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Sci-fi fan from Scotland

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16% complete! Olap has read 2 of 12 books.

Frank Herbert: Chapter House Dune (Paperback, 2003, Gollancz)

Chapterhouse: Dune is a 1985 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the last in his …

Best of post Mua' Dib

Well, this has it all - transhumanism, leadership, politics, wars, ethics. Written in Herbert's, even after 6 novels, rather challenging prose and with little brevity; the last 100 pages are page turners indeed. Will have to see what Brian and Kevin did also with notes about #7. But maybe next year

H. G. Wells (Duplicate), H. G. Wells: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, Fiction, Classics (Hardcover, 2004, Wildside Press)

The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine …

To visit the future

HG Wells was truly visionary. Almost written for the silver screen, this holds up well by today's standards though fails a bechdel test. Left me wondering indeed what the future may hold, but probably not cannibalism communism

Bernard Cornwell: Waterloo (2014, William Collins)

From the internationally bestselling author of the Sharpe novels and in the bicentenary year of …

Depth, you got it!

A brutal portrayal of a bloody few days that shaped Europe for the next century. Makes you wonder how Napoleon got so respected!