Lets talk about Tanks! Not your average WWI Big Willie, or WWII Tiger but a 32.000 ton Bolo. Bolo rising is a story about such a monster tank that out thinks and out wits it’s human masters and machine enemies in the space of a few nanoseconds. In short it is classic tale of military [...]

This is the last piece of the Cobra Trilogy and so far my favorite of the bunch. The first book covered Johnny Moreau’s life spanning several years which left me feeling somewhat fragmentet. In the this book we follow Jin, daughter of on of Johnny’s sons. The rest of the Moreau family is still present [...]

The second installment into the Cobra Trilogy by Thimothy Zahn takeonyszko on a journy further into the perils of the newfound Cobra worlds. A new threat on an unfamiliar horizon is the perfect settimg for another Cobra mission. This time around the tale is spun not only from the viewpoint of Johnny Moreau but also [...]

Baen books Webscriptions site is full of wonderful literature, but who can resist something called: The COBRA Trillogy! The book is written by Timothy Zahn, and was originally issued in the 80′ies as three seperate novels. The first book in the trillogy is called Cobra. It is  epic military space opera at it’s finest guerrilla style. The [...]

During a resent brush with a couple of old science fiction short stories I asked myself the question that I had to answer before venturing on in this old golden territory. It’s old but is it any good? The encounter started with Andre Norton’s – From the Sea to the Stars which I had picked [...]

Adam Robers writes interesting science fiction period! After I read Stone- a friend of mine lend me another novel: Land of the headless. The story is seen from the perspective of a headless man, which naturally gives the story a novel perspective. This fact alone makes it an interesting read and makes it a worthwhile. [...]

It finally happened. I have read my first David Drake novel. First off let me say that I am a great fan of plot heavy hard science fiction, so the jump from the technologically focused novel to a military one (I am a F14 fanatic) was not a great leap for mankind- nor a great [...]

Hey so I recently bought an eBook reader (BeBook) after considering my choices for about half a year. A great place to start such a search is over on mobileread.com which is a forum and site dedicated to eBook readers. The community is great and I dont think that there is an answerable question that [...]

When I read Fleet of worlds back in june 2008 it ended in a mixed bag. I loved the return to Known Space and Puppeteer exploration scheming and plotting. The idea of a human slave sub species was also quite fascinating if a bit sought. One thing that left me wanting more were the infrequent descriptions and [...]

Nano machines are always an interesting subject, and coupled with the intriguing ways of quantum physics it makes for a very nice book indeed. I am talking about STONE a book by Adam Roberts. The story revolves around a prisoner, a novelty in the futuristic (yes it is a science fiction book) Utopian society that [...]