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A reader alerted me to Bob Shaw's award-winning 1975 novel, Orbitsville, reporting that it had appeared on some critic's list of the best science fiction of all time. Not only that, but it's a First Contact story, a category I love to explore. How could I resist? I'd...
Mysteries & Thrillers
A respected Indian attorney has been framed in a sensational murder case. An idealistic crusader for justice in the face of a corrupt system, he turns for help to the incorruptible Indian private eye Vish Puri. Depending on the mood he's in, Vish Puri is either...
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Six pivotal events set the course of history in the twentieth century. The emergence of the United States as the world's preeminent economic and military power. The Bolshevik and Chinese Revolutions. World Wars I and II, often lumped together into a latter-day Thirty...
Commentaries
For the record, what follows is not a list of the best popular fiction published during the past year. Instead, I’ve rejected the practice of those reviewers who imply they've read and reviewed the many thousands of popular (or trade) novels...
The 10 books highlighted here may not be the very best novels written about World War II. But they are the best ones I’ve read and reviewed since January 2010. I’ve given every one of them a rating of ★★★★★. There's a second below that includes some four dozen...
What can history teach us? We know, of course, that history doesn't repeat itself, at least never exactly. But some, perhaps nearly all, of the most successful leaders of the past were ardent students of history. Surely, they learned something from their predecessors,...
In the 19th century, as the nations of Europe rushed to grab ever-larger expanses of territory there, Africa was known as the Dark Continent. That label is still apt, but not for the same reason. Everywhere else—Europe, Asia, the Americas—understanding of Africa and...
The 20 detective novels listed below may not be the 20 "best" detective novels, even by my uniquely idiosyncratic criteria. I’d read a lot of work in the genre even before I began writing these reviews in January 2010—and there are tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of...
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