Books and book reviews

So, in continuing reading books related to the Trojan War I recently read two books by Dan Simmons – Ilium and Olympos. These strange, convoluted, but interesting books were “loosely” about the Trojan War, but also included aliens, modern and post-modern humans. Essentially, there were four or five distinct and quite different stories being toldContinue reading “Books and book reviews”

Book Review Revisited

The other day I wrote about reading Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov. But never commented on any of the writings that were in it. So here goes. There were 21 short stories covering a variety of subjects. Some themes tied together many of the stories. For instance besides robots, there was multivac, a mega-computer. ThenContinue reading “Book Review Revisited”

Some recent books

An interesting book on natural history at night. If you’ve never spent much time out in nature at night I can highly recommend it. I can remember evenings in southern Mexico with owls and howler monkeys fondly. Closer to home we frequently spend evenings outside at Whitefish Point watching owls heading north. More often weContinue reading “Some recent books”