Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences..

Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written..

I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels..

About Antrax by Terry Brooks: I wonder if he's planning a book called SRS? Or F'lu?.

Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts.

About First Landing by Robert Zubrin: Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars..

I can't help but notice that everytime I fly somewhere, other people's planes fall out of the sky..

"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilomete….

Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story..

Nothin'g sa'ys q'uality fantas'y l'ike misuse'd apos'tro'phes..

[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn….

english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for lo….

I have hated every Kress I read, especially this one, but the Bear is a standard Bear and if you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing y….

I think once you start eating people you should stop claiming to be a vegetarian, even if you only eat bad people..

Until recently baby production was largely dependent on slave labour; as soon as women are allowed to answer the question "Would you like to squeeze ….

My father once discovered that one cannot "walk off" gangrene..

After enough concussions the head injuries blur together..

It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling..

Deadly nightshade is the only plant I have ever been able to get to grow for me..

This is the sort of book that justifies fatwahs. If WWIII occurred right now, we could die happy knowing Baxter would never write again. If a dinosau….

You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth..