I will be taking a short holiday to Indonesia for 2 weeks.  I'll be reading James Clavell's King Rat  and re-reading Martin's A ...

Since reading The Spy and the Traitor , I have kept an eye open—wide open—for any new releases by Ben Macintyre. And this year it caught so...

There are three popular cooperative living card games on the market today:   Lord of the Rings: The Card Game ,   Arkham Horror: The Card Ga...

Several years ago I told myself I'm done with Guy Gavriel Kay. I'd read the best of his ouevre and the most mundane. And he wasn...

I live in Poland, a country full of highly independent-minded people. Garroulousness, striking your own path, and being a success following...

Robert Sheckley, oh Robert Sheckley, you under-recognized gem of rich, absurdist commentary on the foibles of this thing called existence. ...

Puerto Rico... what’s to be said that hasn’t likely been said a thousand times already? One of the most popular board games of all time, I ...

I assume I am part of a minority of people who are waiting for George R.R. Martin to finish the Song of Ice and Fire books before watching t...

In the fight to remain ashore as the waves of history wash things away, Theodore Sturgeon is clinging to the sands by a finger or two. Appr...

This being the review for the fourth book in a space opera series, I think I can skip the preamble and get right to the heart of matters: do...