• Military Science Fiction

    Book Review: Swords of the Horseclans (Horseclans #2), by Robert Adams 

    Published on 02-07-2012 10:46 AM  Number of Views: 17 
    Categories:
    1. Fantasy
    2. Military Science Fiction
    3. 2.5 Stars
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    Swords of the Horseclans (Horseclans #2)
    By Robert Adams
    Review by Dave Felts
    Rating: (2.5/5)

    While I would classify the first volume a being close to heroic fantasy, albeit in a future apocalyptic setting, this second volume in the series, Swords of the Horseclans, is more military fantasy. Book 1 ends with Milo completing his odyssey of leading the Horseclans from the high plains of the middle use to the eastern seaboard, where he establishes them in their new home and forms the Confederation. ...
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    Member Book Review: Betrayer, by C. J. Cherryh 

    Published on 02-01-2012 07:44 AM  Number of Views: 29 
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    1. Military Science Fiction
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    Betrayer, by C. J. Cherryh (Foreigner universe #12)
    Reviewed by Edward F. McKeown
    Publisher: DAW
    Year Published: 2011
    ISBN-10: 0756406544
    ISBN-13: 978-0756406547

    In my prior review of Deceiver, I commented on how impossible it was to enter the series from that book because of the sheer weight of all that had gone before and how nobody should expect a writer to be able to do that. Then at the beginning of Betrayer, CJ Cherryh pretty much does so and makes it coherent and cogent with little evident effort. Drat. ...
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    Book Review: The Coming of the Horseclans, by Robert Adams 

    Published on 01-31-2012 04:44 AM  Number of Views: 42 
    Categories:
    1. Military Science Fiction
    2. 4.0 Stars
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    The Coming of the Horseclans (Horseclans book 1), by Robert Adams
    Reviewed by Dave Felts
    Year First Published: 1975
    Rating: (4/5)

    The older I get, the more nostalgia I seem to develop for the things of my youth. My friends and I were quite taken with the Horseclans books when we discovered them (early 1980s). My edition is a 1982 printing, not the 1975 original. Mundania Press released The Coking of the Horseclans in 2005, but no reprint of the rest yet. There's 18 of them in all. I have the first 13 in my possession and will set about procuring the other five. ...
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    Book Review: Jack Brand, by John M. Whalen 

    Published on 01-29-2012 07:19 AM  Number of Views: 73 
    Categories:
    1. Science Fiction
    2. Superhero
    3. Military Science Fiction
    4. 4.0 Stars
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    Jack Brand, by John M. Whalen
    Reviewed by Michael D. Griffiths
    Publisher: Pill Hill Press
    Year Published: 2010

    Jack Brand by John M. Whalen is an action packed book set in the distant future where space travel has been achieved and living on another planet has become a reality. The entire novel takes place on the planet Tulon. Jack was formerly from Earth and also used to be a member of Tulon’s law enforcement agency. Tulon itself is suffering from an economic depression that will only be getting worse as the oil, which was their primary source of income, is no longer needed because a new invention on earth that has made fossil fuels obsolete. ...
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    E-Book review: Dominant Species Michael E Marks 

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    Jaqhama
    Published on 04-25-2011 11:20 AM  Number of Views: 508 
    Categories:
    1. Military Science Fiction

    Okay...I finished the three sample chapters and then went straight to the Amazon Kindle store and bought the entire novel ...
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    Book Review: Death's Head: Day of the Damned, by David Gunn 

    Published on 03-11-2010 10:15 AM  Number of Views: 637 
    Categories:
    1. Military Science Fiction
    2. 4.0 Stars
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    Death's Head: Day of the Damned, by David Gunn
    Reviewed by Jaqhama


    Publisher: Del Rey
    Date Published: 2009

    The hardest soldier in the Octovian Empire is in at the deep end again.

    Sven Tveskoeg is in General Indigo Jaxx's bad book. Despite having saved the General's son on a recent mission. But Sven is used to being unpopular. More surprising to Sven is discovering that OctoV, the empire's glorious and undying leader, is also being blacklisted, by the very people who should be supporting him. ...
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