Posted by Katie Burton | Mar 1, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 5
The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury It was a small town by a small river and a small lake in a small part of a Midwest state. There wasn’t so much wilderness around you couldn’t see the town. But on the other hand there wasn’t so much town you couldn’t see and feel and touch […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Jan 6, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 8
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Italo Calvino has long been on my list of foreign writers of the fantastic who have been deeply influential to SFF writers while remaining only tangential to the genre. This would include the great Jorge Luis Borges, as well as Stanislaw Lem. All these writers revel in philosophical musings, magic […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Dec 2, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 10
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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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Nov 10, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 6
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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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Oct 9, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 4
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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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Oct 1, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 11
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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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Oct 14, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 2
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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Posted by Kat Hooper | May 7, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 2
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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Posted by Kat Hooper | Mar 31, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 1
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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Posted by Kat Hooper | Feb 7, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 2
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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Posted by Kat Hooper | Oct 9, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 0
Flight from Rebirth by J.T. McIntosh I picked up Flight from Rebirth by J.T. McIntosh because it was on sale at Audible. I wasn’t familiar with the book or the author (J.T. McIntosh is a penname of James Murdoch MacGregor, a Scottish writer). The story is about a man named Benny Rice who appears to […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Sep 27, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 0
We Can Build You by Philip K. Dick Although Philip K. Dick’s 28th science fiction novel, We Can Build You, was first published in book form as a 95-cent DAW paperback in July 1972, it had actually been written a good decade before, and first saw the light of day under the title “A. Lincoln, […]
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Posted by Terry Lago (GUEST) | Jun 21, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 0
What entropy Means to Me by George Alec Effinger Obviously a first novel and very New Wave-y, in some places to the point of excess, What entropy Means to Me is still a very ambitious book which tackles the idea of story itself and its impact on our lives. It isn’t always successful and is […]
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Posted by Stefan Raets (RETIRED) | Nov 7, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 8
Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg is the painfully intimate portrait of David Selig, a man who has been blessed (or cursed, as he might say) with the gift of telepathy. He has learned to live with the ability, but now finds that his amazing power is slowly disappearing, leaving him […]
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Posted by Guest | Jan 2, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 4
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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