The Golden City by John Twelve Hawks
The Golden City is the final book in an ambitious trilogy by John Twelve Hawks, mixing a Orwellian 1984 big brother “Vast Machine”, the many worlds theory, quantum computing and martial arts. Sounds right...
Category: Philip Jose Farmer
U.K. Daily Mail science editor Michael Hanlon and me on SF Signal
My friends at SFSignal.com invited me to interview Michael Hanlon about his new book Eternity: our next billion years. Michael is the science editor for the Daily Mail in the UK. His book goes...
The Runes of the Earth by Stephen Donaldson
Having read (recently) the Gap Series (back-to-back) and the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (in school, about 100 years ago), I was looking forward to diving into this series, “The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant”....
Interview with Jonathan Maberry at SF Signal
SFSignal.com has posted an interview I did with Jonathan Maberry, martial artist and author of Patient Zero, a techno-thriller. Patient Zero is a fast paced read, featuring Joe Ledger, a no-nonsense, no-hesitation fighter who...
Watchmen – Book vs. Movie
Always, read the book first. The movies are often good, but the source material is almost always better. My review of the Watchmen book is here. Read here for a good description of Alan...
Who watches the Watchmen
UPDATE: Movie vs. book post here. My wife asked me why I was reading a comic book. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons is by definition a comic book, and it is much...
bookrev: Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, edited by John Joseph Adams
A large percentage of science fiction writing is tied to some kind of apocalyptic event. And a large portion of the daily news actually portends such an event (for a lighter look, read The...
Nominated for the AmazonClicks.com Reader’s Choice Award
Since it is a British web site, it was undoubtedly one of the five and a half readers of my novel in the UK, but someone nominated my novel for the AmazonClicks.com Reader’s Choice...
Grasping for the Wind’s SF and Fantasy book review list
John Ottinger is updating his list of blogs with book reviews. Click on Grasping for the Wind in the list below if you have a site that you think is missing from his list...
movrev: Reign of Fire
What movie combines Clive Cussler’s Dirk Pitt, Batman and King Leonidas of Sparta? Only 2002’s dragon fighting flick, Reign of Fire, starring Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale and Gerard Butler. Granted, for true sci-fi fans,...