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Review of The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter
The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter Simon & Schuster, 2013, hc ISBN: 978-1-4516-4020-5 485pp, map on endpapers A Review by Gene Stewart This is a Bob Lee Swagger novel. That’s the lead character. He smacks of Mary Sue, along the … Continue reading
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Tagged assassination, ballistics, Bob Lee Swagger, guns, JFK, Stephen Hunter, The Third Bullet, thriller
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Review of I, Ripper by Stephen Hunter
I, Ripper by Stephen Hunter Simon & Schuster, 2015 1st ed. hc, inc. 4pp bibliography ISBN: 978-1-4767-6485-6 A Review by Gene Stewart A novel about Jack the Ripper, researched in detail and presented in the voices of 1888 contemporaries, … Continue reading
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Stranded Off Earth
Exactly: 100 words “Shivers That Linger” When you’re ten you don’t think you might die. Life is eternal, like midwest summer, and everything’s interesting. So my friend and I found a Masterlock, layers of metal, no key. “We can smash … Continue reading
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Droodish Memories
Being more detailed, complicated, and serious than necessary for a thriller, The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl is a work of scholarly obsession. How much fiction is flensed in he carefully details in the end notes and the clever interview … Continue reading
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RAT STEW: TV, and HistorLatelyy – What’s Been In My Head
A few days ago in Omaha, near where I live, a man was killed by gunfire at a park. He was driving and tried to escape the bullets by going cross-country, breaking through a split-rail fence onto a grassy field. … Continue reading
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Tagged Death of Innocence, ghost, Lincoln, Peter Meyer, rat stew, UFO
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Random Notes of Passing Interest
Father’s Day this year falls on Litha. /// SOM 1-01, Special Operations Manual, is the one dealing with retrieving downed UFO’s and crew. It was mailed on film to UFO and aviation writer Don Berliner in 1994 after he’d attended … Continue reading
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Tagged dragons, Einstein, notes, random, retrieval, Tesla, UFO
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Our Occulted History by Jim Marrs, A Review
Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens? by Jim Marrs Wm. Morrow, 2013, hardcover 382pp, notes, index A Review by Gene Stewart Jim Marrs? Aliens? Must be some kind of joke. He wrote Crossfire, which, blended with … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancient Aliens, history, Jim Marrs, Occulted
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Bird Box by Josh Malerman, A Review
Bird Box by Josh Malarian Ecco, 2014, 1st edition, hardcover Special cut-out dust jacket Special cover, 262pp A Review by Gene Stewart Malorie and her two kids, a boy and a girl, are left alone by a deeply unnerving … Continue reading
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Tagged Bird, Box, Dark Fantasy, horror, Malerman, mystery, review, SF, suspense
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The Ancient Alien Question by Philip Coppens, A Review
The Ancient Alien Question: A New Inquiry Into the Existence, Evidence, and Influence of Ancient Visitors by Philip Coppens Career Press/New Page, 2012 320pp, 8p color insert, b&w illos throughout, notes, bibliography, index A Review by Gene Stewart Featuring an … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancient Alien, Coppens, Egypt, evidence, Extraterrestrial, fact, Pyramid, Speculation
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Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon, A Review
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon Penguin, 2014, 477pp, trade paperback A Review by Gene Stewart This is the single best book about New York City and about 9/11, just as Pynchon is the best living writer. In it, NYC is … Continue reading
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