Monthly Archives: April 2017

The Only Part of You He Had

Posted on April 29, 2017 by Tietsu

Eight months. Eight months she’d been gone. Buried under a litany of nightmares and choked down tears. You spend enough time crying eventually you to hide it, let it out it bursts, little moments of weakness as the new status … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Tietsu

In an interview, Wright mentioned that he was using three tome-filled bookcases in order to do research on the book that would eventually become The Looming Tower. Now, I’ve never written a non-fiction book, hell, by any reasonable standard I … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson 

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Tietsu

I first met Stephenson back in 2004 in a copy of Cryptonomicon I found at Barnes and Noble. I read the first couple chapters, enjoyed it and then made a terrible mistake. I looked at the author biography in the … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Enchanted Objects by David Rose

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Tietsu

  I’m only just now getting into this whole futurist thing. I’m not happy with the present so I’ve decided that I’m going to consume as many potential futures as I can and drive stoned and screaming into the one … Continue reading →

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Bodies

Posted on April 15, 2017 by Tietsu

Dead men. Dozens of the them litter the street, eyes hollow like the blackened core of rotten trees. Some still twitch others, fester quietly in the wet chaos of the road, oblivious to the mounds of traffic racing past them … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Normal by Warren Ellis

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Tietsu

You ever just sit down and then start typing and typing and then you awaken some hours later only to realize that you’ve ended up with something almost coherent? You sit at the bar staring at your laptop, eyes darting … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore

Posted on April 11, 2017 by Tietsu

When a loved one dies there is always some(or one) among the grief stricken who are left with the task of writing an obituary. There are people at the paper, at the memorials, who can help, but the burden still … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinction by Helen Pilcher

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Tietsu

A well-meaning book with and overbearing authorial voice. It reads like a series of separate essays that have been piled together and called a book. Constant callbacks met with (see Chapter ~) seems to have this point to an almost … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Tietsu

Reinterpreting Shakespeare is one of those things that seems obvious on paper, I mean Shakespeare himself borrowed large swaths of his ideas of those that came before him, so turning it into a cycle is an obvious get. The problem … Continue reading →

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