Author of four novels, Girl on the Moon, Girl on Mars, Interstellar Girl, and Pauper, a standalone. Working on a fifth novel called Fight the Future. I read primarily SFF.
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From a dazzling new voice in fantasy comes a mesmerizing tale of treachery, passion, intrigue, …
Imaginitive world, characters, story, told deftly, engrossing and vibrant.
Controlled by an aristocracy whose depraved whims bow to neither law nor god, the kingdom …
Loved Maledicte, and this sequel is quite a departure from that, so that fact I loved them both equally has got to be some kind of reflection on the author, right?
Business has been slow. Okay, business has been dead. And not even of the undead …
Candy. A light snack. Interesting enough. Something to do.
Robert J. Sawyer's award-winning science fiction has garnered both popular and critical acclaim. The New …
The exceptional promise of the first 3/4 of the book is comPLETEly megated by the last quarter. Jesus on sale. What might have been.
"Virus hunter" Christopher Dicken is a man on a mission, following a trail of rumors, …
I've decided I just must not like Greg Bear. It's probably not him, it's probably me. I didn't finish this. I tried, numerous times. I don't care.
This wasn't a modern Faulkner. It doesn't breathe the same air as Cormac McCarthy. Too many reviews say these things. It was a perfectly cromulent book, if you're willing not to expect a New American Masterpiece.
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto …
I was disappointed. I was in the minority. Don't listen to me. But I still don't like Oscar Wao, the main character, and I gather I was supposed to.
Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor …
Boldly inventive future-building, tackling transhumanism, truly strange aliens, group dynamics and resurrected vampires. If you can read only one book with those four elements this year, make it this one.
"Trying to regain his life in the Alaskan wilds, ex-con/ex-cop Travis Chase stumbles upon an …
Meh.
An... interesting premise, brought off more than competently. Gritty, pallid, spooky, realistic alt-history of World War II.
A fugitive English forester and mercenary defender saves young novitiate Melisande and, defending himself from …
Among my favorite books, historical fiction or any broader category. Dampens you, makes you shiver with cold, makes you feel helpless as you follow Henry's army through France, and you exult after Agincourt. Fantastic book.
Touching, sometimes manipulative, but always a compelling story, with one of the most perfect endings I've ever read.
Dante, after becoming lost on the path of life, is led by Virgil into Hell …
OH MY GOD YOU GUYS. This is the most thrilling, accessible, mesmerizing, engrossing translation of Dante you will EVER read. It's so, so good. It loosens EPIC POETRY's grip on the Inferno and turns it into a rollicking story. In terza rima! Yet without immolating it or derogating its importance. Cannot recommend this book any more highly.
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts is a book by …
From beginning to end, this book tells the frank, heroic, frenetic story of the moon program, without ever devolving into celebrity worship. Details abound, but never overwhelm the narrative. The author clearly loves his subject, and that shows through, without it ever being cloying. A fabulous book, the best non-fiction book about the Apollo program there is.
Shel and his friend Dave journey through time in search of Shel's missing physicist-father, but …
I'm a huge McDevitt fan. This wasn't his best book. There are implausibilities that seem (to a reader, outside the creative process) to be the result of laziness, not difficulty. There isn't a huge point: We aren't really looking for dad, we aren't rooting for the potential lovers, we aren't rooting for the government's reasearch to be exposed and put down -- it's just a story about two guys with personal time machines. It's a GOOD story about two guys with personal time machines, but it isn't anything more, and it could have been.
