I’ve got two vacations lined up for Summer 2007 — one short, one long — and hopefully a few lazy weekends I can spend ready books on the back porch or down the shore. As a result, I’ve slowly started[…]
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Top of the Pile: Amazing Spiderman, X-Factor, X-Men, New Excalibur, Conan, Batman
Despite the fact that I’ve been buying comics regularly for over a decade, I’ve only rarely reviewed them on Nuketown. That changes starting this week with the debut of my “Top of the Pile” column where I’ll be running down[…]
Read moreOff the Bookshelf: The Difference Engine, The Light Fantastic, Analog Jan/Feb 2007
My autumn reading jag, which saw me tear through a half-dozen novels, petered out this winter as I ran into the slow, meandering text of The Difference Engine, a book that promised a steampunk revolution but got bogged down in[…]
Read moreOff the Bookshelf: Learning the World, Difference Engine, Wizard’s First Rule
For my birthday this year I headed out to Barnes & Noble with my son Neutronlad for an afternoon of browsing books and drinking coffee. NeutronLad, being about 5 months old at the time, was enthusiastic about the outing, as only[…]
Read moreOff the Bookshelf: Jupiter, Deep Fires, The Matrix and Philosophy
After a reading lull brought about by way too much painting in September, I’ve returned to my books with a vengeance. Science fiction dominates my reading list this time around as I return to Ben Bova’s “Grand Tour” of the[…]
Read moreOff the Bookshelf: Lodestar, Ghost Brigades, X-Factor, Analog
One of the many pleasant surprises following the birth of my son NeutronLad on June 14 has been how much reading I’ve been able to do. This is partly because I chose some particularly good books to read, but also because[…]
Read moreRadio Active #31: Geek Moms, Summer Reading List, X-Men 3
The podcast opens with the old X-Men cartoon theme song in honor of X-Men 3: The Final Stand and the launches into a review of geek mom and geek parenting web sites. There’s no fiction review this time around, as[…]
Read moreOff the Bookshelf: Analog’s June Issue, King’s Cell, Hard SF Renaissance, Google Hacks
My resurrected reading habit picked up in April, allowing me to tear through Analog’s June issue and make another serious dent in the Hard SF Renaissance anthology, while a trip to New Hampshire to visit my sister for Easter gave[…]
Read moreOff the Bookshelf: Analog, V for Vendetta, Hard SF Renaissance
A round-up of what I’m reading now, including the May issue of Analog, the graphic novel V for Vendetta and scifi anthology The Hard SF Renaissance. Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May 2005 The first issue of my Analog subscription[…]
Read moreWhat I’m Reading Now, November Edition
Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub (Amazon): The sequel to the horror duo’s 198x The Talisman is a far darker, grimmer book than the original. In it, Jack Sawyer – the 12 year old who traveled cross country[…]
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