Tag: Books
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The Ishtar Deception Faces Its First Test
“The Page 69 Test” is a blog, part of the “Campaign for the American Reader” family of Web sites. Its specific focus is on whether Page 69 of a book gives the reader a good idea of what the rest of the volume is like. (It’s based on a quote from Marshall McLuhan.) You can…
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Unboxed!
I got my box of author copies of The Ishtar Deception, so here’s a first look! The official publication date is June 2, so now is the time to make sure your local book store has it on order, and to put in your advance orders on Amazon. And as always, if you are caught,…
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Retro-Review: Hellstrom’s Hive
Hellstrom’s Hive is a novel by Frank Herbert, better known as the creator of Dune. He wrote it in 1972, inspired by a somewhat obscure film by David Wolper called The Hellstrom Chronicle. I haven’t seen the movie, but I gather it’s an odd combination of a nature documentary about bugs, coupled with some alarmist narration by the fictional…
The Cambias Digression 