io9: Guns, Bugs and Powered Armor: The Most Realistic Military Science Fiction http://io9.gizmodo.com/5191056/guns-bugs-and-powered-armor-the-most-real...
The Guardian: Tolkien's annotated map of Middle-earth discovered inside copy of Lord of the Rings https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/23/jrr-tolkien-middle-earth-a...
Top of the Pile: Battleworld!
The Marvel comic book multiverse collapsed in upon itself in Summer 2015. As the various worlds ended, a new one was forged by its all-powerful god, Doctor Doom. This new world -- Battleworld -- drove a summer's worth of of spin-off stories as Marvel cancelled every one of their regular books and replaced them with a series of quasi-sequel limited series.
Off the Bookshelf: Early Summer Reading
My summer reading list for 2016 kicked off Memorial Day weekend with a combination of military SF, space opera, and fantasy. The following books were read in late May and June, and did a good job of priming my brain for the heavy reading days in July and August.
tor: After the Coup by John Scalzi (an Old Man's War short story) http://www.tor.com/2008/07/20/after-the-coup/ #fiction #scifi
Why I have a Summer Reading List
Why do I have a summer reading list? Two big reasons: 1) because I need time for myself, to be alone with the book, the plot, and the mental scenery I'm constructing and 2) because I gives me a project that I'm completely in control of.
Entertainment Weekly: Comixology launches new digital comic subscription service http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/24/comixology-digital-comic-subscripti... #comics
Summer Reading List 2016
I'm a creature of habit, and I know it. I love my pork roll, egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast, my Mets baseball, and X-Men comic books. In the summer months, this manifests as kicking back with a new Lost Fleet novel by Jack Campbell, an Expanse book by the combined writing team of James S. A. Corey, and a stack of Hellboy/B.P.R.D. novels.
Off the Bookshelf: Winter's End
I have a bad habit of saving all of my heavy reading for the summer. Don't get me wrong -- I love my summer reading list, but my brain's happier when I keep reading throughout the year. Starting around Thanksgiving and continuing through to early March, I aimed to do exactly that. I put together a short (well, short for me) reading list.
Off the Bookshelf: Summer's End 2015
Summer is long over, and the end of the year is looming large. Fortunately I can look back on a summer and know -- despite all the long work days -- that I read a hell of a lot of books.
I ended up reading all but one of the novels on my summer reading list, while adding several additional tomes. I planned to read 12 books and five graphic novels. I succeeded in reading 15 books and nine graphic novels.