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Lost and Found

The Terror by Dan Simmons

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

April 30, 2025 by Zirza Leave a Comment

Life has an odd way of making things come together sometimes. Either that, or I simply wasn’t paying attention when I ended up accidentally reading two books about the lost Franklin expedition at the same time. Both books are fiction, which means that they take their own liberties with the truth; after all, not much is known about the exact fate of the men aboard the HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus.  What we do know is this: explorer Sir John Franklin, experienced but not […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: dan simmons, Kaliane Bradley

Zirza's CBR17 Review No:24 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: dan simmons, Kaliane Bradley ·
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End of Year Final

Phases of Gravity by Dan Simmons

The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore White

The Peripheral by William Gibson

Stella Maris by Cormac Mccarthy

The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas

Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens

Liberation Day by George Saunders

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

December 31, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Phases of Gravity One of the very few “realistic” novels by Dan Simmons. Usually his novels are science fiction, horror, fantasy, or some combination of those. Sometimes his books are noir or suspense, and even though those books take place in the real world, it’s just not quite the same thing as realism. Don’t tell Raymond Chandler I said this.  This book was written in the late 1980s and our lead character Dan Baedecker is a retired astronaut who has also in recent years becomes […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Christopher Hitchens, Christos tsiolkas, Cormac McCarthy, dan simmons, George Saunders, Gerald Durrell, Theodore White, william gibson

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:701 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: Christopher Hitchens, Christos tsiolkas, Cormac McCarthy, dan simmons, George Saunders, Gerald Durrell, Theodore White, william gibson ·
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Guards! Guards by Terry Pratchett

Fires of Eden by Dan Simmons

1599 by James Shapiro

Penses by Blaise Pascal

November 28, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Guards! Guards! – 4/5 One of the best titles for a book, and it reminds me a lot of the following old Onion article: So I also feel like many many many people already know this book pretty well. I am not the biggest Discworld fan (I generally like irreverence, but not whimsy and I am not actually a huge British comedy fan, especially where the jokes are built on maximalism), but I did enjoy this one. The book focuses primarily on the city’s defenses, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Blaise Pascal, dan simmons, James Shapiro, Terry Pratchett

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:659 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: Blaise Pascal, dan simmons, James Shapiro, Terry Pratchett ·
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Darwin’s Blade

Darwin's Blade by Dan Simmons

November 17, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Among all the Dan Simmons book I’ve been reading in the last few weeks, I think this is the weakest, while also suggesting a much tighter, better book within. Perhaps that’s why he followed this book up with three shorter noir books in the Joe Kurtz series. He creates an interesting character, a former Marine sniper who later became a transportation crash expert through a doctorate and work on the Challenger explosion (this is the second thing I’ve read that Dan Simmons wrote about the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: dan simmons

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:644 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: dan simmons ·
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The Fall of Hyperion

The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons

November 2, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The second book in the Hyperion Cantos, and the direct sequel to the book Hyperion. From what I can gather the next two books are more spin-offs and far sequels, so my plan is to wait on those a little. We begin in the fallout of the first book, which is mostly told in storytelling and flashback. Hyperion is a mystical planet with a godlike creature on it that if captured, beaten in battle, or wooed can grant a wish. In the first book, several […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: dan simmons

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:617 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: dan simmons ·
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Joe Kurtz and Liebestod

Hardcase by Dan Simmons

Hard Freeze by Dan Simmons

Hard as Nails by Dan Simmons

Lovedeath by Dan Simmons

November 2, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Hardcase There’s a tell early in this novel about what exactly we’re dealing with here. It’s neo noir book written by Dan Simmons, who is mostly known for science fiction and horror, but who has dabbled in some other genres. The tell is that a character mentions loving the Richard Stark “Parker” books, but hates the prissy Donald Westlake books. Donald Westlake and Richard Stark are the same person (Donald Westlake), and the Westlake books tend to be light-hearted and funny, while the Stark books […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: dan simmons

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:616 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: dan simmons ·
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