Author Archives: schoultz

Why this book:  January 2024 selection  by my SEAL book club, in part because one of our members knows the author and was able to get him to join our discussion. Summary in 3 Sentences:  Michael Scott Moore was kidnapped in 2012 … Continue reading →

Why this book: Selected by my Sci Fi Reading Group – when I offered to bring in a friend of mine who is currently in Astronaut training with NASA to discuss it. Summary in 3 Sentences: The book takes place … Continue reading →

Why this book: Selected by my Science Fiction Book Club Summary in 3 Sentences: These are a series of stories told in an interview many decades in the future, with a woman at the end of her career as a robo-psychologist … Continue reading →

Why this book: Selected by my literature reading group.  Initially suggested by my daughter who said she was reading it with her husband, so Mary Anne and I wanted to join them, so we suggested it to our reading group which … Continue reading →

Why this book:  Selected by my Science Fiction Book Club – as one of the classics which anticipates the future development of a Metaverse. Summary in 4 Sentences:  The time frame is the 2040s and a Metaverse-like virtual world has … Continue reading →

Why this book: Selected by my SEAL book club, largely on the recommendation of Gen Jim Mattis. Summary in 3 Sentences:  Written in the first person from the perspective of a young man from a working class familywho had been … Continue reading →

Why this book: Selected by my litrature reading group. Coetzee is a Nobel Prize winning author and the only author to win the Booker Prize twice. Summary in 3 Sentences:  Set in an unnamed “empire”, presumaly in the 19th century, that … Continue reading →