2/10 (Atrocious)
This is not my normal fare, but I’m running out of sci-fi films to stream on netflix. Also, it was late and I was bored/tired/exhausted from grading/researching/reading.
Excuses Continue reading
Author: Joachim Boaz
Book Review: Entry to Elsewhen (contains three 1950s short stories/novelettes), John Brunner (1972)
2.5/5 (Bad)– collated rating
This collection contains three 1950s short stories/novelettes expanded and modified from their original magazine form for this volume. Although two of the Continue reading
A Film Rumination: Muriel, or The Time of Return, Alain Resnais (1963)
7.5/10 (Good)
Delphine Seyrig has always been my favorite French actress — this was mostly based on her icy, regal, and hauntingly beautiful role in Alain Resnais’ seemingly impenetrable masterpiece, The Last Continue reading
Book Review: Dark Universe, Daniel F. Galouye (1961)
4.25/5 (Very Good)
Nominated Hugo Award (1962) — narrowly lost to Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land
What an unusual read. I picked up a copy Continue reading
Book Review: Meeting at Infinity, John Brunner (1961)
A wonderful creepy cover by John Schoenherr
4/5 (Good)
Readers from the first days of my blog might recall my rather dismissive comment in my review of John Brunner’s abysmal Born under Mars (1967),
“I have still yet to find in Brunner’s early pulp(ish) novels any solid indication of his future brilliance that manifests itself so poignantly in his great novels of the late 60s Continue reading
Book Review: The Horn of Time (collected short stories), Poul Anderson (1968)
2.5/5 (Average)
I was massively disappointed with this collection of Poul Anderson short stories from the late 50s and early 60s. Only two were worth reading: ‘The Horn of the Time the Hunter’ and ‘Progress.’ I guess if you are a Poul Anderson completest it might be worth the purchase but otherwise, stay away. The creepy Continue reading
Book Review: Doomtime, Doris Piserchia (1981)
Tedron (the green tree) looks like a huge piece of celery
3.75/5 (Good)
“The body of the woman was retrieved from the shiny pool and they all headed home. Two days into the journey the corpse sat up on the stretcher and screamed.”
and Continue reading
Update: Top Three Movies of my summer
The summer of learning how to read German (all of my language requirements FINISHED), science fiction books, medieval history, and films — 49 films total. There wasn’t much else to do — my fellow Continue reading
Book Review: The Fall of Chronopolis, Barrington J. Bayley (1974)
4.25/5 (Very Good)
The Fall of Chronopolis (The Last and Final Days of the Chronotic Empire) by the relatively unknown British sci-fi author, Barrington J. Bayley, is one the best time travel books I’ve ever read. Other reviewers have suggested that this is Bayley’s best as well — I’ll reserve judgment until I’ve read The Garment Continue reading
Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations 