Not long ago, I reviewed Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance, and The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone. My reviews are at Elon Musk wants to build a colony on Mars (for real) and The Jeff...
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This strange sci-fi novel got a lot of attention from critics, earning nominations for several awards (among them, finalist for the 2017 Locus Award for a Science Fiction Novel). It’s easy to see why. Unlike so much science fiction, Company Town was virtually free of the annoying...
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Historical fiction has many virtues. It can help us understand how our lives have been shaped by the past. It can highlight the common threads in the human experience. And it can remind us of events in the past that historians have largely overlooked. For example, in the context of such a massive...
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Colorado-based author Paolo Bacigalupi has been writing science fiction novels since 2009. Together with the many short stories he has produced, his writing has earned him a torrent of nominations and a slew of awards. Among them are both the Hugo and Nebula, the two most prestigious...
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Gillian Flynn gained fame (and undoubtedly fortune as well) with the advent in 2012 of her third novel, Gone Girl, and the 2014 film adaptation starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. The book was a #1 New York Times bestseller for many months. Within its first year of publication, there were...
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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.