1.75/5 (Bad)
John Brunner is rightly famous for his dystopic works Stand on Zanzibar (won Hugo for best novel), The Jagged Orbit, The Sheep Look Up, and Shockwave Rider but most of his output Continue reading
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Book Review: Orphans of the Sky, Robert Heinlein (first published as a serial in Astounding Stories, 1941)
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: Born under Mars, John Brunner (1967)
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
Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations 