Regular Guy Book Reviews

Review: <em>Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia</em> by Jason Pargin

Author Jason Pargin has made a career out of hilarious and fast-moving books with surprisingly intelligent and thoughtful things to…

11 months ago

Review: <em>The Tusks of Extinction</em> by Ray Nayler

The Tusks of Extinction is a short novellette/novelito (smaller than a novella) where mammoths have been resurrected and are roaming…

11 months ago

Review: <em>Venomous Lumpsucker</em> by Ned Beauman

In the near-future world of Venomous Lumpsucker, everything has continued to get worse, to the point where a corporation can…

1 year ago

Review: <em>Heaven’s River</em> by Dennis E. Taylor

Heaven’s River is the fourth book of the excellent Bobiverse series, and instead of cruising along well-worn narrative paths, author…

1 year ago

Review: <em>The Road to Roswell</em> by Connie Willis

Author Connie Willis outdoes herself with humor and heart in The Road to Roswell, where a stealthy, desperate first contact…

1 year ago

Review: <em>Titanium Noir</em> by Nick Harkaway

Titanium Noir is an excellent near-future alternate-history murder mystery that follows the murder of a Titan, a medically-enhanced person who…

1 year ago

Review: <em>Truth of the Divine</em> by Lindsay Ellis

Despite its title, Truth of the Divine is not a religious text, but a fun, fast-paced, clever science fiction adventure.…

1 year ago

Review: <em>More Than Human</em> by Theodore Sturgeon

More Than Human is widely lauded as the first literary science fiction book, and it won the first Hugo back…

1 year ago

Review: <em>Gravity</em> by Tess Gerritsen

Gravity is mildly retro, having been written in the 1990s and features several space shuttles, but it’s one of the…

1 year ago

Review: <em>Daemon</em> by Daniel Suarez

I had thought the near-future Daemon was a YA book, but nope, it is definitely not. No Y, all A.…

2 years ago