Posted by Sandy Ferber | May 27, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Man From Tomorrow by Stanton A. Coblentz In Robert Silverberg’s masterful 1968 novel The Masks of Time —just one of three novels that the author released that year, during one of his superhumanly productive periods — the Earth of 1998 is visited by a man name Vornan-19, who has arrived from the year 2999, […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Nov 21, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 1
Some Must Watch by Ethel Lina White There is a word that film buffs like to use to describe a type of motion picture that, because of its tautness and high suspense quotient, almost seems as if it had been directed by the so-called “Master of Suspense” himself, Alfred Hitchcock. The word, naturally enough, is […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Jan 31, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 7
Golden Blood by Jack Williamson I’d like to tell you about a terrific book that I have just finished reading. In it, a 2,000-year-old Arabian woman, living her immortal existence in the heart of an extinct volcano after being endowed by a mysterious force of nature, waits patiently for the reincarnation of her dead lover […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Jun 28, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 15
After Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer At the conclusion of Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer’s classic sci-fi novel When Worlds Collide (1933), the Earth is spectacularly destroyed in a collision with the rogue planet that had been dubbed Bronson Alpha. Only 103 people, it would seem, managed to get off our world […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Jun 16, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 2
When Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer To look at the astronomical statistics, you would think that planet Earth is a sitting duck. In our teensy immediate neighborhood of the galaxy alone, there are over 14,000 asteroids zipping about, not to mention over 100 near-Earth comets. Asteroids of over one kilometer in diameter […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Apr 1, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore I owe a debt of gratitude to writer Marvin Kaye, who selected Guy Endore‘s classic novel of lycanthropy, The Werewolf of Paris, for inclusion in Kim Newman and Stephen Jones‘s excellent overview volume Horror: 100 Best Books. If it hadn’t been for Kaye’s article on this masterful tale, […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Oct 28, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Double Shadow by Clark Ashton Smith Halloween is right around the corner, so I thought I’d get in the mood by reading a collection of spooky stories by Clark Ashton Smith, a writer and poet who’s known for his contributions to the pulp magazine Weird Tales. Smith was a friend of H.P. Lovecraft and […]
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