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Introducing the Analog Sci-Fi Collection
Makes you regret tossing out old magazines
Some folks think that finding treasure poking around at auctions doesn’t happen with the transparency of the internet — wrong! While not for everyone, we stumbled upon pure science fiction gold at a recent online event.
Arriving in four boxes and totaling more than 200 pounds of beautiful covers and great stories were a couple hundred issues of Analog...
Book Review — ‘I am Charlotte Simmons‘ by Tom Wolfe
Why We Picked It
- It’s Tom Wolfe…that’s enough for us!
- In a series of unrelated, but timely events, we purchased a copy of the book at an early spring yard sale several months ago and recently set it out on our nightstand while moving a few books around. Lo-and-behold, the next week, we learned of Tom Wolfe’s untimely passing literally upon entering the bedroom and looked up to find the book staring...
Book Review All That Man Is by David Szalay
Why We PickedIt
- Fans of DavidSzalay
- His ability to capture the look and feel of present-day London
- Interested to see how this work, comprised of short stories, compared to Szalays other recentwriting
What WeThought
- Excellent, not disappointed
- Brutal realism that is at times tough to stomach, but never question whether the stories are plausible
- Great cadence in hiswriting
- Expands into a larger,...
Book Review — All That Man Is by David Szalay
Why We Picked It
- Fans of David Szalay
- His ability to capture the ‘look and feel’ of present-day London
- Interested to see how this work, comprised of short stories, compared to Szalay’s other recent writing
What We Thought
- Excellent, not disappointed
- Brutal realism that is at times tough to stomach, but never question whether the stories are plausible
- Great cadence in his writing
- Expands into a larger,...