will finish a bad book, so if it's ( Read more... )