Author Archives: molecularbear

Back to sci-fi – just finished Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny. The book was first published in 1969 and supposedly won the Hugo Award a year earlier in 1968. This is one of those sci-fi books that gets called … Continue reading →

I took a detour from my sci-fi path to read Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Annoyingly, I see no publication date in the book, but the first copyright is in 2001. The book won the “Man Booker Prize” which … Continue reading →

Just finished Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov, first published in 1953, and the third book in the Foundation series. As I predicted, this was a nice relaxing read after the heavy Neuromancer. Asimov gets a bit better at characters as … Continue reading →

Neuromancer by William Gibson was published in 1984; it won the 1985 Hugo Award and the 1984 Nebula Award. The book also won the Philip K. Dick Award, though I haven’t been paying much attention to the “Dick” award yet. … Continue reading →

Foundation and Empire, published in 1952, is another book I read in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. One of the things that is impressive about this series is that Asimov starting writing it when he was only twenty-one. Given some of … Continue reading →

Foundation by Isaac Asimov was first published in 1951. This book is the first in the Foundation series; the series won the Hugo Award for “Best All-Time Series” in 1966. Foundation is an example of why I am hesitant to … Continue reading →

Friday at midnight I went to Books-A-Million to obtain my reserved copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J. K. Rowling’s latest installment in the Harry Potter series. After some solid reading blocks on Saturday and Sunday, I’ve completed … Continue reading →

I finished The Time Machine by H. G. Wells which is a brief 140-page snack. This book won neither the Hugo nor the Nebula, but that isn’t too surprising considering that the book was written before those awards were in … Continue reading →

Ringworld by Larry Niven won the Nebula Award in 1970 and the Hugo Award in 1971 (though the book says that the Hugo was awarded in 1970). Contrasted with Greg Bear’s realistic Darwin’s Radio, this book was a very pleasant … Continue reading →

When I was a teenager my father looked disparagingly at my Dragonlance novels and told me a fact that I still remember to this day. He said that so many books have been written that a single person could not … Continue reading →