2.5/5 (Average)
Before you judge my review of this “classic” purely by the low rating please read my defense and reasons. First of all, if I was still a 13 year old boy this would have been very good, however, even then I would have been slightly disappointed by how much Heinlein has to offer and how little he actually develops in Methuselah’s Continue reading Book Review: Methuselah’s Children, Robert Heinlein (1958)
4/5 (Good)
Generation ships have always fascinated me. As a child I designed my own with predictions of social ramifications etc. for stories that never materialized except as amorphous plot-less constructs Continue reading Book Review: Orphans of the Sky, Robert Heinlein (first published as a serial in Astounding Stories, 1941)
2/5 (Bad)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 and 70s (Stand on Continue reading Book review: Born under Mars, John Brunner (1967)
