Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Oct 11, 2019 | SFF Reviews | 1
The Little Broomstick by Mary Stewart Having recently watched Mary and the Witch’s Flower, I was curious about how it measured up to its source material, particularly since I usually read the book before watching its filmic adaptation. And The Little Broomstick (1971) is a strange little book in so many ways: beautifully written, with […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | Jul 31, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 0
A Meeting with Medusa by Arthur C. Clarke If speculative fiction has any stranglehold on literature, it’s the lack of limitations to the question: what if? Fantasy is a complete expression of this facet, while science fiction tugs lightly on the reins lest the imagination escape reality entirely. In Arthur C. Clarke’s 1971 novella A Meeting […]
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Posted by Ryan Skardal | Mar 2, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 1
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuin When George Orr sleeps, he sometimes has “effective” dreams that alter reality. Believing that he has no right to effect such changes, George begins taking drugs to suppress the dreams. As the drugs lose their efficacy, George ups the dosage, exceeding legal limits. George is caught and […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | Nov 10, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Traveler in Black by John Brunner Breaking into the business with Silver Age space opera but putting himself on the map by writing intelligent dystopia with a social conscience, for a brief moment John Brunner put aside science fiction and dabbled in fantasy. After the success of Stand on Zanzibar, The Jagged Orbit, and The Sheep Look Up, […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | Jun 30, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 3
The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem Numerous are the stories in science fiction in which populations have been brainwashed to believe an ideal, most often the opposite of what we hold dear. A sub-genre in itself, advertisements have been used (The Space Merchants), narcotics (The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch), propaganda (We), technology (Brave New […]
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Posted by Jason Golomb | Dec 22, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 1
Hell House by Richard Matheson Richard Matheson’s short novel Hell House (1971) follows a group of four experts with various supernatural-related backgrounds who seek to prove or disprove the existence of ghosts in a super-creepy home that’s become known as Hell House. And a hellish house it is indeed. The roots of the story are […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Oct 27, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 4
Vermilion Sands by J.G. Ballard J.G. Ballard’s Vermilion Sands (1971) was first published as a U.S. paperback by Berkley in 1971, and was then published by Cape in the U.K. as a hardback in 1973. It contained the following stories: “Prima Belladonna” (1956), “The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista ” (1962), “Cry Hope, Cry Fury!” (1966), […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Oct 23, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 5
A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg After four years of successive losses, sci-fi great Robert Silverberg finally picked up his first Nebula Award in 1972. His 1967 novel Thorns had lost to Samuel R. Delany‘s The Einstein Intersection, his brilliant 1968 novel The Masks of Time had been bested by Alexei Panshin‘s equally brilliant […]
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Posted by Tim Scheidler | Jun 24, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 1
The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories by Poul Anderson Short story anthologies tend to be difficult to review, mostly because it’s hard to come up with a cohesive theme to discuss when the stories can be so diverse in quality and in tone. Fortunately for me, Poul Anderson seems to have gone […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Jun 26, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 4
Son of Man by Robert Silverberg Back in the 1970s, there was a certain type of film that, whether by chance or design, became highly favored by the cannibis-stimulated and lysergically enhanced audience members of the day. These so-called “stoner pictures” — such as Performance, El Topo, Pink Flamingos and Eraserhead — played for years […]
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Posted by Steven Harbin (GUEST) | Oct 25, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 4
Jack of Shadows by Roger Zelazny In 1971, Roger Zelazny penned a wonderful mix of fantasy and science fiction that I think rivals his AMBER books for sheer imagination and exciting action. Jack of Shadows is set on an imaginary world, similar in some respects to our Earth, vastly different in others. One side of […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | May 15, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 6
The World Inside by Robert Silverberg In the year 2381, the Earth contains 75 billion people. Despite the dire warnings of 20th century prophets, humans have not exhausted the Earth’s resources. There is plenty of food for everyone, but because 90% of the land must be covered in farms, most of the people live in […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | May 4, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth: And Other Stories by Roger Zelazny My experience with Roger Zelazny has been hit or miss, and while I consider The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Moutha miss, it’s not terrible. The main fault of these fifteen stories is that characterization remains […]
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