Reviews of Fantasy and Science Fiction books
Not bad, some stories better than others. So there are five short stories contained in here, though a couple of them are quite long. They range from way before the landing at Pern to a few decades after. The first is the initial Pern survey and though it is mildly interesting there is not much …
Continue reading “The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall by Anne McCaffrey”
So this is a collection of short stories that basically tell the story of A New Hope from lots of different POV’s apart from the main cast (though there is one exception). It is an interesting premise and was released as part of the fortieth anniversary of the release of the film. I won’t go …
Continue reading “Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View by Miscellaneous Authors”
Most of the stories were ok but there was a few I actually disliked. Interesting to read about what Irish people thought future technology might be like. Very few of the stories are actually set in Ireland, most seem to be in the US or England. I wouldn’t class most of them as SF as …
I’ll be honest I didn’t read them all, just a few of them, I might get around to the rest at some stage. It was good to get a story from a few authors I’ve heard mentioned but I wish that they would have put some sort of introduction before each. It was confusing to …
Continue reading “Lost Lore: A Fantasy Anthology by various”
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