When Dr. Alexander Darkkin moves from Nashville to San Diego, unsatisfied with his life and looking for a change of pace, he gets much more than he bargained for. The unusual conspiracy that Darkkin stumbles across in his new hospital comprises Dr. J. Matthew Neal’s exciting techno- thriller, “Specific Gravity.” Soon after his arrival in sunny Southern California, Darkkin curiously inspects the files of a patient who recently died-billionaire pharmaceutical CEO John Markham. When Darkkin realizes that someone may have tampered with the CEO’s medical records to cover up a murder, he becomes determined to solve the homicide.

By now there are few people who haven’t at least heard of LOTR, and most of them have an opinion. There are the fans, almost fanatics, and there are the people who have read fifty pages or so, sometimes five or six times, but just can’t get it, and don’t understand what the fuss is about. I might have been one of them, if it hadn’t been for an accident.

I get goose bumps thinking about some of tales in this collection. It’s a feast for any horror fan – forty-seven short stories and six poems that focus on psychological terror rather than blood and gore.

I recently read “I, Robot,” a collection of short stories written by Isaac Asimov in 1950′s. The movie that came out a few years ago with the same title was loosely based upon some of the themes from the stories, but did not follow any particular plot in the stories. While I did enjoy the movie, it failed, in my opinion, to capture the depth of the original writing and and themes Asimov was trying to communicate. If you don’t want me to spoil it for you, stop reading now.

Many folks enjoy Science Fiction and recently a friend who is a vegetarian and has lived all over Europe expressed to me his years of reading Sci Fi and listed many of his favorite authors. These included authors like Robert Heinlein, Charles Sheckley, Larry Niven, Isaac Asimov, Ursula k. Leguin… older science fiction for the most part also a little of say William Gibson or newer Heinlein.