Mitch Wyle's Web Log

The Wuhan Lab's "gain of function," including cover-ups, deception, and the people behind the odd lockdown policies are bright...

I am very interested in the Xeelee sequence of books. This first book is an expanded short story with an interesting alternative universe th...

Fantastic!  I am so happy Stephenson is writing another immersive historical fiction series again.  Polostan is the best I have read this ye...

My first published academic paper in 1987 explained an elegant experiment I ran using SAT test questions that measure retention to discove...

I have no idea how or why this book appeared on my stack to read.  The book holds up surprisingly well after 30 years.  I did not like the a...

I am very grateful to live in a time when we have exceeded the wildest imaginative concepts of science fiction to catch the biggest rocket ...

This high fantasy book, second in a series, deserves all the prizes it won (Hugo, Nebula, Locus). I enjoyed the story, the characters, and t...

My new goal in life is to get paid 2.7 gigadollars ($2.7 billion) to get re-hired at one of my previous employers. I am very grateful to li...

I think David Brin pointed me to this book as an illustration of other authors who picked up David's idea of uplift .  Uplift is when an...

Remember the Honor Harrington stories David Weber wrote in the early 1990's? This new series he is writing with Richard Fox is just as...