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The Ladies of Mandrigyn and my next book to read

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews

I fin­ished read­ing The Ladies of Man­drigyn last night and I have to give Ms. Ham­bly a bit of credit; she didn’t go with the more obvi­ous of the 2 sce­nar­ios that I thought she was going to. In the end the book wasn’t all bad, but I def­i­nitely wouldn’t rec­om­mend any­body buy this book at the cover price; still it’s short and if you can find it for just $1-$2, then that’s prob­a­bly worth it. Over­all, I’ll give this book 2 out of 5 points.

I looked around the house some more and found that I did have 2 more sci-fi books from the last library book sale, huz­zah! :) So the next book I’m read­ing is an oldie, but a goodie; it’s Joe Haldeman’s For­ever War. I’ve read this before –actu­ally when I was going through my closet I found I’ve got mul­ti­ple copies of it– and really enjoyed it. I’ll let you know how I feel about the book after I fin­ish read­ing it again.

Though I should men­tion that read­ing Mr. Haldeman’s work has a slightly unreal feel­ing for me. Why? Because unlike most of the authors I read; I’ve actu­ally met Mr. Halde­man and his wife. In my area, there is a local sci-fi club, called SFLIS that was founded in part by Mr. Halde­man back when he was attend­ing the UofI. That group also started a sci-fi con in the area called ICON. When I moved into this area sev­eral years; I started going to ICON to meet the local geeks. After going to the con for a cou­ple of years, I heard about it’s his­tory and then real­ized 2 of the peo­ple that the con staff were always friendly with were in fact Joe & Gay Haldeman.

No, I’m not a slobbering-gooberhead fan­boy but it still throws me for a bit of a loop when I meet/see the author of a book I really like. Any­hoo, I need to get back to work; so keep those pages turning.

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