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Bookworms: The Lord of the Rings (1954) by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings tells of the epic quest of a very small, yet very good person against a very large, and very evil, opponent. Through war and treachery, the two smallest heroes in the history of...
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Bookworms: Wayne of Gotham (2012) by Tracy Hickman
Tragically, in most Batman stories, Bruce Wayne's father Thomas Wayne exists only to get gunned down in an alley, giving young Bruce the pain he needs to become the Dark Knight. Batman is fascinating,...
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Bookworms: Star Wars Death Troopers (2009) by Joe Schreiber
Braaaiiiiinnns. Wooookiieee braaaiiinns. Slavering, hungry undead monsters and soulless, Imperial troopers populate the pages of Death Troopers and it is delectable. I love genre mashing, and am an...
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Bookworms: Buffy: The Making of a Slayer (2012) by Nancy Holder
Created by nerd icon and legend Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a television show that transcends genre, medium, and time to connect on a human, visceral level with those that pay attention to...
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Bookworms: Wookiee the Chew (2012) by James Hance
I love taking something familiar and presenting it in a new way for a new audience and ending up with something totally awesome. That is what you get when James Hance combines Winnie the Pooh and Star...
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Bookworms: Darth Vader and Son (2012) by Jeffery Brown
What if Luke Skywalker had enjoyed time as a child with his dad, Darth Vader, in typical father-son interactions? What exactly would that look like? Jeffrey Brown, himself a father and a damn good...
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Bookworms: The Zombie Combat Manual (2010) by Roger Ma
Let's be clear, while most of us live safe in our protected borders, this is no guarantee that you will never have to fight for your survival against a decaying corpse. Solid knowledge of what to...
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Bookworms: One Second After (2009) by William R. Forstchen
Warning: This is the book you do not want to read if you fear a truly realistic apocalypse. One Second After by William R. Forstchen foretells an all too close to home look at the end of the world as...
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Bookworms: Star Trek (2009) by Alan Dean Foster
Created by the visionary storyteller Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek is a franchise that has endured for nearly fifty years. Alan Dean Foster holds the "story by" credit for the first ever Star Trek movie,...
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Bookworms: The Zombie Survival Guide (2003) by Max Brooks
Max Brooks, author of the hugely successful World War Z, wrote the complete guide to staying alive during an outbreak of zombies: The Zombie Survival Guide. From attack to zombie, Brooks covers every...
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Bookworms: Fahrenheit 451 (1953) Ray Bradbury
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." - Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012. On June 5, 2012, Ray Bradbury left our planet a more desolate place. Bradbury is...
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Bookworms: Eating Aliens (2012) by Jackson Landers
They invade from the out lands, they infest, they destroy. Hordes of them have come for our resources and our environment. They must be stopped. They must be killed. They must be...eaten? Jackson...
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Bookworms: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) Philip K. Dick
Technology and humanity, the unavoidable question is asked: we advance, but do we better ourselves? All science fiction inevitably wrestles with that haunting question. Philip K Dick's "Do Androids...
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Bookworms: I Never Had It Made (1972) by Jackie Robinson
"I Never Had it Made" is the personal story of an ordinary man who became a legend simply because he refused to be intimidated or defeated. Baseball is America's game, and Jackie Robinson used that...
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Bookworms: Lost Subs (2002) by Spencer Dunmore
Submarines are usually lost with little to no knowledge of how, or why, or even where they settled forever. Requiring dedicated research, high level mathematical skill, and sometimes dumb luck, the...
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Bookworms: The Pluto Files (2009) by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The solar system is wonderful and fascinating, encompassing nine planets and many other heavenly bodies, except that Pluto is no longer officially a planet. Why was that, and why do so many people seem...
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Bookworms: Vader’s Little Princess (2013) by Jeffrey Brown
What if Leia grew up with her father, an ordinary little girl in love with her caring, dark father? What if Leia's teenage rebelliousness and fondness for scruffy-looking space smugglers ended up...
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Bookworms: Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley
Technology is as old as the first tool and stories are as old as speech, but the first science fiction novel is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Written in 1818, it is the classic which spawned a Golden...
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Bookworms: Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker
Unless your name is Rip Van Winkle or you've been sleeping in a coffin the past few years and know nothing of vampires, Dracula will be very familiar to you. There are stakes, holy water, extreme and...
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Bookworms: The Hydrogen Sonata (2012) by Iain M. Banks
Iain Banks is a writer with two sides, producing both mainstream novels, and novels of an altogether more science fiction nature, which he produces under the slightly altered name, Iain M. Banks. While...
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Bookworms: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1886) R. L. Stevenson
Dr. Jekyll is mild mannered, intellectual, quiet, and known for his impeccable taste in wine. Mr. Hyde is short, loathsome, and thoroughly evil. So why does Jekyll's will clearly state that Hyde is to...
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Bookworms: The Invisible Man (1897) by H.G. Wells
Invisibility: the wet dream of military scientists, voyeurs, and thieves everywhere. But, is it really a blessing, a great disguise, and a solution to incurable ugliness? H.G. Wells apparently didn't...
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Bookworms Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) by Alan Dean Foster
Alan Dean Foster returns to the world of Star Trek, no doubt following the screenplay, but this time around fails to enrich the story. Reading the Into Darkness novelization is exactly like watching...
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Bookworms: Missing Time (313: Volume 1) (2013) by J. David Clarke
On a normal day a group of normal kids board a normal school bus. Hours later the bus appears on a bridge, careening out of control before crashing through the barrier and into the water. Some of the...
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Bookworms: Autumn (2010) by David Moody
They thought it was a plague, but it is what came in the days that followed the deaths of 99% of the world’s population that truly terrifies. For Michael, it means leaving behind his dead family in the...
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Bookworms: Shakespeare’s Star Wars (2013) by Ian Doescher
Ian Doescher, a self-proclaimed lover of the Bard, re-wrote the first Star Wars film in iambic pentameter and in the style of Shakespeare's popular plays. He rewrote classic Shakespearian passages to...
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Bookworms: Farmer Giles of Ham (1949) by J.R.R. Tolkien
While the One Ring and all events related to it have made Tolkien world famous, it often seems that his little stories and retellings of old myths were his favorites to write. Both are worth the time...
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Bookworms: Sci-Fidelity (2013) by Alex Sargeant
“Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.” - from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Sci-Fidelity is a little weird and a lot entertaining. The novella is populated with...
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Bookworms: War of the Worlds: Blood, Guts, and Zombies (2009) by Eric S. Brown
H.G. Well's alien invasion novel, The War of the Worlds, is well known. It has been adapted for film, theater, and most infamously radio, but with Eric S. Brown, we get a new life breathed into the old...
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Bookworms: Star Wars: Kenobi (2013) by John Jackson Miller
Space western. Those two words usually bring to mind Joss Whedon's Firefly or something like Cowboys and Aliens. Occasionally one might think of Star Wars, but Star Wars is more epic space fantasy....
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Bookworms: Star Trek Federation: The First 150 Years (2013) by David Goodman
The history of the United Federation of Planets, as seen in the Star Trek universe, is told through the stories of the men and women of the Federation's galaxy renowned Starfleet. But just how did...
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The Wrong Quarry (2014) by Max Allan Collins
A former contract killer named Jack Quarry spends his retirement years killing contract killers, and, occasionally, the contractors. The Wrong Quarry slams like a slug from a .44 and doesn't stop until...
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Bookworms: Ender’s Game (1985) by Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game is a book of contradictions. It is about children playing at war. It is about old men warring with children. It is about the wisdom of the young confounding the knowledge of the old. It is...
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Bookworms: The Star Wars Trilogy
The novelizations of the Star Wars Trilogy capture the magic and the wonder that is Star Wars in book form.
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Bookworms: The Memory Thieves (14) by Robertson (Interview)
Combining old school noir with the best of magical realism, J.T. Robertson gives his readers a tight, gritty crime novella about a man on the edge willing to do anything to get free.
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Bookworms: Retcontinuum (2014) by S. Grulkowski (+Interview)
Retcontinuum pulls you down the rabbit hole of its narrative and doesn't let go until it has finished explaining to you just how precious time is, and how ultimately the decisions we make are the most...
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Nerd Span Q & A with A.J. Moore
Yellow City Comic Con in Amarillo, TX is a small but very nice con. Many Texas artists were in attendance this past weekend, including A.J. Moore. A.J. is an artist ... Read More The post Nerd Span Q...
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RORY the Dinosaur…Me and my Dad
http://ift.tt/1KYuKHR Meet Rory, the dinosaur! Rory is a very busy little baby dinosaur, who lives on an island with his dad. Rory and his dad have been hanging out a lot ... Read More The post RORY...
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Bookworms: The Martian (2014) by Andy Weir
While the rest of his crew mates rocketed into Mars orbit, he lay bleeding and unconscious in the rust colored dust. And when he woke up, Mark Watney found that he was the only remaining inhabitant of...
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Review: A Golden Fury by Samantha Cohoe (2020)
A Golden Fury by Samantha Cohoe Thea Hope longs to be an alchemist out of the shadow of her famous mother. The two of them are close to creating the The post Review: A Golden Fury by Samantha Cohoe...
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