Digital Parchment Services and well-known media journalist James Van Hise have signed an open-ended agreement to bring his now classic journalistic examinations of the Star Trek phenomenon back into print. The first five books in the series will be published throughout 2015. The entire series will appear under the title “The Unauthorized Guide to Trek”. [… read more]
Nathan Sawaya, the world’s most famous LEGO® artist, has just completed a new book that showcases his artwork and tells the story behind each creation. At last in The Art of the Brick: A Life in LEGO (No Starch Press, October 2014, hardcover, $29.95), Sawaya’s fans have a stunning, full-color collection of his most recognizable [… read more]
San Francisco, CA (February 4, 2014) — No Starch Press has long been the go-to source for curious kids, offering the finest in geek entertainment and education. Its recent line of kids programming books has garnered widespread praise from educators, parents, and book reviewers alike. Today, No Starch teams up with Humble Bundle to offer [… read more]
I know Imitation is the first in a series so you might just want to wait until the second book is out to read this one. Imitation sets the stage for everything that is about to happen in Deviation, but it really leaves the reader hanging. There is no resolution in this book. It just [… read more]
The LEGO Neighborhood Book: Build Your Own Town! By Brian Lyles, Jason Lyles I will let you read all about the book in the press release below. I picked up this little book after seeing the authors posts on their websites and I wasn’t disappointed (not that I thought I would be after having seen their website). [… read more]
The Awesome Inner Workings of Video Games by Arie Kaplan is published by Lerner Publications and is great for kids 10-14 (as well as some of us older kids interested in the inner workings of video games too). Book Description Gamers, beware—your video games can think for themselves! Ever wondered what’s inside the plastic of your video game [… read more]
What if Star Wars was written 400 years earlier? Find out in William Shakespeare’s Star Wars in stores today and check out the fun book trailer below. About the book… Return once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime retelling of George Lucas’s epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal [… read more]
What has Germanic legends, Norse gods and aliens all wrapped up in a post-apocalyptic world? Wotan’s Dilemma by Hank Quense that’s what! This is a short story (about 100 pages long) in Hank’s Strange Worlds series. It is a very easy and fun read. (Might just have to check out some more of Hank’s work.) [… read more]
Terra Vonnel and the Skulls of Aries by D.C. Akers This book has smart young women that fight with swords, pirates, vampires and time travel and that’s just in the first five pages! While this book is designated as a YA book I thinkit is a nice easy read for any age. Book Description from [… read more]
I just heard on twitter (thanks @muskrat_john) that the company Games Workshop (Warhammer) is killing all Space Marines! Okay, not all, just every single version of space marines throughout all of space and time except the ones in their games and their own books. There is a little scifi book that was once on Amazon.com called Spots [… read more]