United States of Japan Peter Tieryas Angry Robot Release Date: March 1, 2016 ISBN 978-0-85766-533-1 Military occupations are never a pretty thing. Add in, however, a “what would it have been like, if….?” and an author has the ability to spin a yarn full of entrenched characters and moral ambiguities […]
What could be better than to hear that fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss’s bestselling, award winning book The Name of the Wind and the series it debuted, “The Kingkiller Chronicles” has been picked up by Lionsgate to be developed into a major motion picture? How about part of the deal also […]
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.