Enno Rehling

Wow. Just wow. This was amazing, and is up there with Maus as one of the best graphic novels I've read.

This was for me the right book at the right time, on more than one level. By far my favorite of the Hainish Cycle books, this made an even bigger impression on me than the left hand of darkness, and displaces it as the best fiction I've read in years.

This was awful. As Scalzi says of himself in the introduction, he writes good action and good dialogue. Having made my way through two of his attempts to write female protagonists, I'm confident that this is something he can't do.

Angsty and too long, this internal monologue actually makes me like and respect his character of Jane Sagan a great deal less. Which is a shame, because I loved her in Old Man's War and Ghost Brigades, and in the small role she played in Last Colony :-(

This was a fantastic thriller. The technology totally checks out, and Suarez draws a very scary picture of a not-too-distant future.

I think I am enjoying her Hainish Cycle SciFi books more than this fantasy novel, but that is probably purely a matter of personal preference. What spoke to me beyond the story was the world she builds, made up of many islands and dominated by the sea that connects them.

If I didn't know better, it would be possible to think that Eressea (the strategy PBEM) was influenced by this book, and it's made me want to start another game in a setting like this, with more magic and better rules for ships.

Grand finale to the Old Man's War series.

What an amazing book! I am only just discovering Le Guin for the first time, and this book is so clearly influential to many other books I have read. I am going to be on a rading spree to finish all her other books.

The audible recording is very nice, I recommend it highly.

Logische Knobeleien, G. Süßmuth

What this book taught me: Vernor Vinge is brilliant when he's writing great SciFi, but boring when he is writing pulp. This book is dated, and if you're hoping for more of what makes Across Realtime or Fire Upon The Deep so great, stay away from The Witling. I gave up in chapter 3, returning this to the friend I borrowed it from.

I gave up on this book without even making it half-way through, which is pretty rare for me.

There is something very strange about reading this book a second time after having forgotten almost everything that happened in it, and having it slowly come back to you, at the same time it comes back to the protagonist.

You should still read Surely You're Joking. This book does not replace it. In fact, it is based mostly on the same material, so if you've already read other Feynman books, you won't learn a lot of new things. But the art is good, and reading about Feynman this way is a fun way to spend the Sunday. This book makes a great gift for the nerd in your life who enjoys both science and graphic novels.

I don't abandon many books, and certainly not after only two days, but this one must go. It's military sci-fi of the Starship Troopers kind, but devoid of any humor. Every trope of the genre is employed: A fascist corporate dystopia, citizenship through service, an alien menace, and endless descriptions of how grueling and cruel boot camp is. Apparently, there is some technology for turning people into light, and a war on Mars, but they haven't appeared yet, and I cannot bring myself to wait for that.

This is the first book in the series that I didn't finish. Spoilers: I miss the good old days of the Rocinante flying around the universe, new characters being introduced, and Avasarala being a scheming badass. 30 years later, no new characters have shown up, we're stuck on a station hiding like rats, and I can already tell that the book isn't going to wrap everything up in the end. I may give it another try if people tell me that the next book is great, but for now, it goes back on the shelf.