From Publishers WeeklyPalahniuk's audacious ninth novel tells the story of Cassie Wright, an aging porn queen who intends to put an exclamation point on her career by having sex wi...
From Publishers WeeklyRetired NASA engineer Hickam became a minor mass market celebrity in 1994 after a last-minute 2,000-word filler for Air & Space magazine (he spent three hours...
SUMMARY: Years ago, noted science teacher and writer Chet Raymo embarked upon his own quest to reconcile the miracle stories he learned as a child with the science he learned as an...
Amazon.com ReviewIn Six Moon Dance, veteran fantasy and science fiction writer Sheri S. Tepper tells the tale of the strange planet Newholme. An intriguing human society occupies ....
Product DescriptionSINS OF COMMISSIONwhile on a misssion to save the planet Lessenar from environmental collapse, the crew of the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM is cripp...
Review"No writer has swallowed all of Singapore, from its stately colonial bungalows to its once opium-infested slums, with the verve and wit of the late J.G. Farrell, whose 1978 s...
Review"One of those rare writers who, by concentrating their attention on a few square miles of native turf, are able to turn up new and surprisingly wide worlds for the delighted ...
SUMMARY: Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (1856-1925) was a Victorian writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations. After failing his army entrance exam he was sent to a private '...
ReviewPraise for Simon Kernick: “Simon Kernick writes with his foot pressed hard on the pedal. Hang on tight!”–Harlan Coben “Great plots, great characters, great action...
ReviewPraise for Stephen Hunt: 'Hunt's imagination is probably visible from space. He scatters concepts that other writers would mine for a trilogy like chocolate-bar wrappers. Thi...