Big Red Bird With Fuzzy Pink Feet
BigRedBirdWithFuzzyPinkFeet@ramblingreaders.org
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An afficionado of Terry Pratchett, sci-fi and history books.
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Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender series and the Ender's Shadow …
Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender …
A satisfactory conclusion to the whole saga.
Maybe a bit too "happy-endy" for science fiction, but sometimes it's good to stand up from a book with a warm fuzzy feeling.
"A Walk in the Sun" is a hard science fiction short story published in 1991 …
A rather good and memorable hard sci-fi short story. I'll have to look up more from Mr. Landis.
"Author of the phenomenal national best seller, Born to Run, Christopher McDougall now travels to …
I don't know, I expected a bit more. There were some interesting Crete-specific factoids from WW2 and some awesome war stories (mostly involved endurance running, obviously), but the book is written in a rather meandering, disjointed way, and I found myself getting bored and having to power through some chapters.
Not bad, but nothing special.
I liked the Long Earth series, I wonder if this will be as good.