Showing posts with label reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reviews. Show all posts
Monday, September 28, 2026

Review: Fist of the North Star Vols 1-10

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 I had fond memories of Fist of the North Star from teenage years. It's got a stoic hero who mostly lets his fists do the talking (in t...
Thursday, September 24, 2026

Review: Absolute Wonder Woman Vol 1-2

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 I was so impressed with Absolute Superman that I decided to check out Absolute Wonder Woman. The first two books in this ongoing series ar...
Monday, September 21, 2026

Review: Absolute Superman Vol 1 & 2

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 I missed all the hoopla when DC announced the new absolute universe, so I only picked up Last Dust of Krypton when I finished Die and the ...
Thursday, September 17, 2026

Review: Rise of the Dungeon Master

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 Rise of the Dungeon Master is a recounting of the history of D&D, told in comic book format. It is short and easy to read, something y...
Monday, September 14, 2026

Review: Nor Crystal Tears

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 Nor Crystal Tears is Alan Dean Foster's first contact novel between the Humans and Thranx. Apparently its a universe (called the Human...
Thursday, September 10, 2026

Review: Titanium Noir

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 Titanium Noir is another novel recommended to me by ChatGPT. This is an unusual book in that it was good enough for me to read to the end,...
Monday, September 07, 2026

Review: Spin

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Spin was another recommendation by ChatGPT. This one was an absolute miss. The premise is that one day, the Earth is wrapped in a permeable...
Thursday, September 03, 2026

Review: The Battle of Space Fort Jefferson and Other Stories

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 I remember Timothy Zahn as being the author of militaristic science fiction (including some very well regarded Star Wars books), but have n...
Monday, August 31, 2026

Review: The Dictator's Handbook

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 The Dictator's Handbook is a layman's exposition of selectorate theory . The idea behind the theory is that a political leader (ye...
Thursday, August 27, 2026

Review: Eversion

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 It's a testimonial to how busy the past year had been that I missed the publication of not just one, but two Alastair Reynolds novels! ...
Monday, August 24, 2026

Review: Halcyon Years

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 This year has been so busy that I missed that Alastair Reynolds wrote a new book, Halcyon Years that came out in January! The good news ab...
Thursday, August 20, 2026

Review: Eight Billion Genies

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 Eight Billion Genies explores a fun concept, which is that if everyone on earth had one wish, what would people do with it, and what would...
Monday, August 17, 2026

Review: The Power Fantasy

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 The Power Fantasy is another take on "What if Superheroes were real?" It's a unique take, partly because the super-powers it...

Review: Die

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 Die is a comic book series divided into 4 volumes: Fantasy Heartbreaker , Split the Party , The Great Game and Bleed . It is a complete s...
Thursday, August 13, 2026

Review: The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories

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 The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories is a short story collection by Walter Jon Williams. The titular story wasn't all the exciti...
Thursday, August 06, 2026

Review: Slow Gods

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 Slow Gods is Claire North's "science fiction" allegorical novel set in a far future space. I use "science fiction"...
Sunday, August 02, 2026

Review: Do Hard Things

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 Do Hard Things has the subtitle that it's about how the conventional idea of toughness is wrong. I picked it up expecting some wishy w...
Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Review: The Gone World

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 After reading There is no Anti-Memetics Division , I went to ChatGPT Pro and asked for other books like it that I might have missed over th...
Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Review: Voice of the Whirlwind

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 I’m generally a fan of Walter Jon Williams. His worlds are quite well constructed, and his characters interesting, many quite nuanced. Voic...
Sunday, July 19, 2026

Review: How to Win A Trade War

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 How To Win A Trade War is a breezily written, conversational book about trade economics. At its best, it provides cool statistics about tr...