Regular Guy Book Reviews

Review: <em>Revelation Space</em> by Alastair Reynolds

Revelation Space is a sprawling, hard-SF tale with enough original ideas for three thick novels. Seriously, it’s overflowing with the…

11 years ago

Review: <em>The Algebraist</em> by Iain M. Banks

I learned about author Iain M. Banks when I was in San Francisco, swing dancing with a woman, who recommended…

11 years ago

Review: <em>Do Not Resuscitate</em> by Nicholas Ponticello

Do Not Resuscitate is a story told by the aging Jim Frost, who’s being harassed by a daughter with control…

11 years ago

Review: <em>His Master’s Voice</em> by Stanislaw Lem

His Master’s Voice is a smarter book than I am a reviewer, so my vantage point is of a slow…

11 years ago

Review: <em>Cosmicomics</em> by Italo Calvino

Cosmicomics is a wild imagination's love letter to science. It's a series of tales told by a creature named Qfwfq,…

11 years ago

Review: <em>The Ware Tetralogy</em> by Rudy Rucker

After finishing most books, I’ll put them down and think something like, “That was a good book,” or “The ending…

11 years ago

Review: <em>Gun, with Occasional Music</em> by Jonathan Lethem

It’s easy to be a hero when you’re saving the entire world or galaxy or species. Which is why the…

11 years ago

Review: <em>Spin State</em> by Chris Moriarty

Spin State by Chris Moriarty is a hard sci-fi murder mystery set thousands of years in the future on an…

11 years ago

<i>The Martian</i> by Andy Weir is Awesome

The Martian is one of the most enjoyable science fiction books I've ever read. An astronaut is left behind on…

11 years ago