Since the start of last year I have not been spending any money at Amazon. I’ve been happily buying my reading elsewhere. Today for the first time I ran into a genuine bump. I noticed that Canadian SF author Dennis E. Taylor released a fifth book in his fun and entertaining Bobiverse series last year, […]

This 2025 novel by German author Tim Staffel centers on the geopolitical and commercial exploitation of water, in times where fresh water is getting scarce as climate changes, glaciers melt, and aquifers get depleted. The protagonist, who has a fear of water, is a world wide activist on the human right to potable water, exposing […]

Came across this 2025 book in a Bregenz book store, Brunner, last summer while visiting the Austrian alps, and later looked for it online. Set in an ancient convent in a small deserted Italian village, and narrated by what appears to be a renaissance literary style all knowing voice. After a few chapters it becomes […]