In its earliest days, science fiction was almost always about space travel. Back in the bad old days of the 1920s and 30s, when the genre was gathering steam in the American pulps, heavily muscled spacemen and bug-eyed alien monsters predominated. It was only when John W. Campbell Jr. took on the...
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If Americans today know anything at all about Theodore Roosevelt, they’re likely to think of him as the man who led a charge of his Rough Riders up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, was a big game hunter, established the United States Forest Service, took on the powerful railroad...
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Today’s creationists and advocates of intelligent design are the direct descendants of the devout Christians who grew hysterical upon the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species in 1859. For several years, the book, and Darwin himself, were widely regarded as a threat...
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It’s not hard to understand why the Vorkosigan Saga has been going on so long. Simply put, Miles Vorkosigan may be the single most engaging character in all science fiction. Consider, for example, how his bodyguard and valet, Armsman Roic, thinks of him. “It was hard to tell,...
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Nazi Germany prepared to invade Great Britain in the summer and early fall of 1940, and many still debate why Hitler pulled the plug on the plan on September 17 that year. For two or three years afterward, large numbers of British subjects remained convinced that the Nazi invasion of Britain might...
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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.