Sunday, June 17, 2018

Recently Read

The Flowers of Vashnoi by Lois McMaster Bujold

It's labelled "An Ekaterin Vorkosigan novella" and That's all you really need to know about before buying it and reading it. Miles is in it but it is about his wife. It's as good as anything else in the series which means it's really good. At four bucks it was worth every penny and more. It was over way too fast. Highly Recommended.

2 comments:

Veeshir said...

Have you read anything by Craig Alanson?
His Expeditionary Force is pretty darn good. It's up to 6 books and still pretty good. It has some good humor that he actually keeps going along with a decent story.
His Transcendant series is up to 3, the first one is pretty darn good, the second still pretty good, the third is okay.

I've also started reading stuff by Joshua Dalzelle. It's shallow and, like most Kindle sci-fi writers, I wish he'd do some freaking math, but are good reads so far. I'm reading the Black Fleet series after starting the sequel trilogy in the same universe. He's not as bad as some Kindle guys who obviously have never done any math whatsoever and think physics is what you do at the gym.

He does trilogies, which I prefer. Few people can keep a series good longer than three books. Even Honor Harrington got pretty Eh around book 6 or 7 and then got good for a couple. I wasn't that impressed with the latest one.

kahr40 said...

I've not read either but I'll look them up. Weber seems to be alternating novels covering the same events from different perspectives. Its ok but I wish he would stop. Just started reading Conflict by Walt Socha. Looks like time travel creating or changing history. This time to the benefit of Native Americans. Too early to know whether I'll like it or not.