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Book review: SPHERE by Michael Crichton
In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend together into the depths of the sea to investigate this...
Book review: THE WHITE PLAGUE by Frank Herbert
A molecular biologist is driven mad when he witnesses the murder of his wife and children by Irish Republican terrorists (ah, remember those pre-9/11 days?). He takes his revenge by engineering a plague that kills women. Like the plague, Herbert’s story travels the...
Book review: BOILING POINT by Karen Dionne
The long-slumbering Chilean volcano Chaiten awakens. Sheila Kennedy, a scientist engaged in microbiology research on the mountain, has gone on a hunt for a convoy of tanker trucks she suspects are involved in illegal dumping, while her partner Ross Roundtree (who...
Book review: THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE by Robert Louis Stevenson
A lawyer is perplexed and disturbed that his respected friend and client, Dr. Henry Jekyll, has prepared a will leaving his fortune to the repugnant Mr. Edward Hyde, a stranger with a violent temperament and deformed appearance. Publication Date: 1886 Category:...
Book review: THE DEUS MACHINE by Pierre Ouelette
An economic downturn has sent the United States into the throes of depression. Middle-class riots and a crack-like designer drug, Zap 37, rip into the social fabric. A paramilitary government cabal is determined to maintain America’s superpower status at any price....
Book review: FINAL THEORY by Mark Alpert
David Swift, a failed physicist turned science historian, is summoned by the police to the deathbed of his former mentor, renowned physicist Hans Kleinman. The elderly scientist and student of Albert Einstein was beaten and tortured by an unknown assailant seeking...
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