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YA Time Traveler Shows Smarts in Brush With da Vinci

Saving Time does three things extremely well: serves up an engrossing story sure to captivate its targeted teen audience, provides great learning for those teens about STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Math), and beautifully captures the language of this generation to a tee — a language to which…
Jim Alkon
December 11, 2020
Fiction

Paolini’s SciFi Debut Is a First-Rate First Contact Story With Epic Sweep

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/to-sleep-in-a-sea-of-stars-christopher-paolini.jpg “A powerful piece of SF, with intelligent writing and big ideas.” —Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time “Dazzles with otherworldly delights — and unearthly nightmares.” —Newsweek “This is Paolini's best book so far, skillfully done, brilliantly imagined and cleverly executed." —Starburst Magazine “Sure to be one of the…
Dennis Hetzel
October 8, 2020
Fiction

“The Number of Man” Explores Playing God With Clones and Trackers

Sounds like a wonderful world: tracking devices to help find missing children, protect against identity theft, provide instant access to medical information in the event of an emergency. The list goes on. But without legal authorization, who gives researchers, technicians, scientists and others the right to, in effect, play God…
Jim Alkon
May 20, 2020
Thrillers

“Agency” Delivers Dystopian Dilemmas; Full Attention Required

Since the dawn of the genre, science fiction writers have played with notions of reality, alternate universes, technology’s impact and the puzzles of time travel. Today, human technology has advanced to the point that these questions seem less speculative and more urgent, especially the militarization of technology and artificial intelligence.…
Dennis Hetzel
January 16, 2020