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Kevin Joseph

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Kevin Joseph is a recovering attorney who writes thought-provoking thrillers, reviews books, and resides in Northern Virginia with his wife and two sons. His first novel, The Champion Maker, explores the implications of genetic engineering in the realm of athletics. His second novel, Perpetuity, is a thriller about a mysterious woman with nanobots in her blood. It was published by Holand Press in August 2025.

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The Champion Maker

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A Murder in Hollywood by Michael Crichton
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Michael Crichton's thought-provoking sci-fi thrillers have been a huge influence on my own novels, so I was curious to see how his earlier writing (as a pulp fiction author earning money for medical school under the pen name John Lange) would compare ...more
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Mystery readers have an endless fascination with Sherlock Holmes; the number of books, movies, and TV shows rebooting these characters blows my mind. Murder by Design taps into this ready-made audience but does so in a way that feels fresh, modern, a ...more
Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
"As I work my way through this dense book, I am reminded of the Zen tale of 4 blind men and an elephant. To settle a dispute between townspeople over religion, the Zen master had 4 blind men and an elephant led in. With the men not knowing it’s an ele" Read more of this review »
Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
"A wonderful, beautiful work. Ask me about it, and I'll start nattering at you about sphex wasps, fugues, isomorphisms and "jumping out of the system." And my voice will trail off and you'll see me get a faraway look in my eyes.

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There are perfectly satisfying, often highly entertaining, books that you can race through in a day, while others require persistence and patience to reap the rewards. GEB is certainly the latter, and for those who don't give up after encountering th ...more
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The Final System by Anthony Tardiff
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The Final System, a solid debut novel by Anthony Tardiff, is a fast-moving dystopian thriller that highlights the opportunities, dangers, and moral dilemmas posed by artificial general intelligence. Set in the near future, following a cataclysmic eve ...more
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