Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Fiction that interweaves historical fact, especially the World War I or II time periods, are among my favorite reads (and I enjoy writing them as well). Sarah’s Key fits that bill very well, mixing...
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Marriage is like having a ring in your nose?
Many years (okay, decades) ago, marriages and weddings used to scare me too. Scare and intimidate, and I was loud and vociferous about my objections to them to hide those fears. Every wedding I...
Romance blog review? Never thought I’d see the day
Software by the Kilo was reviewed on the Coffee Time Romance web site. I did try to follow my wife’s instructions to lower the geek factor in my second novel, but never dreamed it...
New review of Software by the Kilo
A nice well written “four spider” review of my latest novel, Software by the Kilo, over at Webb Weaver. A bit of it below: I heartily enjoyed Software By The Kilo, with it’s well...
Review on SFSignal.com of Chadbourn’s World’s End
My notes on Mark Chadbourn’s excellent first novel in his Age of Misrule trilogy, World’s End, has been published on SFSignal.com. An excerpt: There are almost as many end of world novels as there...
The Lightning Thief – Movie vs. Book
The movie The Lightning Thief, has excellent special effects (Hades in the fire and looking like an old rock musician is well done) and tells the story of Percy Jackson, half human, half Olympian...
Pirate of the Pacific (Doc Savage #19)
This is the fifth story originally published by Street and Smith. If I remember correctly, this is one of the first ones I purchased back in the late 60s or early 70s. My copy...
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...
Texas Driver’s License – where not to wait
Let’s just call this a public service announcement. Like many, I am not a fan of waiting, nor the English perfected fine art of “queueing”. When I had to get my Driver’s License renewed...
The Polar Treasure (Doc Savage #4)
This is the fourth story originally published by Street and Smith. Lester Dent portrays a perplexed Doc Savage, unlike the other novels. Doc is several times surprised by events, which happens rarely. In this...