Category: Philip Jose Farmer

bookrev: Triangle by R.J. Archer 0

bookrev: Triangle by R.J. Archer

Take a little of Graham Hancock’s theories on Earth’s ancient civilizations, mix in some Clive Cussler-type adventure and action, put on your scuba gear and grab your archaeological text books. Let me see…that’s one...

SF Signal Mind Meld, me but no vulcans 0

SF Signal Mind Meld, me but no vulcans

SFSignal is running their Tuesday Mind Meld feature with the question: are we headed for a Technological Panopticon? My response is there, along with the august company of Vernor Vinge, Charles Stross and David...

bookrev: The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold 2

bookrev: The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold

Winner of the 1991 Hugo Award When I did my list of the science fiction / fantasy authors with the most number of Hugos and Nebulas in the novel category, I was somewhat surprised...

Review in Apex Digest Online 2

Review in Apex Digest Online

The January 2008 edition of Apex Digest Online is up, and it contains an outstanding and in-depth review of my novel: It’s the end of the world as we know, but not everything is...

bookrev: sEEkEr by Jack McDevitt 0

bookrev: sEEkEr by Jack McDevitt

Winner of the 2006 Nebula for best novel. My first McDevitt read certainly won’t be my last. Seeker is a page-turner, a combo mystery/sci-fi novel that was an excellent first read for me of...

bookrev: Confessor by Terry Goodkind (final novel in the Sword of Truth series) 0

bookrev: Confessor by Terry Goodkind (final novel in the Sword of Truth series)

Sword of Truth: Book 11 Terry Goodkind concludes his philosophical fantasy series, the eleventh book in his Sword of Truth series. I call it a philosophical fantasy because there are equal parts Ayn Rand...

Guest bookrev at SF Signal: 2012 by Whitley Strieber 1

Guest bookrev at SF Signal: 2012 by Whitley Strieber

Those wonderful gents in their typing machines at SF Signal invited me to guest review the novel 2012: The War for Souls by Whitley Strieber. Give it a read, and check out their SF...

bookrev: The Metatemporal Detective by Michael Moorcock 1

bookrev: The Metatemporal Detective by Michael Moorcock

Sherlock Holmes meets Moorcock’s multiverse A detective that can travel the multiverse, the constant struggle between Law and Chaos, the Albino, blimps/dirigibles, rail travel and electric cars (with no oil). Plus guest appearances by...

My book reviewed at Logical Misanthropy 1

My book reviewed at Logical Misanthropy

Ty over at Logical Misanthropy (great name!) gives a “mini-review” of Dusk Before the Dawn: A fascinating mixture of mysticism, nanotechnology and martial arts. The book reminded me a bit of King’s “The Stand,”...

bookrev: Red Moon by David S. Michaels and Daniel Brenton 5

bookrev: Red Moon by David S. Michaels and Daniel Brenton

The US-USSR space race re-imagined, with historical fiction combined with a near-future earth on the brink; a great read, not just for NASA fans or sci-fi fans, but all readers. This book combines an...