Have you been wondering about the award-winning sequel to “Ender’s Game”? Here’s why you won’t be disappointed. — After the enormous success of Ender’s Game in 1985, science fiction author Orson Scott Card quickly followed up with a sequel that leapt thousands of years into the future to tell a very different kind of story. I loved Ender’s Game so it was a no brainer for me to…

Do you love Neuromancer and want more of that from Gibson? Find out of this is a good choice. — This summer I bought a used paperback copy of Pattern Recognition by William Gibson from an English book store in Berlin, hoping that I held in my hand another gem like Neuromancer. There were some more promising choices in Gibson’s catalog that I could’ve tracked down if that’s what I…

Should you watch the Amazon series or read the book first? This’ll help you decide. —

The harrowing stories of five German friends as they split up and head off to wage the Second World War in Europe. — I love World War II movies. I could watch Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line, Dunkirk, Fury and Inglorious Basterds again and again and again. …

Especially if you’ve already seen the movie — After the release of his ninth film Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, world famous writer-director Quentin Tarantino did something he had never done before: He wrote a novel. But not just any novel—a novelization of one of his own films. The result? It’s a kick-ass book with all the…

Don’t miss this fast, thoughtful and blazingly cool foreign flick — Someone you love is in big trouble. Your careful plan is ruined, the money’s gone. You never should’ve gotten involved with dangerous people, but now it’s too late. You’ve got twenty minutes, then that someone is going to die. What do you do? In 1998, a German film called Lola…

Can a 30-year-old best seller still be good? — Jurassic Park was first published in 1990 by Michael Crichton, but that hardly makes it a 90s book. Crichton developed and wrote the story throughout the 80s, starting it as a screenplay in 1983. That makes the concept and the story almost forty years old. Despite this, there’s nothing in…

Is Rockefeller’s monopoly still alive today? — Anyone with basic knowledge of American history will certainly recall the Standard Oil Company ands its wealthy founder John D. Rockefeller. You might also recall that it was deemed a monopoly by federal courts in the age of trust-busting and dissolved. But what happened after that? A brief history of Standard Oil Standard Oil was founded…

Could the war have ended earlier? Could genocide have been prevented? — If you’ve seen the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film Inglorious Basterds, you know the alternate-history story of a scrappy Jewish-American commando unit who blew up a theater where high-ranking members of the Nazi government including Adolf Hitler himself were in attendance. While most viewers are undoubtedly familiar with the basic facts…