Book Reviews
| Subversive Reading | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | January 9, 2012 |
 Authority—many different types of authority—are subverted in this hit-and-miss anthology of mostly short stories...
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| He's big, he's back, he's Taft… in 2012 | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | December 22, 2011 |
 Jason Heller's Taft 2012 brings a former President with a great message into a modern Presidential campaign, and wonders why we don't have such qualified candidates today...
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| Agent of Inquiry—Madeleine E. Robins' The Sleeping Partner | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | November 3, 2011 |
| This third alternate-history Regency Sarah Tolerance novel in the series hits on all cylinders, returning the reader to a delightful world of scandal, intrigue, and mystery... | |
| The Shattered Vine, a satisfying end to the Vineart War, arrives with an elegant launch party | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | October 22, 2011 |
  Laura Anne Gilman brings a satisfying conclusion to her Vineart War trilogy, with wine generating magic and mysteries generating conflicts...
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| The Circus of Dreams—Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | September 22, 2011 |
| The Night Circus scintillates in the mind; it is a taut story combining fantasy, magic, love, death, and secrets... | |
| A Haunted History of Columbus, Ohio is a charming collection of ghost tales | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | September 14, 2011 |
 A warm collection of cozy ghost tales for the cool Halloween season upon us...
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| Death and the Superman: A Look at the DC Comics New 52 Reboot | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | August 31, 2011 |
  DC Comics reboots its entire superhero universe, and it looks like it's off to a roaring start...
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| A Touch of Whimsy—the first Warehouse 13 novel, A Touch of Fever by Greg Cox | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | July 12, 2011 |
 If you can't get enough of the television series, the first Warehouse 13 tie-in novel is a fitting addition to the wonderful universe of weird and wacky artifacts and people...
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| Triple Threat—J.D. Robb's …In Death series | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | June 16, 2011 |
| Our television reviewer takes on J.D. Robb's near-future, dystopian, police-procedural, romance series, and finds it wanting, but with qualities to recommend it... | |
| Robert J. Sawyer's near future may be a Wonder, or a terror, but either way, it's probably coming | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | March 30, 2011 |
 Robert J. Sawyer concludes his WWW trilogy with the same skill and thrills with which he started it. This is the type of science fiction we read to warn us of what's coming, not in a century, but tomorrow...
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| The new characters are young and in Starfleet Academy, but The Delta Anomaly doesn't get resolved | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | January 6, 2011 |
 Very evocative of the new film franchise, but (as with that movie), not a very satisfying story...
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| Miles Vorkosigan's triumphant return may leave him frozen, or dead, if he can't convincingly accept a bribe | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | October 1, 2010 |
 Miles Vorkosigan is back in a new setting with new people undergoing new problems, and it's a satisfying story...
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| Gilman's Weight of Stone feels a little heavy, but it still holds the attention | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | September 24, 2010 |
 Weight of Stone may be the middle volume of a trilogy, but the world is still gripping and entertaining, and Jerzy is still growing into his magical birthright...
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| Alternate 1926 steampunk police-procedural: Ghosts of Manhattan make their mark | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | July 28, 2010 |
 George Mann's Ghosts of Manhattan is a police-procedural superhero novel set in an alternate, steampunked 1926 New York City. It's compelling...
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| How do you know it isn't happening right now? Robert J. Sawyer's WWW: Watch | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | April 8, 2010 |
 Who says it won't be a sixteen-year-old girl who makes first contact with a nonhuman intelligence? Do you know what we'll do if she does? Once again, Robert J. Sawyer presents an engrossing novel...
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| Death and rebirth, on individual and planetary scales, make Coyote Destiny a wonderful read | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | March 23, 2010 |
 What began as flight from Earth concludes with a return to Earth, as the child takes care of the parent. Allen Steele's Coyote series is coming to an end, but you don't want to miss the explosive conclusions...
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| They won't be visiting any time soon, but we're doing business with them in Edward M. Lerner's InterstellarNet: Origins | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | March 4, 2010 |
| Interesting aliens, wonderful extrapolation, read this book, and then start planning where to put your money for the coming of the InterstellarNet... | |
| Oh the wonderful things this other thing could have been—Eoin Colfer's And Another Thing… | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | December 4, 2009 |
 Eoin Colfer's writing, in this case, really is reminiscent of Douglas Adams's, but the overall story just isn't worth it...
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| Drink up and read: Gilman's Flesh and Fire plants a new magic | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | November 13, 2009 |
 Laura Anne Gilman's Flesh and Fire lays out a new and fascinating form of magic, but it isn't complete: we'll have to wait for book 2 to see what happens...
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| If we're not here next week, we'll be farming on Ganymede, with Heinlein's Farmer in the Sky | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | November 12, 2009 |
 I'm not a Boy Scout, nor suffering the privations of food rationing, but even so, Heinlein makes shipping out to a farming life around Jupiter seem really appealing...
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| Be an individual! Rely on yourself! Heinlein's The Puppet Masters is back | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | September 25, 2009 |
 It's dark, and the story doesn't translate very well over 58 years, but Heinlein's paean to individualism and self-reliance still rings those notes loud and clear...
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| A spooky, but gorgeous, little book—a review of Isis by Douglas Clegg | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | September 24, 2009 |
 The story is darkly haunting, and will stick with you, but the artwork is downright amazing, and will demand a place in your home...
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| A review of The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | July 30, 2009 |
 A very good book showing us how randomness rules our lives, and yet we're not evolved to recognize it when we see it. Recommended...
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| The British Are Coming—a review of The Patriot Witch, A Spell for the Revolution, and The Demon Redcoat by C.C. Finlay | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | July 9, 2009 |
 A delightful blend of historical fiction and fantasy, with a clever idea well executed...
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| A review of Doc Wilde and the Frogs of Doom by Tim Byrd | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | June 25, 2009 |
 Tim Byrd has reinvigorated the pulp fiction of Doc Savage and the bland superhero-ness of Buckaroo Banzai in a family friendly adventure starring Doc Wilde and his kids. I'm looking forward to more...
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