Bay Area programmer guy. Lifelong comic book reader, also a big fan of comic strips and webcomics. In prose I mostly read science fiction with a smattering of fantasy, horror, mystery and the occasional nonfiction book. My cats help.
This is my Bookwyrm account. For Mastodon, try @mrawdon@sfba.social
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"The galaxy has seen great empires rise and fall. Planets have shattered and been remade. Amongst the ruins of alien …
Equal Rites is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett. Published in 1987, it is the third novel in the …
THE LIGHT FANTASTIC is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the second of the Discworld series. It was published …
Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have garnered him a revered position …
The Revolutions has a slow start, a rousing middle, and a tremendously disappointing end. At its best it's reminiscent of Tim Powers, but never quite rises to that level, and ultimately it feels like two or three different stories awkwardly jammed together.
Long retired, Sherlock Holmes quietly pursues his study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. He never imagines he would …
A troubled man leads a writer and a scientist into "The Zone", a mysterious area where the laws of physics …
Summoning his family and associates to his side after a mysterious disease destroys his career as the world's greatest stage …
"When seventeen-year-old Toby McGonigal finds himself lost in space, separated from his family, he expects his next drift into cold …
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, must exonerate her father of murder. Armed with …
Take an artifact, an impossible artifact from the far, forgotten past, mix well with time condensed into event points throughout …
Humans expanded into space... only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was …
