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Film Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Find out what the author of Jar Jar Binks Must Die thought of The Force Awakens
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Review: Stand On Zanzibar by John Brunner
Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner’s 1969 Hugo Winner for Best Novel, was one of those books I always meant to get around to reading, especially when I came across an essay that suggested it was a precursor to cyberpunk.
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Neal Stephenson’ s Reamde
By the time Stephenson hit it big with Snow Crash I was already a fan.
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Against the Boycott of Ender’s Game
When I returned to reading science fiction as adult I discovered a whole new generation of authors:Greg Bear, David Brin, William Gibson, Octavia E. Butler, and Orson Scott Card. In each case I would read a recommended book and […]
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The New Novel
Yes, while I’m dealing with everything else in my life I’ve decided to start writing a new novel. It’s a time travel story and, I hope, a comedy, but as with my previous books — […]
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When You Shouldn’t Read John Scalzi
Like many readers, I became a fan of John Scalzi after reading his Old Man’s War. It’s a wonderful book and it led me on to his others. I’ve now read most of his novels […]
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Better Than Oprah
Several years ago I interviewed an author whose book had been turned into a movie. The book had been a selection of Oprah Winfrey’s “Book Club” and he freely admitted that that selection had changed […]
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Am I A Science Fiction Writer?
Now that’s an interesting question. We’ve just launched my first novel, Shh! It’s a Secret: a novel about Aliens, Hollywood, and the Bartender’s Guide, at Arisia. It got written up in both Publisher’s Weekly and the […]
Who Do I Review For?
by Daniel M. Kimmel (This essay was originally published on the author’s blog – Behind the Scenes – on GoodReads, May 6, 2012 and is reprinted here by permission of the author.) My friend MaryAnn Johanson is […]
The Year’s Worst Movies – 2012
My ten best (or ten favorites) is up at North Shore Movies, where my reviews regularly appear:https://northshoremovies.wordpress.com… However I also like to unload on the worst or most overrated movies I had to suffer through […]
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