The Weapon Makers by A.E. van Vogt
The Weapon Makers (1943), currently nominated for a 1944 Retro Hugo award, is the sequel to the better-known The Weapon Shops of Isher. As discussed in my review of The Weapon Shops of Isher, A.E. van Vogt was fond of creating fix-up novels based on his earlier works, and the creation and publication history of both of these novels in his EMPIRE OF ISHER duology is complicated.
August 12th, 2019. Tadiana Jones´s rating: 3.5 | A.E. Van_Vogt | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Without a doubt, Isaac Asimov’s Foundation and Foundation and Empire left a mark on the genre. They’ve been read by generations of SF-fans and seven decades after the first Foundation story appeared in in Astounding magazine, the novels are still in print. They may have been the pinnacle of Golden Age SF, but I can’t say I thought them great literature. The FOUNDATION novels are big on ideas, but Asimov’s style is dreadfully direct and the previous books were in dire need of a good round of editing.
August 15th, 2016. Rob Weber | Isaac Asimov | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
This is the second book in Isaac Asimov’s original FOUNDATION trilogy, which later became the FOUNDATION series. It first came out in book form in 1952, but it originally saw print in the form of two novellas, “Dead Hand” (originally published in Astounding Science Fiction, April, 1945) and “The Mule” (originally published in Astounding Science Fiction in November and December, 1945).
Like the first book in the series,
August 28th, 2013. Steven Harbin´s rating: 5 | Isaac Asimov | SFF Reviews | no comments |
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