GEWY'S
SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY BOOK REVIEW
Last update-
12/30/00
Added review of Stephen Grundy's Attila's
Treasure. It took me over three months to read this book- a new
record. I will try to read more and study less next semester.
Currently reading
David Brin's Uplift series.
Welcome
Welcome to my book reviews. This page was inspired by The Good Reading
Guide (now defunct?), a great resource for science fiction and fantasy
readers, containing short and sweet reviews of tons of books. I'm
not shooting for in-depth reviews here, mainly just some brief thoughts
on each book I've read to help keep me organized. If it gives others some
ideas for good books to read or keeps them from buying some bad ones then
that's great too.
Contact
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you'd like to talk about books or my web page you can e-mail
me. I'm always looking for good books to read. In particular
I need advice as to how to better organize my pages, so it's more readable,
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What I like to
read
Science
fiction and fantasy novels mostly. Although occasionally I'll read something
else. In the past I've preferred long series of books over individuals.
This is starting to change as I'm beginning to wonder if most authors can
maintain a consistent level of quality throughout several books. Also,
if a series has a definite conclusion, like The Lord of the Rings,
I'll always wait until I have all books in my possession before I begin
reading. I just don't like to wait a year or more to find out what happens.
So I've bought a few books that I'll never read, but better that than reading
half a series only to find the author died or something.
Notes on my reviews
There
may be some minor spoilers in here. Maybe even a few major ones, although
you'll probably find more spoilers in reading the back of your books or
looking at the cover picture. Still, read these pages at your own risk.
I read
these books over a period of 15 years or so. Therefore for many of these
books I remember few details. I've tried to accurately recall my impressions.
Additionally, my taste in books has changed. So, that book that was great
when I was 13 would not impress me now. I've tried to base my reviews on
current opinions.
I've
not included any books that I've had to read for school unless I might
have read it anyway. So, The Return of the Native is not here, but
The War of the Worlds is.
Any
books in a shared-world series, like Star Wars, are listed together,
under the series name, not the authors'. Meta-fiction, like The
Atlas of Middle Earth, is listed with its subject, not independently.
The
star means I highly recommend this book.
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The
books
A
Lloyd
Alexander
The Book of Three
Patricia
Anthony
Brother Termite
Cold Allies
Piers
Anthony
Apprentice Adept series
Incarnations of Immortality
series
A Spell for Chameleon
Isaac
Asimov
Nemesis
I, Robot
Robot
series
Galactic
Empire series
Foundation
series
B
Wayne
Douglas Barlowe
Expedition
Battletech series
Greg Bear
Blood Music
Songs of Earth and Power
Gregory
Benford
Galactic Center series
Ray Bradbury
Farenheit
451
The Martian Chronicles
Terry
Brooks
Shannara series
The Heritage of Shannara
series
Dale Brown
Silver Tower
Steven
Brust
Agyar
The Gypsy (with Megan Lindholm)
Buck Rogers series
Edgar
Rice Burroughs
Mars series
Pellucidar series
Venus series
C
Orson
Scott Card
Ender
series
Homecoming series
Treason
Jack
L. Chalker
The Rings of the Master
series
Tom Clancy
Patriot Games
Red Storm Rising
Arthur
C. Clarke
Childhood's End
The Songs of Distant Earth
Space Odyssey series
Glen Cook
Garret, P.I. series
Michael
Crichton
Jurassic Park
Rising
Sun
Sphere
A.C.
Crispin
V series
D
Stephen
Dedman
The Art of Arrow Cutting
Joe Dever
Legends of the Lone Wolf
series
Dougal
Dixon
After
Man
The New Dinosaurs
Stephen
R. Donaldson
The
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever series
The Second Chronicles
of Thomas Covenant series
Dragonlance series
David Drake
Bridgehead
Surface Action
Dave Duncan
A Man of His Word series
A Handful of Men
series
The
Seventh Sword series
E
David
Eddings
The Belgariad series
The Malloreon series
The Elenium series
The Tamuli series
F
Raymond
E. Feist
Faerie
Tale
Riftwar
series
Empire
series (with Janny Wurts)
Prince of the Blood
The
King's Buccaneer
Forgotten Realms series
Frederick
Forsyth
The Dogs of War
C.S. Friedman
Coldfire series
G
Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere
Gary Gentile
Dragons series
Mary Gentle
Grunts!
David
Gerrold
The Voyage of the Star Wolf
Trackers series
William
Gibson
Burning Chrome
Neuromancer
Count Zero
Simon
R. Green
Deathstalker series
Stephan
Grundy
Rhinegold
Attila's Treasure
H
Edmond
Hamilton
Starwolf
Harry
Harrison
Eden
series
Robert
A. Heinlein
Double Star
The
Puppet Masters
Sixth
Column
Starship
Troopers
Frank
Herbert
Dune
series
Douglas
Hill
Colsec series
The
Last Legionary series
L. Ron
Hubbard
Battlefield
Earth
Mission Earth series
I
Charles
Ingrid
Sand Wars series
J
Mike
Jefferies
The Loremasters of Elundium
series
K
Guy
Gavriel Kay
The Lions of Al-Rassan
A
Song for Arbonne
Tigana
William
H. Keith, Jr.
Warstrider series
Stephen
King
The Shining
L
Keith
Laumer
Star Colony
Stephen
R. Lawhead
In the Hall of the Dragon
King
Ursula
K. LeGuin
Earthsea
series
Madeleine
L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time
M
Jack
McKinney
Robotech series
Robotech: Sentinels series
The
End of the Circle
Donald
E. McQuinn
Warrior
The Mutant Chronicles series
N
Larry Niven
Fallen Angels (with Jerry Pournelle
and Michael E. Flynn)
Footfall (with Jerry Pournelle)
The
Legacy of Heorot (with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes)
Andre
Norton
Star Guard
Time
Agents series
Eric S.
Nylund
A Game of Universe
O
P
Frederick
Pohl
The
Heechee Saga series
Tim Powers
Last
Call
Expiration Date
Paul F.
Preuss
Arthur C. Clarke's Venus Prime
series
Q
R
Michael
Scott Rohan
The
Winter of the World series
S
Robert
Silverberg
The Face of the Waters
Dan Simmons
Carrion
Comfort
E.E. "Doc"
Smith
Lensman series
Skylark
series
Martin
Cruz Smith
Arkady
Renko series
Michael A. Stackpole
Dark
Conspiracy series
Star Wars series
Thrawn
series (by Timothy Zahn)
X-Wing
series (by Michael A. Stackpole)
John Steakley
Armor
Vampire$
Neal Stephenson
Snow
Crash
The
Diamond Age
Bruce Sterling
Heavy Weather
Islands in the Net
T
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion
The
Hobbit
The
Lord of the Rings series
Harry Turtledove
The
Guns of the South
U
V
John Varley
Gaia
series
Steel Beach
W
David Weber
Honor
Harrington series
Margaret Weis
Darksword series (with Tracy Hickman)
Death Gate series (with Tracy Hickman)
Star of the Guardians series
H.G. Wells
The
Time Machine
The
War of the Worlds
T.H. White
The Once and Future King
Tad Williams
Memory,
Sorrow, and Thorn series
Gene Wolfe
The
Book of the New Sun series
The Book of the Long Sun series
X
Y
Z
Timothy Zahn
Conquerors series
Roger Zelazny
Amber
series
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