Tuesday, December 30, 2014

A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge

›
A group of human explorers have found an ancient and valuable data archive. While they study it, they accidentally wake up a powerful artif...
Saturday, December 27, 2014

I Think You'll Find it's a Bit More Complicated Than That by Ben Goldacre

›
A collection of mostly fairly short critical and skeptical essays. Most of them have been published on Goldcare’s column on Guardian (appar...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

Mauri Sariola: Susikoski ottaa omansa

›
A detective tries to find out who killed a beautiful young wife of a rich businessman. A smoothly written book which was fast to read. No...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction

›
A large (and pretty good) collection stories read piece by piece during the last 12-14 months. The overall quality was pretty good; most of...
Saturday, December 6, 2014

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January-February 2015

›
A pretty good issue, mostly nice, well written stories. Malnutrition • novelette by J. T. Sharrah An alien ambassador is almost murder...
Saturday, November 29, 2014

Pekka Matilainen: Kupoli

›
A murder has been done in 15th century Florence. There are eye witnesses and the sentencing should be easy, even though the obvious murder...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

›
A collection of essays from a wide variety of subjects. What would happen if the earth would stop rotating? What would happen if a baseball...
Sunday, November 16, 2014

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2004

›
A fairly nice issue. Time Ablaze • novella by Michael A. Burstein A time traveler goes to the New York of the beginning of the 20th ce...