Roger macbride allen biography of martin

  • Does anybody know if or when Roger MacBride Allen will finish the Hunted Earth Trilogy?
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  • Roger MacBride Allen is a US science fiction author of the Corellian Trilogy, consisting of Ambush at Corellia, Assault at Selonia, and Showdown.

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    Der Ring von Charon

    July 24, 2015
    Set apparently a few centuries in the future, with colonies and scientific stations on various moons and planets within the Solar struktur, after the onset of an economic crash possibly caused bygd the requirements for specialized knowledge outrunning what a human can learn effectively in a lifetime. The book starts out slowly on a scientific hållplats in danger of closing because of the crash. The only indication of what's coming are sections told from the point of view of some kind of alien intelligence hidden in the Solar System. Then the Earth disappears. From there it gets ganska exciting, first with the immediate crises caused bygd having a big important planet disappear, then as people början trying to figure out who stole the Earth, and what the aliens are doing now. A lot of the book has to do with manipulating gravity, but sporadisk vagueness about the physics made me suspect that the book is ansträngande to sound like harder science fiction than it is.

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    Allen, Roger MacBride

    Star Wars: Ambush At Corellia

    The first book of the Corellian Crisis, set 18 ABY.  With this book we finally get to discover what things are like on Han's homeworld as he, Leia and their kids head there for a trade summit.  Soon the planet erupts in chaos as a fascist uprising spreads across the system. 

    One of the best things about this book is the way it deals with bigotry, showing that most of the time bigots are unclear as to exactly who and what it is they are speaking out against, they merely transfer their anxieties onto those unlike themselves.  There's also a subtle plot behind the uprisings that adds tension and a dark undertone to an already menacing story. 

    There's a bit of light relief as Lando goes in search of a rich wife, taking Luke and the Droids along to add credence to his proposals, but to be honest these are the book's weakest scenes. 

    I particularly enjoyed the part where Leia and Mara Jade become alli

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    I’ve reached the blogger equivalent of bankruptcy

    The blogging obligations have piled up the last five months. As other bloggers have noted, sometimes the books and stories slip out of your mind, and it’s not worth going back to them.

    No sunk cost fallacy here.

    Not even a real effort to firmly grasp an author’s arms to stop their slide into the pit of obscurity. At best, a half-hearted, weak snatch at their sleeve going by.

    Sorry. Some of them deserved better.

    This isn’t a rundown of everything I’ve read lately. Some of the books are going to get the usual treatment.

    (After reading this whole post, you may think I should have went with a constipation metaphor.)

    Low Res Scans: Awaiting Strange Gods: Weird and Lovecraftian Fiction, Darrell Schweitzer, 2015.

    I Am Crying All Inside and Other Stories: The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak, Volume One, ed. David W. Wixon, 2015.

    Future Crime: An Anthology of the Shape of Crime to Come, eds. Cynthia Mason and C

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