Yeah, my computer was broke down for a whole month! What a pity party I went through. Now that I am back online I hope to update this page more frequently. I am currently reading a new novel by Timothy Zahn, and have a couple more waiting to be read. Hope to get at least the one I am reading and one more done by the end of May.
And I read only one book during that Month. That book was Permanence by Karl Schroder. I didn't care for this book very much. In fact, after it was done, I wondered why I bothered reading it in the first place. You may like it, though, so I'll post the book description from Amazon.com:
Young Rue Cassels of the Cycler Compact -- a civilization based around remote brown dwarf stars -- is running from her bullying brother, who has threatened to sell her into slavery. Fleeing in a shuttle spacecraft from the sparsely populated and austere comet-mining habitat she has lived in her whole life, she spots a distant, approaching object, and stakes a legal claim to it. It is not the valuable comet she hoped for but something even more wonderful, an abandoned Cycler starship.
Her discovery unleashes a fury of action, greed, and interstellar intrigue as many factions attempt to take advantage of the last great opportunity to revitalize - and perhaps control - the Compact.
This is the story of Rue's quest to visit and claim this ship and its treasures, set against a background of warring empires, strange alien artifacts, and fantastic science. It is a story of hope and danger, of a strange and compelling religion, Permanence, unique to this star-faring age, and of the re-birth of life and belief in a place at the edge of forever.
