| Cover | Title | Authors | Rating | Date Read | Notes |
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 | The Fourth Hand | JOHN IRVING | 5 | 8/1/2002 | A reporter for a trashy news channel looses his hand to a freak accident but finds his life. |
 | The Rock Rats | Ben Bova | 4 | 7/1/2002 | The sequel to the Precipice, it is the story of the war between Lars Fuchs the evil Martin Humphries. Not as good as the first book. |
 | To Say Nothing of the Dog | CONNIE WILLIS | 4 | 7/1/2002 | Not bad, but hard to get into. A couple from the future goes back to the past to put right a possible incongruity by a previous time traveler. The logic the story is based on doesn’t always hold up, but it is funny at times. |
 | Darwin's Blade: A Novel of Suspense | DAN SIMMONS | 5 | 6/1/2002 | A doctorate in physics, a Viet Nam veteran, and an expert in crash scene investigations is targeted for assasination - but why? A good book that gets off to a fast start. |
 | The New Madrid Run | Michael Reisig | 5 | 6/1/2002 | A swift change in the Earth’s axis causes global upheaval, and a stark new reality for the survivors. Among them, a pilot from Key West, an orphan, a young lawyer with no use for her former profession, and a modern day follower of the ways of the samauri. I am a sucker for this kind of story. This book did not dissappoint. |
 | Last Ship | WILLIAM BRINKLEY | 5 | 6/1/2002 | The sailors aboard the nuclear destroyer Nathan James appear to be among the only survivors of a nuclear holocaust, one which they help to bring about. Another post-appocalypse story, another favorite. |
 | The Bourne Identity | Robert Ludlum | 5 | 6/1/2002 | A man wakes up in the apartment of a drunk, former physician, with no memory of who he is or where he came from. Despite some clues that suggest he is someone he does not want to be, he is driven to find out the truth about himself. A book that I enjoyed a great deal. |
 | Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission | HAMPTON SIDES | 4 | 6/1/2002 | |
 | Seventh Son | Orson Scott Card | 5 | 5/1/2002 | Takes place in an alternate 18th century America. A family stuggles to understand the role that a special boy will play in the world. The first book in a series.
I didn't much care for Fantasy until I started reading this series. |
 | Armor | John Steakley | 5 | 5/1/2002 | Far future warfare and it’s effects on one man. A very good book. |
 | The Crook Factory | DAN SIMMONS | 5 | 5/1/2002 | Hemmingway proposes a cuban spy ring to the US govt durring WWII, and Herbert Hoover assigns a man to spy on him. An interesting book. |
 | Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book) | NEAL STEPHENSON | 3 | 4/1/2002 | Would have rated higher, but it took a while to get into, much like the author’s other book I read - the diamond age. Hiro is a “hacker” who is sucked into a fight to resist a computer virus that seems to be affecting the minds of computer programers around the world. |
 | Jupiter | Ben Bova | 4 | 3/1/2002 | Due to his religious upbringing, a young college graduate is assigned to a remote space station in orbit around Jupiter to spy on the “untrustworthy” secular scientists. A good read. |
 | Expendable | James Alan Gardner | 4 | 3/1/2002 | In the future, people are picked for risky military expeditions based on how much they will likely be missed if they died. |
 | Lost Boys | Orson Scott Card | 4 | 3/1/2002 | A mormon family moves to a new town, but the family is uneasy when their oldest son starts playing with imaginary friends who share names with little boys that have disappeared. |
 | The Glorious Cause | JEFF SHAARA | 5 | 3/1/2002 | Shaara's tale about the last half of the war of independence. |
 | The Martian Race | Gregory Benford | 5 | 2/1/2002 | I'm a sucker for Mars stories, and this is an excellent book about a privately financed trip to mars, funded by a prize that is offered to the first group to return from Mars. My favorite book to date by the author (as of Feb 2002). |
 | 1632 | Eric Flint | 5 | 2/1/2002 | A town is trasported to early 1600’s Germany, during the reign of the holy roman emperor and in the middle of the thirty-years war. A very good book, one that I read in a matter of days, including a couple of very late nights. |
 | Killing Time | CALEB CARR | 5 | 2/1/2002 | In the mid-2100’s, a wealthy man gathers a pool of talent to reshape a society that is crumbling under the weight of too much information. |
 | The Diamond Age : Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) | NEAL STEPHENSON | 4 | 2/1/2002 | Set in the mid 21st century, nanotechnology is prevelent in life and in war, and a book designed to raise intellegent yet mischeivous children inadvertantly ends up with a child living in the streets. |
 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas, Robin Buss | 5 | 1/1/2002 | A really good, classic story. One old book that I really liked. |
 | The Paperboy | PETE DEXTER | 4 | 1/1/2002 | |
 | The Precipice | Ben Bova | 5 | 1/1/2002 | Sets up the conflcit in the asteriod belt, as described in the book, Venus. |
 | Endymion | DAN SIMMONS | 5 | 11/1/2001 | This was the last book in the series, and might have been my favorite. |
 | Rise of Endymion | DAN SIMMONS | 5 | 11/1/2001 | The corrupted Pax makes a final push to exterminate non-believers, and Aenea grows into the messiah she was prophesied to become. This is the conclusion of the Hyperion series, and it is very good - if not a little to draw out at times. |