by Ryder Miller | Sep 15, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science Fiction, Short Stories
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Wesleyan University Press Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | Barnes & Noble | iBooks[/alert] Vintage Visions, from professor and editor Arthur B....
by Ryder Miller | Aug 29, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Nature, Outdoors & Animals
Nature’s Nether Regions from Professor Menno Schilthuizen is a strange exploration of the sex lives of (mostly) insects and spiders. Sex is a subject that fascinates him like many others, but this book is not for young audiences. He does keep from using slang, and has...
by Ryder Miller | Aug 14, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Film, TV & Theater
Reel Change by Bill Mesce, Jr. is a fascinating book from which a serious fan of film or film criticism will be challenged not to learn something new. The book covers the last 60 years of filmography by collecting the author’s blog posts, which have a personal ring to...
by Ryder Miller | Aug 4, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Nature, Outdoors & Animals
The Age of Radiance from Manhattan author Craig Nelson takes on a worrisome subject, trying to de-myth our fears about nuclear energy and nuclear weapons. The story is more than seven decades long and much might be before the reader’s time. The book tells the stories...
by Ryder Miller | Jul 18, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Nature, Outdoors & Animals
Green Planets, Ecology and Science Fiction, from editors Professor Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson is a fascinating rumination on how environmental thought and concern has been received by science fiction. The book is for the academic, literary student, or the...
