Posted by Kat Hooper | Oct 22, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 1
The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who has come to Earth on a mission. He hopes to save the remaining 300 aliens who are dying on his home planet. Since childhood he’s been preparing for this, training by watching and listening to Earth’s radio and […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Dec 14, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 0
Sign of the Labrys by Margaret St. Clair A pleasingly unique — indeed, possibly sui generis — combination of post-apocalyptic sci-fi and (of all things) Wiccan magic and craft, Sign of the Labrys initially appeared in 1963, as a Corgi paperback. Its author, Kansas-born Margaret St. Clair, was 52 at the time and had been […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Feb 3, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 10
Podkayne of Mars by Robert A. Heinlein Podkayne (“Poddy”) Fries is a pretty, mixed-race teenager who lives with her parents and her younger brother (Clark) on Mars. We learn about her family and her adventures via the diary entries she writes. Poddy tell us that her family was planning to take a vacation to visit […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Jan 1, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 3
The Game-Players of Titan by Philip K. Dick After a devastating atomic world war, the humans of Earth have mostly killed each other off. Only about a million remain and most are sterile due to the radiation weapons developed by the Germans and used by the “Red Chinese.” Some humans now have telepathic abilities, too. […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Oct 23, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 9
Glory Road by Robert A. Heinlein So what does an author do after writing one of the most beloved science fiction novels of all time and in the process picking up his third out of an eventual four Hugo awards? That was precisely the conundrum that future sci-fi Grand Master Robert A. Heinlein faced in 1962, […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Aug 14, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 3
Way Station by Clifford D. Simak Way Station is Clifford D. Simak’s 1964 Hugo Award-winning novel. By many readers it is considered his best, and it features some his favorite themes: a rugged Midwesterner who shuns society, human society flirting with nuclear disaster, a more enlightened galactic society that is wary of letting unruly humans […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Jun 5, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 2
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut “Live by the foma that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.” Like all of Kurt Vonnegut’s books, Cat’s Cradle (1963) is very easy to read but fiendishly difficult to review. It’s basically about two main themes: 1) Some scientists are completely unconcerned with what their research and […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Jun 16, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 7
The Legion of Time by Jack Williamson The Legion of Time consists of two novellas that Jack Williamson wrote in the late 1930s, neither of which have anything to do with his wholly dissimilar LEGION OF SPACE novels of that same period. Both of these novellas are written in the wonderfully pulpy prose that often […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Dec 27, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 3
The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper Conn Maxwell is returning to his impoverished backwater home planet, Poictesme (a nod to James Branch Cabell), after years at the university where he studied computer science. The leaders of Poictesme sent him to school so that he could learn about MERLIN, a legendary supercomputer that is thought […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Apr 26, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Colors of Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley Bart Steele has been off at the Space Academy and hasn’t seen his father in years. When he goes to meet him at a Lhari space station, Mr. Steele never shows up. Instead, he sends an agent with a message for Bart. The Lhari, an intelligent alien […]
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Posted by Steven Harbin (GUEST) | Jan 31, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 1
The Dragon Masters by Jack Vance Jack Vance won the 1963 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for this little gem of a tale which is a favorite of many of Vance’s fans, your present reviewer included. The story takes place vast millennia into the future on a planet known to its inhabitants as Aerlith. […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Jan 5, 2008 | SFF Reviews | 0
Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander Published way back in 1963, Time Cat was the first book ever written by Lloyd Alexander, and as such, exists as an interesting comparison to many of his later books, with echoes of plots and characters that will later be used in his more famous and sophisticated works. It is […]
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