This is a list of the F&SF books that I was paid to read in
2007, with comments if they come to me (Lack of comments should not
be taken as a slight on the book in question). Since there are a
lot of these, I will do them beginning with all the authors whose
surname begins with A.
I also read material on my own time but I don't keep track of
that.
Title Author Publication
Date
GRIMSPACE Aguirre, Ann 3/1/2008
Can a young, embittered star pilot survive a conflict with the
organization that controls all of the people with the psychic talent
that allows starflight?
I was derailed by what appeared to me to be inconsistancies in
the background, like why there were what seemed to be tramp freighters
despite a shortage of independent pilots and how hard it was to reconcile
the number of ****ps we see with the short lifespan we are told pilots
have.
BSI: STARSIDE: DEATH SENTENCE Allen,Roger MacBride 5/29/2007
Interstellar police procedural in which officers Mendez and
Wolfson attempt to figure out how someone aged a BSI agent to death
and what is the significance of the unreadably encrypted file that
he had with him.
STAR WARS: LEGACY OF THE FORCE: FURY Allston, Aaron ?
I believe that this is the second last installment of an
arc about Jacen Solo, who appears to have decided to combine the
career arcs of A****in Skywalker and Lord Palpatine.
As I recall, what exactly Jacen wanted to do varied somewhat
depending on which author was writing him.
METAL SWARM Anderson, Kevin J.
Yet another entry in the unspeakably awful Saga of the Seven
Suns. I think that we discover in this that while the Klikiss robots
are bad, the Klikiss who the robots created are even worse.
The only good thing about these books is that while he's excreting
another one of these, Anderson is prevented from writing more Dune books.
THE LAST DAYS OF KRYPTON Anderson, Kevin J. 11/1/2007
This is a Superman novel, using apparently random bits
of Silver, Bronze and Plastic Age continuity. This would be the
Superman novel that provoked this rant:
"I protest the deprimatization of the DC Universe if gorillas and
monkeys were good enough for Julius Schwartz, they should be good enough
for us!"
And yes, I should have phrased it in such a way as to make it clear
that I meant non-human primates. Still, if you use short-pants Brainiac,
you have to use his space-monkey.
AIR APPARENT Anthony, Piers 10/1/2007
This was a Xanth novel. On the advice of my lawyers (or what I
assume would be their advice) I will leave it at that.
THE TROUBLE WITH HUMANS Anvil, Christopher 8/1/2007
I am embarrassed to admit that I don't recall reading this.
NO HUMANS INVOLVED Armstrong, Kelley 5/1/2007
Paranormal romance, in which a woman whose talent is talking to
the dead gets caught in Weird Stuff in LA. The supernatural world in
this series is very small and since everyone knows everyone else in it,
protagonists in other books show up as sup****ting characters in this one.
PERSONAL DEMON Armstrong, Kelley 3/25/2008
Paranormal romance: A half-demon tries to find a socially acceptable
way to fulfil her need for chaos. This puts her neck-deep in shark-filled
waters PDQ.
MAMMOTH BOOK OF GOLDEN AGE Asimov, Isaac, 1/1/2007
SCIENCE FICTION Charles G. Waugh,
Martin H. Greenberg
Reprint of a somewhat venerable anthology. No TOC because
then I'd have to do that for the Gardner Best Ofs.
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