tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26032446167724911432011-11-27T19:47:30.644-05:00Orion's Archive: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Reviews"Because what the world needs now - Is another sci-fi book review blog"Orionnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2603244616772491143.post-76469439789929574562008-12-01T19:50:00.000-05:002008-12-01T19:46:24.248-05:002008-12-01T19:46:24.248-05:00<summary>When I started this blog, I told myself that I would never review a Star Trek book.But sometimes, when you know that you're stuck on a plane or in the car while travelling, your resolve can weaken, and you pick up a Star Trek novel as a mindless way to fill a few hours.Star Trek: Enterprise: Kobayashi Maruwasn't that bad - as long you're willing to accept the whole twisted continuity of the </summary><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://orions-archive.blogspot.com/feeds/7646943978992957456/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://orions-archive.blogspot.com/2008/12/when-i-started-this-blog-i-told-myself.html#comment-form" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2603244616772491143/posts/default/7646943978992957456?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2603244616772491143/posts/default/7646943978992957456?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OrionsArchiveSci-fi/fantasyBookReviews/~3/0NLkIMFsQc0/when-i-started-this-blog-i-told-myself.html" title="" /><author><name>Orion</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://orions-archive.blogspot.com/2008/12/when-i-started-this-blog-i-told-myself.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/"C08AQnszfCp7ImA9WxVSFkQ.""><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2603244616772491143.post-6266169446382385060</id><published>2008-12-01T19:46:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-11T11:37:23.584-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-01-11T11:37:23.584-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="hard sci-fi" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="sci-fi" /><title>Cauldron - Jack McDevittCauldronAuthor: Jack McDevittGenre: sci-fi, hard sci-fiBack Cover:By 2255, the age of starflight is over.  The Academy of Science and Technology is long closed, and the only efforts at space exploration are carried on by privately funded foundations.  However, physicist Jon Silvestri insists that an abandoned prototype for a much more efficient star drive is workable.  Priscilla Hutchins, now a Orionnoreply@blogger.com0http://orions-archive.blogspot.com/2008/11/cauldron-author-jack-mcdevitt-genre-sci.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2603244616772491143.post-39549744558837678032008-11-02T18:32:00.028-05:002009-01-11T11:35:50.073-05:002009-01-11T11:35:50.073-05:00Chronicles of the Black Company - Glen CookChronicles of the Black CompanyAuthor: Glen CookGenre: fantasy, militaryBack-cover blurb:Darkness wars with darkness as the hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must. They bury their doubts with their dead.Then comes the prophecy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more...Orion's Review:For what is probably the best "military-fantasy" Orionnoreply@blogger.com0http://orions-archive.blogspot.com/2008/11/chronicles-of-black-company-author-glen.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2603244616772491143.post-70091197329305076022008-10-29T21:11:00.024-05:002009-01-11T10:54:40.421-05:002009-01-11T10:54:40.421-05:00Mainspring - Jay LakeMainspringAuthor: Jay LakeGenre: sci-fi, steampunk, fantasyBack-cover blurb:“Her Imperial Majesty Queen Victoria still rules New England and her America Possessions; the Royal Navy rules the skies with its mighty Airships; and Earth still turns on God’s great brass gears of Heaven as it makes its orderly passage around the Lamp of the Sun from Midnight to Midnight and Year to YearIn the town of Orionnoreply@blogger.com0http://orions-archive.blogspot.com/2008/10/mainspring-author-jay-lake-genre-sci-fi.html