If Thomas Friedman‘s thesis in his 2005 The World Is Flat is that globalization has led to a flatter playing field, then The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath tells the author Nicco Mele’s vision that the ultimate tool of that equalization is the internet. In truth, it’s not a hard […]
Book Review | The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath by Nicco Mele
2014-01-13 · by ·
A note to writers, courtesy David Farland
2014-01-06 · by ·
Here at Attack of the Books! we receive a fair amount of queries to read new books. Most of them are by new authors, often self-published, and each is a labor of love. Unfortunately, because Britt and I are not independently wealthy (yet–we’re still trying to figure out how people “make money on the internet”), […]
Book Review | Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown by Wiedemer, Wiedemer, and Spitzer
2014-01-05 · by ·
I can’t recall who exactly recommended this to me when I first picked this up back in 2010 or 2011, but I do recall the cautionary note that they took as they described it and the author’s conclusions. The global recession had begun four years earlier, since which time I had just barely been able […]
Short Review | Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages by Jean Gimpel
2014-01-04 · by ·
The medieval ages were far more like our modern age than we often think. The only thing that came to my mind prior to reading this book was knights and castles. Hardly a dark age as often portrayed, the period was full of industrial innovation, and Jean Gimpel makes an interesting survey of some of […]
Book Review | Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum
2013-12-28 · by ·
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
