Charlie's Bookshelf

I had heard for many years about how good Wool was and how I should give it a try. I finally bought a copy and it sat unread on my shelf for...

As you can see from my last post  I've spent a lot of time reading and thinking about the Revelation Space series recently.  I've li...

I just finished my journey through all the published Revelation Space stories in (in-universe) chronological order (review of the series in ...

The Phillip K. Dick Reader is a selection of 24 Phillip K. Dick stories.  It collects mostly earlier stories from the mid 1950's with ...

I picked up  Kalki  a while back because I had always heard that Gore Vidal was a good author and that this was the most science fiction lik...

I picked up Tatja Grimm's World after I read Vernor Vinge's short story collection because at that point it was basically the last p...

Ready Player One  is a nerdy, sci-fi love letter to the 80's.  I don't mean that it is written in the style of 80's science fict...

hey you should read The Gone-Away World Is good? Is good. K The above conversation, from last F...

Bloggers note:   I am deferring my other graphic novel post for a little while but I promise I will come back to it.  I liked Lucifer  too m...

My only other experience with William Gibson was his most famous book, Neuromancer .   I enjoyed it but I read it directly after Snow Cras...

The first (and only before this) Murakami book I read was 1Q84 .  It was not a great book.  It had a lot of unresolved questions at the end ...

After reading and enjoying Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep , I knew I wanted to read more Phillip K. Dick.  I read that The Man in the H...

The Atrocity Exhibition  initially attracted my attention because of its shape.  The copy I have is shaped like a thick magazine but with a ...

This book marks the end of an era.  This is almost certainly the furthest ahead in the timeline Star Wars publishing will go before Episode ...

It feels a little unfair to compare this to Blackout/All Clear  because this was written years earlier and Ms. Willis has obviously improved...

I recently inherited all of my late grandmother's books.  After finishing The Thorn Birds , I chose a book at random from a box that cam...

I picked this book up in a little used bookstore in Northwestern PA.  To be honest, I picked it up because the title reminded me of the titl...

Ursula Le Guin is somewhat a shame of mine.  I consider myself a big fan of sci-fi and fantasy and yet I have read almost none of her books....

Warning: While this post contains only minor spoilers for Abaddon's Gate, it does have more major spoilers for Leviathan Wakes and Calib...

Warning: While this post contains only minor spoilers for Caliban's War, it does have more major spoilers for Leviathan Wakes , the prev...