F&SF that I Read in 2007: T

Title                                             Author        
Publication
                                                                    Date

ONE DAY ON MARS                                Taylor, Travis S. 
10/1/2007

	A dire novel about a rebellion on Mars.


STAR WARS REPUBLIC COMMANDO: TRUE COLORS       Traviss, Karen

	Third in a four-part series. Clone soldiers have the second 
worst existance in Republican society, edged out only by robots. Will
the Clones manage to find eventual happiness? This book doesn't say 
but I note that there're are not a lot of elderly Clones running 
around in the later books.  

	I don't care for Traviss' non-tie-in work but the very factors
that drive me up the wall when she writes in her own universes make her
the perfect author for Star Wars. 


STAR WARS:LEGACY OF THE FORCE:REVELATION       Traviss, Karen    
2/26/2008

	The eighth book in the Legacy series. Once again we see that 
the galaxy would have been better off if the Skywalker family had been
left in obscurity on Tatooine. 

	Boba Fett has a major role in this book, training one Skywalker-
spawn to deal with another.  


OPENING ATLANTIS                               Turtledove, Harry 
12/4/2007

	This is a series of related novellas set on a large island
in the Atlantic. The biogeography is interesting but the stories 
themselves are determinedly mundane.


SETTLING ACCOUNTS: IN AT THE DEATH             Turtledove, Harry  
8/8/2007

	The last installment in a ten-part series, this resolves the 
war between the US and CSA but leaves the world in an unstable and 
unpleasant state, one where the use of nuclear weapons on cities is
as routine as massive bomber raids are in ours.  
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