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Greg Bear: Blood Music (2005) 4 stars

Review of 'Blood Music (Ibooks Science Fiction Classics)' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

A book that made me shiver and also a delight. Written when there was still Soviet Union, nowadays with AI surfacing everywhere. At the nanoscale, we still can't be sure what we are creating. When well reach the atom scale in miniaturization, perhaps we'll switch to DNA computers, and then we'll open the Pandora box without knowing it...

reviewed Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

Dan Simmons: Hyperion (Paperback, 1995, Bantam Spectra) 4 stars

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called …

Review of 'Hyperion' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Well, what I should say about this book's story, or better, six stories. Which is the best? The priest's tale, the scholar or the consul? Perhaps the first, but I'm not going to spoil it. For me, the morbid and the bizarre priest's tale, was the deeply cut me inside. And abiut the end, this only the prologue for the next book, which I'm going to read later

George R. R. Martin: Fire & Blood (Paperback, 2022, Bantam) 4 stars

Review of 'Fire & Blood' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

This was the first time ever that I read a book by George. I became a GoT fan after the series last season. What I thought about is prose is that it have as much sex and killings as in the TV. The plots with the treasons and deceits are also remarkable. I already knew some of the story I was going to read. George gives the account of such detail in describing the names of all the involved people in the plot as the name of the house they belong to. It becames too much to swallow inventing names for all of the people. I think I'm not going to try to read another by George unless the books become shorter in length.

Manuel Ángel López Taillefert: El dispendio del Duque (Paperback, 2015, Punto Rojo Libros S.L.) 3 stars

Review of 'El dispendio del Duque' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Entre Portugal y España, esta es una historia de amor, política y traición. Ambientado en la atmósfera de la nobleza española, un capitán al servicio del duque de Medina Sidonia se enamorará de una conspirador,a socavando su plan y el suyo. Con la intención de recomponer el ambiente de la conspiración que trató de dar independencia a la región andaluza, el autor trata de ser fiel a los hechos históricos, pero peca por no poder seguir desarrollando la trama. Faltaba más acción en la narrativa.