Avengers of the Moon A Captain Future Novel Allen Steele Tor Books Release Date: April 11, 2017 ISBN 978-0-7653-8218-4 In 1940, a new pulp science-fiction series debuted: Curt Newton – known as Captain Future – was a young, handsome adventurer as well as a brilliant scientist and intrepid inventor. From […]
I Am Princess X Cherie Priest Arthur A. Levine Books Release Date: May 26, 2015 ISBN 978-0-545-62085-7 Is there anything Cherie Priest cannot do? I first got to “know” her through her steampunk alternate history novel Boneshaker, which took me surprise and by storm. I read three other of her […]
Vicious V.E. Schwab Tor Books Publish date: September 24, 2013 ISBN 978-0-7653-3534-0 Comic books sales have held somewhat steady in the past 15 years, waxing and waning little from year to year, with a few sudden jumps (last year) and slumps (2010). But super heroes? They are virtually everywhere. From […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.