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Review: <em>Red Moon</em> by Kim Stanley Robinson

Author Kim Stanley Robinson has written some great books, including the Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars) and…

7 years ago

Review: <em>Ubik</em> by Philip K. Dick

The famous Philip K. Dick wrote some amazing books, but in his later years, penned a few stinkers. Fortunately, Ubik…

8 years ago

Review: <em>Station Eleven</em> by Emily St. John Mandel

I’m not usually a big fan of post-apocalyptic stories, but Station Eleven is a great story and exceptionally well-written. (more…)

8 years ago

Review: <em>Roadside Picnic</em> by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Roadside Picnic is short, bleak, and fantastic. It has a typical Russian life-is-a-meaningless-struggle-against-absurdity vibe, but there’s enough going on to…

8 years ago

Review: <em>Ready Player One</em> by Ernest Cline

If you’re a child of the 80s, reading Ready Player One is like mainlining heroin-strength nostalgia. It’s so ridiculously fun…

8 years ago

Review: <em>The Mote in God’s Eye</em> by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Nominated for a Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards in 1975, The Mote in God’s Eye has not aged particularly well.…

8 years ago

Review: <em>The Freeze-Frame Revolution</em> by Peter Watts

A ship, powered by a tame black hole, is on a multi-million year mission to place wormholes throughout the galaxy,…

8 years ago

Review: <em>All Our Wrong Todays</em> by Elan Mastai

Tom Barren in All Our Wrong Todays is from an ideal version of our present time. No war, no poverty,…

8 years ago

Review: <em>Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits</em> by David Wong

I think author David Wong has invented "trailerpunk"—intelligent, funny, but low-income and low-achieving people save the world in all his…

9 years ago

Regular Guy Book Review: <em>The Girl With All the Gifts</em> by M. R. Carey

The Girl With All the Gifts is a wonderful book, which is odd praise for a story about zombies. But…

9 years ago