Friday, 26 July 2013

Essential Writings: A Journey Through Time, 2nd and Revised Edition

Helmut Schwab’s Essential Writings: A Journey through Time aims to distill the author’s previous essays on topics as diverse as the origin of the universe, human evolution, consciousness, and the search for spiritual meaning. The subtitle, “A modern ‘De Rerum Natura’” is a reference to Lucretius’s work of the same name, which spanned topics within the sciences as well as speculations about mind and soul. Essential Writings emulates Lucretius’s approach...

Thursday, 25 July 2013

The Hunted

The Hunted is a brilliantly understated fusion of anthropological mystery, apocalyptic science fiction, and ecological thriller. Stellar character development, a fascinating storyline, and vivid description make this a stay-up-all-night-until-your-eyes-bleed kind of read. It all begins in the Amazon where the last remnants of an indigenous tribe (called the Ipanao) that has remained separate from the civilized world for thousands of years is discovered...

Wednesday, 24 July 2013

ATOM

Stephen C. Sutcliffe’s ambitious first novel covers a lot of territory. Negotiating its wide-ranging landscape, readers will be hard-pressed to peg a specific genre. Is it an action-packed adventure? Psychedelic mysticism? An apocalyptic manifesto? ATOM aspires to be all of these, with limited success. The story is that of Michael Brethren and his buddies, privileged kids enjoying a parent-funded prolonged adolescence, and yet obsessed with the...

Tuesday, 23 July 2013

In the Frightened Heart of Me: Tennessee Williams's Last Year

Tony Narducci had idolized Tennessee Williams for two decades when they met at a gay Key West disco in February 1982. Narducci offered his arm after having seen Williams stumble on the stairs. That simple act — the playwright stumbling, the young man propping him up — became the template for a complex and challenging friendship that lasted until Williams’s death almost exactly a year later. Narducci was 34 to Williams’s 71, too young to put aside...

Tuesday, 9 July 2013

iUniverse 2013 - TopTenREVIEWS

If you are looking at online book publishing companies and want one that is fast, affordable and gives you more amenities than any other print-on-demand service, then iUniverse is for you. Their Select package offers authors a strong publishing package with excellent book selling capabilities and terrific help support helping it earn our TopTenREVIEWS Bronze Award. In addition, for authors who do not have the experience to market their own book,...