Scott D. Parker: Writer

This might be my favorite book of fiction for 2022 and I didn’t even pick it. I’ve been a part of a four-guy science fiction book club since...

Y’all are going to laugh at the irony of this post. How often do you discover something (or experience something) completely on your own? It...

I haven't had this much fun with a book in a long time. I've been a part of a science fiction/fantasy book club with the same group ...

Perhaps the most surprising turn of events sparked by the Covid pandemic and the subsequent order to work from home was my rediscovery of Th...

  (Imagine my surprise yesterday when I finished this review and went to post it on DoSomeDamage ...only to discover my fellow author, Beau ...

Last year, after I read THE PRESIDENT IS MISSING by James Patterson and Bill Clinton, I wanted to read another Patterson book. There are ...

(With a certain famous movie out recently dealing with time travel, I thought I'd post a review of a book that takes a different look...

It's not often a writer can bring something fresh to a trope, but Jeremy Robinson did. A PI in a SF Tale Dan Delgado is a private i...

Has it really been forty years? That Special Pocket of Time in Star Wars Fandom Travel back, if you will, to 1979. If you were a kid ...

Sometimes it pays to open up those emails from GoodReads. Would We Get Any More Books? When the TV show Castle ended--still one of my...

When I asked my fellow science fiction book club friend how he came to select PROJECT: NEMESIS by Jeremy Robinson, he said he was looking ...

Many times, we writers invent characters to project our greatest fantasies upon. Wish you were a World War II spy? Invent one. Wish you ...

In 2010, while vacationing in and around San Diego, I happened into a used book, as I am wont to do. I found a book called Death on Trea...

There’s a reason why the original film was not titled Star Drama. Other than an odd combination of words, it just reeks of tedium. By its ve...

I’ve never read a James Patterson book before now. It wasn’t that I had anything against him. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I jus...

Sometimes it pays to read to the last sentence. Clive Cussler has the type of literary output I aim to mimic. It started with the Dirk Pit...

(This is the March 2016 edition of Barrie Summy's Book Review Club. For the complete list of other books this month, click on the ico...

(This is the October 2015 edition of Barrie Summy's Book Review Club. For the complete list, click on the icon following this review.)...

(This is the April 2015 edition of Barrie Summy's Book Review Club. For the complete list, click the icon at the bottom of this essay.) ...

(This is the February 2015 edition of Barrie Summy’s Book Review Club. For the complete list of fellow reviewers, click the link at the en...