Interesting short story, but ultimately forgettable. Its short. Probably 3 out of 5.
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I enjoy science fiction works, and some detective stories. Mostly short stories, and mostly works that have entered into the public domain. Don't have a lot of time to read which I'm hoping will change in this new year.
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LeRoy Miller rated Fee of the Frontier: 3 stars
Horace Bowne Fyfe: Fee of the Frontier (Amazing Stories)
Fee of the Frontier by Horace Bowne Fyfe
They didn't think of themselves as pioneers. They simply had a job to do. And if they had to give …
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They didn't think of themselves as pioneers. They simply had a job to do. And …
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Fee of the Frontier by Horace Bowne Fyfe
They didn't think of themselves as pioneers. They simply had a job to do. And if they had to give …
LeRoy Miller commented on Henry Horn's X-Ray Eye Glasses by Dwight V. Swain
Good quick short story, easy to read, easy to follow - not too complicated. A good couple hour read. 3 out 5 stars.
LeRoy Miller rated Henry Horn's X-Ray Eye Glasses: 3 stars
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LeRoy Miller rated Fly by Night: 3 stars
LeRoy Miller finished reading Fly by Night by Arthur Dekker Savage
Good short story, not great. It is a hour to hour and half read (at least for me). The first half is fast paced, and somewhat enjoyable. The problem comes in the second half of the story, I'll not spoil it here. But the ending has problems. If you need something fast to read, and is a pretty good story, and you like SCI-FI (old school pre-moon landing) Sci-Fi. Read this, it's not bad. I am going to give it a 3 out of 5 stars, just because I don't think the ending works. Or at least works as it was intended to.
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In order to make an old comic book scan a little more #ebook reader friendly, I used gimp to copy the panels to individual pages - this took a while (not long for one page) but the comic has 66 pages, with some pages having 5 or 6 panels on the page.
But it does make it easier to read on the eBook reader.
So does anyone know of a way to #automate the process?
Here is the original scan, and the panels I pulled from the page.....
#comicBook #UFOFlyingSaucerComic
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An affordable #color #ebook #reader - The #Kobo Clara Colour
About half the cost of any of the other color ebook readers on the market - but also smaller then most.
I picked it up because I wanted to read #Comics - is that still reading?
The color is really nice, and bight with the front lighting - but the small size still makes reading a comic a little hard. Of course the comics I am reading aren't formatted for eBooks 😞
Still really good deal for a color reader, and I'm happy I got it
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LeRoy Miller rated Other Likeness: 4 stars
LeRoy Miller finished reading Other Likeness by James H. Schmitz
Everything I said in my previous comment, and then some. As the story progressed, there is still more tech, that probably is far fetched (at least at this point), and some that is at least somewhat doable now. It just makes the story that much more believable. With only a tiny bit of suspension of believe. It does lean into the spy thriller aspect a bit more, only the main characters aren't really spies - it's just kind of has that feel to it.
The ending was un-expected given the start of the story.
It is a really good story, and I'll give it 4 out of 5 stars.