Hong’s Cave

This is the conclusion of the parallel stories of Peter Wiggin and Bean (a.k.a. Julian Delphiki) from Orson Scott Card, the author of Ender’s Game.
I didn’t think it was that good. As I said before, Mr. Card’s Hegemon series have this critical problem of making these kids to be so smart that his [...]

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I wanted to try some short scifi short stories, and found this on Amazon.com. It had a pretty good user rating, so I decided to try it.
This is an anthology series from a magazine, “Fantasy and Sicence Fiction”. I never cared too much for the fantasy genre. And maybe that’s the [...]

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This SF novel by Stel Pavlou was an interesting mixture of recent developments in science and technology, and somewhat sweeping overview of mythologies. I thought the beginning was very interesting and the book was able to hold onto my attention till the end.
However, I thought many of the problem solving was done rather unrealistically [...]

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I think the Card’s contrived way of telling a story — the way that makes it seems that the whole story is told by an omniscient, ethical being — becomes more apparent in Shadow Puppets. I was tempted to defend him that this is because he was trying to tell a story within the [...]

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Although this should be no surprise to me at all, I am periodically reminded that there are always others that have already thought of something that I come up with.
Over the Labor Day weekend, I finished a new science fiction, Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card. This is a part of the popular Ender’s Game [...]

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