Every general bit of praise and criticism I have for Earthside can be cribbed/shared directly with my criticism/praise for Outland, so I’ll avoid rehashing all this here and get to what’s both different and worse, much much worse, about Earthside: Dennis E Taylor turning his Pollyanna rose-tinted glasses to a post-apocalyptic justice and political system. There are witch trials, and it’s terrifying. The stakes of these witch trials are life and brutal, unyielding death. If you’re lucky you’ll be exiled to an almost uninhabitable Earth, […]

Dennis E Taylor is the author of the Bobiverse, one of my guilty pleasure reads. I say pleasure because the books relax me and I gobble them like popcorn, always curious what new adventure is going to come bubbling down the pipe. I say guilty because… they’re not very good. They’re simplistic, naive, and they commit a cardinal sin of treating the main character, Bob, as being able to do anything with enough time and resources (Batman-style) because he’s a tech genius. As someone who […]