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In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container …
It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en …
The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking …
Too lyrical for the grim subject and yet
Not a perfect book, but a good and important one. As an ex-Miamian it will, I suspect, help me grieve in years and decades to come.
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall.
When …
Too personal for what I was looking for
This is not a bad book, per se; the vignettes are well-drawn and the stories cover a broad sweep of the relevant history. But I was hoping, perhaps for something less personal and more historical, particularly on the ebb and flow of Juneteenth’s celebration in Texas and its recent turn into a more national(?) event. If that’s what you’re looking for, I suspect you’ll have to turn elsewhere.
Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, …
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to …
An "alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's ... colonization of the Congo …
Michael Benson: Space Odyssey (Hardcover, 2018, Simon & Schuster)
Sinopse
Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the film’s release, this is the definitive story of the making of 2001: A …
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy …
