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%T Lords of Creation
%A Tim Sullivan
%I Avon
%D April 1992
%O paperback, US$3.99
%P 242
%G ISBN 0-380-76284
I didn't really like Tim Sullivan's previous novel A Martian
Viking, but it had some moments of warped originality that were hard to
forget. This novel has the opposite problem; it's likeable enough but
predictable straight through. From the moment amateur paleontologist David
Albee finds a clutch of live dinosaur eggs inside an alien stasis box buried
in Montana's Cretaceous shales, most of the the rest of the novel proceeds
with disappointing obviousness, clear up to the point where people start
getting munched on and the aliens finally land (thank Ghod it wasn't the other
way around, that would've been even more cliched). Hah. Pass on this
one.
%T California Voodoo Game
%A Larry Niven
%A Steve Barnes
%I Del Rey
%D February 1992
%O clothbound, US$20.00
%P 354
%G ISBN 0-345-36598-4
This may be the best Dream Park novel yet. Several of the characters from
Dream Park and The Barsoom Project reappear together
with a bunch of new and equally interesting ones. They're assembled at a
ruined ecology in the Nevada Desert to play and/or run the biggest, most
spectacular simulation yet; the California Voodoo Game. And one of them is a
murderer...Niven and Barnes are in top form here together. Enjoy!
%T Darktraders
%S Hellflower
%V #2
%A Eluki besShahar
%I DAW
%D March 1992
%O paperback, US$4.50
%P 254
%G ISBN 0--88677-507-8
A very tasty sequel to Hellflower (RR#128). Everything St. Cyr does seems to get
her in deeper trouble as she and Valijon Starbringer race to head off
a galaxy-destroying war. Recommended.
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