Category: Book Review

Author: Kathleen N. Daly Year: 1977 This is really a book/movie review, as this short novel is an adaptation of the screenplay for the film of the same name. The…

Author: Douglas Adams Year: 1979 Originally a radio comedy series by the same name, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy‘s origins explain a lot; for starters, why it isn’t very…

Author: C.S. Lewis Year: 1950, 51, & 52 There are two sides to the argument over how to read Lewis’ iconic collection of books: in release or chronological order. He…

Author: Orson Scott Card Year: 1985 & 1986 Card recognizes that Speaker for the Dead is a sequel, but wants his audiences to know that it didn’t begin that way,…

Author: Stephen King Year: 1977 Knowing what we now know about Stephen King, having had the fortune to grow up as a reader of fiction with his books available, and…

Author: E.L. Konigsburg Year: 1967 I remember reading this book, or having it read to me, when I was young, most likely in gifted class around 5th or 6th grade.…

Author: Stephen King Year: 2006 It was like Stephen King got tired of poorly-written zombie stories and decided to craft his own. And who would doubt the guy, if he…

Author: Ted Chiang Year: 2002 I just finished two short story collections, Other Worlds Than These & Stories of Your Life and Others, now I move on to two epic…

Editor: John Joseph Adams Year: 2012 Other Worlds Than These is a collection of short stories with one message; that we are not alone. And not because outer space is…

Author: Kurt Vonnegut Year: 2009 Collected & published posthumously, Armageddon in Retrospect is a gathering of short stories that Vonnegut didn’t choose to or didn’t have the time to craft…