School and Book Foo
Sep. 30th, 2003 01:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newnumber6Bleh, only done my first class and feel like sleeping already. I'll never get through the 2:30 snoozefest class.
Anyway, I finished Conquistador today, by S.M. Stirling. It wasn't bad, an interesting look at an environment/situation that in some ways is ideal, but in other ways as bad as or worse then our own. Some of the characters were a bit flat and unremarkable (with some that I had difficulty distinguishing), or using too many annoying character ticks to make them stand out. As usual, with Stirling and many others, I tended to just skim the 'big battle scenes'.
Next up, mainly because I knew I'd be finishing Conquistador and would be buying some heavy schoolbooks today and so needed a paperback, will be the fifth book of the Wild Cards series, edited by George R.R. Martin. It's a pretty nifty superhero universe where an alien race let loose a mutagenic virus on humanity, which killed many, turned many others into 'Jokers' (deformed freaks), and a rare few into 'Aces' (people with wondrous telepathic, telekinetic, teleporational, etc, powers). This book deals with a presidential campaign and one of the candidates is a secret Ace. One cool thing about the setting is that it all started as a tabletop RPG by a number of science fiction authors. They decided they were spending too much time on it that they'd better find a way to make money off it. ;)
Anyway, I finished Conquistador today, by S.M. Stirling. It wasn't bad, an interesting look at an environment/situation that in some ways is ideal, but in other ways as bad as or worse then our own. Some of the characters were a bit flat and unremarkable (with some that I had difficulty distinguishing), or using too many annoying character ticks to make them stand out. As usual, with Stirling and many others, I tended to just skim the 'big battle scenes'.
Next up, mainly because I knew I'd be finishing Conquistador and would be buying some heavy schoolbooks today and so needed a paperback, will be the fifth book of the Wild Cards series, edited by George R.R. Martin. It's a pretty nifty superhero universe where an alien race let loose a mutagenic virus on humanity, which killed many, turned many others into 'Jokers' (deformed freaks), and a rare few into 'Aces' (people with wondrous telepathic, telekinetic, teleporational, etc, powers). This book deals with a presidential campaign and one of the candidates is a secret Ace. One cool thing about the setting is that it all started as a tabletop RPG by a number of science fiction authors. They decided they were spending too much time on it that they'd better find a way to make money off it. ;)
