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ADMIRAL THRAWN'S READY ROOM - UNDER CONSTRUCTION A blog about modern science fiction and fantasy, covering both written fiction in books and magazines, and film whether for the big screen, network TV, or streaming services. Some of the items reviewed here will be newly published: some will be works we regard as classics of the genre, recommended both to those new to science fiction and to long-standing readers and viewers who have somehow missed them.

Thrawn on the difference between an opponent and an enemy

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May 14, 2026

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Book Series overview: David Weber's "Honor Harrington" universe book reviews.

December 17, 2025

This page is an index page and overview for all the books of the "Honor Harrington" science fiction universe, or the "Honorverse." It will be updated as new Honorverse books are published and the plan is to put up reviews for all 40+ books in the series, which will be linked to here. This is a set of military and espionage science fiction, currently as of December 2025 containing more than forty books, set in a future universe in which mankind began to disperse over much of the galaxy, starting in 2103 AD. The main stories are set about two thousand years in the future, with two prequel series set about 400 years before, in what by our calendar will be the thirty-seventh century (the earliest book in the first Prequel series, " A beautiful Friendship, " is set 1518 years after the diaspora, or in 3621 AD/CE.) (See note below on chronology) The series has sometimes been described as "Ms Hornblower in space" because they contain some very strong an...

Book review - "Powerless" by Harry Turtledove

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"Powerless" by Harry Turtledove is an alternative history novel set in a world dominated by the Soviet Union. The first two chapters of this full-length novel originally appeared in slightly different form in the September/October 2018 issue of " The magazine of Fantasy and Science Fictio n." Greg Benford suggested to Harry Turtledove that he extended it into a novel and this is the result. Like the majority of Turtledove's alternative history novels, the story in this book operates on two levels. On the surface level, it is a work of fiction set on an alternative version of Earth. On a deeper level, it is an account of a real-world series of historical events told from an alternative perspective. The world of "Powerless" begins to diverge from our own with the Confederate States of America successfully winning independence in the 1860's. By the time in which the novel is set, many years later - and we are never told exactly how much later - the a...

Book Review: "The Demon Overlord's retirement plan" by M. H. Foster

March 17, 2026

"What do you do when after 444 lifetimes of grinding the faces of the poor, despoiling civilisation, fighting and killing heroes, you find that being the epitome of evil has become ... boring? Is there a way for a lord of evil to actually - retire? " This is the story of how an evil Demon ruler took the path of Cincinnatus. " The Demon Overlord's retirement plan " by MH Foster is one of the funniest science fiction or fantasy novels I've read in the past year or two. It's up there with the best of the " Dumb luck and dead heroes " books by Skyler Ramirez. This is the first part of a trilogy called "A Gentle Apocalypse" which consists of 1) " The Demon Overlord's retirement plan " (October 2025, available from Amazon at Demon Overlord's Retirement Plan (A Gentle Apocalypse) : Foster, M. H.: Amazon.co.uk: Books ) 2) " Love, Politics, and Other Acts of War " (January 2026, available at Love, Politics,...