Entertaining enough if you happen across it (though it's not worth buying) and have some time to kill, though mostly because it's rather clumsy. Shafferman may be a top-notch astrologer -- I have no real idea -- but as an author, she's rather predictable.

A short, sweet tale of soldiers in love, time travel, the unraveling of their story, and the love of books. I very much enjoyed this one.

An average Trek romp, marred by the author trying too hard to drop “clever” references to other Trek and pop culture events, and (worse) using a PNW indigenous people’s name for the name of a planet (Duwamish).

A curious coda to The Once and Future King, mostly serving as an argument against humankind’s warlike tendencies. Not critical to finish Arthur’s story, IMHO. TOaFK ends quite well on its own, and the two sections of TBoM that have been incorporated into TOaFK mean that about a quarter of this book now feels out of place. Finally, while White’s arguments make sense for who he was and the time he was writing them, not all quite stand the test of time (and, as with some moments of TOaFK, his very British colonialist/racist mind set definitely makes itself known here and there).

Definitely dated, especially regarding views of women, with odd extrapolation of technology (it’s a very 40s world, but with ray guns & antigravity atomic-powered spaceships), and Mars has a breathable atmosphere, but I’ve read far worse from this era. Plus, now I actually understand the old “Fans are slans!” phrase I’ve seen floating around old SF writing.

As an exploration of boredom in a utopia and the possibilities of genetic engineering, it’s mildly interesting, but felt unfocused, oddly structured, and kind of tedious.

It's been a long time since I read any Heinlein, and I've always thought of him as one of the SF authors worth reading, but now I'm wondering if I'm going to feel the same way after I get through his other Hugo-winning books (there are five more on the list, some of which I remember enjoying when I read them in my youth). Maybe it's just because this was a fairly early work that hasn't aged well?