Tag: Books
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The Greatest Science Fiction Novel Ever (Part 3)
This entry features a couple of “heavy hitters” in the science fiction world: Robert Heinlein and Frank Herbert, so it’s a bit longer than the others so far. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein I suppose I should start by explaining why this isn’t Starship Troopers. Two reasons: first, I tried to…
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The Greatest Science Fiction Novel Ever (Part 2)
My first post in this series generated a satisfying amount of comments and response, so I’m pushing ahead. Here are the next two entries. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess Anthony Burgess was a literary and intellectual giant, the author of novels, screenplays, reviews, essays, poems, translations, opera librettos, and music. He won the Nobel…
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The Greatest Science Fiction Novel Ever (Part 1)
If you ask someone to name the greatest Fantasy novel, you’ve got a very good chance of hearing them say, “The Lord of the Rings, of course.” It’s a pretty safe bet. The Lord of the Rings was named the Greatest Novel of the 20th century — overall, no genre specified — in a British…
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Glowing Review for Ishtar Deception
What it says on the tin. Paul DiFilippo reviewed The Ishtar Deception in Locus. Spoiler alert: he liked it.
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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…
