Out of Habit?
by There are a number of things that I wonder if I just do out of habit. The thing that I’m thinking of this morning is reading X-Men comics. Online subsc...
Category: Reading
2018 Reading Goals
by In the last few years, I’ve stepped up my reading. There was a time in my life when I read as many as 150 books per year. Those days are gone, consigned to m...
2017 Reading Summary
by But if 2017 was a weak writing year, it was a strong one for reading. Paper, electronic, audio, I consumed a lot of written words this year. Without going in...
No More Book Reviews
by At least not here. Well, not one at a time. I think I’ve come to the conclusion that the book reviews I’m posting here are more or less just taking up space....
Book Review: The World Inside
by This is an odd little book, less a novel and more a series of interlinked shorts designed to present a strange thought-experiment society. This is a kind of ...
Book Review: The Snow Queen
by The world and universe being constructed here are interesting. We have clones, an immortality drug, a computer accessible directly by humans who possess the ...
Book Review: Seveneves
by Seveneves is actually two stories. The first is a sort of end of the world, death by raining moon fragments and saving of the human race by going into space ...
Book Review: Existence
by I haven’t read much by David Brin in the past decade or so, which is weird. In my 20s, I loved the Uplift books and pretty much everything else of his I coul...
Book Review: Sacred Cows
by “Well into the 21st century, our species continues to participate in beliefs and customs that seem more suited to the Bronze Age than the Information Age,” d...
Book Review: Time Travel: A History
by While I enjoyed the book overall, I finished it with an odd sense of disappointment. It’s filled with references that are aimed directly at me, everything fr...