Tag: John Joseph Adams
Dead Man’s Hand edited by John Joseph Adams

This is billed as an anthology of the ‘Weird West’. Westerns themselves have been out of favour for a very long time in the publishing world except as films. To have a western on the bookshelves is to up the ante and reach for literary realms rather than the traditional pulp fiction. Even the ‘Space […]
Robot Uprisings edited by Daniel H. Wilson and John Joseph Adams (book review).

It’s amazing how things have changed over the years with SF robot stories and I blame a lot of it on nanotechnology, even if it’s only in its nascent stages at the moment in our reality. It isn’t big robots that will take on mankind but the little fellas with gestalt intelligence when they link […]
The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination edited by John Joseph Adams (book review).

Every hero needs a villain. The ying to their yang, dark to their light, salt to their vinegar. Without a decent villain, what is a hero? Just some chump with big ideas about themselves, making the ordinary person feel a bit bad because they’re not going around helping everyone else. Think about it. How pointless […]