Tag: Review

starship troopers
February 14, 2022

Starship Troopers – Robert Heinlein

Title: Starship TroopersAuthor: Robert HeinleinPublished by: Hodder PaperbacksPublication date: December 1959Genre: Science FictionPages: 288Format: PaperbackSource: Private Collection Blurb/Synopsis 5,000 years in the future, humanity faces total extermination. Our one defense: highly-trained soldiers who scour the metal-strewn blackness of space to hunt down a terrifying enemy: an insect life-form known only as \’Bugs.\’ This is the story of trooper Johnny Rico, from…

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January 10, 2022

Lethal White – Robert Galbraith

Title: Lethal WhiteAuthor: Robert GalbraithPublished by: SpherePublication date: 18th Sept 2018Genre: Crime/ThrillerPages: 650Format: HardbackSource: Private CollectionSeries: Cormoran Strike Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book – Kindle Buy the Book – Bookshop.org Blurb/Synopsis When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike\’s office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike…

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January 6, 2022

The War of Powers – Robert E Vardeman & Victor Milan

Title: The War of PowersAuthor: Robert E Vardeman & Victor MilanPublished by: Hodder & StoughtonPublication date: 1st March 1984Genre: FantasyPages: 464Format: PaperbackSource: Private Collection Buy the Book – Amazon Blurb/Synopsis It seemed like a routine delivery job. Except that the parcel was a jug containing a genie called Erimines the Ethical, who knew the secret of immortality but was actually…

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December 14, 2021

Illborn – Daniel T Jackson

Title: IllbornAuthor: Daniel T JacksonPublished by: TroubadorPublication date: 2nd March 2021Genre: FantasyPages: 714Format: PaperbackSource: Private CollectionSeries: Illborn Saga Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book – Kindle Blurb/Synopsis Long ago, The Lord Aiduel emerged from the deserts of the Holy Land, possessed with divine powers. He used these to forcibly unite the peoples of Angall, before His ascension to heaven. Over…

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December 9, 2021

Know no Fear – Dan Abnett

Author: Dan AbnettPublished by: Black LibraryPublication date: 1st March 2012Genre: Science FictionPages: 320Format: PaperbackSource: Private CollectionSeries: Horus Heresy Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book – Kindle Blurb/Synopsis Unaware of the wider Heresy and following the Warmaster\’s increasingly cryptic orders, Roboute Guilliman returns to Ultramar to muster his Legion for war against the orks massing in the Veridian…

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November 12, 2021

Sharpe\’s Eagle – Bernard Cornwell

Title: Sharpe’s EagleAuthor: Bernard CornwellPublished by: HarperCollinsPublication date: 9th Feb 1981Genre: Historical FictionPages: 326Format: PaperbackSource: Private Collection Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book – Kindle Blurb/Synopsis Spain, July 1809 Lieutenant Richard Sharpe faces not only great danger on the battlefield but also, even more dangerous, treachery within his own ranks. But as the enemy approaches, he must pick…

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November 9, 2021

The Death of Vivek Oji – Akwaeke Emezi

Title: The Death of Vivek OjiAuthor: Akwaeke EmeziPublished by: Faber & FaberPublication date: 6th May 2021Genre: Contemporary FictionPages: 256Format: PaperbackSource: Private Collection Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book – Kindle Blurb/Synopsis One afternoon, a mother opens her front door to find the length of her son\’s body stretched out on the veranda, swaddled in akwete material, his…

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October 21, 2021

Dune – Frank Herbert

Title: DuneAuthor: Frank HerbertPublished by: HodderPublication date: August 1965Genre: Science FictionPages: 592Format: PaperbackSource: Private Collection Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book – Kindle Blurb/Synopsis The Duke of Atreides has been manoeuvred by his arch-enemy, Baron Harkonnen, into administering the desert planet of Dune. Although it is almost completely without water, Dune is a planet of fabulous wealth, for…

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