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Who is Dev Degraw? Wonderdog, a comedic novel by Inman Majors, takes us along as ne’er-do-well Degraw wanders through a disintegrating life. On the surface, Dev is a lot of things. He’s the 33-year-old son of the long-time governor of Alabama. He’s a divorced parent now chasing other women and pursuing his father’s female press […] About a third of the way through this book, I was still thinking: I just don’t get it. What I didn’t get is the praise for the book and the fact it won this year’s Pulitzer Prize. I must still admit that I sometimes think I just don’t get “literature.” But the last half of […] Charlie Stross is nominated for a 2005 Hugo Award for best novel. The weekend the nominees were announced I happened to pick up The Atrocity Archives. It must be nothing like his Hugo-nominated novel, Iron Sunrise, which is a sequel to Singularity Sky, a SF space opera which was itself a 2004 Hugo nominee. The […] All too frequently, when you think about a 500+ page biography, your eyelids automatically start getting heavy. Charles Nicholl, though, does a wonderful job with his exhaustive (by way of detail, not wear on the reader) biography, Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind. Nicholl details da Vinci’s life and work with a writing style […] Arthur C. Clarke is one of the primary reasons I became a science fiction fan. During the early 1970s, I read Childhood’s End and the incomparable Hugo Award-winning Rendezvous with Rama and one or two collected works. The enjoyment of those books not only led to more of his books but to many, many other […] |
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