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The Cosmic Rape: “Bastits!”

The Cosmic Rape by Theodore Sturgeon In Theodore Sturgeon’s International Fantasy Award-winning novel of 1953, More Than Human, six extraordinary young people with various extrasensory mental abilities blend their powers together to create what the author called a “gestalt consciousness.” And in his next novel, the Staten Island-born Sturgeon amplified on this idea of shared […]

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Starman’s Quest: Silverberg doesn’t want you to read it

Starman’s Quest by Robert Silverberg Editor’s Note: Being in the public domain, Starman’s Quest (1958) is available free in Kindle format. You can add audio narration for $2.99. There’s an author’s note attached to various versions of Starman’s Quest at Amazon that goes like this: “This book is a very early and not very good work […]

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Non-Stop: A classic that is vivid, brisk, entertaining

Non-Stop by Brian W. Aldiss Number 33 of the Science Fiction Masterworks series, Brian Aldiss’ 1958 Non-Stop is indeed a classic of the genre (variant title: Starship). Standing well the test of time, the story is vivid, brisk, and entertaining — facets complemented nicely by intelligent commentary and worthwhile purpose. With Aldiss examining human nature in unusual circumstances to say […]

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The Blind Owl: An unusual find

The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat My ongoing attempt to read all 200 books spotlighted in Stephen Jones’s and Kim Newman‘s two excellent overview volumes, Horror: 100 Best Books and Horror: Another 100 Best Books, has led me to some fairly unusual finds. Case in point: Sadegh Hedayat‘s The Blind Owl, which is — or […]

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Invaders from Earth: A perfect little sci-fi adventure

Invaders from Earth by Robert Silverberg There is apparently a marked difference in the novels that sci-fi great Robert Silverberg wrote before 1967 and the ones he penned from ’67 to eight or nine years after. Those two dozen novels of the 1954-’65 period, it has been said, are well-written, polished, plot-driven tales reminiscent of […]

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Nine Horrors and a Dream: A horror collection

Nine Horrors and a Dream by Joseph Payne Brennan Nine Horrors and a Dream is a collection of Joseph Payne Brennan’s best horror tales, and was first published by Arkham House in 1958. The book consists of short stories that, for the most part, first appeared in the classic pulp magazine Weird Tales in the […]

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To Marry Medusa: A beautiful but frightening speculation

To Marry Medusa by Theodore Sturgeon Note: Here is Sandy’s review of the related The Cosmic Rape. Dan Gurlick is a pathetic human being, which is undoubtedly why nobody likes him. He has no identifiable positive personality traits, his motivations and desires are base, and he lacks the skills and knowledge to appropriately acquire the […]

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