Starchild by Frederik Pohl & Jack Williamson
By the end of Frederik Pohl & Jack Williamson’s 1963 novel The Reefs of Space, all of the reader’s many questions had been answered, and all of the loose ends tied up in a neat bow … at least, so we would have thought. The book could very easily have stood on its own, so perhaps it came as something of a surprise when the authors came out with a sequel two years later.
February 20th, 2025. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 3.5 | Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Michael Moorcock
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate is the Elric book that’s been cited to me as “coming from left field” or “the weird one,” which considering it’s Elric is saying something (the next book is actually called The Weird of the White Wolf, for an amusing bit of trivia, although Weird in that context is used archaically to mean “fate”). It’s not that The Sailor on the Seas of Fate is bad necessarily,
August 29th, 2012. Tim Scheidler and Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Michael Moorcock | SFF Reviews | 7 comments |
Web of the Witch World by Andre Norton
Web of the Witch World continues the story of Simon Tregarth, the modern man who escaped assassination by coming through a gate into the Witch World, and Jaelithe, a witch of Estcarp, as they fight the strange enemy who are invading their land. At the end of the previous novel, the Kolder, who are from a technologically advanced planet, had been defeated by the witchery of Jaelithe and her sisters (and it seems that Simon has some powers, too). Jaelithe gave Simon her name,
May 14th, 2010. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Andre Norton | Audio | SFF Reviews | no comments |
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