Jeff Tranter's Blog

I just read Humans , the second novel in The Neanderthal Parallax trilogy by Robert J. Sawyer. It was just the thing to pass the time flying...

The 2008 Summer Olympics are over, and the results are in. The official rankings are weighted by the type and number of medals won, and with...

Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? And 114 Other Questions Penguin Canada 2006 ISBN-10: 0-14-305390-6 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-305390-3 I sub...

I'm a big fan of Star Trek, especially the original series. Recently I was thinking, how would the original series hold up against conte...

Are you old enough to remember going to the drive-in theater? Most of the drive-ins have shut down in the last couple of decades. Here in Ot...

I was recently in the Detroit, Michigan area (Ann Arbor) and had a rainy Sunday free so I went to the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, MI. I s...

As of today I completed my collection of the original James Bond novels. Over the last few years at book sales I've picked up a few copi...