Book Review: The Windup...

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi My rating: 4 of 5 stars Travelling the same paths of the broken near-future as Bruce Sterling, The Windup Girl drops the reader into a struggling, but surviving Thailand as it might be 100 years from now (more or less). It’s a future where the...

Science Fiction and The...

Whether it turns out to be a blockbuster or a bomb (I’m betting on it hitting big), there’s no doubt that next week’s release of Avatar is the last major Science Fiction event of the year in a year that has already had an amazing number of “important” genre films, whether...

iPhone x Book = Context...

This leaves me just a little bit speechless: The ideas are simple, but the video itself is profound in a way I can’t quite put it into words. Anyone else want to take a shot at...

The Kindle: Godwin in t...

Even as I was talking about how people have trouble with change as they grow older, The Huffington Post published an article a few days before that proved my point beautifully. It also manages to highlight a technique that’s often used to cover up a lack of a cohesive argument:...

Book Review: The Blade ...

I’ve been writing a number of book reviews over at Goodreads.com. I thought it might be fun to post them here as well. Book Review: The Blade Itself (The First Law: Book One) by Joe AbercrombieFantasy has changed a lot in the last few years. Led by authors such as Bakker and...