book-reviews

I don’t read many of the Star Wars novels, but this one just jumped out at me. Shatterpoint, by Matthew Woodring Stover, is a novel set during the Clone Wars (aka, between Episode II and Episode III). The book’s main character is Mace Windu, the Jedi Master played by Samuel L. Jackson in the movies. Windu gets pulled to this jungle planet to investigate a massacre that may have been perpetrated by his once padawan learner Depa.

I heard about Altered Carbon on NPR when they had a librarian talking about good books to read. This one sounded pretty interesting, so I picked it up off Amazon. The book is written by Richard Morgan. Altered Carbon is Morgan’s first novel, and he has another one out with the same main character called Broken Angels. The book is set far in the future and the colonization of space is well underway.