Last weekend (was that just three days ago?) I had a free book giveaway on Amazon for my time travel thriller, TimeSplash (that’s it in the left-hand column if you want to pick up a copy). As my previous post says, it was an exciting moment. A book that had spent almost two years [...]
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(This review first appeared in the New York Journal of Books.) Over a hundred years from now, after a series of devastating biological wars, North America is struggling to hang on to even third-world status. A young mathematical prodigy called Menelaus Montrose grows up in what used to be Texas. He works at a [...] (This review first appeared in the New York Journal of Books.) When a book opens with our heroes running from a planet, having just been shot at while trying to smuggle a war criminal off world because they’re hard up and need the money, you know you are squarely in space opera land. And [...] (This review first appeared in the New York Review of Books.) Belief comes first, rationalizations follow behind. That is the basic theme of this new book on belief by professional sceptic, Michael Shermer. Belief comes first because we’re wired that way, Dr. Shermer says. We see patterns in everything (sometimes even when they aren’t [...] Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi (This review first appeared in the New York Journal of Books.) Fuzzy Nation is a “reboot”, a re-imagining of the 1962 novel Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper. As Mr. Scalzi says, “I took the original plot and characters of Little Fuzzy and wrote an [...] Cycles of Time by Roger Penrose
(This review first appeared in the New York Journal of Books.) Roger Penrose is one of the world’s leading mathematicians and a man who has also made significant contributions to theoretical physics. His work with Stephen Hawking on black holes is almost as famous [...] What next for Big Blue? (This review first appeared in the New York Journal of Books) Over the past few days, a computer called Watson, built and programmed by IBM researchers, has played the game of Jeopardy! against two of the contest’s best players. And it won. To many who watched the match [...] The Hidden Reality: A Peek Behind the Curtain (This review first appeared in the New York Journal of Books.) If you like your science explained rather than asserted, if you like your science writers articulate and intelligible, if you like popular science to make sense, even as it probes the heart of difficult [...] (This review first appeared in the New York Review of Books.) When you consider that the entire historical record for Jeanne Baret comprises little more than a birth certificate, a marriage certificate, a death certificate, and a handful of mentions in other people’s journals, Glynis Ridley’s achievement in producing an entire biography of the [...] |
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