Posted by Sandy Ferber | Sep 8, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 6
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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Posted by Kat Hooper | Aug 9, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 4
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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Posted by Jesse Hudson | Jul 28, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 4
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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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Dec 11, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 2
A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson Richard Matheson is an author who never seems to let me down. The first two novels that I read by the man, I Am Legend (1954) and The Shrinking Man (1956), are superb and highly original sci-fi creations, and both have been memorably filmed. (I seem to be […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Apr 20, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 0
A Mirror for Observers by Edgar Pangborn It’s somewhat surprising that this 1954 International Fantasy Award winner has never found a very large audience in the SF genre. The writing style is reminiscent of Theodore Sturgeon or Ray Bradbury, very much focused on the characters and their inner thoughts and struggles, a big contrast with […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Mar 13, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 0
Have Space Suit — Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein More than anything, Kip Russell wants to go to the moon, and that means he needs to go to college first — the best college he can manage to get into and pay for. So, with the encouragement of his father, who has (gleefully) pointed […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Jan 27, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 0
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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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Nov 22, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 0
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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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Jan 28, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 0
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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Posted by Steven Harbin (GUEST) | Dec 27, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 1
The Languages of Pao by Jack Vance Jack Vance is known as a master stylist who, at his best, has an exquisite way with the written English language, a tribute in many ways to his idols P.G. Wodehouse and the unjustly forgotten Jeffery Farnol, among others, but Vance is also a writer of thought-provoking and […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Mar 27, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 4
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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