This novel is as bleak and scouring as the dust storms which fill its pages. Set in a near-future America, "Above All Men" follows the life of former army medic David Parrish, his wife, Helene, and their adolescent son, Samuel. After a... Read More

Fast-paced epic pulls out all the stops with classic good-guy, bad-guy fantasy. Color-coded warriors with supernatural powers are humanity’s last defense against the Entity, a horde of undead abominations that are “pure evil.” With... Read More

Bert Tucker’s ambitions are obvious from the first pages of Life Force Mars: Creating a New Home for Mankind, a book that, in the author’s own words, “is not just a real science fictional story—it’s an illustration of how we... Read More

Limits haunt the pages of "The Visioneers" and the minds of its titular scientists. In the 1970s, when the visioneers’ narrative begins, the world was facing the idea of a future defined by constraints: limited space, limited... Read More

“Dad, am I going to college?” Donald Bailey’s intellectually challenged son, Donald Jr., asks at the outset of LIFE: Learning is for Everyone. The answer ordained by the educational infrastructure in the Bailey family’s home... Read More

"Shadows and Fire" is set in a future in which mankind shares the world with genetically engineered beast-people. Both human and so-called “supernatural” society are in dire straights: Humans are under the repressive yoke of the... Read More

Video games are art. So says "The Art of Video Games" simply by existing. A codified complement to an exhibit of the same name that opened in March at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the book enters a cultural discussion that has... Read More

In Laurasia, the gods are gone. Three hundred years ago, the four elemental gods were banished by the ruler of the cosmos after dooming the realm to chaos in an attempt to dominate one another. The gods left behind four great totems,... Read More