Posted by Sandy Ferber | Jun 14, 2019 | SFF Reviews | 0
Dreadful Sanctuary by Eric Frank Russell As I have mentioned elsewhere, there are several writers who never seem to let me down, and in that elite group, English author Eric Frank Russell must surely be included. The Best of Eric Frank Russell (1978) was my initial exposure to this Golden Age great (reputedly, legendary editor […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | Jun 2, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 0
Black Amazon of Mars by Leigh Brackett While credit is certainly due to the originator of an idea, iterations which better the original are likewise deserving of recognition, and in some cases, perhaps more. Edgar Rice Burroughs gets a lot of attention for pioneering the Martian hero story, as does Robert E. Howard for Conan, the […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Aug 10, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 1
Dragon’s Island by Jack Williamson The five-year period from 1948 – ’52 was one of superlative productivity for future sci-fi Grand Master Jack Williamson. Although he’d already written some 75 short stories since his first sale at age 20, in 1928 (“The Metal Men,” in the December issue of editor Hugo Gernsback’s Amazing Stories magazine), […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Jun 14, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 9
City At World’s End by Edmond Hamilton Written near the dawn of the Cold War era and soon after mankind first became aware of the fearful possibilities of the atom bomb, City at World’s End yet remains both highly readable and grippingly entertaining today, more than 65 years after its initial appearance. Edmond Hamilton’s book […]
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Posted by Jana Nyman | Mar 16, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 2
Hold Back the Night by Pat Frank Hold Back the Night (1951; 2017) is the third of Pat Frank’s classic Cold War-era novels receiving a re-issue from Harper Perennial, after Mr. Adam (1946; 2016) and Forbidden Area (1956; 2016). Originally published during the Korean War, Hold Back the Night finds inspiration from the very real […]
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Posted by Rob Weber | Oct 14, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 0
Prelude to Space by Arthur C. Clarke Prelude to Space is the first novel Arthur C. Clarke wrote and is generally not considered as good as Childhood’s End (1953), probably the most famous of Clarke’s early novels. The publication history of this story is not unusual for the period. Clarke wrote the novel in the space of a […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Sep 13, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 4
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury The Illustrated Man is a collection of Ray Bradbury’s stories which are sandwiched between the account of the titular man whose tattoos come alive at night and set the scenes for the 18 tales in this collection. All of these stories are classic Ray Bradbury — full of spacemen, […]
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Posted by Kate Lechler | Jul 13, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 4
The Goshawk by T.H. White When I found out that T.H. White, the author of The Once and Future King, had written The Goshawk, a book about training a hawk, I jumped at the chance to read it. I love stories about birds of prey (probably fostered by a childhood obsession with My Side of […]
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Posted by Ryan Skardal | Apr 7, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 7
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham Bill Masen wakes in a hospital with bandages over his eyes. Finally, he will be able to expose his eyes to light — if only a nurse or doctor would come to remove the bandages. Well, no one is left to help Bill because a gnarly comet has […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Feb 5, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein Unfriendly aliens from Titan have arrived on Earth and are planning to conquer us. To do this, the slug-like beings latch onto the backs of their human hosts and take over their bodies and minds. The aliens are rapidly spreading in the Midwest and they’ve managed to infiltrate […]
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