Simon of Space: Ford Prefect as a robot butler

When it comes to gallivanting through space there’s just nothing like a good robe. Sure it may seem a bit silly in certain public realms, but what planet doesn’t appreciate a man in a perfectly comfortable terry cloth with a nice long belt for dipping in the porcelain at every way station? Simon of Space [...]

Felix and the Frontier: Space without the Spiff

Hello. My name is Enosh and I bought a smartphone. Hi Enosh. I got a great deal on a refurbished unit so at least I can sleep at night knowing I didn’t pay full retail for a device I’m not entirely convinced I need. To be completely honest I got it mostly so I could [...]

11/22/1963 by Stephen King

What if you could go back?  I think we all ask ourselves this question.  Probably why time travel is such an interesting idea.  I love time travel, be it movies (Primer anybody?) or in this case, books.  When an author of Stephen King’s caliber decides to tackle the subject, I was quite confident it would [...]

Snuff: By Terry Pratchett

If you’ve spent any amount of time in Terry Pratchett’s DiscWorld, you’ll notice certain names that seem to crop up here and there, characters from stories long past who have faced the trials and tribulations thrown at them by the city of Ankh-Morpork.  At this point, I’m pretty sure Sam Vimes, Commander of the Watch [...]

Zombocalypse Now: Choose your own demise

Holy crap it’s a book review. Haven’t done one of these in a while. I’ve been reading but I decided the books weren’t sufficiently nerdy enough to warrant your attention. Stuff like Rising Tide by John Barry a la A lil birdie on the XKCD blag. That is until I had to fly to Boston for [...]

Black Blade Blues by J.A. Pitts

I was a little apprehensive about reading Black Blade Blues after I took it home from Borders, mainly because I knew absolutely nothing about it.  Of the three books I picked up that day, Black Blade Blues was the only one I didn’t even bother to read the back cover of.  I pulled it off [...]

Dog on it by Spencer Quinn

Never thought I’d see the day, but it looks like it’s finally happened.  I’m officially reading more than playing video games.  God help me.  This hasn’t happened since, what?  Middle School?  Whenever it was that I stumbled across that Deathgate Cycle thing, at least.  Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I don’t read.  It’s [...]

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett

Back in college I stumbled across a little book called Good Omens, written by a grand slam duo of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.  I’m not quite sure how this came about, in retrospect.  Up to that point I had read some of Gaiman’s work, mostly in his Sandman graphic novels, but that was really [...]

“Camouflage” by Bill Pronzini

“One truism in the detective business: people’s exteriors don’t always reflect their interiors. Some of the most attractive ones are like buildings full of dark rooms and the kinds of things that hide in them.” In the latest installment of Pronzini’s Nameless Detective Series (which includes 35 novels and three collections of short cases), Nameless’ [...]

“Heart of a Samurai” by Margi Preus

I saw Heart of a Samurai on the Children’s Literature shelf of my library and thought, “Hey-every once in while you need a feel good children’s story, right?” A Newberry Honor Book, and based upon “a true adventure on the high seas”, this is the perfect story- though it involved much deeper subjects than what [...]