Informazioni generali

Nome canonico: Schmidt, Bryan Thomas
Data di nascita: 1969-02-13
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: Topeka, Kansas, USA
Luogo di residenza: Salina, Kansas, USA
Topeka, Kansas, USA
Istruzione: California State University, Fullerton (BA|Communications-Radio-TV-Film)
Covenant Theological Seminary (MA|Theological Studies)
Organizzazioni: Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America
Breve biografia: Bryan Thomas Schmidt is the author of the space opera novel The Worker Prince, an Honorable Mention on Paul Goat Allen's Best SF Releases of 2011 list, the collection The North Star Serial, Part 1, and has several short stories forthcoming in anthologies and magazines. His second novel, The Returning, is forthcoming from Diminished Media Group in 2012. He’s also the host of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer’s Chatevery Wednesday at 9 pm EST on Twitter, where he interviews people like Mike Resnick, AC Crispin, Kevin J. Anderson and Kristine Kathryn Rusch. A frequent contributor to Adventures In SF Publishing, Grasping For The Wind and SF Signal, he can be found online as @BryanThomasS on Twitter or via his website. Excerpts from The Worker Prince can be found on his blog.‎ Bryan is an affiliate member of the SFWA.

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Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers di Bryan Thomas Schmidt

I enjoyed this story, but it's also one more character I'd like to know more about -- what happened next?

Merged review:

I enjoyed this story, but it's also one more character I'd like to know more about -- what happened next?

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accidental_hermit | Jan 28, 2024 |

Infinite Stars di Bryan Thomas Schmidt

The following is a review for the story, Night Passage by Alastair Reynolds, which is the only reason i got this anthology.

Night Passage is the third book in the Revelation Space Universe.

This time a Demarchist sleeper ship, with thousands of passengers on board, has apparently been taken over by the Conjoiners among the passengers and is now drifting in space near an large unknown object. Time is running out as, without any engines, the ship is slowly drifting towards the object and won't survive the encounter.

I really enjoyed this short story which has quite a depth to it, essentially beginning with the quote:

Shame is a mask that becomes the face.

The implication of which being that if you wear the mask long enough, it grafts itself to your skin, becomes and indelible part of you--even a kind of comfort.

And actually ending with the quote:

A late gift is worse than no gift at all.

Would you mind leaving me now?

Available in the anthology, Infinite Stars.

And for my sins of thoroughly enjoying this i now head straight into A Spy in Europa.… (altro)

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5t4n5 | 4 altre recensioni | Aug 9, 2023 |

Infinite Stars di Bryan Thomas Schmidt

This was a great collection. Enjoyed all the stories but the last one. It just didn't really resonate. BUT -- the other stories (and there are lots of them) varied from great and entertaining to brilliant. I loved The Iron Star, by Robert Silverberg, and Dual on Syrtis, but Poul Anderson. I'd never read either of those authors, and both of the stories were fantastic.

It took me a damned long time to work my way through this book, but it was worth the effort.

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bloftin2 | 4 altre recensioni | May 4, 2023 |

The Monster Hunter Files (7) di Larry Correia

While there were some stories written by favorite authors, and others by authors I have always intended to read, there was much that turned me off of this collection. I think the over-emphasis on heavy guns and ammo in several, including teenagers with assault rifles, were too over the top for me.

I appreciated the variety of what are considered monsters by the authors: not just gangs of trolls living underground and nasty werewolves, but also Imhotep and an encounter with Dippel's Oil by Benjamin Franklin. The Monster Hunters International (MHI) Organization is kept intact by all of the authors, although there do seem to be competing factions within the monster hunting world.

But, I will steer clear of this series. The idea of blowing away "Others" by great firepower is just not my thing.… (altro)

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threadnsong | 4 altre recensioni | Dec 11, 2021 |

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