Not revelatory but well written and interesting.
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Keith Laumer's James Bond-like politician and his many farcical stories.
read more'The Forever War' - Book Review
Near light speed travel finds soldiers returning from war unable to adjust to a home world where generations have passed. And the war itself just carries on ...
read more'Camp Concentration' - Book Review
One of the best SF novels of the 1960s - and one of the best written SF novels of any age.
read more'Pride of Baghdad' - Graphic Novel Review
Well drawn, very well written, brutal graphic novel about four lions accidentally freed from the Baghdad zoo by American bombing.
read more'A Wizard of Earthsea' - Book Review
It's a young adult book - but don't let that stop you. It's become one of the cornerstones of the entire fantasy genre because it's fantastic.
read more'The Left Hand of Darkness' - Book Review
More about the concept of what-would-humans-be-like-without-gender than the political outreach the distant-feeling story is nominally about.
read more'At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances' - Book Review
An unpleasant antagonist gets his come-uppance, repeatedly, in jokes I didn't find funny.
read more'Maus: A Survivor's Tale' - Graphic Novel(s) Review
Spiegelman's story of his father's survival of the Holocaust is possibly the best (and most horrifying) graphic novel ever created.
read more'Use of Weapons' - Book Review
The end of the line for Banks and me: the unconventional structure doesn't disguise the conventional SF adventure story.
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