Regular Guy Book Reviews

Review: <em>Devolution</em> by Max Brooks

Max Brooks wrote my two favorite zombie books: The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z. He did an amazing…

6 years ago

Review: <em>Recursion</em> by Blake Couch

Recursion is a fun page-turner, but it’s a little too similar to the author’s previous (and excellent) book, Dark Matter.…

6 years ago

Review: <em>Steel Beach</em> by John Varley

A lot of people love John Varley's books, and he's a Hugo- and Nebula-award winner, so I decided to give…

6 years ago

Review: <em>Childhood’s End</em> by Arthur C. Clarke

Childhood’s End is considered Arthur C. Clarke’s greatest work. Better than 2001, better than Rendezvous With Rama, better then The…

6 years ago

Review: <em>The Risen Empire</em> by Scott Westerfeld

The Risen Empire has some interesting ideas about the far future. Humanity has split into several factions, one of the…

6 years ago

Review: <em>Dark Matter</em> by Blake Crouch

Dark Matter is one of those books that I stayed up way too late reading. The science is perhaps a…

6 years ago

Review: <em>The Humans</em> by Matt Haig

The Humans is an excellent dark comedy that sticks an alien, who hates humans, in a human mathematician’s body, and…

6 years ago

Review: <em>The Genius Plague</em> by David Walton

You don’t often see tense, page-turner science fiction with fungus as a starring role, but The Genius Plague by David…

6 years ago

Review: <em>The Grand Dark</em> by Richard Kadrey

The Grand Dark’s main draw is its steampunk-inspired world-building, which is excellent. Most of the action takes place in the…

7 years ago

Review: <em>The Lost Fleet: Dauntless</em> by Jack Campbell

I’ve never been a big military SF fan, but The Lost Fleet: Dauntless does a solid job of changing my…

7 years ago