This page has the Science Fiction books that I have rated as NOT recommended
Here are the books rated A+, the books rated A, the books rated A-, and the books rated B.
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| Three Moments of an Explosion
by China Miéville ISBN ??? |
I have loved reading most of China Mieville’s novels. This is a collection of short stories, and it was not very good. I didn’t see the point of about half the stories, and there were only a few I really liked. | |
| The Atlantis Gene: A Thriller (The Origin Mystery, Book 1)
by A. G. Riddle ISBN ??? |
See my review at Amazon |
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| The Last Overseer
by Anton Troia ISBN 061-5-8580-82 |
Recently I got this for free – and quit reading it at the 10% mark. One reviewer on Amazon had the same reaction I did:“Some of the most dreadful prose I have ever had the misfortune of purchasing. I love buying kindle daily deals, and the premise of this novel intrigued me, so I figured I’d give it a try. I wasn’t able to get past page 3. It reads like a high school English student with only a passing familiarity of the language wrote it. Horrifically disappointing. If I had paid more than $1 for this novel, I’d be furious.” |
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| Inversions
by Ian M. Banks ISBN 978-1-4165-8378-3 |
This is one of the rare Ian M. Banks books that I found boring. After reading the reviews at Amazon, I can see why.
This one is so subtle that it seems uninteresting. It is supposedly a Culture novel, but told from the point of view of the less developed race. Various events happen, but are never explained beyond some “implied magic”. |
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| The Elementary Particles
by Michel Houllebecq ISBN 0-375-72701-9 |
See my review at Amazon |
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| All Tomorrow’s Parties
by William Gibson ISBN 0-441-00755-4 |
See my review at Amazon |
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| King Rat
by China Mieville ISBN 0–312–89072–9 |
See my review at Amazon |
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| Quicksilver
(The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson ISBN 0-380-97742-7 |
See my review at Amazon |
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| Solaris
by Stanislaw Lem ISBN 0–156–02760–7 |
See my review at Amazon |
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| Teranesia
by Greg Egan |
See my review at Amazon |
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