May 5, 2017 | Have you Read?
New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson In the not-so-distant future the oceans of the world rose and mankind had to make a few changes. But life, even in the face of massive ecological changes, goes on much as it has. In New York City (the so-called “Super...
Dec 9, 2015 | Have you Read?
The Black Tower by Louis Bayard Paris, 1789. A mob storms the Bastille and begins one of the most famous, and bloody, periods of French history. In 1792 the French Royal Family is imprisoned in the Temple a fortress built by the Knights Templar in the 12th Century....
Oct 2, 2015 | Have you Read?
A Burnable Book by Bruce Holsinger In the streets of London men are singing the songs of the death of kings. These songs are purported to come from a book, an ancient book that has foretold the death of every King of England from William the Conqueror to the current...
Apr 18, 2014 | Have you Read?
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde England 1985, a time and a place where they take literature very seriously indeed. An England where fanatical bands of Baconites roam the countryside, where forging the works of Byron is a capital crime, and where it is possible to get...
Dec 13, 2013 | Have you Read?
The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis For confiential informer (an Ancient Roman private eye) Marcus Didius Falco, it seems like a pretty straightforward case. Young, beautiful, and aristocratic Sosia Camillina is being followed by some unsavory types because of something...