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Count_ZeroOr Mar 1, 2025

Book Review: Carl Sagan’s Cosmos

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Book Review: Carl Sagan's Cosmos - Breaking it all Down

Reviewing something like Carl Sagan’s Cosmos is a tricky proposition. On the one hand, it’s a book by an acclaimed scientist – and more significantly one of the eminent science writers and presenters of the 20th Century. It’s also a companion volume to one of what is considered to be one of the best science […]

Breaking it all Down

Count_ZeroOr Jun 19, 2024

Book (Vlog) Review: Shards of Honor & Barryar

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Book (Vlog) Review: Shards of Honor & Barryar - Breaking it all Down

This week I review the first 2 (ish) books in the Vorkosigan Saga. Affiliate Links:

Breaking it all Down

Count_ZeroOr May 19, 2024

Book Review: Shards of Honor

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Book Review: Shards of Honor - Breaking it all Down

Shards of Honor is the book that kicks off the long-running Vorkosigan series, though this book serves more of a “How I Met Your Mother” story – only in a case where the fact that our two leads will get together is a foregone conclusion strictly because I’m reading this now after there have been […]

Breaking it all Down

Count_ZeroOr Feb 25, 2023

The Fortress of the Pearl: Book Review

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The Fortress of the Pearl: Book Review - Breaking it all Down

The Fortress of the Pearl is Michael Moorcock, in 1989, writing a book set between Elric of Melnibone (1972) and Sailor on the Seas of Fate (1976). The current Elric omnibus collections put this in that space in the chronology in their reading order, while my previous video on the Elric reading order recommended reading it significantly later. Re-reading the book now, in its place …

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Count_ZeroOr Feb 18, 2023

Book Review: Brightness Falls from the Air

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Book Review: Brightness Falls from the Air - Breaking it all Down

Of the past few Sword & Laser picks, Brightness Falls from the Air, by James Tiptree Jr./Alice Sheldon ended up being a bit more of a controversial pick – and I definitely get why, as it gets into some squicky subject matter, and not necessarily in an elegant way. On paper, Brightness Falls from the Air is a bottle mystery, with a bunch of people …

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Count_ZeroOr Nov 10, 2021

Consider Phlebas: Book Video Review

Today I'm reviewing the actual first installment in The Culture Series, by chronological order of publication, which I read in this past year for the Sword & Laser Book Club.

https://youtu.be/vaCwbzbFNMs

Consider Phlebas is available from Amazon.com:

Physical: https://amzn.to/3p4e9zpKindle:

https://countzeroor.com/2021/11/10/consider-phlebas-book-video-review/

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Book Review: Consider Phlebas

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Count_ZeroOr Nov 6, 2021

Consider Phlebas: Book Review

Consider Phlebas was a Sword & Laser book pick I got a late start on. Now, while this isn’t my first Culture novel (that would be Matter) it was the first Culture novel, so I was interested in reading it and seeing where the series started.

So, Ian M. Banks, to my anime fan mind, has a lot in commo

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Consider Phlebas: Book Review - Breaking it all Down

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