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 [...]

Days of Infamy was an easy read for me. I finished it in two sittings, which isn’t bad for a tome that runs 440 pages in hardcover. The premise - Japan following up the air attack on Hawaii with a land invasion, is a fascinating one. Turtledove develops a palatable chain of events the could [...]

I read this entire novel while traveling from Baghdad, Iraq to Atlanta, Georgia on my two weeks rest and relaxation so kindly afforded to me by the government as a reward for serving in a combat zone.
Kiln People is a fun read, with plenty of plot twists around the central idea that society has discovered [...]

The Forever War is primarily the story of a soldier named William Mandella. Mandella is a time traveling space warrior who jumps from battle to battle over a period of hundreds of years, fighting an inhuman enemy called the Taurans. As he fights, those around him die, and everything he knows back on Earth changes. [...]

Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability is to a web designer what a rifle is to a soldier.If you’ve ever been involved in building a web site that will serve as the virtual world shingle for a corporation or government entity, you should have had this book with you during [...]