4.75/5 (Very Good)
A generation ship! Science run amok! A brilliant work from the late 50s which must be read! Brian Aldiss’ Non-Stop (published in the U.S. as Starship) is a relentlessly dark science fiction novel written in response to Robert Heinlein’s revolutionary yet ultimately unsatisfying Orphans of Continue reading
2/5 (Bad)
I’ve had John Brunner’s The Wrong End of Time (1971) for five years sitting in the to read pile — I’ve managed to get through around thirty pages the four times I’ve tried to read it over the years. However, I’ve finally got around to finishing it. And, well, it falls woefully short of any sort of greatness — especially Continue reading
I found a few hilarious sci-fi themed adds from the 60s which I had to share (well, the second might be somewhat later)….
That space suit makes her look like she has a strange neck disease...
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
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
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
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
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
Tedron (the green tree) looks like a huge piece of celery
“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
Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations 