My review of Rick Riordan’s The Mark of Athena is up at the Hugo-award winning SFSignal.com. An excerpt: REVIEW SUMMARY: The third book in Rick Riordan’s Heroes of Olympus series joins Percy Jackson (son of Poseidon),...
My review of Assassin’s Code, the fourth “Joe Ledger” novel by Jonathan Maberry, is up on SFSignal.com. An excerpt: REVIEW SUMMARY: With ancient conspiracies wrapping more genetic mutations and the not quite omniscient Department...
The 2012 Hugos  are awards for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy. The Hugos are awarded each year by the World Science Fiction Society, at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon). This year...
It is a good problem to have. What to read next?? Indulge in some recent SF/Fantasy? Read an old classic? Venture into my other fetish, historical non-fiction? Like most, I have a stack of...
My review of Edge of Dark Water by fellow Texan and martial artist Joe R. Lansdale is up on SFSignal. An excerpt: REVIEW SUMMARY: Utilizing the East Texas setting he knows so well, Lansdale...
Written in 1949 (and only recently available as a Kindle eBook), Atomsk is a pyschological spy novel which takes place just after the end of World War II, when tensions between the U.S. and...
My review of READY PLAYER ONE by Ernest Cline has been posted on SFSignal. An excerpt: REVIEW SUMMARY: A fast-paced story in a bleak future, where escape into virtual worlds is driven by a...
The Scholastic Book Club was a huge fetish of mine during later elementary school and middle school. Every six weeks a pulp magazine of their latest offerings would arrive. I’d check off the ones...
Originally published in 1997, The Sparrow combines some of mankind’s most basic questions into an interesting story: Are humans the only species in the Universe? And if we find another species, how do we...
Paine L. Winthrop, President of Seaven Seas ship building company, is murdered, his office destroyed by a launched missile. Monk and Ham are in Monk’s lab in the same building, and go to investigate. They are ultimately taken captive...
