Posted by Sandy Ferber | Nov 2, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 0
That Worlds May Live by Nelson S. Bond In my recent review of David V. Reed’s Empire of Jegga, I mentioned that this was a Golden Age sci-fi novel in the space-opera mold that featured an excessively recomplicated plot and a wealth of colorful detail. Reed’s novel had come out in the November 1943 issue […]
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Posted by Kelly Lasiter | Jul 17, 2020 | SFF Reviews | 2
Shadow Over Mars by Leigh Brackett Shadow Over Mars (1944), also sometimes reprinted as The Nemesis from Terra, was the first full-length novel by space opera author Leigh Brackett. (“Full-length” is relative here, though, as Shadow Over Mars is quite short, only 145 pages in the edition I read.) It is currently in the running […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Jul 13, 2020 | SFF Reviews | 0
Sirius by Olaf Stapledon For all those folks out there who hold conversations with their pet dog and know for certain that Fido/Fifi understands every word; for those who have gotten a tad “verklempt” at the conclusion of such novels as The Call of the Wild and Old Yeller; for people who believe that canines […]
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Posted by Kelly Lasiter | Jul 8, 2020 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Golden Fleece by Robert Graves The Golden Fleece (1944), also sometimes known as Hercules, My Shipmate, was Robert Graves’s attempt to create a unified, mostly realistic version of the legend of Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the titular fleece. He incorporated a variety of ancient sources, some of them contradictory, some […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Aug 6, 2019 | SFF Reviews | 8
The Glass Bead Game (or Das Glasperlenspiel or Magister Ludi) by Hermann Hesse The Glass Bead Game (1943), written by Hermann Hesse, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, is a finalist for a Retro Hugo Award this year. I picked up the audio edition produced by Blackstone Audio and pleasantly read by […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Jul 26, 2019 | SFF Reviews | 5
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft Randolph Carter keeps dreaming of a beautiful unknown city which he is aching to visit. After begging the gods to show him the way and receiving no answer, he sets out on a dream-quest to find it. The priests tell him that nobody knows where the city […]
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Posted by Jana Nyman | Jul 26, 2019 | SFF Reviews | 6
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Nominated this year for a Best Novella within the 1944 Retrospective Hugo Awards category, The Little Prince is a slight, yet powerfully thought-provoking work. Originally published by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in 1943, who filled each page of his story with charming watercolor illustrations, it tells the story of […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Jun 25, 2019 | SFF Reviews | 4
Clash by Night by C.L. Moore & Henry Kuttner Clash by Night (1943) , by the wife-husband team of C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner, is an odd bit of a bird, feeling less like a smoothie that blends together different story types and writerly styles and more like a salad where you can easily spot […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Jun 3, 2019 | SFF Reviews | 7
Gather, Darkness! by Fritz Leiber By April 1943, Chicago-born author Fritz Leiber had seen around 20 of his short stories released in the various pulp magazines of the day and was ready to embark as a full-fledged novelist. Thus, his first longer work, Conjure Wife, did indeed make its debut in the 4/43 issue of […]
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Posted by Stefan Raets (RETIRED) | Oct 26, 2009 | SFF Reviews | 0
Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber Conjure Wifeis a 1943 horror novel by master fantasist Fritz Leiber, who is best known for his excellent FAFHRD AND THE GRAY MOUSER stories. While Conjure Wife is usually labeled as horror, the recently released trade paperback edition from Orb is marketed as “the classic of urban fantasy” — maybe […]
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