Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Stories of First Contact abound in science fiction. One author, Australian Peter Cawdron, alone is writing a total of twenty-five standalone novels on the theme—and he’s close to his goal as I write. But the British phenomenon Adrian Tchaikovsky has done...
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Rome’s death throes sputtered out not in the fifth century, as is widely believed, but in 1453 when Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Sultan, Mehmet II, “the Conqueror.” He then renamed the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire Istanbul. Yet the Ottoman Empire—eventually...
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Since 2000, the prolific Scottish novelist Alexander McCall Smith has been writing another new novel about those lady detectives in Botswana on an annual basis. Mma Precious Ramotswe and Mma Grace Makutsi of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency now appear once again, twenty-three novels after the...
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Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Most genre fiction is formulaic. Mysteries may be detective stories, police procedurals, cozy mysteries, and so forth. Romance novels fall into categories of their own. And science fiction encompasses space travel, dystopia, First Contact, military science...
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I’ve spent more than half my life in business, engaged in founding or leading a number of small companies. So it’s only natural that I should read a good deal about economic and business history. Here, I’ve listed more than sixty of the best books about the history of business...
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Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review,
with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review,
with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.
Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review, with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review, with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.