Category: Books
More crimes of the century
And this time the culprit is the U.S. government! THE PLUTONIUM FILES: America’s Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War by Eileen Welsome is a grimly detailed reminder that movie …
Childhood’s end: one book, one miniseries
(It’s been another hectic week so it’s reprints from my own blog this week) One of the sad but inevitable parts of growing older is watching Great Masters of Science …
“I’ll commit the crime of the century — this century and all the centuries to come!”
The title comes from Moriarty’s (John Huston) boast to Sherlock Holmes (Roger Moore) in the 1976 TV movie Sherlock Holmes in New York. It’s an ambitious boast; unless someone commits …
Doc Savage, Man of — Gun-Metal Grey? Lin Carter’s Zarkon, Lord of the Unknown
(Another repost from my own blog) As the editor of Ballantine Books’ fantasy line in the 1960s and 1970s, Lin Carter had an unerring eye for great fantasy. In his …
As Noel Coward once said, some people should be struck regularly, like gongs. Three books.
In Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth, Elizabeth Williamson looks back at how Alex Jones kicked off the modern age of conspiracy. Following the 2012 elementary …