Tag: marque and reprisal

Book of the Week: The Best of Randall Garrett.

I’m going with The Best of Randall Garrett: 43 Novels and Short Stories (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics), despite the fact that it’s only available on the Kindle, for one basic reason: Randall Garrett is quite possibly the most under-appreciated and overlooked science fiction writer of the 20th Century, and you will not regret reading him.  If you only know him from the Lord Darcy series then it’s not so bad, but the man had an effortless way of writing that makes it fairly incomprehensible to me why he wasn’t more commercially successful.  (Shrug) It happens.

And so, farewell to Marque and Reprisal.  Fun series.

Book of the Week: Marque and Reprisal (Vatta’s War)

Marque and Reprisal (Vatta’s War) is actually the second book in Elizabeth Moon’s space opera/war/trade series, but I’m still waiting for the first one in the mail and the reviews all seem to think that this was a better book than the first one anyway.  It’s space opera; it’s a good read; and I’m not really all that amused at what recently happened to Elizabeth Moon… despite the fact that she doesn’t like people like me very much.  But that shades into politics.

And so we remove Betty Crocker’s New Cookbook from the oven, and allow it to cool.