James Alan Gardner
Author of Expendable
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Works by James Alan Gardner
The Ray-gun: A Love Story 13 copies
Fire and Dust 6 copies
Reaper 2 copies
The Reckoning of Gifts [novelette] — Author — 2 copies
The Children Of Creche 2 copies
Shadow Album {short story} 2 copies
Organisms 1 copy
The Spy Who Remembered Me [short story] — Author — 1 copy
The Mutants Men Don't See 1 copy
Hardware Scenario G-49 1 copy
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- Other names
- Gardner, James
- Birthdate
- 1955-01-10
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Canada
- Birthplace
- Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
- Places of residence
- Kitchener Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- Education
- University of Waterloo (B.Math and M.Math in Applied Mathematics)
- Agent
- Richard Curtis
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This review may be unfair... I've loved previous volumes of this series... I just couldn't take the prospect of an entire novel written in the perspective of the SUPREME Archetype Of Conceited Ditz that is apparently where this is going.
Yes the character made for some fun dialogue in one previous volume, but there's only so much of her I can take
Yes the character made for some fun dialogue in one previous volume, but there's only so much of her I can take
As always with anthologies, you get a mixed bag. I bought this one because of the Anne Bishop story, and it didn't disappoint. The idea of Restorers rebuilding lost worlds in reparation for worlds destroyed in the past is excellent, and I loved the execution here. This story could be expanded into a full book or even a series.
A Host of Leeches was intriguing and well-written. I felt that this was a story that could have benefited by being expanded, but I enjoyed the idea of the war robots dealing with the aliens that they invited in the first place.
Like others, I couldn't get into the last story, Stranded. The Lord-of-the-Flies teenagers vs. the adventuress Centauress didn't work for me as well.… (more)
A Host of Leeches was intriguing and well-written. I felt that this was a story that could have benefited by being expanded, but I enjoyed the idea of the war robots dealing with the aliens that they invited in the first place.
Like others, I couldn't get into the last story, Stranded. The Lord-of-the-Flies teenagers vs. the adventuress Centauress didn't work for me as well.… (more)
I really felt this book was a lot of fun, and was genuinely enjoying the experience...until the scene changes about halfway through the book. I kept slogging, thinking that possibly it'd pick back up, until I realized I was page flipping about eighty pages from the end. Blargh. Not worth continuing with if I'm going to be doing that. :/
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- Rating
- 3.7
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I was pretty impressed with the story at first. Previous novels in the series had also been impressive, and I was pretty sure that this one would be good...which it was at first, but then towards the end, sadly, the author succumbed to the modern habit of skewering the plot for ACTION & DRAMA!...