Posted by Sandy Ferber | May 3, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Sunken World by Stanton A. Coblentz Ever since reading the truly beautiful and unforgettable fantasy When the Birds Fly South (1945) around 3 ½ years back, I have wanted to experience another book from the San Francisco-born novelist and poet Stanton A. Coblentz. Unfortunately, just as “Coblentz” is not exactly a household name these […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Feb 27, 2020 | SFF Reviews | 0
The World of the Giant Ants by A. Hyatt Verrill In two novels that I recently read, Ralph Milne Farley’s The Radio Man (1924) and its sequel, The Radio Beasts (1925), engineer Myles Cabot accidentally transports himself to Venus and discovers a society of enormous and intelligent ants, the so-called Formians. But, it would seem, […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Nov 11, 2019 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Moon Terror by A.G. Birch During my first, recent visit to London, besides doing all the typical touristy things, I also happened to visit several of the very fine bookstores that the great city currently offers. The used-book stores on Charing Cross Road were especially interesting to me, but I also stopped in at […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Feb 23, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 6
Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan I would imagine, at this point, that you have previously heard of the fictional character named Buck Rogers. And indeed, dating from his initial comic strip appearance in January 1929, and proceeding on to radio shows (starting in 1932, Buck Rogers was radio’s very first sci-fi hero), a […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Nov 19, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 9
Seven Footprints to Satan by Abraham Merritt Readers of Abraham Merritt’s first four novels — The Moon Pool, The Metal Monster, The Face in the Abyss and The Ship of Ishtar — may feel a little surprised as they get into his fifth, Seven Footprints to Satan. Whereas those earlier fantasy masterpieces featured exotic locales such as the Pacific islands, the Himalayas and Peru; […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Jun 21, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 2
Orlando by Virginia Woolf [In our Edge of the Universe column, we review mainstream authors that incorporate elements of speculative fiction into their “literary” work. However you want to label them, we hope you’ll enjoy discussing these books with us.] Orlando, by Virginia Woolf, is funny. Okay, it’s not snort-beer-out-your-nose funny, (it’s Virginia Woolf after all,) but […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Apr 6, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Island of Captain Sparrow by S. Fowler Wright During his profitable pirating career, Captain Sparrow discovered an unknown South Pacific island that appeared to consist entirely of rocky cliffs but contained a lushly fertile inland landscape. It could only be accessed at high tide from a small hidden recess high in the cliffs. Sparrow […]
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