Posted by Sandy Ferber | Feb 10, 2023 | SFF Reviews | 11
Conquerors From the Darkness by Robert Silverberg As I believe I’ve mentioned elsewhere, 1959 was the year when future sci-fi Grand Master – not to mention multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner – Robert Silverberg, chafing at the genre’s limitations, decided to retire from the field. By that point, he’d already written, since his professional […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Dec 14, 2020 | SFF Reviews | 1
Monday Starts on Saturday by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky In the Strugatsky brothers’ Monday Starts on Saturday (1965), Sasha, a young Russian man, is about to start his vacation when he picks up a couple of hitchhikers. They are excited to discover that Sasha is a computer programmer because the organization they work for is […]
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Posted by Ryan Skardal | Mar 14, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 1
I See By My Outfit by Peter S. Beagle Published in 1965, Peter S. Beagle’s I See By My Outfit is an American motorscooter travelogue. Beagle and his friend, Phil, ride from New York to St. Louis and then head west to San Francisco. I was often struck by how different the world was in […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Mar 17, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 6
All Flesh Is Grass by Clifford D. Simak In the 1966 3-D movie The Bubble, later rereleased as Fantastic Invasion of Planet Earth, an impenetrable and transparent dome of unknown origin encases a small American town, trapping its residents inside. Forty-three years later, in Stephen King’s doorstop best seller of 2009, Under the Dome, another […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | Dec 15, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Squares of the City by John Brunner In 1892, Wilhelm Steinitz and Mikhail Chigorin squared off in the finals of the World Chess Championship in Havana, Cuba. One of the deciding matches, so original in gamesmanship and rife with strategically interesting play, it has become one of the more well-known matches in history. (The game can be replayed […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Dec 5, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 3
A Wrinkle in the Skin by John Christopher Although most of us probably deem earthquakes to be relatively infrequent phenomena, the truth is that, as of this writing in late November, almost 150 such seismic events, ranging from relatively minor to completely devastating, have transpired somewhere in the world in 2016 alone. That’s an average […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | May 12, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 0
A Plague of Demons by Keith Laumer Though little discussed today, back in the 1960s, Syracuse, N.Y.-born Keith Laumer was a hugely popular sci-fi author, largely by dint of his series featuring interstellar ambassador/mediator Jaime Retief, a series that began in ’63 and ultimately comprised some 18 novels and books of short stories. Somehow, I […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Nov 21, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 1
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany Babel-17 won the 1966 Nebula award for best novel, tying with Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for Algernon. Samuel Delany’s space opera novel is dated in many ways, but still holds up. In the future, humans have colonized many star systems. Currently, the Alliance is engaged in a war with the Invaders, […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Sep 1, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 6
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch was the 10th and final PKD book I read last year after 40 years without reading any. I always felt as a teenager that I would get more from his books as an adult, and I think I was right. […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | Sep 10, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 5
Dr. Bloodmoney: Or How We Got Along After the Bomb by Philip K. Dick Based on the overwhelming success of The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick set about writing another alternate history/future. Choosing the Cold War as its crux, he imagined a US wherein the post-WWII threat of nuclear catastrophe manifests itself. Dr. Bloodmoney: […]
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Posted by Thomas M. Wagner (guest) | Aug 26, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 1
Elidor by Alan Garner There are those who consider Alan Garner, an intriguing figure who was so sickly as a child he was twice legally declared dead, to be Great Britain’s master fantasist. I am not among them. Elidor, his best-known book, does have quite a lot to admire, even if it does fall far […]
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