Regular Guy Book Reviews

Review: <em>A Darkling Sea</em> by James L. Cambias

As a lapsed marine zoologist, I couldn’t help but love A Darkling Sea. It has aliens, intrigue, desperate missions, and…

10 years ago

Review: <em>Echopraxia</em> by Peter Watts

I have a bad habit of getting excited by a book and skimming, eager to find out what happens next.…

10 years ago

Review: <em>Accelerando</em> by Charles Stross

Accelerando moves like a bat out of hell and made me afraid that the future’s going to tear us all…

10 years ago

Review: <em>The Maiden Voyage of the Destiny Unknown</em> by Nicholas Ponticello

Like his earlier book Do Not Resuscitate, Ponticello’s prose reads like a less-angry Vonnegut. However, in The Maiden Voyage of…

10 years ago

Review: <em>Flowers for Algernon</em> by Daniel Keyes

Flowers for Algernon is a beautiful, human book, with a little science fiction thrown in. It examines morals and ethics…

10 years ago

Review: <i>The Fall of the Towers</i> by Samuel R. Delany

Despite the title, this isn't about 9/11. The three books in this collection were written in the sixties. They don’t…

10 years ago

Review: <em>Memoirs Found in a Bathtub</em> by Stanislaw Lem

If, before sitting down to write 1984, George Orwell had decided to candy-flip (ingest LSD and ecstasy simultaneously), he might…

10 years ago

Review: <em>Panda Ray</em> by Michael Kandel

Panda Ray is a rare beast: a fun and weird adventure for kids where there is no Chosen One. Thank…

10 years ago

Review: <i>The City & The City</i> by China Miéville

The City & The City is a noirish crime novel with some wonderfully inventive world-building, but its flat, wooden characters…

10 years ago

Review: <em>The Drowned World</em> by J. G. Ballard

In The Drowned World, the sun’s become too hot (130°F on a good day), and the cities of the world…

11 years ago