Literary rating: ★★★½ Kick-butt quotient: ☆½ If you’re even slightly familiar with the Star Trek universe, you’ll be aware of the Prime Directive. While never explicitly stated, it’s the rule which prohibits interfering with the development of less technologically advanced civilization, in particular those that are not capable of space… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Literary rating: ★★★ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆☆☆☆ This book is the official novelization of the 2005 movie of the same name, starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. I don’t share the idea that movie novelizations are by definition trash, devoid of any possible literary quality. Like movies based on books, they… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Literary rating: ★★★½ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆½ This SF novel takes place in the future where the human Commonwealth is engaged in a brutal space war against the militaristic Shrehari Empire – imagine Klingons on krack, perhaps. They have superior technology, but humanity’s ability to think outside the box and improvise… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★★ “Daughter of Anarchy.” I was a little nervous on reading the IMDb trivia section: “Three motorcycle clubs participated as extras and offered technical advice.” If this sucked and I gave it a bad review, would I get a visit from a group of annoyed bikers, offering me ‘technical advice’… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Literary rating: ★★★½ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆☆ This is set around fifty years after “the Provocation”, a series of unsolved mass abductions which led to Capernica becoming a strictly-controlled hierarchical society of Uppers, Lowers and the Military. Orphan Jaclyn Holloway is a Lower, living in near poverty in the seaside town… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Literary rating: ★★½ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆☆☆ It’s the year 2369, and Astrid Amundsen is an officer in training, in her fourth year at the Annapolis Naval Academy [we’re talking space navy, obviously]. As part of her education, she and four other recruits are assigned as midshipmen on the USS Valley… Continue reading| Girls With Guns