Redemption Ark, Alastair Reynolds. Reasonably good space opera, with a basis in hard SF. I'd recommend reading his first book, Revelation Space, first. This is the direct sequel, and the first book's shorter too!
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Pyramids, by Terry Pratchett. One of his earlier ones, and merely okay.
He definately improved as a writer as he went on, which is nice. Most of them just seem to run out of ideas. :smile:
Still, some nice touches, like a genius mathematician camel called You Bastard (just imagine him earning his name!), two opposing armies who, determined to fight the same war as the last time (which was 3,000 years previously), build a bunch of wooden horses ("Look, if they're dumb enough to think we'll fall for that, they're certainly dumb enough to bring our ones home..."), one of which is on rockers, and pyramids that warp time.
He definately improved as a writer as he went on, which is nice. Most of them just seem to run out of ideas. :smile:
Still, some nice touches, like a genius mathematician camel called You Bastard (just imagine him earning his name!), two opposing armies who, determined to fight the same war as the last time (which was 3,000 years previously), build a bunch of wooden horses ("Look, if they're dumb enough to think we'll fall for that, they're certainly dumb enough to bring our ones home..."), one of which is on rockers, and pyramids that warp time.
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. For the third time.
Amazing war novel about the American Civil War. You can read it online or print it out from the link I posted.
fyi: the link has an annoying pop-up but nothing else too bad.
Amazing war novel about the American Civil War. You can read it online or print it out from the link I posted.
fyi: the link has an annoying pop-up but nothing else too bad.
