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Darren Goossens

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	Insert Title Here by Tehani Croft Wessely (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jo Anderton (Goodreads Author), Stephanie Burgis (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	CEA Greatest Anthology Written by Adam Leggett (Goodreads Author), Adrian Johnson, Alistair Davidse 4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Your Face by Tehani Croft Wessely (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alan Baxter (Goodreads Author), Ian McHugh 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mad Scientist Journal: Summer 2012 by Jeremy Zimmerman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dawn Vogel (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Emily C. Skaftun (Goodreads Author) 4.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Never Never Land by Mitchell Akhurst (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Phillip Berrie (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ian McHugh (Editor) 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Looking Landwards by Ian Whates (Editor), Adrian Tchaikovsky (Goodreads Author), Storm Constantine 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cirsova Magazine of Thrilling Adventure and Daring Suspense: Issue #4 / Summer 2020 by P. Alexander (Editor), John Gradoville, Jay Barnson (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Issue 40 by Simon Petrie (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Felicity Dowker, Melissa J. White (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Physics in Focus: Skills and Assessment Workbook Year 12 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Darren Goossens rated a book liked it Interstellar Empire No. 4 by John Brunner	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This review first appeared here. This is number 4 in the Venture SF series, and it's not too bad. It's 50s-style space opera by one of its top producers. [image] It contains 3 pieces; 2 short novels and a novella -- The Altar on Asconel, The Man fro ...more
May 27, 2024 10:38PM · like · see review
Darren Goossens rated a book liked it The Week the Sea Blew Up by Gordon Ross	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This review first appeared here. The title is not great. The story is so full of incident it becomes schematic, with little room for character. It ends abruptly. Usually, I like how these old books are around 120, 130 pages. Modern books are so bloate ...more
May 27, 2024 10:36PM · like · see review
Darren Goossens rated a book liked it Deep escape (Horwitz) by Alastair Mars	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This review first appeared here. The cover of this book, and its title, would give you the idea that the whole book is about a lone man escaping from a damaged submarine at the limit of its depth range. A kind of Gravity underwater. This is only stren ...more
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Darren Goossens rated a book liked it Deep escape (Horwitz) by Alastair Mars	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This review first appeared here. The cover of this book, and its title, would give you the idea that the whole book is about a lone man escaping from a damaged submarine at the limit of its depth range. A kind of Gravity underwater. This is only stren ...more
May 27, 2024 10:33PM · like · see review
Darren Goossens rated a book it was amazing The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2) by Richard J. Evans	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Review from My blog. The Third Reich in Power Richard J Evans This is the second of three volumes. The first chronicles the rise to power, the third the war; this is 1933 and the seizure of power through to the start of the war. It is thorough and intere ...more
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Darren Goossens rated a book liked it The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Uncharitably, one could call this a well-wrought snuff tale. [image] It is in fact many things. A look at the brutality and violence that fear, poverty and ignorance engender. A look at the lengths the helpless will go to to feel some sense of agen ...more
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Darren Goossens rated a book really liked it Stand by to die by Arthur V. Sellwood	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Review from here. Someone on Goodreads gave this a 1 star review because it is not what they are interested in. I confess I find that weird. I mean, a book could be a very good example of something that you are not interested in. Why give it a poor re ...more
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Darren Goossens rated a book it was ok The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
From this blog post. I got this book for 50c at a library that was selling off old books. I enjoyed Wishful drinking well enough. Though Fisher's self-deprecating shtick would I suspect have become annoying had that book been much longer, the combinat ...more
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Darren Goossens rated a book liked it Hammer's Slammers (Hammer's Slammers, #1) by David Drake	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Review from darrengoossens.wordpress.com. After the interesting We all died at Breakaway Station and the quite dreadful Come, hunt an Earthman , volume 3 of the Venture SF series is Hammer's Slammers by David Drake. It is actually a collection ...more
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Darren Goossens rated a book did not like it Come, Hunt an Earthman (Venture Science Fiction, #2) by Philip E. High	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Review from darrengoossens.wordpress.com. In the 1970s English publisher Robert Hale put out a series of smallish-format hard cover SF novels aimed at libraries. They were not all bad -- World of Shadows by Australia's Lee Harding certainly aimed to b ...more
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