Today I have been mostly reading a book

and wishing I had a working light other than the ceiling one.

Peacekeeper, but Laura E Reeve.
It was in the science fiction section with a picture of a woman with a big gun on the front cover. So I bought it.
Surprise, the picture is inaccurate. There was not in fact much shooting, or indeed a bit I can remember where she had a big gun. Also, the cover lady is blonde, and I think the book lady is dark. Why they always do that?
... because then I bought the book. Oh well.

What it does have is fun and interesting world building. It's all familiar bits, but nicely arranged. There's interesting had with electronic monitoring, privacy, remote bots, and every surface being a display surface. The technical constraints of starships in this 'verse are well sketched in, the FTL constraints shape the worlds, and the weapons are central. But rather than being a book about shooting things, it's a book about getting rid of weapons too terrible to use. Cool.

Central female character still isn't quite what I was looking for. She's someone things happen to. ( Read more... )

At the moment the world building is interesting me more than the character building. But I'll read the next one in the series if I find it.


Possibly I could find a whole bunch more women-with-guns-and-spaceships if I read ones written by men. I just want to avoid some of the more common problems. I mean, there was a book series recommended to me by a guy at the NSFG that he said had lots of strong women characters and I'd like it. They're all sex maniacs, but it's because of the plot! So clearly that's okay! :eyeroll: *facepalm*


On the plus side I have a women-with-guns-and-spaceships book by an author I know I'll like all waiting for me to read next. But I can't read it yet. Because, despite the poorly set out list on the inside cover, it's not the next one in the series after the ones I read already, there's a whole other book I don't got yet. Yaay! More good books! Now I just have to hunt them down.

Today I have been mostly reading a book

and wishing I had a working light other than the ceiling one.

Peacekeeper, but Laura E Reeve.
It was in the science fiction section with a picture of a woman with a big gun on the front cover. So I bought it.
Surprise, the picture is inaccurate. There was not in fact much shooting, or indeed a bit I can remember where she had a big gun. Also, the cover lady is blonde, and I think the book lady is dark. Why they always do that?
... because then I bought the book. Oh well.

What it does have is fun and interesting world building. It's all familiar bits, but nicely arranged. There's interesting had with electronic monitoring, privacy, remote bots, and every surface being a display surface. The technical constraints of starships in this 'verse are well sketched in, the FTL constraints shape the worlds, and the weapons are central. But rather than being a book about shooting things, it's a book about getting rid of weapons too terrible to use. Cool.

Central female character still isn't quite what I was looking for. She's someone things happen to. ( Read more... )

At the moment the world building is interesting me more than the character building. But I'll read the next one in the series if I find it.


Possibly I could find a whole bunch more women-with-guns-and-spaceships if I read ones written by men. I just want to avoid some of the more common problems. I mean, there was a book series recommended to me by a guy at the NSFG that he said had lots of strong women characters and I'd like it. They're all sex maniacs, but it's because of the plot! So clearly that's okay! :eyeroll: *facepalm*


On the plus side I have a women-with-guns-and-spaceships book by an author I know I'll like all waiting for me to read next. But I can't read it yet. Because, despite the poorly set out list on the inside cover, it's not the next one in the series after the ones I read already, there's a whole other book I don't got yet. Yaay! More good books! Now I just have to hunt them down.