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Roadside Picnic: A Russian SF classic

Roadside Picnic by Boris & Arkady Strugatsky Roadside Picnic (1972) is a Russian SF novel written by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky. This was back when authors and publishers were subject to government review and censorship. Since it didn’t follow the Communist Party line, it didn’t get published in uncensored book form in Russia until the […]

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The Book Of Skulls: A far cry from Daytona Beach!

The Book Of Skulls by Robert Silverberg Because he has garnered no fewer than eight Hugo and Nebula Awards over the years, has been inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Hall of Fame, and has been, since 2005, anyway, an SFWA Grand Master, it might be difficult to credit the notion […]

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The Fifth Head of Cerberus: Three novellas about identity, memory, and colonization

The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe I don’t think I’m the only reader drawn to Gene Wolfe’s books — hoping to understand all the symbolism, subtleties, oblique details, unreliable narrators, and offstage events — and finding myself frustrated and confused, feeling like it’s my lack of sophistication and careful reading ability to blame. […]

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Tower of Glass: Enough ideas for several novels

Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg Tower of Glass (1972) is another of Robert Silverberg’s ambitious novels from his most prolific period in the late 1960s/early 1970s. In that time he was churning out several books each year that were intelligent, thematically challenging, beautifully written stories that explored identity, sexuality, telepathy, alien contact, religion and […]

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The Second Trip: A trip worth taking

The Second Trip by Robert Silverberg In his 1969 novel To Live Again, Robert Silverberg posited a world of the near future in which it is possible for the very rich to have their personae recorded and preserved, and later placed in the mind of a willing recipient after their own demise, as a means […]

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The Godmakers: Starts well, then begins to ramble

The Godmakers by Frank Herbert Frank Herbert’s The Godmakers is a novelized collection of four connected stories that first appeared in the pulp magazines between May 1958 and February 1960: “You Take the High Road” (Astounding Science Fiction, May 1958) “Missing link” (Astounding Science Fiction, February 1959) “Operation Haystack” (Astounding Science Fiction, 1959) “The Priests […]

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The Gods Themselves: Asimov’s favorite of his SF novels

The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov “Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.” Isaac Asimov’s The Gods Themselves earned the Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. About 15 years ago it was put on the Locus […]

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Soul Catcher: Compelling and suspenseful, but repetitive

Soul Catcher by Frank Herbert Charles Hobuhet, an intelligent doctoral student in anthropology, is a Native American who holds a secret grudge against the Europeans who came to America, not only because of what they did to his race, but also because a group of them raped and killed his sister years ago. When Charles […]

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Watership Down: So much more than bunnies

Watership Down by Richard Adams The other reviewers mocked me when I said I was going to review Watership Down. ‘I hope you like rabbits!’, they sniggered. Well, Watership Down does have rabbits as the main characters, but it is so much more than a story about bunnies. That would be like saying The Hobbit […]

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