Category: Authors

bookrev: Dragons of the Dwarven Depths by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman 5

bookrev: Dragons of the Dwarven Depths by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

The Lost Chronicles Volume 1 3 stars: A nice read, but needs intro summary and a couple of plot problems fixed Even though I have read many of R.A. Salvatore’s novels (the other Wizards...

Tobias Buckell and me on Adventures in SciFi Publishing 1

Tobias Buckell and me on Adventures in SciFi Publishing

Shaun Farrell has an excellent podcast called Adventures in SciFi Publishing. He has had many of my favorite authors on his podcast, has editors and publishers as well. It is well executed and quite...

Transferring info through bones: security? disruption? 0

Transferring info through bones: security? disruption?

Rice University here in Houston announced an interesting research project and technology called “OsteoConduct: Musculo-Skeletal Conduction for Secure Data Communication“, transferring sound waves through bones. The project is has been awarded funding from Microsoft...

bookrev: The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson 1

bookrev: The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson

5 stars: Couldn’t put it down, and it made me go look up Calabi-Yau I’ve been working hard to read a lot of the ARC’s I received at Book Expo America and have read...

bookrev: The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks 5

bookrev: The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks

Tried really, really hard to love it, almost succeeded…maybe my expectations were too high from The Traveler Please note that the copy of this novel reviewed is an “Advanced Reading Copy” that I received...

My novel reviewed at SF Signal 0

My novel reviewed at SF Signal

John DeNardo at SF Signal just posted a nice review of my novel, Dusk Before the Dawn. You can read it here and make sure and leave John lots of comments…he likes that a...

essay: Book Expo America, NYC, June 2007 4

essay: Book Expo America, NYC, June 2007

A first time novelist’s first time at the show I went to BEA (and took my wife and son) for many reasons: My first book (Dusk Before the Dawn) was up for a 2006...

bookrev: The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi 0

bookrev: The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi

5 stars: That does it, I am officially envious of Scalzi’s talent John Scalzi won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Gee, I wonder why? While not as fantastic as his...

bookrev: The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer 0

bookrev: The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer

4 stars: A decent story from one of the best SF writers Robert J. Sawyer is a great science fiction writer, having won every major award in the US, UK, Canada, Japan, and would...

bookrev: The Pixel Eye by Paul Levinson 0

bookrev: The Pixel Eye by Paul Levinson

Written by a New Yorker, in this day and age eyes and ears are everywhere It’s obvious from reading this book (and a lot of Paul’s books) that he is a New Yorker. He...