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Close reading a passage from The RoadI want to try something that I haven’t done in a long time. I am going to attempt to perform a close reading of a passage in a novel. I...
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2022 BooksI don't write about all of the books that I read. Here is a list of the books that I read in 2022. Abrahams, Peter. A Perfect Crime....
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Consider the AuthorThis is something that I started writing some time ago and I think that it has legs but I lost track of it and just never finished it. As of...
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Book NotesI wrote this some time last year or the year before. I'm not sure when this is from, exactly. I am posting without further comment. Island...
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Restarting.It has been some time since I have posted anything here. I am, optimistically, going to set myself up to begin posting again. There are some books...
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2021 BooksI don't write about all of the books that I read. Here is a list of the books that I read in 2021. Asimov, Isaac. Forward...
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Ending another year.I am ending out 2021 without ever having returned to the blog. After all of the changes of 2020, I had high hopes for 2021. I won't say that it...
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After the QuarantineThis is the text of a talk that I gave at the Working-Class Studies Association conference earlier this month. This concerns the...
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Imagining Earth's FutureKim Stanley Robinson seems to write two kinds of books. Both are hard sci-fi in the sense that they focus on either current technology...
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The Expanse, part 8: Tiamat's WrathI have finally caught up with the series that I started back in October of 2019. All things considered, I don't think I made a bad job of...
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Check out my review from Los Angeles Review of BooksSo I'm not officially back yet but check out this link to read my review of Lee Matthew Goldberg's new book Orange...
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Returning soon...For those who check in here on any sort of basis: this is a note of explanation for my recent absence and my plan for return. Over...
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A short breakI have missed the last couple of Monday postings and it looks like I might miss a couple of more. Things have gotten busy with some...
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The Accidental Time Machine by Joe HaldemanThe Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman This is a fun story about a one-way time machine that is, as the title suggests,...
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Foundation, part 8: Forward the FoundationSo here it is, I have reached the end of Asimov's Foundation series. For a minute I was going to sit down and write an outline for...
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On monstrosity and historyEvery now and then I read – or in this case, reread – a novel that meshes with the events in the world around me. The novel takes on a...
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The Expanse, part 7: Persepolis RisingEver since I began reading The Expanse series, I have made a point to avoid reading too much about it and I have not watched more than...
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Pop Science, Sci-fi and Detective FictionJust a post about 3 books I recently read. The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez is a cool book. It hit a lot of buttons for me....
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This is how we let things goSo, last week I wrote what turned into a real downer of a post about history and about monstrosity. That isn't where it started. I...
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The Expanse, part 6: Babylon's AshesHaving finished the 6 th installment of James SA Corey's The Expanse series, I have to take a moment to step back a little from...
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Foundation, Part 7: Prelude to FoundationNearly a year and a half ago, I undertook to read through Asimov's classic sci-fi series, Foundation , and write about the books....
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2020 booksBest book of the year: Hex runner up: Radicalized I don't always write about everything that I read. For what it's worth, here...
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Swedish Crust PunkI recently came across the album Det Svenka Hatet by Swedish band Ett Dodens Maskineri on Spotify the other day and I haven't been able...
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God Emperor of DuneLast year I decided that I was going to read as much of a few classic sci-fi series as I could. In that time, I have been working my...
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Fermented Hot SauceHabanero-garlic and Ghost pepper sauces I love hot sauce. A few years back I discovered that I also like growing the peppers...
