Book reviews
Gonzo Wisdom – Reaching Escape Velocity mini-review in Make
I was most delighted to find my little Reaching Escape Velocity book mentioned in the pages of my favorite magazine — creative makers were exactly the readers I had in mind when writing it. The book covers the art of working with sponsors, volunteers, and media in order to launch audacious gonzo engineering projects… and is…
Read MoreFrom BEHEMOTH to Microship – QST Review
QST has always been the quintessential magazine of amateur radio, predating me by decades. As such, like all other hams, I’m dabbling in things that have long kept paleogeeks up all night… probing the ether and chasing those elusive DX (long-distance) stations. Of course, some of the things I’ve done with radio have been a…
Read MoreBEHEMOTH to Microship review in Velo Vision
The premiere issue of this wonderful UK magazine carried a short review of my book about the BEHEMOTH and Microship projects… Book review by Peter Eland Velo Vision — Issue #1 March, 2001 Many readers will remember Steve Roberts book Computing Across America, and no doubt other magazine articles about his amazing computer-equipped long-wheelbase recumbent,…
Read MoreFighting Crime with the Cyber.kdz
In Pursuit of Picasso #5 in the Cyber.kdz series by Bruce Balan In a curious twist, I got to be a fictional character… thanks to Bruce Balan, a long-distance sailor and author. This series of six books, released in the late ’90s, was aimed at young hack-savvy readers and related the adventures of the Internet-connected…
Read MoreJourney of a High-Tech Nomad – book review – Computer Currents
This is one of the most touching and insightful reviews of my Computing Across America book, and the author looks past the obvious technomadic content and focuses on the more challenging human issues… matters of the heart, cast into bas relief by a life on the road. As I work on the new book —…
Read MoreConneXions – Computing Across America review
This short commentary on my book was published the month after the author’s ConneXions piece about BEHEMOTH. Computing Across America: The Bicycle Odyssey of a High-Tech Nomad by Steven K. Roberts Learned Information, Inc. (Medford, NJ: 1988) 347 pp., ISBN 0-938734-18-0 reviewed by Carl Malamud ConneXions Volume 6, Number 9 September, 1992 Normally, we don’t…
Read MoreHeil Ham Radio Handbook review
This is my short review in 73 Magazine about a little book from the iconic Bob Heil, K9EID, packed with useful ideas and mini-essays about amateur radio. I was a columnist for the magazine at the time, writing about the bicycle projects, and every now and then would review a book or product for my…
Read MoreThe Adoption Perspective
This is a book review of Computing Across America (by Steven K. Roberts, shown in the photo above at age 1), focusing on the author being an adoptee who tracked down and reconnected with his biological parents back in 1980. The reviewer makes some very interesting observations, and this was published in a newsletter of…
Read MoreComputing Across America – 73 Book Review
A view of Steven K. Roberts N4RVE’s book. Review by Alida M. Jatich KA9KAG 73 Magazine November, 1989 “Suburbia is not a place; it’s a state of mind… You live in suburbia when the cycle of work and play becomes dangerously unbalanced in favor of work.” (Computing Across America, page 3.) If you’re like me, there…
Read MoreComputing Across America book review – Systems Librarian
I don’t know this publication, but have to chuckle at the comment near the end in which they say I must have a thesaurus with which I choose big words for effect. I have found that such comments only come from folks who are a bit vocabulary-challenged… they even misspelled “recumbant.” I last owned a…
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