Category Archives: Books

The Hugo Awards are given in recognition of excellent works in science fiction and/or fantasy. Via Chad Orzel, a physics professor who writes the Uncertain Principles blog, I learned that Nicholas Whyte has completed reading and reviewing all of the Hugo … Continue reading →

According to the HarperCollins Catalogs, Neal Stephenson’s next book, Reamde, will be published by William Morrow on September 20, 2011. The novel will be 960 pages long, and its first printing will be 250,000 volumes. The one-sentence summary provided by … Continue reading →

The April 11, 2011, issue of The New Yorker contains a long article, “Just Write It!” by Laura Miller about George R. R. Martin and his increasingly restless fans. Martin is the author of the fantasy series A Song of Ice … Continue reading →

Halting State, published by Charles Stross in 2007, is a science fiction thriller that takes place in Scotland in 2012. I enjoyed this book so much that I read it twice in a six-month period. The story begins with the theft … Continue reading →

I have a dream of writing a novel, although I’m much too busy right now. (Let’s not address right now whether I have the ability to write a novel.) If I do write that novel, and if it receives a … Continue reading →

Mars, written by Ben Bova, was published in 1992. I listened to the unabridged audiobook narrated by Stefan Rudnicki and available from audible.com. This book is disappointingly poor. Bova’s story deliberately and annoyingly departs from the excitement of exploring Mars to a … Continue reading →