reviews

An Endearing and Hilarious Cotswold Cozy! By: J.A. Lang When Ollie Meadows, disliked supplier and forager for the local gourmands and restaurants, misses his weekly delivery, Chef Maurice, eccentric gastronome and restaurateur, decides to take measures into his own pudgy hands. However, when he breaks into Ollie’s house to grab his groceries, a sudden discovery of some mysterious English truffles leads the chef to wonder just what Ollie is into. Not one to miss a good chance, or a good meal, Maurice tries to pilfer some of the gourmet delights only to be stopped by the police force. Sure that [...]

Big Brother Is Always Watching You Author: George Orwell In a world where telescreens are always watching you and where a careless facial expression or the uttering of words in your sleep will get you arrested and tortured, disloyalty to the party, headed by Big Brother, will cost you more than your life and sanity. It will cost you selfhood. A predictive classic, 1984 created a haunting vocabulary of words to describe a totalitarian society and a we-the-sheepople population content with cheap booze, rallying speeches, lottery tickets, and the latest songs. There is The Party, rulers of the massive conglomerate [...]

In a World of Thirst Author: Paolo Bacigalupi It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel…thirsty. Most of the post-apocalyptic fiction I read gives a clearly defined reason why the world went to hell. These days it’s usually a virus, but nuclear war was a major contender in the past. I think it was phased out because it didn’t make as many zombies. But The Water Knife is a very different kind of apocalypse – in that it isn’t really one at all. But it is. But…now I’m thirsty again. The Water Knife is the [...]