The Professor

Science fiction, pulp and anything else that takes my fancy. I review everything I read.

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November

15

The Big Nowhere

James Ellroy

March2019

24

text: “Finsky on the fucker with the spot on his back"

"The Big Nowhere" is a good rich experience but taking me time to get through. Worth it though.

February2019

27

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Savage Night - Jim Thompson

“The goats always won”

Charles Bigger, a five foot gangland killer who offed his own brother and disappeared without a conviction, is contacted by “the Man” to retire one Jake Winroy, a witness abou...

Savage Night - Jim Thompson

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Savage Night - Jim Thompson

Savage Night Jim Thompson

February2019

17

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Century Rain - Alastair Reynolds

“Lady, one trip through that thing is enough for me”

Paris times two. One which Hitler never invaded but nevertheless the scene of rising fascism and a mysterious death. The other is a ruin on a destroyed, uninhabitable Earth, c...

Century Rain - Alastair Reynolds

February2019

08

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Plunder of the Sun (Hard Case Crime #10) - David Dodge

“I must have the package, Señor Colby. It is more important to me than I can say"

Lightweight piffle. One year after John Huston put “The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre” into cinemas Old Man Lovejoy – a ‘heart case in a wheel chair, with a good-looking nurse’...

Plunder of the Sun (Hard Case Crime #10) - David Dodge

February2019

06

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Grifter's Game (Hard Case Crime, #1) - Lawrence Block

“Her hubby was a crook and I had his supply in the hotel safe”

Sex-bomb manipulates player into offing her money-bags husband but the person really pulling the strings is the author. This starts off in familiar waters but Block’s plot tur...

Grifter's Game (Hard Case Crime, #1) - Lawrence Block

February2019

04

"Death will die"

A vast, all-you-can-eat, SF buffet. Probably off-puttingly long for those trying to cram in 250 books in a year and whether or not the story actually needs an entire chapter o...

The Reality Dysfunction - Peter F. Hamilton

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The Reality Dysfunction - Peter F. Hamilton

January2019

11

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Bust - Ken Bruen, Jason Starr

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Gulf Coast Girl - Charles Williams

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Absolution Gap - Alastair Reynolds

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Looking For Rachel Wallace - Robert B. Parker

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