Trying new authors on the market today is a real Vegas trip. Cover copy, awards, and blurbs just can't cover the nuances of many books....

One of the advantages of novellas is that it gives readers a taste of a writer without the financial and time commitments to a full novel. ...

Eeeerrrwhoaaa… That was a child making a zooming airplane sound. Trust me. I know because I’ve played Richard Scary’s Busytown: Busy, Busy...

It's normal these days to read a book that highlights, or goes out of its way , to identify characters which do not fit Western demograp...

The human species never ceases to amaze. The past couple of years has seen the rise of Q-Anon conspiracy theories, for example. Bills Gate...

Here is a mini-Lego set. Here are the instructions. How fast can you put it together? Ok, good job. Now, if I take a copy of the same set...

The first 100 or so pages of Simon Ing's 2021 novel The Smoke are like watching an archer shoot at a target; each arrow strikes a new l...

How does the 17th century German postal system sound as a theme for a board game? I imagine there is a spectrum of replies: boring, interes...

On the spectrum of science fiction possibilities, I find myself most appreciative of writers who are trying to do something different than t...

While I enjoy the first three Demon Prince novels for what they are, ultimately they do not display much of the panache that made Vance so s...