Leviathan Wakes is big. It’s Neil Degrasse Tyson’s Cosmos big, I think. Several days ago I said that Cosmos was one of the most important things to happen to television in the past decade or more – it provides both younger and older crowds with very accessible science. Remember back when the History and Discovery channels aired stuff…
Been a bit slow with the rush at the end of the semester, but I wanted to give a quick update on what I’ve been reading before I get back into the swing of things when I start at Tor later this month. Drawing on inspiration from the French Revolution, then-debut (the sequel is out…
Last year, Will McIntosh’s social science novel Love Minus Eighty took many genre readers by surprise in its exploration of human feelings. McIntosh changed things up this time around with Defenders, a novel about an alien invasion of Earth. An alien race known as the Luyten have invaded Earth, wreaking havoc throughout the planet with their heat guns,…
The Brothers of the Sixth Order are the swords of the realm. They kick ass and smite unbelievers. Vaelin Al Sorna was left at the doorstep of the Order when he was just a boy of ten, as his father rode off into the mist. Vaelin will spend the next many years training in the…
Deviana Morris is the kind of woman who would fit right in in the Warhammer 40k world. She’s a quick-to-anger, ambitious, ass-kicking mercenary who loves to smash skulls, sleep around, and she drinks enough to put Homer Simpson to shame. She has her eye set on becoming a Devastator, an elite group of soldiers serving…
