271. Review-Keeper's Child
August 24, 2008
Keeper’s Child, Leslie Davis, 2007, ISBN 9781894063012
Set in the near future, this takes place on a continent whose population and climate have been ravaged by disease and genetic mutation.
It all began innocently enough. Many years before, a cargo ship full of genetic material sa...
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272. Review-Tesseracts Eleven
August 22, 2008
Tesseracts Eleven, Cory Doctorow and Holly Phillips (ed.), 2007, ISBN 1894063031
Here is another compendium of new fantasy and science fiction stories from north of the border (in Canada).
A mother, her teenage son, and two younger daughters seem to be the only survivors of a plagu...
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273. Review-Iran: Everything You Need to Know
August 10, 2008
Iran: Everything You Need to Know, John Farndon, 2007, ISBN 1932857567
Iran, so much in the news these days, is a country of contradictions. On one hand, it is a very puritanical country controlled by Islamic clerics, where dissent is severely restricted. On the other hand, Iran is one of ...
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274. Review-Portraits in the Dark
August 06, 2008
Portraits in the Dark, Nancy O. Greene, 2006, ISBN 0595392806
Here are some rather macabre stories that look at the darkness and uncertainty that are part of the world and human nature.
In Thailand, a lonely traveling salesman meets a mysterious woman who deals with sales and contr...
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275. Review-Thrive: Standing on Your Own Two Feet in a Borderless World
August 04, 2008
Thrive: Standing on Your Own Two Feet in a Borderless World, Mike Cook, 2006, ISBN 097676315x
The business world has drastically changed in the last few years. This book shows how to develop the inner strength and abilities to survive in the new global marketplace.
For many years, ...
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276. Review-Cluck: Murder Most Fowl
July 30, 2008
Cluck: Murder Most Fowl, Eric D. Knapp, 2007, ISBN 1419682644
An untapped corner of the horror novel genre involves stories about dead chickens. Until now, that is.
Bobby Garfundephelt buys a sprawling, multi-building farm, with the intention of turning part of it into a bed and bre...
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277. Review-Escape
July 30, 2008
Escape, Brian T. Seifrit, 2007, ISBN 9781894936712 Hayden, Alex and Monique are anti-communist rebels fighting in present-day Russia. A man named Ellis Leroy, who can generously be called a lying scumbag, offers them a tempting proposition. He will guarantee safe passage out of Russia, and...
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278. Review-The Perfect Stock
July 28, 2008
The Perfect Stock, Brad Koteshwar, 2004, ISBN 1418486884 Reviewed by Paul Lappen
This is a fictionalized account of the rise and fall of the stock of a real company. In one year, the stock of Taser International, the makers of Tasers, rose by over 7000 percent. Despite this, few average i...
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279. Review-Credit Scores, Credit Cards
July 24, 2008
Credit Scores, Credit Cards, The Silver Lake Editors, 2005, ISBN 1563437821 Reviewed by Paul Lappen
It’s no great revelation to say that America has become a credit economy. Credit can bring an upper-class lifestyle to the middle class, and it can be the instrument of a person’s financial...
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280. Review-Down to a Sunless Sea
July 24, 2008
Down to a Sunless Sea, Mathias B. Freese, 2007, ISBN 9781587367335
This is a group of short stories, some previously published, on a variety of subjects, but with an overall, general theme.
There are a couple of stories about growing up in post-World War II Brooklyn. In one of thos...
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Author: Paul Lappen
