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Monday Book Pick: She Murdered me with Science

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

She Murdered Me with Science by David Boop

A delightful mix of hard boiled dective story and good old fashioned pulp science story, with a dash of Jazz thrown in for flavor.

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Ya, ya. I know it’s Tuesday. I’ve been busy.

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Monday Book Pick: March to the Sea

Monday, October 26th, 2009

March to the Sea by John Ringo and David Weber

Second in the Empire of Man series. Prince Roger continues his education as he and the Bronze Barbarians continue their trek across a harsh alien wilderness filled with hordes of aliens, hostile and otherwise, but mostly hostile.

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Monday Book Pick: Stranger in a Strange Land

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

Another classic by the Grandmaster of Science Fiction. Valentine Michael Smith, born during, and the only survivor of, the first manned mission to Mars. Raised by Martians, he looks at Human society through a very different perspective than the rest of his species. Heinlein takes on sex and religion in a most irreverent fashion.

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Friday, October 9th, 2009

Ya, ya, it’s Friday already.  Various technical difficulties slowed down posting this week.  Nothing major, and I’m back on track.  B-Movie pick will show up later….

Arguing with Idiots by Glenn Beck

That candy munching, round faced former acoholic is at again. This time, he’s dressing up as “the Book Czar” and telling you to buy his book. Fact filled and organized to counter the pretty consistantly fact free arguments of the typical leftiest. No wonder they hate this guy over at MSNC.

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Monday Book Pick: The Forever War

Monday, September 28th, 2009

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

The classic anti-war military SciFi book seen by many as an answer to Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers (the Monday book pick from Feb. 9, 2009). Haldeman claims that isn’t how he wrote it, and Robert Heinlein thought it was a damn good good book. An opinion I share.

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Tuesday Book Pick:The Tuloriad (The Legacy of Aldenata)

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

The Tuloriad (The Legacy of Aldenata)

by Tom Kratman with some help by John Ringo

The latest in the Posleen War series. Ya, this is supposed to be the Monday Book Pick, but I’m late with the post.

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Monday Book Pick: Tokyo Suckerpunch

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Tokyo Suckerpunch, by Isaac Adamson

The first of his Billy Chaka adventures. Billy is an American writer who covers the Japanese teen scene for American teenagers, and a student of wide range of martial arts. The stories are fast paced fun “urban noir” with Chaka delivering lines that would make Raymond Chandler proud.

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Monday Book Pick: To Where Your Scatter Bodies Go

Monday, September 7th, 2009

To Where Your Scattered Bodies Go, by Philp Jose Farmer

This is the first book in Philip Jose Farmer’s Riverworld series, which includes a cast of everybody who was born and died from early proto-humans to 1985. We’re talking grand scale, epic Science Fiction here.

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Monday Book Pick: Two Hawks From Earth

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Two Hawks From Earth, by Philp Jose Farmer

This classic alternate history/alternate reality book is back in print, which is a good thing. During WWII, Army Air Corps bomber pilot Roger Two Hawks bails out of his shot up bomber and lands in a different reality, one also experiencing a world spanning war.

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Monday Book Pick: Forge of the Elders

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Forge of the Elders, by L. Neil Smith

In world where Communism won, a team from the World Soviet, in old American Space Shuttles, go to visit an asteroid called Eris. Predictably, chaos is the result, when they find other Earthly intelligent beings, from more Libertarian realities, have gotten there first.

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