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OMG I can't believe there's no description for this - but then I can because this book defies description. Stanislaw …
London’s best and most covert spy tries to escape the man who has always adored her.
New York Times bestselling …
SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more …
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory is a short story set just after Exit Strategy. Home is told from Dr. Mensah’s …
All Systems Red is a 2017 science fiction novella by American author Martha Wells. The first in a series called …
Martha Wells: Network Effect (2020)
WINNER of the 2021 Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards!
The first full-length novel in Martha Wells' New York Times and …
"Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries, comes …
It has a dark past—one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen …
The series is about an artificial construct designed as a Security Unit, which manages to override its governor unit, thus …
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall.
When …
The holy ward made by King Sahddai upon Diabolus to regain metropolis of the world.
Excellent premise, poor execution - and some really quaint ideas of communism. But the main problem was the execution. I've never read of more inept soldiers, nor more two-dimensional characters.
But the premise ... ooh, the premise was lovely.
When two young girls go missing in rural Herefordshire, police constable and wizard-in-training Peter Grant …
And he bloody well does it again ... if you know Ben Aaronvitch, you'll also know he's behind two of the very best Dr. Who serials ever ('Remembrance of the Daleks' and 'Battlefield'), and that he's been an excellent reason to read New Adventure books and listen to Big Finish audio dramas. And if you didn't know, you do now.
It is therefor I boggle. 'cause he does this again and again: write excellent books. Truly excellent, not the current, inflation-ridden 'excellent' thrown out too often to convince a body something was worth paying money for.
No, this book has all the bases covered (it's well-written, with good spelling and prose; the plot is internally consistent, and not a single veggiesaurus is in sight), the story put down and bedded in, and the characters very nicely thrown out of their comfortable little slots and into the big, and in the …
And he bloody well does it again ... if you know Ben Aaronvitch, you'll also know he's behind two of the very best Dr. Who serials ever ('Remembrance of the Daleks' and 'Battlefield'), and that he's been an excellent reason to read New Adventure books and listen to Big Finish audio dramas. And if you didn't know, you do now.
It is therefor I boggle. 'cause he does this again and again: write excellent books. Truly excellent, not the current, inflation-ridden 'excellent' thrown out too often to convince a body something was worth paying money for.
No, this book has all the bases covered (it's well-written, with good spelling and prose; the plot is internally consistent, and not a single veggiesaurus is in sight), the story put down and bedded in, and the characters very nicely thrown out of their comfortable little slots and into the big, and in the case of poor PC Grant, really, really dangerous world.
He thought he knew how to be a wizard, did he? HAH! He was certain he knew how to be a boyfriend? Double HAH! He was convinced he knew policing? Double HAH with sugar on top.
Yep. Ben did it again: HIGHLY recommended for being funny, entertaining, and thrilling.
