I’ve enjoyed Wil Wheaton’s writing at his blog, so when I heard he had about this short story collection and that it was only $2.99 in the Kindle eBook format – I grabbed it. This collection is pretty short – really an afternoon’s reading only, but the price is right.  “The Day After” is the longest […]

I’ve enjoyed Wil Wheaton’s writing at his blog, so when I heard he had about this short story collection and that it was only $2.99 in the Kindle eBook format – I grabbed it. This collection is pretty short – really an afternoon’s reading only, but the price is right.  “The Day After” is the longest […]

Looking Glass is not the kind of fiction that generally drives discussions around this blog. It is a violent, introspective, dystopic, and darkly humorous look at a rough future through the eyes of a distinctly maladjusted anti-heroine, Dr. Catherine Farro.

Tobias Buckell just sent me a review copy of his latest novel Ragamuffin. Phil and I had a great FastForward Radio interview with Tobias when he published his last novel Crystal Rain. That was a very fun and informative show. So I’m obviously looking forward to reading Ragamuffin. I’ll post a review as soon as […]

The moment I caught sight of this slim volume on the impulse tables in the front of my local Border’s, I knew three things and suspected a fourth. I knew that I would have to (one…) buy, (two…) read, and (three…) review it for this blog. I (four…) suspected that I would be disappointed, one […]

The moment I caught sight of this slim volume on the impulse tables in the front of my local Border’s, I knew three things and suspected a fourth. I knew that I would have to (one…) buy, (two…) read, and (three…) review it for this blog. I (four…) suspected that I would be disappointed, one […]

Today is the official publication date of Tobias Buckell’s action-adventure sci-fi novel Crystal Rain. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The cover-art is reminiscent of Edgar Rice Burroughs pulp sci-fi, and there is a Burroughs flavor to the book: a lost civilization cut off from the larger galaxy, a larger-than-life hero (or two). But I was […]

Our friend Tobias Buckell has a sci-fi novel, Crystal Rain, coming out next month. Yesterday I received an advanced copy and I’m impressed. Had I not just put in a long day I would have read through the night. It’s a fun novel. I’ll get a full review up this weekend. UPDATE FROM TOBIAS: “By […]

I managed to get my hands on an advanced copy of Joel Garreau’s Radical Evolution : The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies — and What It Means to Be Human. If you like reading about the things we write about here, Garreau’s book is easily the best to cover these topics […]