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Books Read
Jan. 13th, 2019 10:59 am6 Paradise, Craig Alanson
7 Black Ops, same
8 Zero Hour, same
Books three through five of an apparently no-master-plot series of milSF in which the narrator is saved by ingenious plans that nobody else is able to think of, including the alien super-AI nicknamed Skippy.
There are series where one feels sure that the author has A Plan: Charlie Stross's Laundry, Jim Butcher's Dresden, Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos. This is not one of them. The writing is not sufficiently good to maintain my interest; the characters are not exactly flat but don't have much depth; the plots are a stream of incidents. I'm done.
7 Black Ops, same
8 Zero Hour, same
Books three through five of an apparently no-master-plot series of milSF in which the narrator is saved by ingenious plans that nobody else is able to think of, including the alien super-AI nicknamed Skippy.
There are series where one feels sure that the author has A Plan: Charlie Stross's Laundry, Jim Butcher's Dresden, Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos. This is not one of them. The writing is not sufficiently good to maintain my interest; the characters are not exactly flat but don't have much depth; the plots are a stream of incidents. I'm done.
