A Woman of Two Minds
A WOMAN OF TWO MINDS Somehow, I never imagined the author of the three-book Red Queen mystery series would next turn her attention to science fiction. I also never imagined how much I, someone who rarely chooses science fiction to read, would enjoy Bourne Morris’s new novel, A Woman of Two Minds. In its pages, […]
Let Me Tell You
Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays and Other Writings Two of Shirley Jackson’s children have selected a miscellany of their mother’s writings that have never before been collected in one volume. Let Me Tell You gives Shirley Jackson fans more than fifty pieces: essays, talks given at various places, stories, vignettes, fragments, personal and […]
Darwin’s Sword
Two-thirds of the way through his science fiction novel, Darwin’s Sword, D. L. Whitehead acknowledges a Frankenstein parallel. Long before that, I had already decided that a more appropriate title for his book would have been “Frankenstein’s Doppelganger” because Whitehead brings Mary Shelley’s creation into the twenty-first century. Antagonist Dr. Jonathan Masters is a clone […]
The Martian
Self-reliant and self-deprecating, innovative and ironic, the intrepid main character of The Martian is stuck alone on Mars. One of six crew members on an American space mission from Houston, Mark Watney was injured in a freak accident, blown out of sight in a dust storm, and left behind by his fellow astronauts when they […]