Perhaps what is most fascinating about the strange episode of human history under which the communist oppression of Eastern Europe falls is that it has gone so long without a comprehensive history of how it occurred. Anne Applebaum‘s Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 appears to step into that gap, providing in-depth research and a […]
Archives for 2013
Book Review | Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum
2013-12-28 · by ·
Book Review | Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation by Deborah Davis [Contributor]
2013-12-24 · by ·
Some happenings are simultaneously obscure, interesting, and pregnant with historical import. When all of these elements come together, an exploration of the happening and how it shaped subsequent history cannot be anything but a great read. Such is the premise of Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That […]
Author Guest Post | Andy Remic on his inspiration for The Iron Wolves
2013-12-18 · by ·
Author Andy Remic’s The Iron Wolves is the latest to hit my Currently Reading list and is the author of Kell’s Legend trilogy, Kell’s Legend, Soul Stealers and Vampire Warlords (and that’s just for Angry Robot books). Out at the end of this month, The Iron Wolves is an exciting sounding novel that I can’t wait to dig […]
Book Review | The Beautiful Tree by James Tooley [Contributor]
2013-12-17 · by ·
The Beautiful Tree is a book about what’s right with the world. Amazingly, what is right with the world is found in the slums of Nigeria, India, Kenya, China, and Zimbabwe. The poor educating themselves without government assistance is the name of the game. In the early 2000s author of The Beautiful Tree, James Tooley (a British […]
Review | Feeding the Doves: 31 Short and Very Short Stories, and Haibun by Stella Pierides
2013-12-16 · by ·
Every once in a while, I get a book in the mail that is unique from anything else I’ve ever read. As a collection of short stories, Stella Pierides’ Feeding the Doves: 31 Short and Very Short Stories, and Haibun has given me a new definition of what short means, not to mention how quickly a story can […]
Review | Unnatural Creatures: Stories Selected by Neil Gaiman
2013-12-01 · by ·
I’ll admit it: I picked up Unnatural Creatures: Stories Selected by Neil Gaiman from the bookstore shelf because it carried Neil Gaiman‘s name on the front. A collection of short stories focused on fantastical creatures “that exist only in our minds,” each is a golden nugget by writers both classic and new, every one an […]
Update on a Statisicity by Yaron Glazor
2013-11-21 · by ·
Last month, this blog hosted a guest post on dystopian science fiction by author Yaron Glazer. We’re happy to announce that Noble Beast is going to publish Statisicity, his dystopian sci-fi thriller set in Shanghai in the year 2084. Noble Beast is an amazing new publisher of enhanced ebooks, and their recent title – Steampunk […]
Challenge | The NPR Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy List
2013-11-21 · by ·
What are the best science fiction and fantasy novels of all time? NPR asked it’s listeners and readers to weigh in on this quintessential question during the summer of 2011, taking suggestions and then posting the nominees for the public’s vote. The result was a list of the Top 100 novels in the science fiction […]
Author Guest Post | Steve K Peacock on politics in Diplomancer
2013-11-20 · by ·
The pitch from Steve Peacock’s publicist was one of the best I’ve read in a while, and I get quite a few requests to read and review new authors’ books. But this one was sharp, witty, and interesting. So I had to let Peacock make the case himself. Since he had, like myself, spent some […]
An Afterword to My Journey Through Ender’s Game
2013-11-19 · by ·
Sixteen book reviews and one movie review later, Attack of the Books contributor Stephen Olson says goodbye to the Enderverse… for now. Here are his closing thoughts–his Afterword, if you will–on the series, on reading order of the novels, opinions, what is still to come. Afterword Having submersed myself in the world of Ender’s Game […]
