I was expecting a story about starships, adventure, and far-flung planets. Instead, I was rewarded with a haunting and touching tale about love, loss, and survival during the last days of humanity.

I was expecting a story about starships, adventure, and far-flung planets. Instead, I was rewarded with a haunting and touching tale about love, loss, and survival during the last days of humanity.
Before delving in to the Revelation Space universe I first suggest perusing the chronology and consider reading the books in order. This is Part 4 in my series of reviews focusing on […]
Neal Stephenson is one of my favorite authors. But unfortunately Zodiac is not one of my favorite books. Neal Stephenson Zodiac is named after the rigid inflatable boat that is […]
Nova was published in 1968 before Samuel R. Delany entered his more experimental writing phase, beginning chiefly with the monstrous Dhalgren. It’s a tale that can be consumed and interpreted […]
One person’s utopia is another person’s dystopia. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley has been a book long in my library, always in the reading queue (aren’t they all?) but […]
Before delving in to the Revelation Space universe I first suggest perusing the chronology and consider reading the books in order. This is Part 3 in my series of reviews focusing on […]
Update: Future editions of The Prefect will be titled Aurora Rising, and the sequel (previously referred to as The Prefect 2) will be titled Elysium Fire . . . which will […]
I would have entitled this book “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Comma” but that would be hard to do since I didn’t write it. But as […]
Never judge a book by its cover, so the mantra goes. In the case of Simon Morden’s Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy I threw that right out the window. There I was […]
Dragondoom by Dennis L. McKiernan may just be the best fantasy novel you’ve never read. Over the years Dennis L. McKiernan has been accused of borrowing, if not stealing, the […]
Gateway by Frederik Pohl is a simple story about a complex man that takes place in a setting that lends itself to a myriad of adventures both enriching and terrifying…usually […]
I recently took a long hiatus from reading. Things tend to get in the way of pursuits of passion…typically work. When it was time to pick up another fiction book […]