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August 14, 2022
eah, yeah, I know, ANOTHER Ark Royal book, this the eleventh in the set. And for The Cruel Stars, we go back to author Christopher Nuttall’s favorite moment in his history, the desperate First Interstellar War between the humans and the Tadpoles, where humans were only just hanging on against a foe with slightly better tech, one that had studied us and played us and destroyed our joint fleet off New Russia. So now the humans are struggling to find ships and manpower to replace their grievous loses. This book tells us one of their many attempts, and this one […]
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April 26, 2026
always start most of my reviews like this, but I picked this up at the used bookstore on my credit. Was nosing the scifi books and it looked interesting. So, let’s see what author John Birmingham penned us, shall we? In this novel, it seems that hundreds of years ago, a bunch of anti-re-life, anti-augmenting, anti-genesplicing, anti-alteration purist bigots tried to kill off all “mutants and cyborgs” (their words, not mine). They almost pulled it off but apparently a stunning victory by the liberal (they don’t call it that, but it sure feels that way) elements of the galaxy kicked […]
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