Book Review: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

I like this cover. Always read the afterword. John Scalzi has written a another fun book. It almost didn’t happen. It wasn’t on his radar. Rather, he intended to write a more serious, literary, brooding novel. Then, well, 2020. He put that book on hold, perhaps indefinitely, and wrote something…

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Copperfield Books Indie Author Fair

On Saturday, May 21st, I'll be at Copperfield Books, in Spring, Texas, from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM for book sales and signing. Even though I'm not an indie author, they're giving my publisher, Inklings, some space. Yes, this is the same great Copperfield Books that's been on the corner…

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Book Review: Artifact Space by Miles Cameron

How did I not know about Miles Cameron before now? Maybe because he writes under three names: Gordan Kent, Miles Cameron, and Christian Cameron, depending on his genre. This is both a great book and a great cover. I’ll put my confusion aside for the moment to talk about the…

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Book Review: The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell

Not my usual fare for this blog as it's historical non-fiction, but this book made me reexamine my thinking vis-à-vis our conduct of the air war in Europe and Japan during WWII. @malcolmgladwell also wrote Blink, The Tipping Point, and Outliers - all of which I enjoyed. Between The War…

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