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Tag: John Scalzi

Off the Bookshelf: Fall, The Last Emperox, The Dreaming Stars, Auberon, The Bohr Maker

August 5, 2020 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Off the Bookshelf

Nuketown’s Summer Reading List for 2020 is in full swing. During my summer vacation at Lake Champlain, I finished up Fall (or Dodge in Hell) and knocked out The Last Emperox, The Dreaming Stars, and Auberon (an Expanse novella). I[…]

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Adirondack chairs gathered around a firepit near a lake.

Off the Bookshelf: Mid-Summer 2017

August 1, 2017 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Off the Bookshelf

I tore through the heart of my summer reading list in July, knocking out six novels in a month. Four of these were read during my family’s annual week-long vacation to Lake Champlain. I probably could have read more if we’d spent[…]

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Several difference science fiction book covers shown side-by-side.

Summer Reading List 2017

June 15, 2017 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Reading Lists

Welcome to Nuketown’s 10th annual summer reading list! As with previous years, this year’s list is heavy on space opera and military science fiction, but includes a smattering of fantasy. It includes 17 novels, 1 novella, and 8 graphic novels.[…]

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Old Man’s War Sequel Serialized

December 7, 2012 Ken Newquist Book & Print News, Books & Print

John Scalzi’s new novel set in the Old Man’s War universe is going to be serialized starting in January 2013. Called The Human Division, the book will be weekly between January 15 and April 9. The 13 part series will[…]

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A spaceship descends through a planet's atmosphere.

Summer Reading List 2012

October 4, 2012 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Reading Lists

Summer’s come and gone and so has my annual summer reading list. I blogged about the “prelist” back in the spring, but never got around to posting a formal list to Nuketown even though I put one together on GoodReads.[…]

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Off the Shelf: Revelation Space, Force Unleashed, The Last Colony

January 27, 2009 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Off the Bookshelf

My Christmas Reading List for 2008 went well; I finished two novels (Revelation Space, The Last Colony) on the list and made a serious dent in the third (The Amber Spyglass), while also finishing a hefty graphic novel (Star Wars[…]

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Off the Bookshelf: Lodestar, Ghost Brigades, X-Factor, Analog

August 15, 2006 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Off the Bookshelf, Uncategorized

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[…]

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Radio Active #31: Geek Moms, Summer Reading List, X-Men 3

May 31, 2006 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Reading Lists

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[…]

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Radio Active #25: Old Man’s War, Losing My SciFi

January 30, 2006 Ken Newquist Nuketown Radio Active, Podcasts

Show #25 gets back to the speculative fiction with some thoughts on losing — and finding — my interest in scifi, reviews of the Does My Geek, Roll 2d6 and BrickNebula podcasts, and a review of John Scalzi’s military SF[…]

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Nuketown is a speculative fiction website that’s been published continuously since 1996.

It’s publishing focus is articles, reviews and editorials about science fiction, fantasy, and horror with heroic overtones. It covers a variety of topics within the speculative fiction genre, including games, movies, soundtracks, books, and websites.

Radiating from Easton, Pa.

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