Matt's Sci/Tech Blog

 Fiction: Prowling the Reacher universe  I always liked Jack Reacher. Sure, sometimes he’s impossibly tough and smart. But Lee Child managed...

 Next Man Up? The Weirdest Piloted Rocket Ideas Historical programs and events don’t only provide us further ideas. They provide warnings. E...

There are a lot of technical reasons "why not," but that hasn't stopped the United States from trying,  Fellow baby boom kids ...

ShukerNature (Book 3): Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, Jungle Walruses, and Other Belated Blog Beasts Dr. Karl Shuker Coachwhip Publications, ...

  The Dragon in Winter A Kagen the Damned novel   Griffin, 2024, 292 pp. Jonathan Maberry closes out his ambitious fantasy series, and for...

  OceanXplorers I watched the first episode of Nat Geo’s OceanXplorers. It was excellent and I’ll make sure to catch the rest, but I had a...

 Beloved Beasts Michelle Nijhuis Norton, 2021, 321pp.   The author begins with an opening that, amidst the many harbingers of doom, gives th...

Merbeings: The True Story of Mermaids, Mermen, and Lizardfolk by Mark A. Hall, Loren Coleman, David Goudsward Anomalist Books, 2023, 200 pp....

The Secret History of Sharks: The Rise of the Ocean’s Most Fearsome Predators 467 pp., Ballantine, 2024 John Long Dr. John Long, an Au...

 Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the Future Dr. Alice Gorman is one of the pioneers of space archaeology, a field even many s...

  Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age Eric Berger BenBella, 2024    In this second b...

The Bear Almanac : A Comprehensive Guide to the Bears of the World Gary Brown Lyons Press, 2024 reprint of 2009 text, 341pp. This just-r...