Books by Ian Douglas
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review 1: Great series. I really enjoy hard science fiction and object quite stringently that fantasy and science fiction have been classified as being part of the same genre. When I go to a bookstore, I hate having to search through all the the wizards and vampires to find something that ...
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review 1: Summary: Hard core military SF space opera special. Totally over the top and immensely enjoyable, albeit very unsubtle. The battle set-ups and descriptions are quite amazing and the balance of power intriguing.Plotline: A good plot, simple at some levels but with astonishing br...
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review 1: I finished this book and have continued the series, it's gotten better, or at the very least it managed to rope me in.It's a bit worrying when you're less than 30 pages in to the book and it suggests a planet with a radius 1.9x that of Earth and a density 0.973 that of Earth woul...
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review 1: The story itself was more or less interesting, but there are a lot of hard-stops to plot to put in either a landslide of medical terminology, or for the characters to wax philosophically about things, though mostly religion. Given that the titular Bloodworld is home to an, shall...
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review 1: I read this book about a year ago and was not as impressed with it as I was upon rereading it now. This time around, I really can't see any reason to dock it points.Pros: (SPOILERS BELOW)-epic space battles-author mostly sticks to his guns about the physical universe he's created...
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review 1: I struggle between rating this a 2 or 3. I liked it, BUT it drags too much. The plot is good. I enjoy a good military SF story. My issue is while I like military SF, I do not want to get bogged down in the minutia. I like knowing that they use artificial singularities as a g...
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review 1: no actual story or characters.... just one never ending battle scene. boring.
review 2: Very good read. It combines elements of military fiction and good, hard science fiction.
review 2: Very good read. It combines elements of military fiction and good, hard science fiction.