SciThri Book Reviews & Features
Book review: LIFE SUPPORT by Tess Gerritsen
ER doctor Toby Harper works the night shift, her days eclipsed by caring for her mother who suffers from Alzheimer’s. She’s a good doctor, thorough and devoted—but one night she loses a patient. He didn’t die; the demented and confused elderly man walked out of the ER...
Book review: THE THINGS THAT KEEP US HERE by Carla Buckley
The next “great” flu pandemic finally strikes. As plague and winter descend on Columbus, Ohio, human activity grinds to a halt. One family struggles to survive, forced by circumstances to choose between what is right and what is practical. Their marriage shaken by the...
Book review: STIFF by Mary Roach
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers is a nonfiction book about the amazing adventures of dead people. No, not brain-eating zombies, but ordinary cadavers, like you and me (someday). This unusual journalistic endeavor takes a light-hearted though unavoidably...
Book review: CHROMOSOME 8 by Peter Holt
Human DNA is the product of evolution, mutated and reprogrammed across eons. But fragments of primordial instructions remain in every cell; what if they could be reactivated? Biologist Marcus Oden and his geologist friend Nick Kondos are the Ocean Sciences Institute,...
Book review: THE DOT AND THE LINE: A Romance in Lower Mathematics by Norton Juster
Once upon a time there was a sensible straight line who was hopelessly in love with a beautiful dot. But the dot, though perfect in every way, only had eyes for a wild and unkempt squiggle. All of the line's romantic dreams were in vain, until he discovered...angles!...
Book review: DEJA DEAD by Kathy Reichs
Dr. Temperance Brennan (Tempe), a forensic anthropologist in Montreal, Quebec, is looking forward to a weekend away from the autopsy suite when she’s called to the location of some freshly-discovered human remains. The dismembered and decapitated corpse, wrapped in...
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