Title | Author | Rating | Comments |
The Difference Engine | William Gibson and Bruce Sterling |
3.2 | A neat concept, poorly executed. |
Orphans of the Sky | Robert A. Heinlein | 5.5 | Fun, fast reading, with quite a few problems. |
Slaughterhouse Five | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. | 5.7 | Appropriately hollow, empty; dehumanized war. |
The Fortunate Fall | Raphael Carter | 5.9 | Decent cypberpunk story, some interesting characters. |
Idoru | William Gibson | 8 | Pretty good story that hits many of my interests. |
A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter M. Miller, Jr. | 4.8 | The short story is better, though the ending of the novel is well done. |
On A Pale Horse | Piers Anthony | 5.6 | Neat world, neat premise, decent execution, but generally mediocre. |
Gateway | Frederik Pohl | 6 | Believable future, good science. |
Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson | 9.8 | Astoundingly ambitious, and well executed. |
Dune: House Atreides | Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson |
6.3 | A worthy prequel, though in some ways ordinary. |
Dune: House Harkonnen | Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson |
6 | Not much different from House Atreides. |
Slapstick | Kurt Vonnegut | 4 | Bizarre, blunt, not much of a novel. |