Started 10/25/26, finished 11/5/26 Like Polostan, Turning's Cathedral has been sitting in my to-be-read pile for quite a while. Author George Dyson also penned Project Orion: The Atomic Spaceship 1957-1965, a key resource for my novel The Immortal Remains. Turing'
Started 10/18/26, finished 10/23/26 After a long spate of rereads of favorite books, I thought it was time to find some new material in my mound of to-be-read books. Inspired by the publication of the second book of his Bomb Light series, I pulled
Joe Country started 9/12/26, Finished 9/14/26. Slough House, started 9/15/26, finished 9/16/26 I'm combining these books into one review, since it seems a little silly to be releasing two reviews one immediately after the other. I held onto theses reviews
Started 10/14/26, finished 10/17/26 All Tomorrow's Parties, the final book of William Gibson's Bridge trilogy, is possibly his most complex work up to the time it was published, in 1999, with at least eight different point-of-view characters (I might be
Started 10/10/26, finished 10/12/26 Idoru, published in 1996, is the middle book William Gibson's Bridge trilogy. Like Virtual Light, it takes place in a world closer to our own than his Sprawl books. It uses social concerns and the technology that existed or could
Started 9/30/26, finished 10/6/26 Published in 1993, Virtual Light is the first of William Gibson's Bridge trilogy. A step away from the futuristic cyberspace world of the Sprawl novels, Virtual Light takes place in a near-future California, now divided into two states, NoCal
Note: I’m a little behind in getting out reviews because I spent the weekend at Write On The Sound, a lovely little writer’s conference in Edmonds, Washington, just north of Seattle and yes, right on Puget Sound. While there, I took in a presentation called The Amateur Sleuth’
Started 9/24/26 Finished 9/25/26 Here at the end of what is commonly called "The Sprawl Trilogy," author William Gibson wraps up the story he began in Neuromancer, giving us both closure on characters and answers to questions posed in the earlier books...while stirring
Started 9/21/26, finished 9/24/26 While William Gibson’s first novel, Neuromancer, defined a new genre of science fiction, his second book, Count Zero, solidified his standing as an author. The story is more sure, more complex, and overall better. Neuromancer was so world-changing for me
Started 9/8/26 Finished 9/9/26 If you look at the start and finish dates above, you'll see I went through this quickly (and then sat on this review for a few days). I noticed this trend the first time I read through all the Slow
Started 9/1/26, finished 9/4/26 Family has always been a part of the Slow Horses universe. There is, of course, the dysfunctional family of the slow horses themselves, who don't appear to care about each other but who act like siblings at war with one
Started 8/26/26, Finished 8/28/26 The third book of the Slow Horses series, Real Tigers finds our favorite ne’er do well secret agents getting into trouble in their usual non-secret ways. The story starts with Catherine Standish getting kidnapped. Catherine is the only non-spy