Recently, I finished reading The Walking Dead: Miles Behind Us, the second volume of the Walking Dead series. I must say this: the story telling was still the same amazing storytelling that got me hooked on The Walking Dead. The disappointment, though, lies in the changing of the artist. No longer are the drawings clear, such that you can tell who ( Read more... )

Recently, I finished reading World War Z by Max Brooks.

Let me tell you this: though this book is filed under Horror, it could just as easily go in the history book section and sound just as plausible.

Brooks has the knack to write a deadpan humor book (The Zombie Survival Guide), and a horror book in which the supernatural elements are less ( Read more... )

This issue won't hit newsstands for about two more weeks, but here's my advanced review of it.

"The Roberts" (Michael Blumlein)

Sort of like "The Gift of the Magi" meets Multiplicity. Robert is an architect who only excels when he has a muse. However, when he's inspired, he spends all his time at work while neglecting his significant other. ( Read more... )

"The Art of Alchemy" (Ted Kosmatka)A metallurgist forms a relationship with a woman who has suspicious ties to powerful people with scientific marvels w.r.t metallurgy. After getting a carbon nanofiber sample, things get deep, and their lives are in danger. It was readable, and enjoyable speculative fiction, even for not having any alien/magic whiz ( Read more... )

I've done a bit of reading of late. Here are some key points. If I missed one you're interested in, let me know, and I'll try to remember it for next time.

The Zombie Survival GuideThis book is amazing. It's title says it all; it's a guide for surviving a zombie epidemic. Though you'll find it in your bookseller's humor section, this book, were ( Read more... )

So, everybody's been asking me where they can find a mostly comprehensive list of all my published works.

Well, that's kinda a lie. Regardless, I decided to make a new blog that lists my published works, etc. and where you can find them. Awwright!

http://jacobswritings.blogspot.com/Feel free to leave comments on the appropriate entry, if you so ( Read more... )

I would have gotten this one read sooner, had I (a) more lunches during which to read (did a lot of flex time these past few weeks), (b) and not picked up The Merlin Trilogy from the library to read. The print is tiny, and the pages many!!!!

"Immortal Snake" by Rachel PollackThis myth retold features a kingdom in which God's will is written in the ( Read more... )

In case you didn't know, I really find Steampunk to be interesting. It's more interesting to me than cyberpunk, or kyberpunk, monkpunk, biopunk, or even punkpunk.

And, I kinda like classic Star Wars, so when I saw this on Boing Boing and on Make, I just had to share it:

http://www.sillof.com/C-Steampunk-SW.htm

Awesome.

Crossposted in The ( Read more... )

Does putting out the Olympic torch really do anything to help Tibet or human rights?

'Cause if it does... cool!

Crossposted in The Eventide Knave and The Gangster of L'Oeuf.

Finally. I finished it... Just in time for the next issue, eh?

"The First Editions" - James StoddardAs a certifiable bibliomaniac (or was that bibliomancer?), I appreciated this story. It put Stoddard back in a favorable light to me after that dreadful feel-good story about NASA and enlightenment (insert gag here). A book collector chances to ( Read more... )