Not all the book reviews I do are going to be brand new books. Sometimes I find older books that are worthy of a read and worthy of a review. Such is the case with The Light of Other Days by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. It was written way back in 1999-2000. These older, hard science-fiction books have incredible views of a future world.
This is the second time that I’ve reviewed a book by A.G. Riddle. The last was Lost in Time. That was an amazing sci-fi thriller that kept me wanting more. So, when I saw another new book by Riddle at the Lockport Public Library, I knew that it was coming home with me. Quantum Radio sat in the pile of books for about a day before I decided to skip ahead in my reading schedule and take on this book. His last book was so good that I wanted to see if this new venture would be as fun. It was.
Ever since my first trips to the Lockport Public Library when I was a kid, the science-fiction novels were always a go to for me, especially the ones that involved time travel. Whenever I see a new time travel story, it ends up on my reading list. So, when I saw Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle, I had to make sure that it came home with me. It’s apparently a fairly popular book as it took a few weeks to end up on the shelves at the library. Once it was, I was all over it. And then I read it in a single day.
We live in a time where across the globe being a little bit different can mean ostracization or worse instead of being accepted. Instead of learning from history, we tend to ignore it and repeat the same mistakes. The Awoken by Katelyn Monroe Howes addresses this and takes it to new levels. In a novel that should border on science-fiction, it instead extrapolates forward in time a very possible arc of current events.
A Beginning At the End - Mike Chen
This article first appeared on East Niagara Post on January 12, 2016. It is repeated here as I work to put all my book reviews in one place. They will be posted on Thursdays or Fridays and only be altered from the original in that I will add publisher information and pages. Hopefully, by revisiting these reviews, other people might find a book they'd like to pick up for their own enjoyment.
Last Year - Robert Charles Wilson
This article first appeared on East Niagara Post on December 15, 2015. It is repeated here as I work to put all my book reviews in one place. They will be posted on Thursdays or Fridays and only be altered from the original in that I will add publisher information and pages. Hopefully, by revisiting these reviews, other people might find a book they'd like to pick up for their own enjoyment.
This article first appeared on East Niagara Post on December 8, 2015. It is repeated here as I work to put all my book reviews in one place. They will be posted on Thursdays or Fridays and only be altered from the original in that I will add publisher information and pages. Hopefully, by revisiting these reviews, other people might find a book they'd like to pick up for their own enjoyment.
One Way & No Way - S.J. Morden
This article first appeared on East Niagara Post on August 25, 2015. It is repeated here as I work to put all my book reviews in one place. They will be posted on Thursdays or Fridays and only be altered from the original in that I will add publisher information and pages. Hopefully, by revisiting these reviews, other people might find a book they'd like to pick up for their own enjoyment.
Dutton Publishing
Here and Now and Then - Mike Chen
336 Pages