“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” — Groucho Marx
I’ve always been a sucker for a great time travel yarn. I recently finished up two such tales. The first is The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman. Booklist says:
“Lowly MIT research assistant Matt Fuller toils away in a physics lab until one day he makes an odd discovery. A sensitive quantum calibrator keeps [...]
Ender In Exile is billed as a ‘direct sequel’ to Ender’s Game. Never mind that it was written 25 years after EG. Card has revisited the EG world numerous times since the original, and it almost seems as if Ender is nothing but a cash cow for him at this point. Not many authors can [...]
I picked up copy of Women Of The Night by Martin Greenberg on a recent excursion to my local B&N. At first, it only received a cursury passing glance. As I made my rounds through the sci-fi / fantasy section, I thought about it a little more. ‘Women of the night’ could mean either prostitutes [...]
I’m a huge fan of science fiction. I can’t say why, for certain. I think it has a lot to do with escapism. Fantasy and sci-fi are great when you need a break from real life and want to be absorbed into an alternate reality.
I fell in love with Ender’s Game around the time when [...]
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