Tag: Human Wave

  • Tip the Author

    In my other business, I frequently work for tips, or at least partly for tips. So I know that feeling of someone slipping a larger bill than anticipated in my hand and telling me “you did a great job, thank you!” So how, you might ask, can you tip an author? You sat quietly and…

  • Review: Postponed

    I am supposed to put a review here for you, and I have two, actually, but they aren’t happening until likely tomorrow. Just too much to do. I did finish a short story last night, set in feudal Japan, with a tattoo artist and a woman who isn’t what she seems. I’m pleased with it,…

  • Human Wave Garage Sale!

    Human Wave Garage Sale!

    Guest post by Sabrina Chase, who was kind enough to organize this first collaborative effort for Human Wave authors.  The Human Wave Garage Sale When did it become fashionable for published fiction to be full of self-loathing for qualities most intelligent humans value? Where’s the adventure, the courage, the fun? We suppose it was about the…

  • Review: Take the Star Road

    Review: Take the Star Road

    I picked Take the Star Road, by Peter Grant, to read for this review because I love science fiction that harks back to the age of exploration, that celebrates humanity’s hunger for the stars, and most of all, tells a good story. I was rewarded with everything I had hoped for in this book. The…

  • Review of Puss & Boots in the 23rd Century

    Review of Puss & Boots in the 23rd Century

    I interviewed John McClure over at Amazing Stories, and as promised, here is the review of his first novel,  Puss & Boots in the 23rd Century. P&B, as he calls it, and I will as well for sake of brevity, is a rousing good tale of a dystopian world in the throes of recovery. Not,…