The further I got into the Seveneves thought experiment, the more I wanted to like it. It’s an epic disaster novel (or is it an epic disaster of a novel? More on that later) that pits the human race against nature as the moon explodes and its meteoric remains begin to fall to Earth, setting the […]
Archives for January 2016
Book Review | The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman
2016-01-20 · by ·
Adolf Tolkachev’s story is one of brilliant courage and heroism. That it ends in tragedy and betrayal only seems to accentuate the stakes that he faced in his struggle to tear down the totalitarian tyranny of the Soviet state. David Hoffman’s telling of Tolkachev’s story in The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold […]
Book Review | Red Rising by Pierce Brown
2016-01-14 · by ·
Well, heck. If this isn’t how you open a series, then I don’t know how you do. Red Rising starts deep below the Martian surface, where Darrow, a “Red,” lives and works the mines as a helldiver retrieving helium-3 which will fuel the terraforming of Mars. Reds are on the bottom of the class system, […]
Avast, Earthlings; Aliens Want Your Energy | The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
2016-01-11 · by ·
Dystopian literature and movies have recently had a surge of popularity in recent years, particularly in the young adult genre. With today’s fears of an unstable future, it may not be a surprise that fiction portraying a collapsed society with spunky heroes who strive to make a difference are so popular to the younger generations. […]
Books to movies in 2016…some hits and some misses
2016-01-06 · by ·
Buzzfeed recently listed out 19 books that will become movies this year. Some are hits, while others are misses, and lots are proof that there’s no accounting for taste. A few hits: I’ve previously read a couple of Mitchell Zuchoff’s books, and Benghazi never ceases to be a source of interesting controversy, so I’ll likely pick […]
