Posted by Sandy Ferber | Dec 16, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 4
First He Died by Clifford D. Simak As I think I may have mentioned elsewhere, stories about time travel can sometimes give me a headache right between the eyes. And really, who among us hasn’t, at one time or another, come close to getting a major-league migraine when trying to suss out the temporal conundrums […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | May 11, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 2
Into Plutonian Depths by Stanton A. Coblentz Starting in 1906, scientists began searching for definitive proof of a theorized ninth planet; a heavenly body that would go far in explaining Uranus’ perturbations of movement that could not be wholly ascribed to the presence of Neptune alone. And it was 23-year-old astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh who, […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Jul 8, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 2
Cosmic Engineers by Clifford D. Simak Every great novelist has to begin somewhere, and for future sci-fi Grand Master Clifford D. Simak, that beginning was his first novel, Cosmic Engineers. This is not to say, of course, that this novel was the first attempt at writing that Simak had ever made. Far from it, as […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Feb 27, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 15
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles is a collection of Ray Bradbury’s stories about the human colonization of Mars which were previously published in the pulp magazines of the late 1940s. The stories are arranged in chronological order with the dates of the events at the beginning of each story. In the […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | May 28, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 0
Waldo & Magic, Inc by Robert A. Heinlein Waldo & Magic, Inc is a collection of two seemingly unrelated stories by Robert A. Heinlein (though both involve magic “lose in the world”). I listened to the recent audio version produced by Brilliance Audio. MacLeod Andrews, who I always like, narrates. William H. Patterson Jr provides […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Oct 23, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Dreaming Jewels by Theodore Sturgeon Horty Bluett is only eight years old, but his short life has already been utterly miserable. One day, after suffering at the hands of his classmates and his adoptive parents, he runs off and joins the carnival. The only thing he carries is his sole possession — a jack-in-the-box […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | May 22, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 2
Fury by Henry Kuttner & C.L. Moore 1946 had been a very good year indeed for Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore, with a full dozen stories published plus three fine novels (The Fairy Chessmen, Valley of the Flame and The Dark World), and in 1947, science fiction’s preeminent husband-and-wife writing team continued its prolific ways. […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Mar 11, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 0
House of Flesh by Bruno Fischer It was horror writer David Bischoff, writing in Jones and Newman’s excellent overview volume Horror: Another 100 Best Books who first turned me on to Bruno Fischer’s House of Flesh (1950). In his essay, Bischoff mentions that House of Flesh is a “Gothic novel for males,” reveals that it […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Feb 20, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 1
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov “..all conflicts are finally evitable. Only the Machines, from now on, are inevitable” Most science fiction fans know Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics: Robots must not hurt human beings or allow them to come to harm. Robots must obey human beings so far as it doesn’t violate Law 1. […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Jul 10, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 3
Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein As I mentioned in my recent review of The Number of the Beast, I used to be a fan of Robert A. Heinlein’s “Juveniles” when I was a kid. I give Heinlein much of the credit for turning me into a speculative fiction lover at a young […]
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