STG's

Forts is a nice RTS, where you make forts to destroy other forts. You build the whole structure, then add stuff like mines for metal, and wind turbines for power (the only resources). Then you add weapons (such as mortar, machines guns, cannons, missiles and lasers) and upgrade these while shooting at your enemy and doing repairs. Overall, it is fun. Took me 6 hours to finish the campaign, but there are many more maps.

A Better World, by Marcus Sakey, is the sequel to Brilliance. Cooper got away with the murder in the first book, but now brilliant terrorist are attacking and crippling several cities' infrastructure. It seems that everyone wants to go to war... Pretty good, too. Not sure how much I liked the portrayal of the speed brilliant. He can't watch movies and hates music because they are too slow... So, he and Smith could not figure out how to play music or movies 11 times faster, even with plenty of super advanced tech? It is not that hard... Specially when you consider that his power is not unique, just more powerful than the others. Even regular DVDs and DVRs could be used with subtitles on... Yes, that is a silly thing to nitpick on but for some reason it bothered me.

I had actually bought Brilliance, from Marcus Sakey, in 2013. As so often happens something more interesting came up and I completely forgot about it. Then Amazon suggested it to me, and when checking it out they showed I already had it. I decided to try it out. (why a supposedly data driven company which is a pioneer in advanced suggestions showed me a book they knew I had, isa mystery...) It is pretty good. The base idea is not new at all - in the 80s, people started getting born with powers. They are called brilliants.  Mostly these are the reasonable-I-could-see-this-working kind - better pattern recognition, for strategy, lie detection, financial markets, fighting, etc. As also very tradicional, the people without powers and the ones with them are being mistreated and exploited (there are probably olders ones, but the X-Men come to mind). The main protagonist is Nick Copper, which has powers and works in an agency dedicated to arresting misbehaving brilliants, and ki...

After finishing Seeker  Amazon suggested I read Mindwar, also by Douglas E. Richards. Since I had already read the first two volumes of the series, I decided to read this next. I can't review it without spoilers for the first two volumes, so stop reading now if you didn't read them. Nick Hall was kidnapped back in volume 1, and put through experiments, which got him a mental implant that can access the internet (and is a supercomputer), and also mind reading powers. As in the last volume, there is a major terrorist attack that he has to stop. Then a series of events that obviously will end in a fight between mind readers (that would be a spoiler, but I am pretty sure anyone who read the title will already have guessed it. Overall, pretty good, and recommended for fans of the series. While the author says that the book is self contained, I'd really recommend reading the first two volumes first.