Q: A Novel

I am partial, I must admit.......more

Q: A Love Story is a misleading title if ever there was one. It is a love story only in the sense that it's a book with a love story in it - most of the plot doesn't relate to this, regardless of what you might (understandably) assume. More unusually and significantly, it's also a time travel story.......more

Q is one of those books with the unfortunate side effect that when you are done, you find yourself wandering forlornly around Amazon lamenting the fact that the author doesn't have at least a dozen more books for you to read right away (only 2 others—both fantastic). Q is that good—a rare combinatio......more

In Q, Mandery writes with equal measures of wit, irony, and poignancy--all tinged with a certain existential angst and philosophical reflection--that is characteristic of his other novels as well (see: First Contact or It's Later than You Think and Dreaming of Gwen Stefani). In my opinion, this is Man......more

An author needs a wealth of chutzpah to write a philosophical sci-fi/comedy/romance and a still deeper well of talent to pull it off. Impressively, Evan Mandery mostly succeeds with his poignant, often hilarious, consideration of our universal curse of second guessing. Our narrator, (“I”) is a profes......more