Scifi Book Reviews

Below are links to my reviews of science fiction and fantasy books by year. I’d love any suggested reading as well.

• 1922- The Absolute at Large by Karel Čapek
• 1974- The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
• 1976- The Witling by Vernor Vinge
• 1981- Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh
• 1986- Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge
• 1988- Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
• 1988- Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh
• 1989- Lilith’s Brood by Octavia Butler
• 1990- Dealing with Dragons by Patricia Wrede
• 1993- Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
• 1996- Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling
• 1999- The Architects of Emortality by Brian Stableford
• 2008- The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
• 2008- Pandemonium by Daryl  Gregory
• 2013- Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
• 2013- The Six-Gun Tarot by R. S. Belcher
• 2015- The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi

Click here to see my top 20 best science fiction books.

Nonfiction Book Reviews

• 1990- A Midwife’s Tale by Lauren Thatcher Ulrich
• 1993- Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
• 1993- What If the Moon Didn’t Exist by Neil F. Comins
• 1997- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
• 2000- The St. Louis Veiled Prophet Celebration by Thomas Spencer
• 2001- Standing on the Edge of a Volcano: The Life and Times of David Rowland Francis by Harper Barnes
• 2002- Color by Victoria Finlay
• 2006- The Electric Life of Michael Faraday by Alan Hirshfeld
• 2007- Whipping Girl by Julia Serano
• 2007- Death in the Haymarket by James Green 
• 2007- Santa Anna of Mexico by Will Fowler
• 2010- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• 2010- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• 2012- Prague Winter by Madeleine Albright
• 2012- Forty-Seventh Star by David V. Holtby
• 2013- 1927 by Bill Bryson
• 2013- The Snail Darter and the Dam by Zygmunt Plater
• 2014- Train by Tom Zoellner
• 2016-The Bank War by Paul Kahan