My son and I review a book without throwing food at each other
SF Signal asked me to review Kevin J. Anderson’s forthcoming novel Enemies & Allies, The Dark Night meets the Man of Steel. My son Josh and I have been into Justice League and the...
Category: Authors
bookrev: Drood by Dan Simmons
Very few authors can make something as mundane as a fictionalized account of the last five years of Charles Dickens’ life appeal to readers outside of those with Degrees in English. Dan Simmons is...
Conquering Dan Simmons commitment issues
Being a Dan Simmon’s reader and fan takes a lot of commitment, but I must tell you, Dear Reader (pun intended) that it is certainly worth the commitment. Having just tackled the 766 page...
bookrev: Olympos by Dan Simmons
When people are recommending SciFi/Fantasy books to non-SciFi/Fantasy readers, books such as Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card or movie tie-in books are listed. Because of how seamlessly the science fiction is interwoven into...
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...
Cell phone recycling
Like most good little geeks, I’ve collected a bunch of electronics over the years, some of which I consider ‘collectors items’. Like most environmental conscious and organized people, my wife is always trying to...
Upgraded to WordPress 2.7
Just upgraded the site all the way from WordPress version 2.1 (yeah, I’ve been busy and procrastinating) to the latest and greatest, 2.7. As I’ve come to expect, compared to most of the software...
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...
bookrev: Little Green Men by Christopher Buckley
Two authors named Christopher write not only good plot lines with enjoyable characters but are also able to make me laugh out loud: Christopher Moore (author of Lamb), and Christopher Buckley, author of Boomsday,...
book notes: The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson #4) by Rick Riordan
Of the three main young adult series I have read (Twilight and Potter being the other two), Riordan’s is faster paced, funnier and brings out more history/mythology than the other two. Very enjoyable and...