Just finished Foundation's Fear by Gregory Benford (Amazon link). It got terrible reviews on Amazon for not being an Isaac Asimov novel. Well, it isn't, and it's not as good as an Asimov Foundation novel, but that's a lot like saying someone's not as good a pitcher as Greg Maddux. True, but true of most things in it's class. It's a lot more experimental than Asimov, and about a thousand times more theoretical, and does leave out a couple items from the canon of the Asimov Foundation books. It's not a great book, but it's not a bad one either. Just don't buy it expecting the great Dr. Asimov's voice, spoken by another.
Score - 5 out of 10. Points docked for ignoring canon, and too much Voltaire/Joan (though not for having them in there).
I've started Blaze, by Stephen King/Richard Bachman (edited by King after being unpublished as a Bachman novel)(Amazon link). I confess, I love Stephen King books. I've read nearly all of them from cover-to-cover, several multiple times. How he brings readers in to the worlds he creates is a talent I could only dream of. This isn't (at least not yet) a horror story, but the "bad guys" were never, IMHO, King's talent anyway. The stories are about the protagonists, and this story's is as captivating as many good King heroes. I'm certainly enjoying it so far.
Score - 5 out of 10. Points docked for ignoring canon, and too much Voltaire/Joan (though not for having them in there).
I've started Blaze, by Stephen King/Richard Bachman (edited by King after being unpublished as a Bachman novel)(Amazon link). I confess, I love Stephen King books. I've read nearly all of them from cover-to-cover, several multiple times. How he brings readers in to the worlds he creates is a talent I could only dream of. This isn't (at least not yet) a horror story, but the "bad guys" were never, IMHO, King's talent anyway. The stories are about the protagonists, and this story's is as captivating as many good King heroes. I'm certainly enjoying it so far.
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