EDITORIAL REVIEW: The author of two critically acclaimed novels, **The Russian Debutante’s Handbook** and **Absurdistan**, Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world...
The story of Nintendo's rise and the beloved icon who made it possible. Nintendo has continually set the standard for video-game innovation in America, starting in 1981 with a pluc...
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...
ReviewIt's a wildly leftist novel of love, war and death; Townsend Warner chucks thelot into her simmering story, but it remains skilfully crafted. Brilliantlyentertaining and ...
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...
Product DescriptionGemma Murphy has a nose for a story - even if the boys in Chicago's newsrooms would rather focus on her chest. So when she runs into a handsome man of mystery di...
Everything you never knew about sushiits surprising origins, the colorful lives of its chefs, and the bizarre behavior of the creatures that compose itTrevor Corson...
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...
Amazon.com Review_Stiltsville is a story of a marriage that begins with serendipity--that holiest of relationship grails--one warm summer day in Miami. It's 1969 when girl (Frances...