Controlling the Transmissions - Year Twenty

In Terry Pratchett's  Reaper Man , 11th Discworld novel, and the second featuring Death, we meet the Auditors of Reality, beings who...

Back in August of 1997, when I was in my fourth month of working for Borders Books (and whom I would stay with until their demise in Sep...

There was a Friends episode where Rachel and Joey go on a boat ride round New York. Joey, of course, wants to have fun. But Rachel, who h...

They say that the Thorn of Camorr can beat anyone in a fight. They say he steals from the rich and gives to the poor. They say he's ...

In the summer of 2007 Earth is under clandestine attack. Slug-like creatures, arriving in flying saucers, are attaching themselves to pe...

While the post-apocalyptic genre has been around for many generations, I've only read a handful of them -after all not many writers br...

Isaac Asimov's Foundation series was on my list of classic science fiction novels I decided to read in the coming months, after skippi...

I'm unsure how to approach David Gerrold's 1973 novel The Man Who Folded Himself. As a fan of time travel stories, I liked it. B...

With Golden Son , author Pierce Brown's second novel in his Red Rising Trilogy , he's able to forgo the World Building that preo...

There is a lot of ideas in this thin little novel (183 pages of this old hardcover edition I got at the library) that could fill many others...

John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.  The good news is ...

Andy Weir's The Martian has done something that seems brilliant, yet familiar. Yes the tale of a modern day (somewhat) astronaut lef...

Desperate to find a case to justify the team’s existence, with budget cuts and a police strike on the horizon, Quill thinks he’s stru...

I finish 2014 with 41 books being read (including the one re-read, The Hobbit). That's up three books from 2013 and ties with what I ...