Matt’s Reviews: A Psalm For The Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Publisher : Tordotcom Publication date : July 13, 2021 Language : English Print length : 160 pages ISBN-10 : 1250236215 ISBN-13 : 978-1250236210 […]
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Matt’s Reviews: Off The Main Sequence by Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher: Science Fiction Book Club; Publication Date: 1st edition (October 1, 2005) Length: 738 pages ISBN-10: 1582881847 ISBN-13: 978-158288184 Author: Robert A. Heinlein Off The Main Sequence:The Other Science Fiction Stories of Robert A. Heinlein […]
Matt’s Reviews: Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn
Publisher: John Joseph Adams Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication date: 07/11/2017 Pages: 288 ISBN: 9780544947306 Author: Carrie Vaughn Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn is a post apocalyptic science fiction murder mystery and winner of the Philip […]
Matt’s Reviews: The Ocean At The End Of The Lane by Neil Gaiman
Publisher: HarperAudio Release Date: June 2013 Format: Audio CD Disks: 5 ISBN: 006226303X ISBN13: 9780062263032 Author: Neil Gaiman Read by: Neil Gaiman The Ocean At The End Of The Lane by Neil Gaiman […]
Matt’s Reviews: The Glass Hotel / Sea Of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel has a way with words and story. The Glass Hotel tells the story of a Bernie Madoff type huge Ponzi scam and its affects on various people from the investors to […]
Matt’s Reviews: Lost Boy by Christina Henry
Publisher: Berkley Books Publication date: 07/04/2017 Pages: 304 ISBN: 9780399584022 Author: Christina Henry Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook by Christina Henry is an alternate take on the Peter Pan story. This […]
Matt’s Reviews: Recursion by Blake Crouch
Publisher: Ballantine Books Release Date: June 2019 Length: 336 Pages ISBN10: 1524759783 SBN13: 9781524759780 Recursion by Blake Crouch tells the story of a brilliant woman who is trying to find a way to save memories […]
Matt’s Reviews: The Mountain In The Sea by Ray Nayler
Publisher: MCDONNELL DOUGLAS Publication date: 10/04/2022 Pages: 464 ISBN: 9780374605957 Author: Ray Nayler The Mountain In The Sea by Ray Nayler is a ‘first contact’ story, but not in the way you might imagine. […]
Matt’s Reviews: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER TRADE Publication date: 04/02/1998 Pages: 256 Copyright Year: 1985 ISBN: 0-684-85394-9 Author: Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a […]
Matt’s Reviews: Farewell Summer by Ray Bradbury
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America Published Date: 2006 Author: Ray Bradbury Read By: Robert Fass ISBN: 0-7927-4519-1 Length: 3 hours 19 minutes Farewell Summer by Ray Bradbury is the sequel, or maybe just the completion, […]
Matt’s Reviews: Alice by Christina Henry
Publisher: Ace Publication date: 08/04/2015 ISBN: 9780425266793 Pages: 304 Author: Christina Henry Alice by Christina Henry is her homage to the Alice In Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass books. Those Lewis Carroll books […]
Matt’s Reviews: Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
I have been spending time in the stacks of my local library and my book shelves revisiting some of the beloved books from my youth. With so many new tales being released every day, it […]
Matt’s Reviews: A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE Publication date: 02/01/1961 Book Pages: 368 ISBN: 9780553273816 Copyright Year: 1959 Author: Walter M. Miller, Jr. A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. was originally published in 1959, […]
Matt’s Reviews: Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir
Publisher: Picador; Reprint edition (November 4, 2014) Language: English Paperback: 304 pages ISBN-10: 125005611X ISBN-13: 978-1250056115 Author: Sendhil Mullainathan Author: Eldar Shafir Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much […]
Matt’s Reviews: The Genius Plague by David Walton
Publisher: PYR Publication date: 10/03/2017 Pages: 384 ISBN13: 9781633883437 ISBN10: 1633883434 Author: David Walton The Genius Plague by David Walton is a fun sci-fi thriller. A mycology researcher (someone who studies fungus) comes […]
Matt’s Reviews: An Outsider’s Guide To Humans by Camilla Pang, PhD
Publisher: Viking (December 1, 2020) Language: English ISBN-10: 1984881639 ISBN-13: 978-1984881632 Author: Camilla Pang, PhD An Outsider’s Guide To Humans: What Science Taught Me About What We Do and Who We […]
Matt’s Reviews: A Tale of Two Writers – Stephen King and Ray Bradbury
Title: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Published by: Simon & Schuster Audio, 2000 ISBN 10: 0743506650 ISBN 13: 9780743506656 Author: Stephen King Read by: Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft […]
Matt’s Reviews: Pines by Blake Crouch
Publication Name: Brilliance Audio Publisher: Brilliance Publishing, Inc. Publication Year: 2012 ISBN-10: 1469216051 ISBN-13: 9781469216058 Author: Blake Crouch Pines by Blake Crouch is a well-written, weird story about a Secret Service Agent sent to […]
Matt’s Reviews: The City And The Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
Publisher : Victor Gollancz Ltd (1976) Copyright: Arthur C. Clarke (1956) ISBN-10 : 0575001593 Author : Arthur C. Clarke The City And The Stars by Arthur C. Clarke […]
Matt’s Reviews: Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation are the three books that make up the original Isaac Asimov sci fi classic Foundation Trilogy. These books were originally published as a series of short stories in […]
About Author
Matt Truxaw’s newest book is Monster, which released on 1/12/2026. This urban fantasy, horror, thriller will keep you turning the pages.
He is also the author of the hard science fiction thrillers: “Plastiphobia/Plastivore” and “Anthrophobia: A Teacher’s Tale”
You can find them all on Amazon in Paperback, Hardback, Kindle and/or free to read with Kindle Unlimited.
When you read any of them, he would really appreciate a review/rating on Amazon or your favorite book seller/book reader site.
More about Matt:
He was born in Orange County California many years ago and he still lives there. He has been reading books for most of those years and writing up book reviews for the last few years. He gets MANY of his books out of the library/Libby so expect a lot of old science fiction classics book reviews and other science related reviews in addition to newer books he comes across.
If you want to be ‘in-the-loop’ on these and other works, you can follow his author’s page on Amazon or his Facebook page.
For more reviews and articles by Matt here on Amazing Stories (Click here).
Monster: A Novel by Matt Truxaw
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