In the world of Ready Player One – a near-future dystopia – Ernest Cline sets a compelling mystery plot that weaves in and out of the real and […]

The Last Policeman has a fairly straightforward setup – a suicide that somehow seems fishy.  Most of the other officers want to leave the case be.  One cop […]

[Full disclosure:  I know Bryan Young personally.] Lost at the Con is, in many ways, a geek homage to Thompson’s _Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas_.  So I […]

[Full disclosure:  I know Anton Strout personally.] Long time readers of my reviews might know that I often name-check Anton as the reason why I feel confident reviewing […]

In one book, Kurt Vonnegut Jr wrote “Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.”  I first saw Kate Bornstein almost on a whim, without knowing what, exactly, […]

[Full disclosure:  I know Jim Hines personally.] Libriomancer starts off Jim Hines’ third series.  The first series – Goblin (or Jig) books – are comedies set in a […]