Miles Vorkosigan is an adventurer and a spy, a slightly crazy con artist, a quick-thinker and a fast-talker. He is a military genius with a gift for personnel and a miraculous talent for pulling rabbits out of hats at the last possible moment. His personality is so compelling that it almost makes people forget that…
Sometime last year I found myself stuck in a reading rut. So I decided to experiment with other genres and drifted over to Fantasy and Science Fiction. One of the authors I discovered there was Sharon Shinn. She has written a number of books, combining both science fiction and fantasy with romance. I liked them…
Connie Willis has received several Hugo and Nebula awards for her skillful writing and she’s got two previous DIK reviews on AAR. Uncharted Territory is different in tone from both Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing Of The Dog but no less intelligent. Findriddy and Carson are explorers who boldly go to where no man…
When I read Connie Willis’s To Say Nothing of the Dog two years ago, I knew I’d have to read all her other books as well. It’s taken some time, but I finally read the fascinating Doomsday Book, which is every bit as good as TSNOTD, although it is completely different in tone. Doomsday Book…
If I was told I had to go live on a desert island and could take only one romance with me, I would immediately begin to plan how I could smuggle all of Carla Kelly’s books in as one long work. But if the powers that be got firm and said I could take only…
Stephen King has blurbs on a lot of books, so that isn’t always an indicator of quality, but this time he was right on the money when he said: “If you’ve never read Gerritsen, figure in the price of electricity when you buy your first novel by her… ’cause baby, you are going to be…
Before you even ask, yes, I am a big fan of Star Trek. Although I really enjoy Star Trek, I don’t automatically love all things Trek, so when I say this book is good, you can trust my opinion as a finicky reader. This book is good. Vulcan’s Heart begins with a Vulcan wedding betrothal….
Are you tired of time travel books involving magic rings, rocks, staircases, graves, coins, or mirrors? Are you a Star Trek fan who wonders how all those romance time travelers affect the space-time continuum? If the average time travel romance leaves you unsatisfied, To Say Nothing of the Dog is the book for you. Smart…
Take Star Wars, add a little Romeo and Juliet, and turn up the thermostat almost to the boiling point, and you’ll begin to approach Lord of the Storm. I go back and re-read this one anytime I want to ward off the chill of winter. The story takes place in a futuristic world in which…