F.E.A.R. 3 for XBox 360 – review
Blood, gore, Alma, mech suits: Ah, yes, it’s F.E.A.R. 3, the latest game in the F.E.A.R. franchise for the XBox 360! How does it stack up to its predecessors? Is it still scary, or old hat by now? And how’s about a handful of cheats thrown in for good measure? If you’re a fan of the [...]
Breach the Hull edited by Mike McPhail – review
Fans of MilSF, Breach the Hull (Defenders of the Future: Book 1) is for you! Before I even began reading the first story, I knew I was in for a treat just by perusing the list of authors’ names. For starters, there are two short stories by the famous Jack McDevitt (“Cryptic” and “Black to [...]
Original Sin by Lisa Desrochers – review
If you thought Personal Demons, Lisa Desrocher’s first novel in her Personal Demons series, was HOT, you need to check out the sequel, Original Sin, to find out what HOT is all about! Confronted with the choice between falling for a smoking hot demon and a hunky angel, both with the handsome looks that would [...]
WWW:Wonder by Robert J. Sawyer – review
If an AI took over the World Wide Web, would it be a source of good or evil? That’s what Hugo and Nebula Award winner Robert J. Sawyer writes about in his WWW trilogy, which concludes with WWW:Wonder. Other questions he poses include whether trying to shut down or “kill” a sentient AI is akin to the murder of [...]
Get Her Back! (DemonTech) by David Sherman – review
What is one to do when one’s headstrong and scantily clad Golden Girl goes off after her sothar player who has disappeared and gets herself kidnapped? If you’re Haft and his fellow Bloody Axes, you go after her no matter what the personal risk and save her, that’s what David Sherman’s short but fast-paced, exciting [...]
Nebula Awards Showcase 2011 edited by Kevin J. Anderson – review
Where can you go to get the best science fiction and fantasy in any given year? Anywhere that sells the annual Nebula and Hugo anthologies, naturally! This year, the collected nominated Nebula short stories and novelettes are gathered together in a tome called Nebula Awards Showcase 2011, edited by the esteemed and highly talented author [...]
James Rollins – The Devil Colony – Interview
The extremely talented author James Rollin is with me today to talk about his latest Sigma Force novel, the 7th in the series, The Devil Colony. Was America originally supposed to have 14 instead of 13 colonies? Who is a largely forgotten Founding Father whom you probably have never heard about in school? Did the [...]
The Devil Colony by James Rollins – review
The Devil Colony has all you could want in a Sigma Force novel by James Rollins: action, adventure, speculation, and a story ripped right out of the pages of history combined with a breakneck plot that incorporates the latest advances in cutting-edge (nano)technology. It’s the seventh book in the series so far, and it might very [...]
L.A. Noire for the XBox 360 – review
Details, details, details…the crime thriller L.A. Noire for the XBox 360, set in post-World War II 1947 Los Angeles, is a game that glories in and is made glorious by the rich accuracy of details that its publisher Rock Star Games and developer Team Bondi bring to it. If you have no idea at all what [...]
Changes by Jim Butcher – review
Private detective, full-time wizard Harry Dresden is back and faces some strange changes indeed in Jim Butcher’s exciting, page-turning twelfth novel in his Dresden Files series of books, Changes. This is the second review of the novel at this site, because the paperback is just out, and I managed to score a copy of it. [...]
Jon Land – Interview
Jon Land’s latest thriller/mystery featuring fifth generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong, Strong At the Break, is now out in the bookstores and at Amazon and is rapidly rising up the bestselling books ranks! It’s a great novel that can be enjoyed as a standalone, though the whole series is excellent, so if you love thrillers, [...]
Stefan Petrucha – Interview
Professor Crazy’s Case Log: I’m going to be interviewing the famous and highly gifted author Stefan Petrucha today. He has a column here now, and he is the author of the best-selling X-Files comic book series and has written eighteen novels, including Timetripper, The Rule of Won, a book he coauthored with Ryan Buell (the [...]










