Balancing Frogs

Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman Published in 2010 Published by Sceptre Seth 'Sinner' Roach is a five-foot alcoholic gay Jewish bo...

American Front by Harry Turtledove Published in 1998 Published by Ballantine The year is 1914 and the Great War has erupted. Over the ...

Old Man's War by John Scalzi Published in 2005 Published by Tor Books John Perry is a seventy-five-year-old widower living in the ...

Actually, forget that post title. This isn't so much my opinion about gun control, as it is my plea for us to stop being so proud of no...

...is that, however much we may like to believe otherwise, effective gun control laws as we currently imagine them are doomed to be irrelev...

The City & the City by China Mieville Published in 2009 Published by Macmillan ISBN: 1-4050-0017-1 Tyador Borlu is a police inves...

After a three-week trip back to the United States by way of Shanghai that saw us celebrate Christmas in New York State and the new year in ...

Slate.com's Farhad Manjoo has taken people to task for calling him a 'troll' for writing an article that bashed iTunes . He co...

A couple of weeks before the election, I read Conor Friedersdorf's essay ' Why I Refuse to Vote for Barack Obama '. I posted it...

Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper Published in 1962 Published by Avon ISBN: 0-441-48498-0 On the Earthlike planet of Zarathustra, current...

Blindsight by Peter Watts Published in 2006 Published by Tor Books ISBN: 978-0-7653-1218-1 It's the late 21st Century, and the al...

Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel by Milorad Pavic English translation by Christina Pribicevic-Zoric Published in 1984 (in Engl...