UK. Read just about anything but have majored in fantasy and sci-fi as well as having an abnormal attraction to naval fiction.......
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It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war.
It led to …
Another odd sci fi book from the culture series. Though given how disassociated the books are it's hard to call them a series really.
Enjoyable but not one of the best in my opinion. The characters weren't strong and while the story was interesting it jumped around quite a lot.
The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, …
Another example of a Culture book that isn't really about the Culture. Despite my initial reservations I thoroughly enjoyed it. I can't say anything entirely unexpected happened but everything hung together well.
The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, …
Another example of a Culture book that isn't really about the Culture. Despite my initial reservations I thoroughly enjoyed it. I can't say anything entirely unexpected happened but everything hung together well.
In the winter palace, the King’s new physician has more enemies than she at first …
Is it really a culture book at all? It's certainly very different to it's predecessors and while the two stories are engaging they shed no light on the culture or it's workings
Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, …
Loved the story and the inter Mind relationships thought keeping track of their names was challenging.
The living being stories weave in and out of the Mind lead theme very well. My favourite culture book so far.
The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the …
Largely enjoyable once I'd realised that the timeline was convoluted. The ending, while unexpected was not entirely surprising.
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, …
The book is filled with interesting but, I assume deliberately, dislikeable characters. I found this challenging as I do like someone who's side I can support whereas this never really happened.
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, …
But the easiest introduction to a sci-fi series and it took me a while to get into it but it was worth persisting.
Death takes on an apprentice who's an individual thinker.
Not one of his best to my mind. Missing the story interest and much of the usual humour however good to link up characters referred to in other books.
Death takes on an apprentice who's an individual thinker.
Another Pratchet, should be good....
Superior Glokta has a problem. How can he defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when his …
Superior Glokta has a problem. How can he defend a city surrounded by enemies and …
Still a good read but not quite as enjoyable as book one in the trilogy (The Blade Itself). There are several strands to the story by this point and the book hops between them in a reasonable manner, never leaving one group for too long.
Fairly standard fantasy in terms of plot, characters, world etc. but I thought it was well written and certainly a romp along read. Not too much magic, the main characters are interesting on their own right and their interactions with each other and the world they inhabit are a little more involved than I'd often the case