I've read Swarm and the others in that series. They are fun pulpy summer time military-adventure-scifi reads. Good page turners without a lot of depth or complexity. I felt a little guilty for enjoying them, but they must have some redeeming qualities as I just keep buying them as fast as they get published!

I think the B.V. Larson books are particularly interesting to programmers as the protagonist is a computer science lecturer who draws a lot of parallels between his challenges "programming" alien technology to meet his needs and programming computers before everything went upside down.

Good question, and another one, is there a website focusing on reviews of ebooks ? And I'm not just talking about contents, but also evaluating the ebook presentations and formats available?

If not, it would be a good idea if someone made one :) There's a market need.

If "galactic tall tales" sounds like something you'd enjoy, Santiago would make the $3 minimum bid worthwhile.

It's not what I'd call high literature, but I found it very entertaining and have both Santiago and the sequel on paper.