Excellent read. A well-deserved winner of the Nebula awards.
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Mark Niemann-Ross rated Fun with Kirk and Spock: 4 stars
Mark Niemann-Ross rated Life After Life: 5 stars
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in …
Mark Niemann-Ross rated Carpe Glitter: 4 stars
Mark Niemann-Ross rated Sword of Destiny: 4 stars
Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski
Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him …
Mark Niemann-Ross rated Waypoint Kangaroo: 5 stars
Waypoint Kangaroo by Curtis C. Chen
"Kangaroo isn't your typical spy. Sure, he has extensive agency training, access to bleeding-edge technology, and a ready supply of …
Mark Niemann-Ross rated Dracula: 4 stars
Dracula by Bram Stoker
This Norton Critical Edition presents fully annotated the text of the 1897 First Edition.
Mark Niemann-Ross rated The Last Policeman (The Last Policeman, #1): 5 stars
The Last Policeman (The Last Policeman, #1) by Ben H. Winters
The Last Policeman is a 2012 American science fiction mystery novel by Ben H. Winters. It follows a police detective …
Mark Niemann-Ross rated Swallowing a donkey's eye: 4 stars
Swallowing a donkey's eye by Paul Tremblay
"Farm is the mega-conglomerate food supplier for City, populated with rabidly bureaucratic superiors, and sexually deviant tour guides dressed in …
Mark Niemann-Ross reviewed The explorer by J. P. Smythe
Review of 'The explorer' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Finishing "The Explorer" will require that you overlook the author's illiteracy of physics. Given that, Smythe weaves an interesting story of creeping madness.
Mark Niemann-Ross rated The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane: 5 stars
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe (Connie Goodwin)
A spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in …
Mark Niemann-Ross rated 2312: 3 stars
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson, Kim Stanley Robinson
"The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's …
Mark Niemann-Ross rated Ready Player One: 4 stars
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, Ernest Cline (Ready Player One, #1)
Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline. The story, …
Mark Niemann-Ross rated The Swerve: How the World Became Modern: 3 stars
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling …