The tales of this book, as Ursula K. Le Guin writes in her introduction, explore or extend the world established by her first four Earthsea novels. Yet each stands on its own."The ...
Review''Jeff Pearlman does the work of first-rate biography in his addictively readable Sweetness. He presents Walter Payton in all of his flaws and contradictions yet leaves...
From Publishers WeeklyFor anyone who's wondered about how humans first started eating honey—after all, bees guard it jealously—Ellis's charming history will be a treat. Apis mellif...
The author of Zero looks at the messy history of the struggle to harness fusion energy . When weapons builders detonated the first hydrogen bomb in 1952, they tapped into the vaste...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The story of one of the most important and beloved shows on television-how it got started, nearly failed, and was saved by Elmo** When the first episode aired o...
The tales featured in Strange New Worlds rocket readers across the length and breadth of Federation time and space, from Captain Jonathan Archer's first exploration of the ...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The first novel of the *New York Times* bestselling Dresden Files-now in a hardcover edition.** **As seen on the Sci Fi channel.** The novels of the *Dresden Fi...
SUMMARY: Ted Chiang's first published story, ""Tower of Babylon,"" won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula A...
SUMMARY: Published for the first time in 45 years, this pulp classic tells the story of down-and-out thief Tony Catell, who, after stealing 36 pounds of radioactive gold from a lab...