While I prefer reading paper books, the heft and feel in the hand irreplaceable, it's inevitable that in 2022 ebooks and audiobooks are ...

Note: This review of The Lady of the Lake (1999), fifth and final volume in the Witcher series, is going to assume the reader has read the ...

It’s mid-2022 and Europe’s attention is on the ongoing war in Ukraine. The topics of security, economy, and resource availability are at th...

Jack Vance’s Demon Prince series is one of the more remarkable projects in Vance’s oeuvre. The five books were not written in relative succ...

In my youth and into adulthood I have read a fair number of boy’s adventures—Hardy Boys, The Mad Scientists’ Club, Hatchet , Mark Twain, Tre...

For those unaware, I am an American living in Poland. Slowly but surely, I have transported all 500+ of my CDs across the Atlantic. (Yes, ...

I’ve heard it said that science fiction is a “ literature of ideas ”. I never liked this. All literature is ideas. Thus, I would paraphra...

Adam Roberts is that maddening sportsman who has trophies on the shelf to show he is a winner but doesn’t always show up to play. With an i...

Race to the Treasure (2012) caught my eye as an Amazon recommendation while browsing small children’s games. Reading further, the voices i...

Over the years I have paid less and less attention to science fiction and fantasy awards. It’s become normal to celebrate vanilla, or laud ...