Neth Space

Year Zero by Rob Reid was published in 2012 and is a fun, satirical SF book about the music industry. While I’ve seen a few comparisons to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, I think that rea...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2017/08/mini-review-year-zero-by-rob-reid.html

I am a child of the 1980s and 1990s, and like many, the first movie I remember seeing is Star Wars: A New Hope. I was that kid wore my VHS copies of those movies out, I played STAR WARS with my ...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2017/06/audiobooks-review-star-wars-aftermath.html

Geomancer By day I am a mild-mannered engineering geologist and by night I read fantasy and science fiction once the rest of the house has gone to bed. So…the word geomancer is the only part...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2017/06/mini-review-breath-of-earth-by-beth-cato.html

This post is something that I’ve always resisted: a single post with a bunch of short reviews in it. Some of these were read nearly a year ago and it’s just time to pass by. I think the main...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2017/05/getting-caught-up-bunch-of-short.html

The Last Adventure of Constance Verity by A. Lee Martinez is an outrageous series adventures and take on the life of a superhero. These adventures, with seemingly no real rhyme or reason or eve...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2017/03/review-last-adventure-of-constance.html

John Scalzi begins a new space opera with The Collapsing Empire which is sure to please fans of science fiction. In short it is fun, fast-paced and very accessible. Or…just the book I was nee...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2017/03/review-collapsing-empire-by-john-scalzi.html

I love books, which really isn’t much of a surprise coming from someone who has a blog about books. So, it’s not much of a stretch for me to love libraries too – after all, they are huge c...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2017/03/mini-review-invisible-library-by.html

Tad Williams returns to the world of Osten Ard after 20+ years in The Heart of What Was Lost. In part, this short novel serves as a reintroduction of Osten Ard in advance of the forthcoming tri...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2017/01/review-heart-of-what-was-lost-by-tad.html

Long Black Curl by Alex Bledsoe is the third TUFA book which is a ‘series’ of interconnected novels that all really stand on their own with independent stories. Of course the reader familia...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2017/01/mini-review-long-black-curl-by-alex.html

The TAO books by Wesley Chu are the perfect spy thrillers for a generation where science fiction is mainstream and dominates pop culture. They are action-packed, full of intrigue, both politica...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2016/12/mini-review-deaths-of-tao-by-wesley-chu.html

It’s been a while since I’ve provided an update on my Kids’ Review series, so here we are. For an introduction to this series, information isavailable in this post which provides a good bi...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2016/11/kids-reviews-septimus-heap-ivy-and-bean.html

Willful Child: Wrath of Betty by Steven Erikson is a sequel Willful Child. Therefore, I recommendthat you stop now and read the review I wrote for it as I think it’s valuableto have that pers...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2016/10/mini-review-willful-child-wrath-of.html

I live in the West and I have a soft-spot for the ‘weird west’, at least when it’s done well. So, I was intrigued by Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen – it sounded like something different...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2016/08/mini-review-wake-of-vultures-by-lila.html

The Last Mortal Bond by Brian Staveley is the final volume in the CHRONICLES OF THE UNHEWN THRONE trilogy. In my review of the first book, The Emperor’s Blades, I dig into how I felt uninspi...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2016/08/review-last-mortal-bond-by-brian.html

In Los Nefilim, T. Frohock imagines a world where angels, demons, and their human hybrids (nefilim) live and act mostly unnoticed in the world. The focus is on Barcelona in the 1930s and Diago, ...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2016/08/mini-review-los-nefilim-by-t-frohock.html

A woman is so broken by life, not only has she adopted the name Broken, but she is incapable of escape – because there is essentially nothing she can do to die. She picks a fight, she heals be...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2016/07/mini-review-broken-by-susan-jane-bigelow.html

As my son, Hebop, has become more of an independent reader, he’s become more interested in the books I receive for review. Arguably, it started with STAR WARS and seeing STAR WARS book cove...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2016/05/kids-review-hilo-by-judd-winick.html

Hi all, long time followers here on the blog and other social media know that in real life I am a father, among other things. It is not a surprise that I share my love of reading with my childre...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2016/05/something-new-kids-reviews.html

What feels like a long time ago and practically a different life, I wrote this review of The Alloy of Law  by Brandon Sanderson . In that review I was excited – I was reading a new MISTBORN b...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2016/05/review-shadows-of-self-by-brandon.html

Author Jason Denzel is best known for running the WHEEL OF TIME fansite, Dragonmount , and in 2015, he published his debut novel, Mystic. Fans who know Jason (and I’m one, going back to my da...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2016/05/mini-review-mystic-by-jason-denzel.html

First, I need to get this out of the way right up front: Black Wolves by Kate Elliott is one of the most extraordinary epic fantasy books I’ve ever read. Got it? Good, because that is a v...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2016/05/review-black-wolves-by-kate-elliott.html

The Builders by Daniel Polansky is at its basic, a novella about a bad joke. No, I won’t give you the punchline or even tell you what the joke is – knowing that it’s there, you’ll figur...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2016/05/mini-review-builders-by-daniel-polansky.html

Lian Hearn returns to a world of medieval Japan with a new series, THE TALE OF SHIKANOKO, set in the world of her earlier Otori series. Emperor of the Eight Islands introduces this new series, ...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2016/04/review-emperor-of-eight-islands-by-lian.html

Swashbuckling! It’s a word that I initially wanted to avoid at all costs for this review as I suspect that it’s probably used in just about every review of Swords and Scoundrels by Julia K...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2016/04/mini-review-swords-and-scoundrels-by.html

Updraft by Fran Wilde was released with a fair bit of critical fan-fair in 2015 and I read it a few months post-release based largely on that the good word of many of those I follow in the blog...

http://nethspace.blogspot.com/2016/04/mini-review-updraft-by-fran-wilde.html