Posted by Sandy Ferber | Feb 15, 2023 | SFF Reviews | 0
Beyond the Barrier by Damon Knight In Damon Knight’s 1953 novel entitled The Rithian Terror, the author presented his readers with a vaguely octopuslike menace, the titular Rithian; a spy with the ability to hide itself inside the body of any Earthling. But this was not the last time that the Oregon-born writer would give […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Nov 5, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 0
Night of Masks by Andre Norton Nik Colherne lives in the Dipple, a planet-side slum that serves as the opening setting for a few of Andre Norton’s novels. Nik survived a fiery crash that left him orphaned and with a disfigured face that others find abhorrent. Rejected and friendless, Nik is targeted by the Thieves’ […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Apr 12, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Valley Of Creation by Edmond Hamilton One of the crowning events in the sci-fi/fantasy year 1948 was most assuredly the release of Jack Williamson’s 1940 novella Darker Than You Think as an expanded, full-length novel; it has since gone on to be acclaimed one of the greatest fictional books on the subject of lycanthropy […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Mar 8, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem Stanislaw Lem was a Polish SF author, one of the most famous and successful writers outside the English language world, selling over 45 million copies in 40+ languages over five decades from the 1950s, but mainly in Eastern European communist bloc countries such as Poland, Germany, and the Soviet Union. […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | Nov 19, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Drought by J.G. Ballard Fully believing that “the catastrophe story, whoever may tell it, represents a constructive and positive act by the imagination rather than a negative one, and an attempt to confront a patently meaningless universe by challenging it at its own game,” J.G. Ballard set about writing his third of four disaster novels. […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Apr 13, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Mindwarpers by Eric Frank Russell For his ninth novel out of what would ultimately run to 10, English sci-fi author Eric Frank Russell pulled a bit of a switcheroo on his readers. The book in question was initially released in the U.K. in 1964 in a hardcover edition by British publishing house Dennis Dobson, […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | Oct 25, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 5
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges An appropriate title for any Jorge Luis Borges collection, Labyrinths is that selected by Penguin for their ‘best of’ printing of the author. Containing short stories, essays, and parables, each selection takes the reader on a winding path of ideas that seems to branch off infinitely into the wonder of reflective thought. […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Oct 12, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 1
Almuric by Robert E. Howard It is truly remarkable how much work pulp author Robert E. Howard managed to accomplish during his brief 30 years of life. Indeed, a look at his bibliography, on a certain Wiki site, should surely flabbergast any reader who knows the Texan writer only as the creator of Conan the […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Aug 11, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Dark Light Years by Brian Aldiss It had been a good 30 years since I last read anything by British sci-fi author Brian Aldiss. Back in the mid-‘80s, spurred on by three highly laudatory articles in David Pringle’s Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, I had eagerly read Aldiss’ classic novel of a generational […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Jan 22, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 6
The Secret of Sinharat & People of the Talisman by Leigh Brackett Leigh Brackett, the so-called “Queen of Space Opera,” would have turned 100 years old on 12/7/2015, and to celebrate her recent centennial in my own way, I have resolved to read five novels featuring her most well-known character: Eric John Stark. Brackett, of […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Nov 6, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 1
The Simulacra by Philip K. Dick Fueled by prescription amphetamines, and in a burst of creative effort rarely seen before or since in the sci-fi field, cult author Philip K. Dick, in the period 1963 – ‘64, wrote no less than six full-length novels. His 13th since 1955, The Simulacra, was originally released as an […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Oct 21, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Terminal Beach by J.G. Ballard J.G. Ballard is best known for his autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun (1984), along with his early novels like The Drowned World (1962), The Crystal World (1964), The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), Crash (1973), Concrete Island (1974), and High-Rise (1975). But many consider his best work to be his […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Apr 29, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 2
Davy by Edgar Pangborn Davy (1964) is a wonderfully-written coming-of-age story set in a post-apocalyptic Northeastern United States 400 years after a brief nuclear exchange destroyed high-tech civilization, where life has become far more like the frontier days of the early US, with a scattered group of city-states dominated by the Holy Murcan Church. Far […]
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Posted by Terry Lago (GUEST) | Mar 9, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C.S. Lewis To me, this might be C.S. Lewis‘ best book. I will have to cop to not really liking the NARNIA books (too allegorical, and those British schoolchildren are pretty annoying), and while I do quite like his SPACE TRILOGY, I think that Lewis was […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Feb 4, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 7
Time of the Great Freeze by Robert Silverberg Given that global warming seems to be an almost universally accepted fact of life these days (except by obstinate conspiracy theorists such as my buddy Ron, who also denies that men ever walked on the moon), it might strike a reader as strange to come across a […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | Sep 19, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 2
Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick It’s easy to be skeptical when you crack open a book by Philip K. Dick; his output is hit or miss. The psychotic craziness of Dick’s personal life so often leaked into his writing that on more than one occasion his work features plots and themes derailed by a […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Aug 15, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 4
Earth’s Last Citadel by C.L. Moore & Henry Kuttner Catherine Moore and Henry Kuttner, generally acknowledged to be the preeminent husband-and-wife writing team in sci-fi history, initially had their novella Earth’s Last Citadel released in the pages of Argosy magazine in 1943 (indeed, it was the very last piece of science fiction to be serialized […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Sep 10, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Penultimate Truth by Philip K. Dick Philip K. Dick’s 11th science fictopm novel, The Penultimate Truth, was originally released in 1964 as a Belmont paperback (no. 92-603, for all you collectors out there) with a staggering cover price of… 50 cents. Written during one of Dick’s most furiously prolific periods, it was the first […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Aug 30, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 0
Clans of the Alphane Moon by Philip K. Dick Clans of the Alphane Moon was one of six books that science fiction cult author Philip K. Dick saw published in the years 1964 and 1965. Released in 1964 as a 40-cent Ace paperback (F-309, for all you collectors out there), it was his 14th science […]
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