Fantasy and Science Fiction

Check out Sara Reinke's book "The Dark Hunger". You can read an excerpt by clicking on the book cover to the right. If you love vampires, you'll love this book! Sarah asks: "Why do you think stories about vampires have fascinated people for so many centuries?" I think it has to do with the fact that they are mysterious creatures the hold dark secrets and everyone always wants to find out what is behind a secret. Read Full Story

Isaac Asimov had a 30 years correspondence with Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling. Pauling read Isaac's science articles in Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine regularly and wrote Isaac whenever he found an error. Here is an interesting excerpt. From Pauling to Isaac: I am writing now about your article in the September 1978 issue. On page 123, you say that Amontons and Guy-Lusac observed that if a gas at the freezing point of water, 0 degree Celsius, is decreased in temperature to -1 degree... Read Full Story

Well, it's finally over. After several weeks of reading (and several years of collecting), I've finished reading the seventh book in the Incarnations of Immortality series, And Eternity. Yes, I know there's still Under a Velvet Cloak floating around out there for me to find it, but at least for now I'm pretty much done with the series. It's been a fulfilling exercise and there's nothing quite like getting through a series of books like this. It's always enjoyable how characters are allowed... Read Full Story

Given that I own 7 out of the 8 books of the Incarnations of Immortality series and the fact that I've gotten as far as book 5, then you know a book fiend like me is left without any other option than to continue on until the end. Thus that brings us back to this point with the sixth book already completed and me already moved on to the last book that I have. For a longest time it was also the last in the series until Piers Anthony came up with an eighth book. I really liked this sixth... Read Full Story

Well, it seems I'm pretty much committed to finishing the rest of the Incarnations of Immortality before moving on to any other book series. While I won't quite admit to being hooked or addicted, but I am pretty intent on seeing the end of the path and understanding the greater pattern that Piers Anthony has set up to connect all 8 books, of which I already have the first seven. Being a Green Mother (Incarnations of Immortality, Book Five) was a very different book as compared to the first... Read Full Story