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 lexicographers to make even a dent...
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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...
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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 McDevitt’s...
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Late in March 1945, six weeks before Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender, then-Lieutenant-General George S. Patton set in motion a bold initiative to rescue several hundred American officers from a POW camp forty miles behind enemy lines in Germany. He ordered twenty-three-year-old...
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For a century, from the 1870s to the 1960s, their family name was one of the most recognizable in the world. They were wealthy beyond the limits of imagination, and they married into European royalty and other ultra wealthy families such as the Rothschilds. Their roots lay in ancient Babylon. For...
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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.