Science's Less Accurate Grandmother

Steve[n] Mollmann's blog: it only knows that it needs, but like so many of us, it does not know what

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15 September 2025

Shuri: A Friend in Need and Other Stories by Nnedi Okorafor, Rachael Stott, et al.

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The second half of the  Shuri  series continues the story of what Shuri is up to on Earth, acting as Black Panther while T'Challa is mi...
12 September 2025

Reading Paradox in Oz Aloud to My Kids

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My randomizer brings me and my seven-year-old to our next apocryphal Oz book— Paradox in Oz . I know I read this before at some point, but I...
10 September 2025

Hugos Side-Step: The Rolling Stones by Robert A. Heinlein

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If I read and enjoy a Hugo-winning novel, I like to follow that up with related books by the same author. Heinlein's  The Moon is a Hars...
08 September 2025

Star Trek: The Destiny Era: Coda: Moments Asunder

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2387 This is pretty much an impossible book to review on its own merits. The first, most obvious, reason it's that it's the first p...
05 September 2025

The Pelican History of England Retrospective

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I spent the first half of this year reading the Pelican History of England , a series of nine paperback books chronicling the history of Eng...
03 September 2025

Black Panther: The Gathering of My Name by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Kev Walker, et al.

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The Gathering of My Name  is the second of four parts of  The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda ; Ta-Nehisi Coates continues as writer, of cou...
02 September 2025

Reading Roundup Wrapup: August 2025

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Pick of the month:   Enigma Tales  by Una McCormack. Look, when Una McCormack writes a book, it's the best book I read that month. I don...
01 September 2025

Star Trek: The Destiny Era: Enigma Tales

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late 2386 , weeks after Section 31: Control (according to the Historian's Note) or late 2388 , three years after The Fall (according t...
29 August 2025

Reading The Patchwork Bride of Oz Aloud to My Kid—We Begin Our Journey into the Noncanonical!

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As chronicled at length here on this blog , my kid and I spent several years reading all the "official" Oz books: the Famous Forty...
27 August 2025

Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States (1980, rev. 2003)

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My mother-in-law got me this book for my birthday. This tells U.S. history from the perspective of the "people," looking not at th...
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