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Blood, Sweat and Tea by Tom Reynolds

Posted in Books, tagged , , , , , , on July 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I downloaded this from the iBook store and read it on my iPhone, something that I didn’t think that I’d ever be able to do on such a relatively small screen, but I did and it was an excellent book, well-suited to the small screen. Tom Reynolds is the pseudonym of an inner London ambulance [...]

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Ur by Stephen King

Posted in Books, Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , on April 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

After downloading Ur by Stephen King to my iPhone using the Amazon Kindle app I really had to wonder how fast technology is going. It is racing ahead of us and with the Apple iPad coming out soon to the UK I have to realize that I simply can’t afford to keep up with it. [...]

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Heechee Rendezvous by Frederik Pohl

Posted in Books, Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Heechee Rendezvous is the third in the series of Heechee novels by Frederik Pohl and so it follows the same character, Rob Broadhead, a man who, in the first novel–the often considered classic Gateway–made his millions from the Gateway, a space station filled with alien ships that can take a man anywhere in the universe, [...]

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Gateway by Frederik Pohl

Posted in Books, Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , , on February 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I had read this book years ago while still school age; it was part of my “stupidly mad about everything sci-if” phase and a good inspiration for wanting to write in the field of science fiction because this, I knew even then, was the kind of stuff that I wanted to write about: not just [...]

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Terry Pratchett’s Unseen Academicals

Posted in Books, Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , on January 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I was a Terry Pratchett fan like no other in school. I read them constantly, a string of novels all set in the distinctive Discworld that were funny and well-written using a style of fantasy that was never really used in the same way by anyone else, at least none that I read. I loved [...]

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