Category Archives: Books

Everyone seems to have a favorite movie that they watch during the holidays – mine is The Blue Carbuncle (1984). Jeremy Brett seems as if he were born to play Sherlock Holmes, and I have watched every episode in which … Continue reading →

Across Realtime encompasses two stories: The Peace War and Marooned in Realtime. As you might guess from the titles, the latter is much cooler than the former. Having read Marooned in Realtime first as a separate paperback, I already knew … Continue reading →

When I saw that one of my favorite scifi authors, Vernor Vinge, grabbed the 2007 Hugo Award for Rainbows End, I had to pick up a copy. Heh, I was just about to compare the book to Neuromancer and Snow … Continue reading →

Seeker, a story about two adventurous antiquarians searching for a lost colony, won author Jack McDevitt the 2006 Nebula Award. Some of the praise for McDevitt that I see on the jacket cover is pretty effusive: “The logical heir to … Continue reading →

Lois McMaster Bujold scored the 1995 Hugo Award for Mirror Dance, one of the many books in her “Vorkosigan Adventures”. I enjoyed this one so much that I’m tempted to explore the rest of the series, but I want to … Continue reading →

UPDATE: removed statements falsely accusing Scalzi of borrowing ideas from Joe Haldeman. After trying to fight through some tough literary jungle, I was happy to find myself blazing through The Ghost Brigades (2006) by John Scalzi. This book lasted me … Continue reading →

Whenever I try to read science fiction lately I find myself thwarted by my own expectations. Over the years I’ve been paging through the Nebula and Hugo award-winners, apparently setting my literary demands higher and higher with each read. Here … Continue reading →

When Hyperion arrived in the mail, I instantly had a good feeling about Dan Simmons’ 1990 Hugo award winner. My intuition proved correct and I ended up consuming all four books in the Hyperion Cantos. As a fan of science … Continue reading →

With the movie about to come out, my boss loaned me I am Legend by Richard Matheson. I read the synopsis on the back cover and concluded that the book might be good for a pulpy vampire-slaying romp: Robert Neville … Continue reading →

Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman won both the Nebula and Hugo awards in 1998. After reading The Forever War by the same author, I had to wonder about the connection between the two. Fortunately, Haldeman clues you in at the … Continue reading →