Category Archives: Pop! Goes the Culture
Book Review: Reamde
The 350-400 word count restriction (because of use in BookPage‘s print edition) on my review of Neal Stephenson’s Reamde basically meant I had no room to discuss any of the really interesting things about the book. Oh, well.
Book Review: Snuff
My first visit to Discworld via my review for BookPage. Pratchett’s one of those legends I hadn’t read before. It was worth the trip, eventually, but I suspect some of his earlier entries in the series are better.
Film review: Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
It’s high time someone addressed the longstanding bias against non-homicidal hillbillies in horror films. My review of Tucker & Dale vs. Evil for pastemagazine.com.
Book Review: Ghost Story
Jim Butcher’s latest entry in the Dresden Files may be his pulpiest, yet. It was certainly worth a review.
Book Review: Flashback
Dan Simmons’ dystopic vision is straight out of Glenn Beck’s nightmares. My review of it? Straight out of BookPage.
Book Review: A Dance with Dragons
George R.R. Martin finishes off the epic editing fail that was A Feast for Crows/A Dance with Dragons. I review the result for BookPage.
Book Review: The Magic of Recluce
The 20th anniversary edition of L.E. Modesitt Jr.’s classic fantasy series was as good a time as any for my first exposure to the world of Recluce, and my review of it for BookPage that resulted.
Book Review: Fuzzy Nation
I read H. Beam Piper’s original Fuzzy books as a teen. I didn’t expect much when I sat down to read and review this reboot by John Scalzi. I was pleasantly surprised.
Book Review: All the Lives He Led
It seems a lot of grandmasters have been turning out new works in 2011 (Pohl, Wolfe, Matheson). I reviewed Frederik Pohl’s latest for BookPage.
Interview: R. A. Salvatore
[Note the following is the expanded transcript of an interview done for BookPage.com.] In the decades since he was first introduced, R.A. Salvatore’s drow ranger, Drizzt Do’Urden, has become a fantasy archetype on par with any of Tolkien’s Middle Earth … Continue reading →