Showing posts with label science fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science fiction. Show all posts

7/16/2011

The Space Hotel (Tom Swift Young Inventor) Review

The Space Hotel (Tom Swift Young Inventor)
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The writing is for kids, but the new series is a nice update. My 9yo son love the new over the old. I still like the writing in the older series.
Would recommend. Not expensive, OK soft cover.

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What Tom's about to find is truly out of this world!It's the grand opening of APOGEE, the world's first space hotel, an orbital space station designed expressly for the tourist trade. As Swift Enterprises is a major investor in the project, and provided much of the necessary technology, Tom and Sandy have been invited to be among the first guests to visit!When they arrive at the APOGEE they experience weightlessness, learn about the high-tech nature of the hotel (including the robotic wait and cleaning staff), and play a game of zero-gravity badminton. But as Tom explores the ship he begins to notice some strange happenings. And when a billionaire guest of the hotel turns up missing,Tom suspects foul play....--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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6/19/2011

Hotel Andromeda Review

Hotel Andromeda
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This book is great! It's filled with short stories by top-notch sci-fi writers. Some are funny, some are mysterious, all are great. Each one takes place in the Hotel Andromeda - a huge spaceport hotel. I can't express how awesome this book is!

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At the grandest hotel in the universe, star-crossed lovers cross paths with the woman who rules the earth, a shape-shifting madame fulfills the needs of extraterrestrials, and a thin-skinned human fights cosmic assassins.

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6/14/2011

The Hotel Galileo Review

The Hotel Galileo
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Although I'm on a bit of a budget, I thought I'd try buying something from WolfSinger Publications since I'd appeared previously in their magazine The Lorelei Signal. I'm glad I bought this book--it's an interesting sort of story I don't think you could find from many larger publishers.
While the blurbs on the inside cover and the WolfSinger website both describe this story as placed in an alternate Roaring Twenties, I didn't feel a strong sense of the era. Rather, I was more impressed with a seamless blending of the science fictional elements (and some that are so scientifically unlikely that I would mark them fantasy, like storms in a bottle and souls or "essences" that take shelter in a host's body; though I'm also a fantasy fan so this is no trouble for me) with a compelling mystery: the murder of the only alien ambassador in the universe who seems to like humanity at all. An amazing amount of twists and peril are crammed into the 99 pages of this book, though a somewhat loose ending leaves open the possibility of a series.

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WELCOME TO THE HOTEL GALILEO It's the Roaring Twenties. Humanity has ventured out into the stars, and out there, on the shoulder of Orion, sits Earth's crowning chievement -- the awesome steam-powered space palace known as the Hotel Galileo. Returning to Earth after a long vacation, retired detective Barclay Heath decides to stop at the famed space hotel for one night only. But Heath soon discovers dark forces are at work--before the night is over an Arcturan dignitary is found murdered in his bed. With the future of Earth hanging in the balance, only the keen mind of Barclay Heath can see through the tangled web of lies and subterfuge spun by the chief suspects. Only he can unravel the mystery that lies at the heart of the Hotel Galileo.

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