Book Reviews
| They won't be visiting any time soon, but we're doing business with them in Edward M. Lerner's InterstellarNet: Origins | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | March 4, 2010 |
| Interesting aliens, wonderful extrapolation, read this book, and then start planning where to put your money for the coming of the InterstellarNet... | |
| Oh the wonderful things this other thing could have been—Eoin Colfer's And Another Thing… | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | December 4, 2009 |
 Eoin Colfer's writing, in this case, really is reminiscent of Douglas Adams's, but the overall story just isn't worth it...
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| Drink up and read: Gilman's Flesh and Fire plants a new magic | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | November 13, 2009 |
 Laura Anne Gilman's Flesh and Fire lays out a new and fascinating form of magic, but it isn't complete: we'll have to wait for book 2 to see what happens...
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| If we're not here next week, we'll be farming on Ganymede, with Heinlein's Farmer in the Sky | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | November 12, 2009 |
 I'm not a Boy Scout, nor suffering the privations of food rationing, but even so, Heinlein makes shipping out to a farming life around Jupiter seem really appealing...
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| Be an individual! Rely on yourself! Heinlein's The Puppet Masters is back | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | September 25, 2009 |
 It's dark, and the story doesn't translate very well over 58 years, but Heinlein's paean to individualism and self-reliance still rings those notes loud and clear...
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| A spooky, but gorgeous, little book—a review of Isis by Douglas Clegg | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | September 24, 2009 |
 The story is darkly haunting, and will stick with you, but the artwork is downright amazing, and will demand a place in your home...
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| A review of The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | July 30, 2009 |
 A very good book showing us how randomness rules our lives, and yet we're not evolved to recognize it when we see it. Recommended...
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| The British Are Coming—a review of The Patriot Witch, A Spell for the Revolution, and The Demon Redcoat by C.C. Finlay | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | July 9, 2009 |
 A delightful blend of historical fiction and fantasy, with a clever idea well executed...
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| A review of Doc Wilde and the Frogs of Doom by Tim Byrd | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | June 25, 2009 |
 Tim Byrd has reinvigorated the pulp fiction of Doc Savage and the bland superhero-ness of Buckaroo Banzai in a family friendly adventure starring Doc Wilde and his kids. I'm looking forward to more...
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| A review of D.I.Y. Dentistry by Andy Riley | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | June 25, 2009 |
 How can you not love the newest book by the author/illustrator of The Book of Bunny Suicides and Great Lies to Tell Small Kids...
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| A review of Terra Insegura by Edward Willett | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | June 3, 2009 |
 A little bleaker, a little less "gosh-wow" sensawunda (due to familiarity), a lot closer to home, Terra Insegura is the perfect balance to Marseguro: you've got to read this one if you read the first. It does stand on its own, but why deny yourself the pleasure of the full literary tapestry Edward Willett weaves with these two...
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| A reivew of Wake by Robert J. Sawyer | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | May 12, 2009 |
 Robert J. Sawyer tells us about several intelligences "waking up" to the world, finding their way as the thinking, sensing beings they weren't moments before. He tells a good story in an accessible style...
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| A review of Coyote Horizon by Allen Steele | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | April 17, 2009 |
 Allen Steele's sixth novel set in his Coyote universe is one of exploration: exploring a planet, exploring the hidden potentials in the human mind, and exploring interpersonal relations individually and collectively. It's a well-told tale with a frustrating ending... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
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| A review of The Rolling Stones by Robert A. Heinlein | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | March 25, 2009 |
 Another of Heinlein's "juveniles", this one really holds up to a modern reading, with a rollicking adventure of a family feeling a little too hemmed in on the Moon, and seeking new frontiers...
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| A review of The Reel Stuff edited by Brian Thomsen and Martin H. Greenberg | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | March 24, 2009 |
 The Reel Stuff gathers the original stories that gave rise to a wonderful collection of movies; in many cases, the original stories are even better...
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| A review of Laugh Lines by Ben Bova | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | March 18, 2009 |
 Ben Bova writes comic social commentary like he knows what he's doing… because he does. This is a good selection from a quarter-century's output...
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| A review of Juggler of Worlds by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | February 18, 2009 |
 A species worth of planets is on the move, the galaxy is exploding, and the economy is tanking: who better to solve your problems than a true paranoid, who thinks everyone is out to get him?
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| A review of Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | February 13, 2009 |
 The fifth installment in Naomi Novik's wonderful alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars with dragons is the darkest yet, with more military tactics and maneuvering than the previous books...
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| A review of Year Million edited by Damien Broderick | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | January 22, 2009 |
 Damien Broderick's look at the near and not-so-near future of humans and humanity falls under its own scope, but provides plenty of fascinating mental nuggets along the way...
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| A review of The Valley-Westside War by Harry Turtledove | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | January 16, 2009 |
 Turtledove's sixth Crosstime Traffic novel takes us to a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles and asks "what started World War III"...
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| Review of Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | December 29, 2008 |
 John Scalzi's first novel, now in a widely available format, is a good story, and will hold your interest to the end...
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| Review of I Remember the Future by Michael A. Burstein | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | December 5, 2008 |
 For a writer I still think of as "one of the new guys", Michael A. Burstein is an experienced, accomplished author whose first collection is a wonderful compilation of moving stories...
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| Review of Star Trek by Ina Rae Hark | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | December 3, 2008 |
 A slim volume trying to elucidate the themes within and differentiating the various Star Trek television series. It mostly succeeds...
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| Review of A Song in Stone | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | November 21, 2008 |
 It's a time-traveling, fantastical, magical, religious mystery. A more cerebral, relaxed Indiana Jones story, but stakes even higher, and revelations around most corners...
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| Post-Apocalypse Now: A Review of Wastelands | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | November 7, 2008 |
| John Joseph Adams' anthology covers nearly all the different forms apocalypse may take, with a varied collection of big-name and new authors... | |
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