March 26, 2007

wfzimmerman's review: "My dad spent the better part of his adult life studying two countries, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, that no longer exist. He adapted quite nimbly as things changed. I did the index for this book."
Princeton Univ Pr (1987), Hardcover, 167 pages
tags: yugoslavia

wfzimmerman's review: "I need to replace this copy, it was damaged."
Gollancz (2001), Hardcover

wfzimmerman's review: "Solid Reynolds. A prequel to the REVELATION SPACE series and a good place to start reading. Doesn't deliver the same (high) sense of wonder as the later volumes in the series. It's hard to like the Panoply -- a government whose symbol is the clenched fist. Also, although the cultural background is "Canasian", and it's contrasted from the preceding "Americano", it doesn't seem much different."
Gollancz (2007), Hardcover, 512 pages
tags: science fiction, collecting complete works, sf, space opera

wfzimmerman's review: "The prolonged struggle for control of the spaceship between the two main characters dragged on way too long, until the very last chapter or so, when there was a surprising and beautiful resolution that justified what had until then seemed a rather tedious playground squabble between two sets of mutineers."
Ace Hardcover (2006), Hardcover, 464 pages
tags: science fiction, collecting author's complete works, first edition, space opera