Posted by Sandy Ferber | Jul 7, 2020 | SFF Reviews | 2
Away and Beyond by A.E. van Vogt As I believe I have mentioned elsewhere, it was one of my high school English teachers, Mr. Miller, who first got me interested in literary sci-fi. This was back in the late ‘60s, when my high school was hip enough to actually offer a course in science fiction, […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Aug 11, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 0
City by Clifford D. Simak City is a well-loved classic by Clifford D. Simak published back in 1952 and awarded the International Fantasy Award in 1954. It’s actually a collection of linked far-future stories written between 1944 and 1951 about men, mutants, dogs, robots, ants and stranger beings still. It’s told as a series of […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Jul 14, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Starmen of Llyrdis by Leigh Brackett For fans of sci-fi’s Golden Age, it has been a sort of literary guessing game to riddle out which stories were written by Henry Kuttner and which by his wife, C.L. Moore. And this has proved to be no easy task, as the two, as legend goes, were […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Mar 4, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 6
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester If I had read The Demolished Man back in 1952 when it was first published, I would have given it 5 stars, no question. But in 2014, with 60 years of refinements in the genre, it suffers from some very dated dialogue and characterization, and some really condescending portrayals […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Dec 30, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 2
Judgment Night by C.L. Moore Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore, the foremost husband-and-wife writing team in sci-fi history, produced their novels and short stories under a plethora of pen names, as well as their own, and for the past half century it has been a sort of literary game to puzzle out which author was […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | May 29, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 4
The Rolling Stones by Robert A. Heinlein Castor and Pollux Stone are 15-year-old red-headed twin boys who live in Luna City (a moon colony). They are young entrepreneurs and are making plans to buy a spaceship so they can start a trading business. When their father Roger Stone, a retired engineer and former mayor of […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Nov 21, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 5
Robots Have No Tails by Henry Kuttner Originally released in 1952 by the early sci-fi/fantasy publisher Gnome Press, the meaninglessly titled Robots Have No Tails collects the five stories that Henry Kuttner wrote featuring the drunken inventor Galloway Gallegher. (As to that title, in the book’s original introduction by Kuttner’s equally celebrated wife, C.L. Moore, […]
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