Estimated reading time: 4 minutes The cover and the title of this peculiar novel suggest that its subject is J. Robert Oppenheimer and the long shadow he cast following the first nuclear weapons test at Los Alamos. In any case, that’s why I chose to read it. And I was disappointed, to say...
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Scan any list of the physicists, chemists, and other top scientists who created the atomic bomb under the Manhattan Project. What you’ll find there, one after another, are the names of Europeans who’d fled the Nazis in the 1930s. They dominate the...
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Revolutionaries have rarely risen to positions of power in the United States, but Teddy Roosevelt was an exception. Everywhere he went, and every job he took, from the US Civil Service Commission to the New York Police Department to the Navy Department and the White House, he shook the walls to...
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Welga Ramirez is nearing her thirty-fifth birthday. She’s a veteran of the Marine Special Forces but a little long in the tooth for a shield—a bodyguard—though the pills increase her strength and the speed of her reflexes. And at thirty-five she’ll hit the limit. Platinum Shield...
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes The woman history knows as Mary Queen of Scots, the Catholic martyr, became Queen of Scotland six days after her birth in 1542. As a teenager, she was Queen Consort of France for two years. By the time she turned twenty-four, Mary had married three times,...
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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.