Solid SF, following the standard first contact pattern but fleshing it out with many interesting people and cultures in both species. In a way, the mirror image of A Woman of the Iron People, in which humans were the more powerful group.

Straight-up fantasy: an average woman from our world is transported to a land where magic is real and she happens to be royalty. Arnason manages to get a whole lot of mileage out of such a standard plot, but I still prefer her science fiction.

A beautiful and fully fleshed-out work of anthropological SF. I appreciated the internal problems among both species that dominated their lives even after first contact, and the optimistic-yet-not views on the structure of future human societies.

The only Xanth book that's at all worth reading. It's Anthony's typical style: funny, well-paced, and unpretentious, but also not very emotionally engaging. and frankly rather sexist.

A fun read, but a little on the popcorn side for Anderson. The plot felt like an odd cross between The Twilight Zone and a reality show, and none of the characters except the main antagonist, Havener, really caught my attention.

I like Anderson a lot, but I was totally unable to get into this book. As soon as the highly-pretentious, almost Mary Sue-ish character Storm was introduced, I was annoyed; when she refused to stop dominating the plot, I just gave up.

Now here is a story with some serious scale to it. Reminded me a little of the Red Mars series, in how it showed the world changing quickly and passing by the characters. The romantic part a little forced, but the ending was really innovative.

Somewhat different in mood from the original Dirk Gently book, it still hits all the right Adams notes. Thor was a particularly fun character. I'm also glad to see that even British people can appreciate the awesomeness of home-delivered pizza.

Solid comedy. It's a little blasphemous to say, but Dirk Gently is my very favorite Douglas Adams book. The characters felt a little more real to me than those in Hitchhiker's Guide, and the actual mystery behind the plot was thoroughly engaging.

A cool concept, explored intriguingly and with a lot of creativity. Very very short, though; I think it could've easily gone on twice as long, going into more detail about Flatland society.

Asprin had a lot less involvement in this book than in the previous two in the series, but I think it turned out pretty good anyways, even though a couple plot holes opened up in the transition. I liked the theme-park-centric culture of the planet.

One of the stronger Phule's Company books; the series hits its stride here, opening up the characters and not shying away from ridiculous but engaging situations. It's good to read military SF stories sometimes that aren't all about hover tanks.

A good cross-section of Niven's capabilities and style; strong world-building, lots of neat ideas, but unfortunately rather flat characters. Overall the stories were interesting but on the unmemorable side.

Another solid mid-range entry in the Phule's Company series. These aren't deep plots here, but the characters feel right, and the jokes are strong. I really enjoyed the final punchlines with the robot's response to the purple camouflage.

I had a hankering for a fantasy novel and tried hard to get into this one, but the characters were so thoroughly self-absorbed, often to the point of being Mary Sues, that I had to give up on it.