June Books 14) The God Engines, by John Scalzi

[nwhyte]

Well, it has happened: I have finally read a John Scalzi story that I actually liked. The God Engines is a very tight story about a future spacefaring humanity which relies on harnessing the powers of captive gods for spaceflight; there are a number of very good set-pieces as Ean Tephe, the central character, deals with shipboard crises, confronts

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[errolwi]

Note that the updated Hugo Packet includes rtf versions of most works, including TGE.
I read TGE as a PDF prior to nominating. I didn't convert it to ePub, as I thought the illustrations etc made it worth reading while restricted to one place.

Thanks for your reviews, I'm finding them helpful.

[nwhyte]

Indeed, converting from RTF greatly improves the presentation, though it doesn't iron out all the glitches and rather oddly we lose the numbered chapter divisions.

Charlie Stross's "Palimpsest" actually comes in .prc format as one of the options which suits me fine.

[rosefox]

I'm guessing those capital letters were formatted as small caps rather than as actual caps.