Controlling the Transmissions - Year Twenty-One

To be honest, I had no intention to read a book called Holy Cow by actor David Duchovny. I had taken my last book I finished, Willful C...

There was Spaceballs, which parody Star Wars . Then there was Galaxy Quest , which parody Star Trek . These were two big budget films t...

I suppose, in some sense, the creation of Tiffany Aching by Terry Pratchett came because of the success of the Harry Potter franchise...

Let us now return to Discworld with Wintersmith , the 35th novel set there and the third featuring Tiffany Aching. Almost two years hav...

In the universe of science fiction writing, there are two very prestigious awards, the Nebulas and the Hugos. And to put it in a certain v...

A Hat Full of Sky , which is Terry Pratchett's 32nd Discworld novel and second featuring Tiffany Aching, takes place two years afte...

One of the advantages I've discovered reading Terry Pratchett's books so late (and one, perhaps, I've should've realized l...

Soul Music is the sixteenth Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett and the third one to feature Death.  Once again, Pratchett gives us a...

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...