This is How you Die is a new collection of stories revolving around ‘The Machine of Death.’ A sequel if you will, but this new collection feels like it has a more si-fi feel. The Machine of Death didn’t have many stories that pushed the envelope, most of the
The Machine of Death is collection of short stories which were all written around one idea. There is a machine that can tells you how you are going to die, but nobody knows how it works, and the answers are frustratingly vague. So if you get ‘Old Age’ then you
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This book showed up on my recommendations from Amazon. I like the painting The Scream, and after read a quick synopsis of the book I decided to try it out. It’s a very short novel, and it feels like it could have started life as some ‘creative writing prompt’
I think Count to a Trillion might be a decent Space Opera, unfortunately I read it at the wrong time. I was fresh off of reading ‘The Wanderer’ and I had a bad taste in my mouth over the genre. I needed to get away big idea space opera for
Oh boy, The Wanderer. This was the last book I read in 2012 and boy did I go out on a dud. I picked this book up at the used book store while I was browsing around. I had never heard of it or of Fritz Leiber, but it was
Every now and then between books on my to-read list I take time to browse through the Amazon lending library and see if anything catches my fancy. Wired caught my eye since it was a best seller and I had heard some good things about it. When I read the
The Book Thief is a book that has been sitting on my shelf for some time now. I can’t even remember who gave it to me or if I grabbed it at the used book store one day. I finally got around to picking it up as a break
I came across Wool by Hugh Howey by accident on Amazon. It was $0.99 on sale for the Kindle and it had good reviews so I took a chance. The first entry in the Wool series was very interesting and entertaining to read. It’s a great example of
I recently came across this novel from some offhanded comments on Reddit. I had never even heard of it before, and I don’t know why. I’m glad that I took a chance and read it. 1984 and A Brave New World are always held up as the two