Monthly Archives: August 2013

Review of Lauren Beukes’ The Shining Girls

Having just posted Gary K. Wolfe’s Locus review of The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes, it’s timely for me to spend a few minutes adding my own reaction. To summarize very briefly (since you can read Gary’s summary right there), … Continue reading

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Stories, Narratives, Facts

Salon has an excerpt from a new book by David McRaney, You Are Now Less Dumb. I think I’ll quote from the excerpt, just because (at the moment) I can. The people who came before you invented science because your … Continue reading

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Review of McDevitt & Resnick’s The Cassandra Project

Jack McDevitt and Mike Resnick’s The Cassandra Project (2012) is set in 2019 at a time when NASA funding is being cut and many worry that NASA may be disbanded altogether. It begins with a routine release of old records … Continue reading

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