REVIEWER’S NOTE: This review contains reveals plot twists, although I doubt that will take away any reader’s enjoyment of the novel.
America’s Last Days has a highly interesting premise that I find wholly plausible. In times of increasingly bitter partisanship in Washington, the only thing that keeps us from being embroiled in a second civil war [...]
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America’s Last Days by Douglas McKinnon
Tuesday, 24 April 2007
Island in the Sea of Time by S.M. Stirling
Sunday, 28 May 2006
Island in the Sea of Time is a fascinating what if novel that asks the reader to imagine life for a group of 20th century Americans thrown back in time to long before the birth of Christ, into a world of polytheism, tribalism, bronze weapons, brutal wars and slavery.
One of the main characters is black, [...]
Interface by Neal Stephenson & J. Frederick George
Friday, 12 May 2006
Interface is techno thriller that manages to bring together diverse characters, locales and an intricate plot into a fairly believable near future scenario in which the soon to be President of the United States is controlled by a computer chip implanted in his brain after a stroke.
It’s full of interesting characters including the first black [...]
End of the Beginning: A Novel of Alternate History by Harry Turtledove
Wednesday, 3 May 2006
I recently reviewed Days of Infamy: A Novel of Alternate History and while I thoroughly enjoyed the book, I complained that author Harry Turtledove perhaps understated the brutality of the Japanese during World War II. End of the Beginning picks up where Days of Infamy left off, and this time, I think the true horror [...]
The Cobweb by Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George
Sunday, 30 April 2006
I wasn’t sure what to expect with this book. I’m a huge Neal Stephenson fan. His writing is wonderful. His characters are fascinating. This book, co-written with his uncle under the pen name Stephen Bury is, in my opinion, highly underrated.
First and foremost, if you’ve read Stephenson’s recent work (Cryptonomicon, The Baroque Cycle then you’ll [...]











