Posted by Kat Hooper | Oct 15, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 2
Dark Piper by Andre Norton A decade-long war is finally over and the people who live on the planet of Beltane are relieved. During the war, Beltane, where many scientists lived, was recruited for the war effort and served, unwillingly, as an experimental lab. After the war, most of the scientists left the planet, creating […]
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Posted by Tadiana Jones | Nov 19, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 4
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle Peter S. Beagle’s classic The Last Unicorn (1968) turns fifty years old this year, and it’s remained in the public eye and continues to capture hearts like very few fantasies of its age. Like a fine tapestry, this gorgeous fairy tale weaves together unicorns and harpies, wizards and witches, […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Oct 23, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 1
Dimension of Miracles by Robert Sheckley A few years ago, Neil Gaiman produced a series of audiobooks called Neil Gaiman Presents in which he identified several of his favorite novels that had not yet been produced in audio format, found suitable narrators, and provided his own introductions to the books. I’ve purchased almost all of […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Aug 21, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 4
The Snail on the Slope by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky Chicago Review Press and Blackstone Audio have been translating and reprinting some of the Strugatsky brothers’ works and they’ve sent me review copies. I read Monday Starts on Saturday several months ago but never managed to write a review, which I feel terrible about because […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | May 16, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 0
Chocky by John Wyndham Following the publication of 1960’s Trouble With Lichen, fans of the hugely popular English sci-fi writer John Wyndham would have to wait a good solid eight years for his next novel to be released. During that time, the author limited himself to the shorter form, coming out with 10 stories. One […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | Aug 25, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 3
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner George Orwell and Aldous Huxley were two writers who initially established themselves not only in the world of realist fiction, but also as effective observers on society. As a result, their later novels Nineteen Eighty-four and Brave New World are heralded as two of the greatest science fiction novels ever written, with literary […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Jan 25, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 2
A Necklace of Raindrops by Joan Aiken Joan Aiken’s sweet collection of eight short children’s bedtime stories, originally published in 1968, has just been released in audio format by Listening Library. The audiobook is just over 1.5 hours long and is excellently and lovingly narrated by the author’s daughter, Lizza Aiken. It contains these stories: […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Sep 9, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 5
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner was arguably the most brilliant, though-provoking, and intelligent SF film ever made, with a uniquely dark vision of a deteriorated future Earth society and a morally ambiguous tale of a bounty hunter Rick Deckard hunting down and ‘retiring’ a […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Jul 2, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany It doesn’t get any more New Wave SF than this very slim 1968 Nebula-winning novel (157 pages), and it’s hard to imagine anything like this being written today. The Einstein Intersection is a mythical retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice story in a far-future Earth populated by the […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Jun 29, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 1
Nova by Samuel R. Delany Nova is Samuel “Chip” Delany‘s 1968 space opera with mythic/Grail Quest overtones. It is packed with different themes, subtexts, allegorical and cultural references, and literary experiments, and the young author (just 25 years old) is clearly a very talented, intelligent, and passionate writer. But I didn’t enjoy it, sadly. While […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Jul 9, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Creature From Beyond Infinity by Henry Kuttner The Creature From Beyond Infinity was the first novel published by Henry Kuttner, an author who was one of the half dozen or so pillars of the Golden Age of Sci-Fi. It first saw the light of day in a 1940 issue of “Startling Stories” magazine under […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Jun 6, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 3
Hawksbill Station by Robert Silverberg Although it had been over 45 years since I initially read Robert Silverberg’s novella “Hawksbill Station,” several scenes were as fresh in my memory as if I had read them just yesterday; such is the power and the vividness of this oft-anthologized classic. Originally appearing in the August ’67 issue […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | May 5, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 5
The Masks of Time by Robert Silverberg I had long thought that Philip K. Dick‘s 1964-’66 period was the most intensely productive and prolific streak that any sci-fi author of note has ever enjoyed, with nine major novels produced during those three years. But as it turns out, Robert Silverberg, seven years P.K.’s junior, has […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Mar 5, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Heaven Makers by Frank Herbert The Chem are a race of aliens unknown to humankind. Because they’re immortal, they’re bored. So, for entertainment, they broadcast drama TV from Earth. Fraffin is one of the most successful producers of human drama. Authorities from his home planet suspect he may be manipulating events on Earth, which […]
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Posted by Brad Hawley | Jan 4, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 3
Silver Surfer: Requiem by J. Michael Straczynski (writer) and Esad Ribic (artist) I truly enjoy Marvel’s cosmic characters, and Silver Surfer is one of my favorites. The Requiem storyline is not only the first Silver Surfer title I recommend; it’s also the first cosmic title I point new readers of comics toward. First published as four […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Mar 2, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 2
Pavane by Keith Roberts Pavane, by Keith Roberts, is a beautiful collection of six connected stories written in an alternate England where Queen Elizabeth was assassinated and Philip II won the throne of England. The Protestant Reformation never occurred and Europe, as well as the New World, fell under the control of the Pope. Now […]
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