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The Turquoise Serpent

The Turquoise Serpent

Alexander Palacio's The Turquoise Serpent is R. E. Howard's Conan transposed into a demon-haunted pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and it is awesome. I imagine a certain fraction of my audience will know exactly what that means without elaboration, but for the rest of you let's dive

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-12-15: Memed into Reality

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-12-15: Memed into Reality

We'll begin this week with the book chapter I wrote on Isaac Asimov's Foundation, and some of the very interesting commentary that developed in it's wake. Foundation by Isaac AsimovFoundation is a book that I haven’t read until now. Given what I do

Starship Grifters Book Review

Starship Grifters Book Review

This is a funny, funny book. It is loveably absurd and ridiculously extravagant. I had this book sitting in my TBR pile for years, but it was just the thing when I finally picked it up. Starship Grifters is a Mad Magazine style parody wrapped around a nugget of another

Gemini Drifter Book Review

Gemini Drifter Book Review

Matthew and Jason have returned to Earth, escaped the Great Sorcerer King, killed the woman who tricked them and destroyed a building in the process. Now what? Gemini Drifter, the second book in JD Cowan's Gemini Man series, presents our protagonists with more freedom than the last. In

Galactic Patrol by E. E. "Doc" Smith

Galactic Patrol by E. E. "Doc" Smith

Reading Galactic Patrol by E. E. "Doc" Smith is like finding a great-grandmaster key to twentieth century science fiction. This is the archetype not only to space opera, but to all of mainstream scifi in the twentieth century. After this, many things from the last 75 years just

Gemini Warrior Re-released

Gemini Warrior Re-released

JD Cowan's Gemini Warrior went out of print when Silver Empire went out of business, but thanks to JD's recent Kickstarter, Book 1 is back up on Amazon, and Books 2 and 3 will be out soon. I'll copy my original review as an

With Both Hands Classics: Jurassic Park

With Both Hands Classics: Jurassic Park

I recently re-read Jurassic Park for the first time in decades. When I was a teenager, I was obsessed with Michael Crichton's books, and the movies based on them. I read every book of his that I could find. After a while, I drifted away, looking for variety