Jun 5, 20213 min read
Book Review: This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Letters are many things in Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s This Is How You Lose the Time War. Taunts between foes. Invitations to...
May 1, 20213 min read
Book Review: The Dark Forest, by Cixin Liu
Cixin Liu’s The Dark Forest generally operates on a galactic scale. But it starts with the perspective of an ant. The diminutive point of...
Sep 19, 20202 min read
Book Review: The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal
Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars begins as a disaster story and ends as a space race. Both tales are compelling in their own...
Apr 20, 20203 min read
Book Review: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, by Ken Liu
I think part of why I enjoyed Ken Liu’s The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories so much is that his collection of science fiction and...
Aug 8, 20192 min read
Podcast Review: Wolverine - The Long Night, by Marvel
One of the most interesting things about Marvel's narrative podcast Wolverine: The Long Night is that Wolverine is barely in it. The...
Jul 13, 20193 min read
Book Review: The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu
Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem is the type of epic science-fiction novel that’s carried more by its science than its fiction. I don’t...
May 1, 20181 min read
Podcast Review: Steal the Stars, by Tor Labs
Steal the Stars is one of the best stories I’ve listened to in a long time. I say listened to because Steal the Stars is a dramatic...
Mar 14, 20184 min read
Book Review: The Dark Tower, by Stephen King
And so at last we come to The Dark Tower, the final book in Stephen King’s series of the same name (the long tale he’s said is his Lord...
Nov 6, 20172 min read
Book Review: Song of Susannah, by Stephen King
Song of Susannah is my favorite of Stephen King’s Dark Tower books so far. There are several reasons. For one thing, King picks up right...
Aug 12, 20172 min read
Book Review: Redshirts, by John Scalzi
John Scalzi’s Redshirts starts as a Star Trek parody and ends as something deeper. His protagonists are five new crew members of the...
