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10 reviews
Christopher Hinz

Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 1995

Conclusion To Story Started in Ash Ock
Most of the reviews have explained some of the plot, so I won't rehash that. What I will try to do is explain why you should or shouldn't buy this, whether you'll like this or not. First, if you're reading this review, you've probably read Liege-Killer (the first book) and continued on to Ash Ock (the second book). Even though Liege-Killer was a book that can stand on its own, and the story ...

Empires of Flux and Anchor (Soul Rider Series, No 2)

1 review
Jack L. Chalker

Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 1988

Wow
Let me start off by saying that I have read a LOT of Chalker. This series is going beyond my already high expectaions. The 1st book was great as an introduction to the worlds and the concepts that you will be struggling with throughout the series. The 2nd book jumped an order of magnitude forward in sheer brilliance. It is set quite a few years in the future from the ending of the last book, ...

Soft and Others: 16 Stories of Wonder and Dread

3 reviews
F. Paul Wilson

Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 1990

An excellent introduction to the style of the author
This was my first book of F. Paul Wilson and now I am a huge fan. Every story is tight, concise, and eminently readable. Look out especially for "Soft," "Dat-Tay-Vao" (which figures into later novels like The Touch), and "Buckets."

Liege-Killer (The Paratwa Saga, Book 1)

27 reviews
Christopher Hinz

Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 1995

One of my favorite sci-fi novels!
My friend bought this book for me as a joke because I found the cover art to be amusing. I had read the synopsis on the back of the book, but never seriously thought about reading it until my friend bought it for me. Boy am I glad she did! The book was an genuine page-turner with twists and surprises around every bend. It follows a paratwa - an assassin that is composed of two bodies but one mind ...

I Am Legend

501 reviews
Richard Matheson

Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 1995

A story of it's own
I had seen the recent movie adaption to this book and I must say, I love both just the way they are. The book made the movie a lot clearer in ways for me, actually trying to put science behind exactly what the monsters were. This book is extremely well written for the time it came from, and the imagination is boundless. I love monster stories and this one is not one to pass up! This book, ...

Walkers

12 reviews
Graham Masterton

Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 1990

Wild and gruesome chiller.
I've been reading a lot of Graham Masterton lately and with each book, I've turned the last page with more appreciation and wonder at his talent and imagination. I finally got around to reading WALKERS recently and it blew me away. Masterton really outdid himself with this one. It is one of the fastest moving novels he's ever done and in some ways, his most outrageous. I felt like I had jumped ...

The Mummy Case

32 reviews
Elizabeth Peters

Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 1992

Why a reissue??
I love this series, and this title is a lot of fun, not least because of Ramses. I recommend the whole series to anyone who likes lighthearted mysteries, even though the later ones, set in and around WWI, are darker in tone. But my question remains... why are they reprinting this in hardback? Are they planning to do that with the whole series? I understand that Peters has finished with the ...

Borrower of the Night

21 reviews
Elizabeth Peters

Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 1990

--Mystery, Intrigue and Art History--
This is the first story in the Vicky Bliss mystery series and although, it's not absolutely necessary to read the stories in chronological order, it really does help to understand the background of the main characters and frankly, it makes reading the books even more enjoyable. In BORROWER OF THE NIGHT, Vicky Bliss, art historian and college professor finds a reference in a book that might lead ...

Firehand

3 reviews
Andre Norton, P. M. Griffin

Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 1995

return of Ross Murdock and the Time Traders
This book was written many years after the first four of the Time Traders books (Time Traders, Galactic Derelect, Defiant Agents and Key Out of Time.) This tells about the "return" of Murdock and Ash to modern day Earth after they had thought that they were trapped on the world of Hawaiiki by the destruction of their time gate. It was fairly good, but frankly, I didn't like the "love interest" ...

Villains by Necessity

60 reviews
Eve Forward

Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 1996

Root for the bad guys!
After an all-out war, Good has at last truimphed over Evil. Peace, milk and cookies now reign over all the kingdoms. But something is wrong. The total victory of the forces of Good has created an internal imbalance in the universe and now, unless Evil is raised up to a measure of its former glory, the world will end. It falls upon an assorted group of leftover minor villains and misfits to save ...

Eon

88 reviews
Greg Bear

Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 1988

Not Free SF Reader
Eon is about a cold war over an alien artifact, if you can call it that, of immense scope. The knowledge and power to be gained from such a device leads, of course, to one country wanting to hoard it, and not allow others to get to the 'terrible secret' at the heart of the information to be gained there. Some mind-boggling technology to be found here.

Winter Solstice

156 reviews
Rosamunde Pilcher

Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 1957

Wonderful
I reread this book every Christmas. Rosamunde Pilcher has a way of capturing the true spirit of the season and makes the weather that we endure enchanting. I love to sit by the fireplace and drink some cocoa (or more appropriately tea!) while I read it. It's truly a gift to have just a good, pleasant story to read around the holidays.

The Shattered Sphere

7 reviews
Roger MacBride Allen

Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 1995

A very good sci-fi book
This series (The Hunted Earth) is amazing! Without giving out too much spoilers, the novel takes place in the year 2400+, the Earth is stolen from the Solar System, and the Hunted Earth series (The Ring of Charon, and the Shattered Sphere) covers the efforts and stories of the people left in the Solar System (on the Moon, Mars, Pluto, etc.) and the people of Earth. I think one of the unique ...

Speak Daggers to Her: A Bast Mystery

7 reviews
Rosemary Edghill

Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 1995

wonderful little gem!
For years, I thought the sub-sub-sub-genre of positive urban pagan fiction, with a good witch as the central character, began and ended with Mercedes Lackey's creation, Diana Tregarde. Happily, I stand corrected. Bast (aka "Karen Hightower"), is one of those characters whom I would love to meet in real life--intelligent, funny, flawed and very stubborn. Upon recieving a distraught phone call ...

Species II: A Novel

4 reviews
Yvonne Navarro

Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 1998

Brilliant and better than the first.
The story line(as usual) is great and simple to follow, the quality of the acting is at the top of the charts and and has the qualities needed for this type of film. It has a great sequence.

The Swordbearer

11 reviews
Glen Cook

Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 1990

One of my first experiences with fantasy
As the sword had been lost for ages, so had the title and author of this book been lost to me. After exhausting every Tolkien and CS Lewis book I could find, I was lucky to have purchased a new release of THE SWORDBEARER almost 20 years ago. I'm looking forward to reading this work again through adult eyes, as I can still remember the excitement it created as a thirteen year old. I'll make ...

A Gathering of Gargoyles

41 reviews
Meredith A. Pierce

Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 1985

Great fantasy story
Reviewed by Spencer Zaborowski (age 12) for Reader Views (12/07) Do you love fantasy, with lots of clear images and a mysterious riddle? If so, then you will want to read "A Gathering of Gargoyles" by Meredith Ann Pierce. This book is the second one out of three from a series called "The Darkangel Trilogy." It is about a young girl named Aeriel who saves her new husband, a darkangel, from ...

A Wizard in Midgard

7 reviews
Christopher Stasheff

Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 1999

my favorite Wizard book so far!
This was a great book! I had been wondering how Stasheff could solve Magnus' girl problem. In this book, Magnus meets the woman who is his true love. She has been hurt as badly as he has and distrusts men. She recognizes his problem, too. At the end of the book, she leaves with Magnus. They will have a platonic relationship at first, but I know that eventually they will heal each other. ...

Greenwar

5 reviews
Steven Gould, Laura J. Mixon

Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 1998

Good Book -- Read It Soon!
This is a very good book. It's an eco-thriller, based on a deep-sea energy generation platform whose engineering and economics seem far more believable than, say, NASA's chances of occupying a new space station on-time and on-budget; science fiction, but set in the *very* near future. There are good good-guys, and bad bad-guys, and good bad-guys, and bad good-guys: lot's of character ...

Orion Among the Stars

10 reviews
Ben Bova

Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, 1996

Review of Orion among the stars
I read this book a year before my first year in college. I definitely recommend this book for anyone that enjoyed books like "Starship Troopers", "Forever War" and etc. "Orion Among the stars" is a book in the same grain as those. The book is military sci-fi (the best type of fiction of course).

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