Epinions Recent Reviews for kurt_h

Too dangerous to stay dead...

Mon, 30 Jun 2003 16:56:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - "The Return of Santiago" is a science fiction story set in the future history of mankind as written...

The quest for the King of Thieves

Sat, 10 May 2003 09:10:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - "Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future" is a science fiction story set in the future history of mankind as written by Mike Resnick.

Santiago is a man with a price on his head. Long time thief, he has pulled off many daring exploits, many of them...

Its the end of the world AGAIN???

Sat, 3 May 2003 20:45:54 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - "Doomsday Exam" is the second BUREAU 13 book by Nick Pollotta.

Before the X-FILES, before BUFFY THE VAMPIRESLAYER, before MIB, but definitely after GET SMART, is BUREAU 13. This is the federal agency that is so secret no one knows how it is...

Guns don't kill people... bullets do!

Sat, 3 May 2003 19:34:24 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - "The Trigger" is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Michael P. Kube-McDowell.

"The Trigger" is an unintended effect that is stumbled upon by a team of researchers in the near future. They started by trying to develop a gravity...

The Commonwealth is born

Wed, 2 Apr 2003 19:28:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - "Diuturnity's Dawn" is science fiction novel and is the third book in the FOUNDING OF THE HUMANX COMMONWEALTH series by Alan Dean Foster.

One of the interesting things about this series is that each of the books takes place at least one...

Great fun on the Hoka front!

Wed, 26 Feb 2003 00:38:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - "Hokas Pokas!" is a collection of two short stories and one novella in the HOKAS universe done by the late authors Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson.

For those of you arriving late to the HOKAS universe a quick recap! Hokas are sentient...

Our Bolos, Our Selves

Sat, 25 Jan 2003 09:27:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - "Bolo Strike" is a novel set in the BOLO universe developed by the late Keith Laumer, and written by William H. Keith, Jr.

In Keith Laumer's vision of the sentient military machines known as Bolos, we are given a glimpse of a future where man...

The Sim universe expands

Wed, 1 Jan 2003 10:03:33 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - The Sims Online is an online version of the hit off-line game The Sims, made by Electronic Arts/Maxis.

This game is the gamble of The Sim empire that stretches from SimCity all the way down to The Sims. Many of these games from the fertile...

Vats all, folks!!

Wed, 18 Dec 2002 16:09:12 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - "Rats, Bats & Vats" is a humorous military science fiction novel by Dave Freer and Eric Flint. It has a very cute cover with a rat sticking its tongue out at a bat!

In the not too distant future humanity sends out a colonization expedition to...

A concept strangled before its time

Fri, 8 Nov 2002 19:08:49 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - "The Philosophical Strangler" is a humorous fantasy novel by Eric Flint.

"The Philosophical Strangler" is stepping into rough waters that have been explored by various writers across a wide spectrum of humorous fantasy. At the low end,...

Isn't reality strange enough?

Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:52:12 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - "Why People Believe Weird Things" is a book analyzing some of the strange idea systems people have by Michael Shermer.

Why do people believe in ideas that, basically, deny reality as it can be observed and documented? Michael Shermer delves...

When America catches the flu...

Mon, 21 Oct 2002 17:34:19 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - "The Jiangxi Virus" is a techno-thriller by Steven Schlossstein.

The techno-thriller genre is one that, on its surface, lies very close to science fiction. Both deal with technology and science and both look at characters within a given...

All tanked up and everywhere to go

Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:38:04 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - "A Boy And His Tank" is a science fiction novel by Leo Frankowski.

Mickolai Derdowski is from the planet of New Kashubia and has committed a capital offense: he got his girlfriend pregnant. His choice was either to be put to death in the...

These here United States of...

Sun, 13 Oct 2002 08:00:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - "1633" is the second book in the 1632 alternate history series by David Weber and Eric Flint.

Take one of the worst religious wars known to mankind and drop a small town from early 21st century West Virginia into it. Stir well and all...

And just how much of a FORTUNE do you need?

Sat, 12 Oct 2002 21:26:48 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - I am not a business man, nor do I play one on TV. How I came to get Fortune magazine is a bit of a twisted path leading through two other magazines which have since passed on. The first was PC Computing, which was a fine though not stellar competitor...

Surpassing fate by will alone

Mon, 7 Oct 2002 21:31:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - "Mistress of the Catacombs" is the fourth book in the fantasy ISLES series by David Drake.

The Kingdom of the Isles was rent asunder 1,000 years ago as old King Carus and his armies drowned due to sorcery most foul. Now Prince Garric, raised...

Unexpected reunions

Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:08:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - "Reunion" is a FLINX novel set in the HUMANX COMMONWEALTH by Alan Dean Foster.

Philip Lynx has seen numerous adventures throughout his life, from the original discovery that the Meliorare society had designed him to be something a bit other...

Political slam dancing

Thu, 3 Oct 2002 14:08:13 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - "You Got to Dance With Them What Brung You" is a collection of columns by Molly Ivins.

When Molly Ivins was first asked for a title for a collection of columns covering the Clinton era, she replied: 'Nausea'. Needless to say THAT title didn't...

Explore with a Cortez Classic

Sun, 29 Sep 2002 21:16:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - I didn't see where Epinions had the return of the Nike Cortez Classic, so I figure that they are running it under the much more modern name of the Air Cortez. I will gladly move this review to wherever the Cortez Classic shows up. Until then I will let...

The Belisarius Offensive

Sun, 29 Sep 2002 09:57:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - "The Tide of Victory" is an alternate history novel in the BELISARIUS series by Eric Flint and David Drake.

For those of you who are looking for a fascinating alternate history series, this is the one! The premise is relatively simple as...

Lost America

Sun, 22 Sep 2002 16:22:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - "1632" is an alternate history novel by Eric Flint.

Grantville, WV has a fleeting encounter with a work of art. Unfortunately that work of art was one created by a very sophisticated race, and that individual piece was one that warps the very...

Short attention-span business

Thu, 19 Sep 2002 21:10:59 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - Originally I subscribed to PC Computing and it died. My subscription got transferred to Smart Business and it died. Now I'm getting a rotation of magazines from the folks at AOL Time Warner and Business 2.0 is the first of them.

Upon opening...

Deep in Alaska Cthulhu snacks!

Wed, 11 Sep 2002 20:24:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - "Dwellers in the Mirage" is a science fantasy novel by Abraham Merritt.

When this book was first published Isaac Asimov was the ripe old age of 12, and publishers didn't think people would buy a book if its author was named Abraham.

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Four futures from 10 years ago

Sat, 7 Sep 2002 15:53:32 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - "Future Quartet" is a anthology of science fiction short stories compiled by Charles Sheffield.

Theme based short story collection in the SF field have always had some sort of guiding light to them that covers a broad theme. Thus there are no...

A good place to stay for awhile in Buffalo

Mon, 2 Sep 2002 19:40:20 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author kurt_h - One of my major concepts in traveling is that if I have to stay more than a couple of days in a place I would really like to have a refrigerator and stove in my room. This is less essential to me for business trips and conference trips where I know I...