History exerts a powerful force on the present. Why else would battles rage over the historical record around the world? In the United States, for example, some insist slavery was the central driver in our history, while others fight back fiercely. And in Russia, where the Putin regime seeks to...
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You don’t need a career in the CIA or MI6 to write a great spy novel, but it helps. And former CIA analyst David McCloskey put his expertise on display two years ago in Damascus Station, his terrific debut in the genre. Now he’s done it again with a dramatic new story about a CIA...
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Science fiction authors have been toying with the concept of time travel ever since H. G. Wells wrote The Time Machine in 1895. Some stick to known physics, building stories around travel near the speed of light—or space travel near a black hole. Some posit time travel through wormholes or other...
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From 1981 to 2009, the late Stuart Kaminsky wrote a series of sixteen Russian mystery novels centered on Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov and his team in the Soviet, and later Russian, Ministry of Internal Affairs. The novels trace the evolution of the country’s history from the final...
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As Scott Shapiro points out in the opening pages of his history of hackers and hacking, “there are at least 15 billion computers for only 8 billion people.” And most of us eight billion seem to live in constant fear that some malicious 15-year-old kid in Belarus is going to wipe out...
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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.