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Without realizing it, Hiram and Levi had been in training for the Collapse most of their lives. They learned lessons in shop class, Boy Sc...

I picked this up because it was on the Horror Writers' Association list of horror must-reads. I have always been a pro-horror film voic...

This was my first Parker novel and I am a convert. Never a fan of police procedurals, I was seduced in the first pages by this "crime ...

Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey My rating: 2 of 5 stars How could I not read this book? William Gibson called it a "...deeply amusi...

Dougal Douglas, or Douglas Dougal depending upon when and on what side of town you meet him, is a Scottish devil. He offers to let most any...

This was my first Lew Archer book, as it was its author's. MacDonald is considered the heir of hard-boiled detective novels after Ham...

Try not to take this personally. In the year 2050, invaders from another galaxy enter our solar system and take over Jupiter and Earth...

A few pages into this book, I groaned. I picked it up because I was reading Robert Silverberg books. I barely glanced at the cover to get a ...

Duncan Chalk begins every working day climbing the iron rungs that form a switchback trail to his desk perched forty feet above the floor. D...

The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov My rating: 2 of 5 stars Granted it's a classic, but also, let's face it, it's a drag. Th...

Show Up, Look Good by Mark Wisniewski My rating: 1 of 5 stars This may be the book that gets me into and out of the Rumpus Book Club in ...

Red Lights by Georges Simenon My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is the third of Simenon's roman durs that I have read, and even though i...

The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the first Muriel Spark novel I have read, and I have always h...

Needle by Hal Clement Hal Clement had a fifty year career in sf and was made a Science Fiction Writer of America Grand Master in 1999. ...

Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement My rating: 4 of 5 stars The science in "hard science fiction" doesn't have to be all tha...

Blackout by Connie Willis My rating: 3 of 5 stars I don't like cliffhangers. I knew this was a continuous story with All Clear , but...

Paying for It by Chester Brown My rating: 4 of 5 stars Chester Brown's autobiographical graphic novel starts with his break up from ...

The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 5 by Kazuo Umezu My rating: 4 of 5 stars Is it a known tendency among Japanese pre-adolescents to opt for b...

Hodder needed a different, meaner editor for his first novel. Anywhere from 20% - 25% could go. Every incident goes on a little too long. ...

The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht My rating: 3 of 5 stars Just as there are some movies whose main purpose seems to be garnering Acade...