Title Author Publication
Date
HA'PENNY Walton, Jo 10/1/2007
This is the sequel to FARTHING, in which siblings not unlike the
Mitford sisters become involved in the cut-throat world of British
politics
in a world where Britain cut a deal with the Nazis.
This is not the series to look to if you are looking for a
comfort read.
THE NINTH TALISMAN Watt-Evans, Lawrence 5/1/2007
The second part of a trilogy, eight guardians wait to see if
the new ruler of their land can be trusted with power or if he will
be as bad as the previous one. Note that there's less plot potential
in "The Wizard Lord ruled wisely for the rest of his life and Sword
spent most of his time growing roses."
Actually, there is a plot in a class of guardians who become
so eager to carry out their functions that they find danger where none
exists but that would be a different book than this one.
BY SCHISM RENT ASUNDER Weber, David 7/1/2008
The second in an ongoing series, this details the struggle by
one brave kingdom and its allies to free itself and presumably eventually
the world from an oppressive religion and its minions.
It's interesting to compare this to IN FURY BORN, a reworking
of an older Weber book, The extra pages in IFB add nothing aside from
bloat to PATH OF THE FURY. BSRA in contrast is longer than I'd like [1]
but not bloated, at least not in the same way as IFB.
1: What I'd really like is something as lean as Ford but I accept that
I am not going to get it.
THE HIDDEN CITY West, Michelle 3/1/2008
An apparently amoral and self-centered man saves a young girl from
certain death, an act of charity that soon spirals out of his control.
WRAITH Wheldon, Phaedra 6/1/2007
A minor paranormal romance about a PI who has the ability to
astral project.
MARSEGURO Willett, Edward 2/1/2008
Plucky freedom-loving refugees from an oppressive theocratic
Earth government face occupation and worse from Earth. Can a small
colony withstand the hostile attention of the mother planet?
Has there ever been an SF book where they didn't? This
was mostly unnotable except for a defensive strategy that goes
horribly wrong near the end.
SATURN RETURNS: ASTROPOLIS # 1 Williams, Sean 5/1/2008
EARTH ASCENDANT: ASTROPOLIS #2 Williams, Sean
A former rebel is restored from back-up, only to discover that
the galaxy-wide civilization that he fought for and against has collapsed.
Can he and a cast of literally several people create a new civilization
comparable to what has been lost.
This would be the series where in the year 1.5 Million, we
learn that architectural styles of our period are still around. There's
just so much to dislike about these books.
STAR WARS: THE FORCE UNLEASHED Williams, Sean 3/18/2008
This is a tie-in novel for a video game set between Episode
III and IV.
BETTER TO BEG FORGIVENESS Williamson, Michael Z. 11/1/2007
Mercenaries find themselves on the run after a contract goes sour.
This appears to be intended as a loving tribute to Blackwater
and is aimed at the less discerning Baen reader.
AXIS Wilson, Robert Charles 9/18/2007
This is set some time after the events in SPIN. The aliens are
still being mysterious and the humans are still caught up in their
machinations, in much the same way mice used to find themselves caught
up in our tractor's engine every spring.
I think this is the first sequel Wilson has ever written. I
wasn't very keen on it.
THE STONE GODS Winterson, Jeanette 5/1/2008
To quote myself, because I've mostly forgotten this book
"Jeanette Winterson's THE STONE GOD is a collection of goofs, wrapped
around weepy apocalyptarianism.
The very first line in the book is "This new world weighs a yatto-gram."
If by "yatto-gram" she means yottagram, then this world is about 1/6,000th
the mass of the Earth. Unfortunately, the new world appears to be the
Earth or a world so similar as to be indistinguishable from Earth."
TITANS OF CHAOS Wright, John C. 4/1/2007
The third and final book in the Chronicles of Chaos series.
I seem to remember being a little puzzled why this volume was necessary.
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