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Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, …
Reminds me of Asimov in his early Y/A days.
Little worried this won a Hugo.
Cixin Liu's trilogy-opening novel about first contact with aliens and the clandestine struggle with them over Earth's future, and its …
Opening with reviews and cover blurbs about new sensor technology (ca 2000), the book is instead an extended discussion about the author's last great effort in uniform, the complete reformation of the military services.
While an interesting conclusion to come to, far too little both of how his team came to these results or about how such changes could be applied.
I hope a more compelling pitch was made internal to the services.
A substantial amount of knowledge of the services or substantial other reading required to turn this into more than 'how to save money through synergy' the corporate world has heard for years.
This could precede The Pentagon's New Map.
In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in …
From the author of The Thirty Nine Steps which has been made and remade into films, one expects some plot turns and twists. This tale does not disappoint.
Geography is covered in vast sweeps, the opponent characters somewhat simplified verging on stereotyping not unusual for the era. The good guys treated to some of the best characterization I've read. It is a short read, but I finished anticipating the reactions of characters as I felt I knew them so well. But a romp through the vast sweep of The Great War, complete with terms and concepts circa the era and interesting for the either lexicographer or the social scientist (armchair variety like myself).
This book has a scope too vast for the economy of modern film, as one rarely drops in the Eastern Front of WWI as backdrop to an excellent spy novel.
The second in a series of wartime …
From the author of The Thirty Nine Steps which has been made and remade into films, one expects some plot turns and twists. This tale does not disappoint.
Geography is covered in vast sweeps, the opponent characters somewhat simplified verging on stereotyping not unusual for the era. The good guys treated to some of the best characterization I've read. It is a short read, but I finished anticipating the reactions of characters as I felt I knew them so well. But a romp through the vast sweep of The Great War, complete with terms and concepts circa the era and interesting for the either lexicographer or the social scientist (armchair variety like myself).
This book has a scope too vast for the economy of modern film, as one rarely drops in the Eastern Front of WWI as backdrop to an excellent spy novel.
The second in a series of wartime spy novels in the best British genre, unprofessional good effort winning against all odds and a total lack of modern cynicism. Quite refreshing for that alone.
The American Practical Navigator (colloquially often referred to as Bowditch), originally written by Nathaniel Bowditch, is an encyclopedia of navigation. …
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad, American Spanish: [sjen ˈaɲoz ðe soleˈðað]) is a landmark 1967 …
Alice Schroeder: The Snowball (2008, Bantam)
Great book about a great man.
A nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, …
Having thought I knew this story for years after so many cultural references, it was entirely fresh to me reading the original.
I recommend we all go read the stories we think we know, think I'll try a turn at Gulliver's Travels and follow up with some Lewis Carrol.
Reamde is a speculative fiction novel by Neal Stephenson, published in 2011. The story, set …
Stephenson has pulled off another delightful techno-thriller.
The tech changes, the characters change, and this was a run and gun that went on for chapters.
Suspense unrelieved by change of scene, it just keeps mounting to an amazing conclusion.
In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. …
Decades into our future, a stone’s throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth …
Unique among the arts, ballet has no written texts or standardized notation. It is a storytelling art passed on from …
In this account, a journalist traces the course of yellow fever, stopping in 1878 Memphis to "vividly [evoke] the Faulkner-meets-'Dawn …
