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Despite feeling a little fanfic-like and the death count of redshirts seeming a little worrying, I still enjoyed this. Despite Kirk and 7 obviously being very different and there really being no rationale for them put together, it managed to keep my interest. Thinking on it at a day remove it feels a bit of a contrivance: some of 7's way of speaking didn't ring very true, and Greg always shows off his grasp of temporally accurate vernacular by contrasting landing party with away team in his crossovers. Still, a few hundred pages is not too hefty.

I've never read a Brown: I got pushed abridged audio of the Da Vinci Code on its release, and the furore around it failed to attract at the time.

It feels like this one was written earlier - cellphones are very new tech and even floppy disks get an honourable mention. The crypto side of things was pretty interesting and of course the trope of teacher turned superhero is widespread. Some of the language stuff felt a little OTT at times too, and of course the last-minute array of firewalls was pure visual cinema.

all that said, I still enjoyed it, even if, quite Ironically, the book comes across as quite dated - unusual when you consider Brown's plaudits as a new voice of his generation.

Classic James, although all-the-more so after his death of course. A giant of a man, this was one of only 3 of his books I have yet to read
Vintage WWII stuff here, with a lot of naval work and considerably less character detail than I'd come to expect. Still very much enjoyed.

I hoped this would be funny and there might be a little more farming. But there wasn't. The blindness thing really didn't work well, the humour wasn't to my taste and I felt as though things hadn't really progressed from one end of the book to the other.

Some books just grab you. This one was hugely thought-provoking, from the synopsis alone I knew it'd be interesting but of course the devil is in the detail: the execution was flawless, and the impact and motivations of the characters was brilliantly realised. There are a number of books and authors which have a lasting, resonant impact on me, and this is joining them.

Some books just grab you. This one was hugely thought-provoking, from the synopsis alone I knew it'd be interesting but of course the devil is in the detail: the execution was flawless, and the impact and motivations of the characters was brilliantly realised. There are a number of books and authors which have a lasting, resonant impact on me, and this is joining them.

Passable entertainment, but when almost every solution to a problem is set a dinosaur on it I do begin to drift, mentally.
Also, one of my pet peeves is books that use time or dates to no obvious result, which happens here when people cross over, and also when the author clearly hasn't even read their dates back by writing something like 25nd or 22th which happened once here too. Not sure I have much interest in book 2.

Passable entertainment, but when almost every solution to a problem is set a dinosaur on it I do begin to drift, mentally.
Also, one of my pet peeves is books that use time or dates to no obvious result, which happens here when people cross over, and also when the author clearly hasn't even read their dates back by writing something like 25nd or 22th which happened once here too. Not sure I have much interest in book 2.

I quite got into this, and as it turned into an arms race of mental and physical excellence, I found myself even more absorbed. The ending did seem to appear a little rapidly, and as with some of these ubermensch stories, the thought processes of the enhanced all seem to asymptotically converge to a degree. In that regard it was refreshing to have a difference of view between two characters. Up there with Suarez’s Change Agent for pushing the boundaries of genetic resequencing and the GPA having the feel of Marcus Sakey’s Federal Brilliance agency, Crouch has shown that once again he can tell a superbly compelling story with bold extrapolation.

I quite got into this, and as it turned into an arms race of mental and physical excellence, I found myself even more absorbed. The ending did seem to appear a little rapidly, and as with some of these ubermensch stories, the thought processes of the enhanced all seem to asymptotically converge to a degree. In that regard it was refreshing to have a difference of view between two characters. Up there with Suarez’s Change Agent for pushing the boundaries of genetic resequencing and the GPA having the feel of Marcus Sakey’s Federal Brilliance agency, Crouch has shown that once again he can tell a superbly compelling story with bold extrapolation.

I enjoyed this quite a lot. Every single time someone tries funny light sci-fi, of course the inevitable comparison to adams pops up. But that aside, it had plenty of amusement factor all its own. I felt like I was reading a funnier Ben Aaronovitch.

A quaint thing of its time, although surprisingly lackluster for me at the moment. Perhaps I'm just feeling a little off.

This sounded interesting on paper, but the actualisation didn't really hit home for me as I`d have expected. Enjoyable as far as it goes, but I didn't find myself captivated as I'd hoped.

This sounded interesting on paper, but the actualisation didn't really hit home for me as I`d have expected. Enjoyable as far as it goes, but I didn't find myself captivated as I'd hoped.