Posted by Sandy Ferber | Nov 8, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 7
King of the Dinosaurs by Raymond A. Palmer In two of my recent book reviews here, for David V. Reed’s Empire of Jegga (1943) and for Nelson S. Bond’s That Worlds May Live (also 1943), I mentioned that both novels, in their current Armchair Fiction incarnations, feature copious, vintage footnotes from Raymond A. Palmer, the […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Sep 9, 2020 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Time Stream by John Taine After eight novels dealing with such venerable science fiction themes as lost races, weapons of superscience, the transmutation of elements, dinosaurs, devolution, crystalline life-forms and the creation of a superman, Scottish-American author John Taine finally tackled one of the most revered sci-fi tropes of them all, namely time travel, […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Dec 13, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 4
Deliver Me From Eva by Paul Bailey Once again, I am indebted to Stephen Jones and Kim Newman’s excellent overview volume Horror: 100 Best Books for alerting me to the existence of a great read that I probably would never have run across without their assistance. In this case, the novel in question is Paul […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Oct 24, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 11
Witch House by Evangeline Walton Ever since British author Horace Walpole kick-started the haunted house genre with his seminal short novel of Gothic romance, The Castle of Otranto (1765), there have been hundreds of short stories and dozens of novels centered on this most shuddery of literary subjects. But for this reader, the two novels […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Jun 19, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 7
When the Birds Fly South by Stanton A. Coblentz Never let it be said that you can’t learn anything from Facebook! It was on the Vintage Paperback and Pulp Forum there, for example, that this reader recently discovered his newest favorite author. Several of my very knowledgeable fellow members on that page happened to be […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Nov 17, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 4
Night Has a Thousand Eyes by Cornell Woolrich On the cover of my Dell paperback edition of Night Has a Thousand Eyes (with a cover price of 25 cents), the author is listed as William Irish, with an asterisk next to the name. At the bottom of the cover, next to the footnote asterisk, is […]
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Posted by Jana Nyman | Mar 21, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 7
Mr. Adam by Pat Frank Pat Frank’s Mr. Adam (1946) is billed as “[o]ne of literature’s first responses to the atomic bomb,” and the uncertainty of the freshly-minted Atomic Age is palpable within the novel’s pages. With the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki still fresh in his mind, and within the minds of his readers, […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Aug 31, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 8
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R.A. Dick If you were to ask me to name my top two or three favorite fantasy novels, the answer would take me a long time to come up with, given the overwhelming number of possible choices. But if you wanted to know my top two or three fantasy […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Apr 19, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 3
The Dark World by Henry Kuttner & C.L. Moore 1946 was a very good year indeed for sci-fi’s foremost husband-and-wife writing team, Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore. Besides placing a full dozen stories (including the acknowledged classic “Vintage Season”) into various magazines of the day, the pair also succeeded in having published three short novels […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | May 30, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 0
Valley of the Flame by Henry Kuttner & C.L. Moore Yeah, I know that one has to take inflation into account when computing these things, but still, what incredible deals the sci-fi lover could acquire 60 or so years ago! Take, for example, the March 1946 issue of Startling Stories, with a cover price of […]
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