Thursday, January 24, 2013

P. D. James: Todistajan kuolema (Death of an Expert Witness)

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A detective story which is written in classic Agatha Christie style. The writing was too descriptive and rambling for my taste, the motive ...
Saturday, January 19, 2013

Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, May 1976

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An average or below average issue for its time. Only four stories + a serial (which I haven't read). Speculation • novelette by Georg...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

Ulla-Lena Lundberg: Jää

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The winner of this year’s Finlandia award, the most prestigious literary award in Finland. A priest arrives to a little parish in Ahvenan...
Thursday, January 3, 2013

Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1951

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Perhaps a below average issue. Some of the stories were adequate, but none was really good. The C-Chute • novelette by Isaac Asimov The ...
Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Isaac Asimov: Säätiö (Foundation)

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It has been decades since I read this book last time. Writing was worse than I remembered and the constant smoking and the pretty ridicu...
Saturday, December 29, 2012

Galaxy Science Fiction, August 1951

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An average issue, where most stories are well past their sell-by date. Beyond Bedlam • novella by Wyman Guin A story about a world whe...
Thursday, December 27, 2012

The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, Book 3) by David Brin

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Second Hugo award winner from David Brin’s Uplift universe. Continues the story which begun in Startide Rising. Unfortunately, the exactly ...
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Oh Myyy! (There Goes The Internet) by George Takei

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A short e-book which describes how George Takei become one of the most followed people in the Facebook. The book contains some of the more ...