There are three robots who lived together in a house in the woods, in the trees. There is Giovanni (AKA Gio) – the father-like inventor and leader of the trio.  There is the nursing machine, Registered Automaton To Care, Heal, Educate and Drill (AKA Nurse Ratched), and there is a hyper-active vacuum robot named Rambo (Rambo Continue reading

Despite the fact that I really like cats (I’ve had cats living with me for about half a century) and I really like science fiction – with John Scalzi being one of my favorite, working writers – I am always leery about picking up a book with cats as a leading or major character. I Continue reading

Somehow I missed the first two books in this trilogy, but if you’re going to come to a series late, reading the ending is the way to go. Marion “Mops” Adamopoulos is a janitor. She and her crew were trained to clean spaceships, not to fight battles. But a war is on the rise and Continue reading

While it is sometimes nice to pick up a book by a familiar author and in general know what kind of story you’re about to get, I do appreciate an author who takes chances and tries something very different from what they’ve written previously. Stringers, by Chris Panatier, feels like a risk and one I’m not Continue reading