New book offers steampunk take on automata

Genre mashup brings together kid detectives and Lovecraftian horror

History is filled with events that, despite being utterly fascinating, simply fall by the wayside of our awareness. It isn’t that they are less interesting or less valid than other events – they just don’t make it to our history textbooks. They don’t make the cut.

“Casey Stengel: Baseball’s Greatest Character”

Book explores the tech subculture waging war on death

“The Sleepwalker” a compelling mystery

This year has been a phenomenal year for the written word. So many brilliant works – fiction and nonfiction alike – appeared on bookshelves in 2016.

Jonathan Lethem's latest novel complex and compelling

'American Heiress' recounts famous kidnapping

When we're living through a ubiquitous cultural moment one of those events that holds the attention of just about everybody it can seem as if that moment will retain its relevance forever. However, the reality is that that is rarely the case.

Novel explores a world where sin cannot be hidden

I've long been a proponent of that subset of speculative fiction known as alternate history. There's so much wonderful potential in the notion of exploring the many differences that can spin off from a single fundamental change. And if that change introduces a fantastical element, so much the better.