Book Review: Surviving Survival by Laurence Gonzalez

Several years ago, I read Gonzalez’ Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why. I thought it had so much to say that I even used it as a case study in seminars. In that book, Gonzalez examines why, in very similar circumstances – sometimes identical – some people make it through,…

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Book Review: Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams

It’s the far distant future. Unfortunately, it takes a while to figure that out. Williams plunges you mid-adventure into the life of Astride, a scholar cum adventurer, whose alleged goal is to study the ecology of implied spaces. What’s an implied space? They are often unintentional. The legs of a…

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Book Review: Pighearted by Alex Perry

It was pure serendipity.  Slogging through my first draft of Book 1 (which I was convinced was a masterwork but later learned was crap), I found the Houston Writers Guild and joined a critique group. As I read through the work of the other four authors, I smugly thought: Okay, I’m…

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A Quiet Read

Just plowed through this book. Outstanding. I'm a guy who can walk into a cocktail party where the world's 100 most fascinating people are gathered. Let's say I know two of them when I arrive - you know who you are. Two hours later (if I last that long) I…

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