Direct Descent

I usually like to begin my year with some science fiction or speculative fiction so I chose this one. It's also good to have a bit of a change from my winter seasonal reads. I really enjoyed this rather short tale where the librarians of the eighty-first century save Earth. It's a primarily hollowed......more

I am a highly plot driven reader, remembering the plot of just about every book I’ve ever read with very little difficulty. So it says a lot when I write, despite having read this book two times before (once in college and once a few years ago) I couldn’t remember the plot of the story. Perhaps the......more

I didn't hate it, like everyone else seemed to have. It is possible that there are a lot of people out there who don't understand one of the primary roles of SciFi: to tell a story about the future that teaches a lesson. In this case, the lesson was about the dangers of isolationism to the point of d......more

Not the best offering by Frank Herbert, I suppose everything he did other than Dune will be considered inferior. This one didn't grab me but I will still be interested to try some more non Dune works at some point.........more