So this follows the life of a man from birth to his end. If you like Job, which I did, then this makes for a compelling read. The world building is perhaps the best dystopian can offer. The world feels chillingly real and possible to me. The situations are not generic but layered and nuanced and ...
I first read this in High School, so it may be that my opinion of the book is bouyed by the passage of time, but I still think that this is a very engaging and fun book with good science (so far as a mythologist like myself can tell) and enjoyable characters. Reminds me of Arthur C Clarke in man...
Why I read this book: Fictionwise/eReader released their software as a free download for iPhones, and I was pleased to be able to read books I hadn't look at in years. Dark as Day seemed particularly interesting, so I checked it out from the MCPL as well. Charles Sheffield was my favorite America...
This early Sheffield book seemed like an attempt at something like the Heinlein juvenile SF novels of the 1950s, but much updated. While not great, it was very readable, and the story was exciting. My only complaint with it was that most of the adults acted like total idiots at least once during ...
Nice collection of stories, though I primarily bought it for the title piece. Georgia on my Mind has nothing to do with the US state, nor of the Eastern European country, but with the small British Island off the coast of South America. This story covers the discovery of letters and remaining par...