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‘… many of the richest men had been busted several times, and all of them knew they might well be broke again tomorrow.’ I spent many summer days in my youth playing 'miner' in the tailings of the Empire Mine in the Mineral King Valley. In current-day Sequoia National Park, the valley was the site... Continue Reading →
The year is 2083 and humankind's neural synapses are slow... much, much slower than the processing speed that computers and robots can accomplish. Good faith and independent thought have allowed them to become citizens and even be voted to head nations, but there have been takeovers. And fascist regimes led by robots with intelligences past our... Continue Reading →
1. Am Reading: The Robots of Gotham by Todd McAulty. Almost 700 pages. I'm working my way through it this week. Robots have taken over several governments throughout the world and now threaten to wipe out all of mankind. It features a fun narrative style and many cool threads to follow so far. This one... Continue Reading →
“Motives were amorphous, loyalty was nearly impossible and duplicity was everywhere” Like the best Jason Stratham flicks, The Throwaway by Michael Moreci is a guilty pleasure of an action novel. Opening with a spy exchange at the Vienna Airport, Moreci puts you right in the action of the double-dealing world of espionage. The narrative quickly... Continue Reading →
This book changed my life. It led me down a path of crime... but redemption was there... somewhere. I saw it on the top shelf in the back aisle at the Northgate Mall Waldenbooks in Terra Linda, Ca, sometime in the fall of 1989. It was beautiful. Shiny and new. All three Dragonlance Chronicles books... Continue Reading →
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