Posted by Sandy Ferber | Apr 26, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Cosmic Geoids and One Other by John Taine It was Polish biochemist Casimir Funk who, in 1911, isolated the substance now known as vitamin B3. In 1912, Funk wrote a book called The Vitamines (he’d coined that term as a contraction of the words “vital amines”), in which he spoke of other, similar substances […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Dec 30, 2020 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories by Marjorie Bowen At the tail end of my recent review of D. K. Broster’s Couching at the Door, I mentioned that I so enjoyed this volume of creepy stories that I was minded to immediately begin another book from British publisher Wordsworth Editions’ Tales of Mystery & […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Mar 7, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 0
Tomorrow’s Yesterday by A.M. Stanley I don’t think I’m going too far out on a limb in making the following sweeping statements about a certain book that I just read, A.M. Stanley’s Tomorrow’s Yesterday: You have never heard of this book, or of its author. You’ve never read anything about the book, either in print […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Jul 3, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 2
Red Planet by Robert A. Heinlein I’ve mentioned several times how much I loved Robert A. Heinlein’s “Juveniles” when I was a kid. I found them on my dad’s bookshelves (I don’t think he’s ever gotten rid of a book) and I read some of them several times. If you had asked me last week […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Mar 27, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 1
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart George R. Stewart’s Earth Abides (1949) won the International Fantasy Award and was selected as one of David Pringle’s Best 100 SF Novels, but I’m guessing many SFF readers have never heard of it. You may have heard of pastoral SF (ala Clifford Simak), and this book may be […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Mar 19, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 2
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Along with Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, first published in 1949, is the one of the most powerful and important dystopian novels ever written, and unquestionably a work of science fiction thanks to its depiction of a future totalitarian regime that controls […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Feb 11, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 1
The Fox Woman and Other Stories by Abraham Merritt The Fox Woman and Other Stories is the only collection of Abraham Merritt’s shorter works, and contains seven stories and two “fragments.” These short stories span the entire career of the man who has been called America’s foremost adventure fantasist of the 1920s and ’30s. Several […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Oct 27, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 4
The Time Axis by Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore’s sole novel of 1948, The Mask of Circe, was a very way-out excursion in the fantasy realm, and in early 1949, the pair followed up with an equally way-out piece of hard sci-fi. The Time Axis, which initially appeared in the […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Aug 18, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Ship of Ishtar by Abraham Merritt The Ship of Ishtar, one of Abraham Merritt’s finest fantasies, first appeared in the pages of Argosy magazine in 1924. An altered version appeared in book form in 1926, and the world finally received the original work in book form in 1949, six years after Merritt’s death. In […]
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