Posted by Kat Hooper | Feb 27, 2019 | SFF Reviews | 0
Midworld by Alan Dean Foster On a faraway planet with a dense jungle ecosystem, a human colony ship accidentally landed generations ago. The planet killed all but a few hardy survivors and their offspring evolved, along with the jungle, into a symbiotic pseudo-human race. A man named Born is one of the descendants of those […]
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Posted by Tim Scheidler | Feb 7, 2019 | SFF Reviews | 3
Companions on the Road by Tanith Lee I’m a big fan of Tanith Lee. Like many great fantasy writers, Lee understood that to truly transport a reader, it’s not enough to talk about dragons or swords or magic systems. Readers are transported just as much or more by the way these things are talked about. […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Sep 20, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 5
The Black Druid by Frank Belknap Long In my recent review of Frank Belknap Long’s short-story collection The Hounds of Tindalos, I mentioned that when this hardcover volume was initially released by Arkham House in 1946, it contained 21 tales, encompassing the genres of science fiction, fantasy and horror. I also mentioned that most later […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Aug 30, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 1
Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones My usual response to reading any book by Diana Wynne Jones is: “how does she come up with this stuff?” This is swiftly followed by bewilderment (especially in the wake of Harry Potter) that nobody has ever adapted any of her work, despite the fact her stories would make for […]
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Posted by Tadiana Jones | Jul 23, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 5
The Transfigured Hart by Jane Yolen The Transfigured Hart, a 1975 novella by the talented Jane Yolen, was recently republished as part of Tachyon Publications’ Particle e-book imprint. It’s a lovely, evocative tale, juxtaposing fairy-tale-like fantasy and a contemporary rural setting. Richard and Heather are twelve-year-old neighbors with vastly different personalities who barely know […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Oct 6, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 0
Peace by Gene Wolfe Although virtually unclassifiable, Gene Wolfe’s 1975 novel, Peace, was chosen for inclusion in both David Pringle’s Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels AND Jones & Newman’s Horror: Another 100 Best Books. While the novel certainly does have shadings of both the horrific and the fantastic, it will most likely strike the casual […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | Sep 9, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner Something of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, John Brunner is one of the more intriguing though lesser recognized figures in science fiction history. Much the same as Robert Silverberg, he cut a path for himself in genre writing that is essentially pulp sci-fi but later began introducing novels of […]
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Posted by Jason Golomb | Jan 11, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 2
Salem’s Lot by Stephen King Starting in 2012/2013 I started obsessing on Stephen King. I’m slowly working my way through his catalog, which means I should have a pretty full life of King left to me, right? I’m a huge fan of It, The Stand, The Shining, and I actually really enjoyed Under the Dome. […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Oct 16, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 17
High-Rise by J.G. Ballard If you had the chance, would you live in a massive, 1,000-unit luxury high-rise with its own supermarket, liquor shop, schools, pools, gyms, etc.? Instead of living in some dreary suburb with boring, prosaic neighbors, why not join an elite group of young and successful professionals, like-minded and sophisticated, with immaculate […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Apr 13, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 3
Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith I’ve always wanted to read the work of Cordwainer Smith (pen name of Paul Linebarger, a scholar and diplomat who was an expert on East Asia and psychological warfare), who also moonlighted as a quirky SF author who wrote a number of short stories mainly in the 1950s and 60s set […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | May 30, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 3
The Centauri Device by M. John Harrison M. John Harrison’s 1975 The Centauri Device is a rare beast in science fiction. Short (200 pages), prosaic (the language is at most times brilliant), and with literary aims, it is sure to draw the disapproval of any genre fans expecting the easy-to-digest hero’s story typical of space […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Apr 29, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 9
The Stochastic Man by Robert Silverberg Although his previous output had for several decades been nothing short of prodigious, by the mid-’70s, sci-fi great Robert Silverberg was finally beginning to slow down. The author had released no fewer than 23 sci-fi novels during his initial, “pulpy” phase (1954-1965), and a full 23 more from 1967-1972, […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Jan 13, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 2
Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg At one point in William Hjortsberg‘s masterful horror novel, Falling Angel, Epiphany Proudfoot, a 17-year-old voodoo priestess, tells the detective hero Harry Angel, “you sure know a lot about the city.” The city in question is the New York of 1959, and if Angel knows a lot about this crazy […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | May 12, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 1
The Deep by John Crowley In a world very different from ours, two powerful factions fight for the throne. Alliances are made and shattered. Vows are sworn and broken. Brothers betray brothers; fathers betray sons; kings are imprisoned and queens make war. No, it’s not A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE. It’s The Deep, by […]
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Posted by Ryan Skardal | Dec 22, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 1
Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison® If Harlan Ellison’s afterword from 2010 is to be believed, Deathbird Stories is a short story collection about the merits of religion and the religious. Given that Ellison is perhaps as confrontational as he is influential in sci-fi circles, we can expect him to crush eggshells as he goes. However, […]
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