Posted by Kat Hooper | Nov 15, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 2
Untouched by Human Hands by Robert Sheckley After reading Robert Sheckley’s Dimension of Miracles, I was eager to read more of his work. That novel was intelligent, creative, thought-provoking, and entertaining. So I picked up Untouched by Human Hands, a collection of Sheckley’s short stories published in the 1950s in the various pulp magazines. My […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Jun 3, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 9
Brain Wave by Poul Anderson Poul Anderson’s Brain Wave has a great premise — for millennia, unknown to scientists, the Earth has been under the influence of some sort of field that dampens the speed of neurons in the cortex. But now the Earth has suddenly passed out of the field and immediately neurons start […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Jan 22, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 7
The Star Beast by Robert A. Heinlein The Star Beast (1954) is one of Robert A. Heinlein’s “juveniles.” When I was a kid in the late ‘70s / early ’80s, I loved these and can still remember where they were located in the library of my elementary school. My dad had some at home, too, […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Nov 24, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 1
The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson Poul Anderson’s The Broken Sword (1954) was selected by David Pringle in his Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels, and is highly praised by Michael Moorcock, whose character Elric of Melnibone and his demon-possessed sword Stormbringer are directly inspired by The Broken Sword. The audio version is narrated by […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Apr 6, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 2
The City and The Stars by Arthur C. Clarke The City and The Stars is a 1954 rewrite of Arthur C. Clarke’s first book Against the Fall of Night (1948). There are plenty of adherents of the original version, but the revised version is excellent too. As one of his earlier classic tales, this one […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Apr 3, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 10
The Forgotten Planet by Murray Leinster There is a wonderful old term used to describe a feature of Golden Age science fiction novels: BEM, an acronym for “bug-eyed monsters.” Back in the 1930s and ‘40s, you see, the covers of many sci-fi pulp magazines featured illustrations of bulbous-orbed, invariably menacing aliens and other creatures; just […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Mar 18, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 12
Revolt on Alpha C by Robert Silverberg A quick glance at The Quasi-Official Robert Silverberg Web Site will reveal that the author, during the course of his 60-year career, managed to somehow come out with no fewer than 75 science fiction novels, 180 “adult” and crime novels, 450 (!) sci-fi short stories and novellas, 125 […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Nov 23, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 1
I am Legend by Richard Matheson I don’t like vampire novels much, so I wasn’t planning to read Richard Matheson’s classic vampire story I am Legend which was published in 1954, is also known by the title The Omega Man, and is, of course, the basis for the movie I am Legend. But then I […]
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