Posted by Kat Hooper | Nov 1, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 1
Dread Companion by Andre Norton In the far future, a young woman named Kilda thinks it’s unfortunate that she was born as a woman because she’s expected to do what every woman on her planet does – get married and have children. Kilda wants to travel and learn, so she appeals to her teacher, a […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | Dec 19, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard Pablo Picasso had his “blue period,” Max Ernst his “American years,” and Georgia O’Keeffe her later “door-in-adobe” phase. For J.G. Ballard, the early part of his career could be called his “psychological catastrophe years.” Using environmental disaster as a doorway to viewing minds under duress, novels like The Drowned World, The Drought, […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | Aug 3, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 10
Tau Zero by Poul Anderson Poul Anderson is, and mayhap always will be, the speculative fiction writer who most integrates myth and legend into fantasy and science fiction. The former is relatively easy given that myth and legend are typically already half fantasy, the latter is the more difficult given that one of the aims […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | Apr 29, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 3
The Fall of the Towers by Samuel R. Delany Not yet out of his teens, Samuel Delany had his first short stories published in science fiction magazines around 1962. Moving on to works of greater length, he shortly thereafter published two novellas, the second of which was called Captives of the Flame. Seeing the story’s greater potential, […]
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Posted by Tadiana Jones | Jan 12, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Cat Who Came In off the Roof by Annie M.G. Schmidt Annie M.G. Schmidt, who died in 1995, was a beloved and well-respected author in the Netherlands, her native land. In 1988 she won the Hans Christian Anderson Award, the most distinguished international award in children’s literature, which is granted to authors and illustrators […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Jun 1, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 8
Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg Up until recently, I hadn’t read Robert Silverberg‘s brilliant sci-fi novel Downward to the Earth in almost 27 years, but one scene remained as fresh in my memory as on my initial perusal: the one in which the book’s protagonist, Edmund Gundersen, comes across a man and a […]
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Posted by Rob Weber | Jan 28, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 1
Whipping Star by Frank Herbert Whipping Star is one of Frank Herbert’s non-Dune books that Tor has been reprinting in recent years. This 1970 novel is the first full novel in the ConSentiency universe, which up to this point consisted of only two short stories. Both of them are contained in the collection Eye and […]
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Posted by Brad Hawley | Oct 25, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 5
Apollo’s Song (Parts I & II) by Osamu Tezuka Apollo’s Song (Part I and Part II) by Osamu Tezuka is a imaginative tale of out-of-body experience, time travel, fantasy, science fiction, mythology and love, all by the God of Manga himself. If you’ve never heard of Osamu Tezuka, you are missing out. He’s best known […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Oct 18, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 0
Our Friends from Frolix 8 by Philip K. Dick Unlike Philip K. Dick’s previous two novels, 1969’s Ubik and 1970’s A Maze of Death, his 27th full-length science fiction book, Our Friends From Frolix 8, was not released in a hardcover first edition. Rather, it first saw the light of day, later in 1970, as […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Oct 3, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 0
A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick In Philip K. Dick’s 25th science fiction novel, Ubik, a group of a dozen people is trapped in an increasingly bizarre world, in which objects revert to their previous forms, reality itself is suspect, and the 12 bewildered people slowly crumble to dust, murderously done in, Ten […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Apr 1, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 2
Beyond the Golden Stair by Hannes Bok Hannes Bokwas the pseudonym of Wayne Francis Woodward, a science fiction and fantasy illustrator and artist who also wrote. In 1948, Bok published a 35,000-word novella called “The Blue Flamingo” in Startling Stories. For decades, rumors circled the science fiction community that “The Blue Flamingo” was an excerpt […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Jan 5, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian by Lloyd Alexander Despite its mouthful of a title, this children’s novel has everything that you would expect from a Lloyd Alexander story: a likable protagonist, a colorful supporting cast, plenty of twists and turns, and a profound morality at work that is so expertly melded into the storyline that […]
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