May
20
2008
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (8/10)
Engrossing, well-written novel about a sheriff tracking down a killer who’s after someone that stumbled on some drug money in the middle of a desert. I wouldn’t want to see the well-reviewed movie if it portrays the violence in the book.
Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer (7/10)
A [...]
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Jan
09
2006
End Of An Era by Robert J. Sawyer
Rating: (8/10)
Dinosaurs are fantastical creatures that once existed. How cool is that?! Stories about dinosaurs are cool too, if told well. End Of An Era is a fun, quick read about scientists travelling to the Mesozoic, hoping to figure out why dinosaurs became extinct, when they [...]
Tags: book reviews, dinosaurs, robert j sawyer, science-fiction
Sep
28
2004
Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer
Rating: (8/10)
This is a science-fiction novel about aliens trying “to discover why God has behaved as he has and to determine his methods”. Due to cataclysmic events occurring simultaneously on different planets and the fact that life exists, the aliens think the universe was designed. When they [...]
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