Clik here to view.
The Stinky Future of Jake and Willy
Yesterday I read The Pisstown Chaos, the third in a series of bizarre novels set far into the future (I hope) and written by the wildly imaginative and just plain wild, David Ohle. This novel is so...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ancestral Burdens
I was enthralled by Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred. It is a great book. Butler was a science fiction writer, unusual for a black woman, and she was the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fabulous First Lady: Simulacra
Yesterday I went for a science fiction break from reality and I was not disappointed. Philip K. Dick never disappoints and his book The Simulacra was a fun and engaging read. Set in the future (of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Creator of Universes and Beyond: Ursula K. Le Guin
I am not really a huge science fiction fan, as you can tell if you go through the books I’ve put on my “Great Books” list (one), and if you notice that only two books grace my “Best Science Fiction”...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ice, Oceans, and a Warming Planet: Fact and Very Realistic Fiction
The days I spent reading The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse by Dale Pendell were uneasy ones. While reading this chilling book of fiction set in the future, I happened upon a very real article...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reading Scifi and Fantasy from Fresno
I don’t often read Scifi and just about never read any Fantasy but I was thrilled with the stories I discovered in the 2010 Anthology of the Fresno Scifi and Fantasy Writers group, coordinated by R....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Parasite Eve: Evolution Threatens
Parasite Eve by Hideaki Sena is a bizarre and utterly mesmerizing book of science fiction horror. I never would have found it, much less read it, without being pointed in the right direction by a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Life After Sleep
In Life After Sleep, a fascinating and very funny science fiction novella about an invention that allows human beings to thrive on very little sleep, author Mark Brand explores the essence of our...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Words I Love To Hear
“I just read some great books on vacation.” Those are words I love to hear, because then I am in for the treat of discovering new books to read books, books to be on my to-read list. I just read some...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Walter Mosley and Love
Walter Mosley is the one I go to for great reading, time after time, and genre after genre, because he is a writer who never tires of exploring, in all different ways, how and why we humans keep on...
View Article
