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The Legacy of Heorot book review

The Legacy of Heorot was published back in 1989. Written by powerhouse duo Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (with a bit of help from Steven Barnes), it tells the tale of a group of humans who endure a ten-year frozen trip out to a new planet to start a human colony.

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Shadows Have Offended book review

It’s been a while since we’ve had a TV-era Star Trek: The Next Generation novel hit the shelves. Shadows Have Offended is author Cassandra Rose Clarke’s Trek debut and features a story involving art theft, strange diseases and Picard’s impatience with Lwaxana Troi.

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Reviews | #1 in Commonwealth

Pandora's Star book review

Pandora’s Star is a beloved space opera novel by British author Peter F Hamilton and the first in his epic Commonwealth series of books. Coming in at a whopping 768 pages, it’s about 3x the length of a typical novel. Can it live up to the hype?

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Reviews | #21 in Star Trek: Post-Nemesis Relaunch

Star Trek: Typhon Pact #3 Rough Beasts of Empire book review

The third book in the Typhon Pact series is here. Rough Beasts of Empire was written by David R. George III back in 2011. It’s a book of two parts: the first focuses on Benjamin Sisko (from Deep Space Nine) in the post Destiny era, and the second focuses on Spock and his quest for the reunification of Vulcan and Romulus.

Major spoilers ahead for both this book and Deep Space Nine (the tv series)

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A review of our reviews

Lately, I’ve been started to feel as though some of the book review scores given on Sci-Fi Books Club aren’t quite right. I’ve reviewed 30 books and never given a 5-star rating to any of them. So what? It depends, I suppose, on what 5-stars means. When I first started writing reviews, I didn’t have a baseline score system to work with. In essence, it was just a gut feeling. However, I don’t believe a 5-star score should only be given to the world’s most perfect book.

Star Trek Deep Space Nine S01E01 Emissary Mini-Review

Was I wrong about Deep Space Nine? Ask a Trekkie what their favourite Trek show is, and they’ll probably either say The Original Series or The Next Generation. Fair enough, those two are the biggest and most well-known iterations. But there will usually be one person lurking in the dark shadows of the room who will say, “Deep Space Nine is the best.” Although Voyager and Enterprise certainly have their fans (I am a big Voyager fan), Deep Space Nine is often regarded as the unsung hero of Trek — a dark horse in the Trek canon.

Ebooks v Print Books - Which do you prefer?

For a long time, I eschewed ebooks and e-ink reading devices such as the Kindle or the Kobo. I was a print purist. A physical book has that weight, smell, and special something that makes it special.

Or so I thought.

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