The other week I read a couple of books from Ann McCafree's Pern series. The Skies of Pern, and Narilka's Tale. I admire her ability to tell a story from the point of view not only of someone else, but of someone from an entirly different culture. But does it seam like her nonconformist are always bad guys?

Then I read a Falling Stars by Michael Flynn. Its a nearterm futcher sci-fi about efforts to save the world from astroids sent by aliens. It was a fairly realistic, and interesting story, but it started very slow with political manuvering to get funding. (no noubt a neccesary evil), and ended slow.