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World Without Pain: The Story of a Search
The Woman Who Fell Backwards and Other Stories
Apocalypse Bluff and Other Stories
The Senescent Nomad Hits the Road
Invasive Procedures: Stories
Heroes and Other Illusions: Stories
Bedlam Battle: An Omnibus of the One Thousand Series
After the Fireflood
Caliban’s Children
The Fantasy Book Murders
Opting Out and Other Departures
Sunflower: A Novel
America Redux: Impressions of the United States After Thirty-Five Years Abroad
Fear or Be Feared: Fantasies
Writing as a Metaphysical Experience
Reviews and Reflections on Books, Literature, and Writing
The One Thousand: A Novella
The One Thousand: Book Two: Team of Seven
The One Thousand: Book Three: Black Magic Bus
The One Thousand: Book Four: Deconstructing the Nightmare
After the Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Memoir of Greece
The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen: A Novel
Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales
Love Children: A Novel
Painsharing and Other Stories
The Dragon Ticket and Other Stories
Tag Archives: Cold War
Book Review: American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race by Douglas Brinkley
This is a fascinating book about America’s efforts to conquer space during the Cold War. However, it is not a comprehensive history of the space program. Instead, it focuses on John F. Kennedy’s fixation on space exploration and eventually on … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo program, Cold War, John F. Kennedy, moon landing, sixties, space exploration, space flight
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Book Review: Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick
Because the vast empire of the Soviet Union is dead and gone, it’s hard sometimes to remember how pervasive, influential, and terrifying it once was. I grew up during the Cold War, when the ongoing struggle between communism and capitalism … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Yeltsin, Brezhnev, Cold War, David Remnick, Gorbachev, Khrushchev, Lenin's Tomb, Pulitzer Prize, Russia, Soviet Union, Stalin
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Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
I can’t remember the recent thought processes that caused me to desire to read Doctor Zhivago now, after all this time. The David Lean film was very important to me as a young teen. I saw it multiple times in … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Pasternak, Cold War, David Lean, Doctor Zhivago, Nobel Prize, Russia, Ursula K. Le Guin
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Book Review: A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon by Neil Sheehan
Library book sales are great places to find good reads, and while perusing the shelves at the Pacific Beach branch of the San Diego library I came across this volume. I had never heard of the book but I had … Continue reading
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Tagged A Bright Shining Lie, arms race, Bernard Schriever, Cold War, ICBM, Neil Sheehan
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Book Review: The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman
The “Dead Hand” of the title refers to a proposed Soviet doomsday machine that would provide devastating retaliation in the event of an American nuclear first strike. Lacking the technology to make the device completely automatic, the Soviets instead devised … Continue reading
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Tagged biological warfare, book review, Cold War, Gorbachev, nuclear war, Pulitzer Prize, Ronald Reagan, The Dead Hand
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