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He is credited with at least twenty-six science fiction novels and seven collections of short stories. And Stephen King reportedly called him "the logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke." So, I have to believe that The Engines of God is an outlier in Jack...
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Soon after Mikhail Gorbachev rose to supreme power in the old Soviet Union in 1985, he forced two new words onto the world's consciousness. Glasnost, meaning more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, usually dumbed down to "openness."...
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When the idea surfaced in 1857, scholars thought it was impossible. A comprehensive, historical dictionary of the English language encompassing every word ever repeatedly used in print for a thousand years? Nonsense! It would take years for a team of hundreds of...
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The geographer Jared Diamond's masterful Guns, Germs, and Steel (2005) should have convinced any of us still needing to be convinced that the West's domination of the planet since the late 18th Century is not the consequence of differences in racial characteristics....
Over the past decade, I’ve read and reviewed more than 150 espionage novels (not counting a great many more I never finished). My 15 favorites are listed immediately below. Though my preliminary list included multiple titles by several of the authors included here,...
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...
Here you'll find my (admittedly incomplete) guide to the most outstanding detective series set in countries all across the world. It's a work in progress. Expect to see more added here from time to time. Below I’ve listed 30 outstanding detective series set outside...
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