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Genre Preferences
by I don’t intend to argue (or even give) definitions in this post, but as I look at the world of fiction, there are 11 genres. Yes, if you include sub-genres and genre-mixings…
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I’m Not Reading As Much As I Have Been
by Reading has been part of my daily routine forever. Over breakfast, before bed, standing in line at the grocery store. And while I’ve gone through periods in my life where I wasn’t…
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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 subscriptions are a…
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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…
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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 into a lot…
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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.…
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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 social SF you don’t…
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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 correct gene sequences, faster than light travel, and…
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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 kind of…
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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…
