After almost three weeks in Sri Lanka, I'm back.  The vacation was great.  The kids loved it, as did we, and I hope to post some photo...

For that thimbleful of readers who may care, there will be a brief hiatus while I go on vacation with my family to Sri Lanka.  I will be t...

While I posted fewer books this year than recent years, there was still a good selection of quality books that stuck out, regardless ...

The 2018 season of Starcraft 2 is upon us.   Qualifiers for WESG, WCS, and IEM Pyeongyang are ongoing, January tournament start dates...

Andy Duncan’s first book, Beluthahatchie and Other Stories , was a superb collection of short fiction.   Dripping with voice and styl...

If you are anything like me, seeing Japanese anime featuring spiky-haired young men wielding swords twice as big as they are can caus...

Of the thousands of books published in speculative fiction in 2017, I read twenty-two, which is a slight drop compared to previous ye...

Like the two world wars and the effect they had on everyday people trying to live everyday lives in the 20th century, one of the greate...

As that thimbleful of regular readers will know, I am largely dismissive of horror.   There are books that buck the trend, for certai...

In today’s cultural climate, Colson Whitehead’s 2016 The Underground Railroad is a difficult book to trust reviews of.   Many on the...