I'm torn between a good review, and a "i'm never touching this book again!" review...When there's a series, I finish it, even if I didn't much like the first. I'll re-read them every year or other year.For this book, I won't be reading it again, nor will I buy the 2nd (much less the 3rd) in the s...
Warning, john Barnes is a firm believer in truth in titling. When he writes a book called "Losers in Space" be prepared for actual losers. And oh my, these kids are losers when we first see them. Even the protagonist, Susan is just another "drunken sex kitten" in a world where that is an actual o...
A Martian monarch has taken possession of a priceless relic: the lifelog diary of the mysterious messiah who founded the Wager, the religion that forms the basis of all interstellar society. The Hive Intel conglomerate wants the lifelog and hires Jak to get it. It's a simple job, until other spie...
Ce roman raconte donc comment, en 2028, suite à une attaque des forces de l’ONU contre un dictateur sibérien, des quantités incroyables de méthane ont été relâchées dans l’atmosphère, provoquant la création de cyclones surpuissants à la pelle, ainsi que la destruction de nombreuses villes/nations...
Living on a 36th-century space station, 18-year-old Jak Jinnaka's seemingly normal life turns when strangers viciously attack him and kidnap his girlfriend, Sesh. When Jak learns Sesh is actually a princess from a distant world, and that he has been groomed from birth to be a secret agent, he set...
When Jak gets word that his ex-girlfriend, Princess Shyf of Greenworld, is in danger, Jak and his panth buddy Dujuv join the Royal Palace Guard and race across the solar system to save her. But they quickly discover that they're the ones who need to be rescued--from Shyf, who has decided that she...
In fact the only reason Cedric ever wrote such a thing in his Chronicle—or the King in his never-finished notes toward his autobiography, or Sir John in letters to his son many years later, for they all did write "The Prince was as good as his word"—was because it seemed de rigueur in a fairy tal...
and made the usual pencil mark on his notes. “Over the weekend, read through to the end of Chapter Six. Karl Shoemaker, don’t forget you need to see me for a couple minutes.” Everybody grabbed up their books and piled through the door, taking off to tell all their friends about it, with no crowd ...
CASTLE EARTHSTONE. 5:30 PM EST. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2025.Larry, Chris, and Jason waited for sunset in a cluster of trees, near a ditch to give them a covered retreat. Slaves and soldiers emerged from the main gate, followed by the technicians and the favored slaves, and then the lord and his...
PUEBLO. 6:15 PM MOUNTAIN TIME. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2026. “You always said you don’t even like kids,” Leslie Antonowicz said. She had always been the practical one in the partnership. Under the table, Wonder, her immense dog, made a whimpering sound...