Robert Silverberg has been writing science fiction since he was fourteen years old, and that was a long time ago. (1949, actually.) He’s written hundreds of books and scores of short story collections and been richly rewarded for his work: four Hugo Awards, five Nebulas, and recognition as a...
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So, here we’ve got two guys, Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. They’re partners in an odd-couple sort of way in a detective agency. Both are Vietnam vets, and they’re both as tough as they come. Yet there’s little else they have in common. Pike, an ex-marine, owns and runs a gun...
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OK, I’d better qualify that headline. In this survey, I’m not including science fiction written before World War II. Or, for that matter, short stories or anthologies, comic books, or manga. And definitely not fantasy: zombies, vampires, witches, dragons, superheroes, and magical powers all leave...
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In his second historical espionage novel featuring Christopher Marlowe Cobb, Robert Olen Butler has enlisted the war correspondent as a secret agent for the United States Secret Service. World War I is raging in Europe and the Middle East, and Cobb has been assigned to trail a German-American...
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Imagine you’ve just wandered into the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. You run into the museum’s historian in the hallway, and for some reason he opens up to you. In the coffee shop downstairs, he starts telling you about all the crazy stuff that never made it off the...
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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.