Literature & Fiction

Notable science fiction authors are gathered for an out-of-this-world collection! Features “Why I Left Harry’s All-Night Diner” by Lawrence Watt Evans and read by Wil Wheaton; “That Only Mother” by Judith Merrill and read by Terry Farrell; “Jeffty Is Five” written and read by Harlan Ellison; “Fermi and Frost” by Frederick Pohl and read by [...]

The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of the 20th Cen

The year is 1984, but not for long. Aomame bolts from the cab, walks onto the elevated Tokyo expressway, descends an emergency ladder to the street below, and enters a strange new world. In parallel, a math teacher and aspiring novelist named Tengo gets an interesting offer to rewrite a mysterious 17-year-old’s story for the [...]

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

Every author’s task is to squeeze plot, character, setting, theme and style, into an enjoyably coherent narrative. Lamentation is a character based story amidst an intense, multi-leveled plot. Scholes weaves the story among the perspectives of about 10 characters. Each is progressively developed as they unfold their perspectives and place in the calamity. This technique [...]

Lamentation

Overview: For historical fiction readers, a tantalizing new novel from New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir about the passionate and notorious French queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. Renowned for her highly acclaimed and bestselling British histories, Alison Weir has in recent years made a major impact on the fiction scene with her novels about Queen [...]

Captive Queen by Alison Weir

Overview: From the moment John Varley burst onto the scene in 1974, his short fiction was like nothing anyone else was writing. His stories won every award the science fiction field had to offer, many times over. His first collection, The Persistence of Vision, published in 1978, was the most important collection of the decade, [...]

The John Varley Reader by John Varley

Destined to do for the restaurant magician, what corporate close-up did for the corporate worker. For the first time, James spills the beans and release some of his favorite routines and gives valuable hints and tips that will make you a high earner in this lucrative field. Menu of Miracles Vol. 1 by James Prince [...]

Menu of Miracles Vol 1-2

“Dead Like You” reads fast for a 550 page book and is loaded with suspense. I had a hard time putting it down and thought it one of the better thrillers I’ve read in quite some time. There are plenty of red herrings and enough uncertainty to keep the reader guessing. James shows some of [...]