Posted by Kat Hooper | Aug 14, 2019 | SFF Reviews | 1
Electric Forest by Tanith Lee Magdala Cled is an unattractive disabled woman living in a world where genetic engineering has ensured that everyone around her is beautiful and healthy. She’s a genetic misfit who has no family, friends, or social support of any type. When a handsome rich man offers to make her beautiful, she […]
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Posted by Tadiana Jones | Feb 28, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 4
Roadmarks by Roger Zelazny Roadmarks (1979) is a fragmented, experimental type of novel, tied together by a Road (with a capital R) that leads to all times and places and alternative timestreams in our world’s history, for those who know how to navigate it (a certain German named Adolph briefly pops up in an early […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | Oct 19, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 0
Transfigurations by Michael Bishop Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris is one of science fiction’s landmark works. A philosophical and psychological study of a man confronting the inherently unknowable, the imagery, events, and overall experience of the novel lodge in the mind, begging questions for which one uncomfortably has no immediate answer. So strange and haunting, a person can only think of […]
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Posted by Jason Golomb | Nov 29, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 6
The Devils of D-Day by Graham Masterton All the devils and demons that appear in this book are legendary creatures of hell, and there is substantial recorded evidence for their existence. For that reason, it is probably inadvisable to attempt to conjure up any of them by repeating out loud the summons used in the […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | Aug 11, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 1
The Unlimited Dream Company by J.G. Ballard Looking at the spread of colors, shapes, and lines smeared across the canvas that is J.G. Ballard’s 1979 The Unlimited Dream Company, it’s easy to get lost in the details, the view to the whole submerged. Superficially disorienting to say the least, the narrative packs a bewildering visual punch while […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | May 11, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 2
Juniper Time by Kate Wilhelm Juniper Time, by Kate Wilhelm, was published in 1979, her first novel after her Hugo-Award winning book Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang. Once again, Wilhelm was interested in ecological collapse. This time, the disaster is a growing drought and the desertification of large parts of world, specifically the US, […]
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Posted by Rob Weber | Apr 7, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 2
Jem by Frederik Pohl Like Man Plus (1976) and Gateway (1977), books which Frederik Pohl a number of awards, Jem (1979) is another book from this highly successful period in Pohl’s career. It was nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula awards but didn’t win. It did win a National Book Award. Jem is set […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Feb 5, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 6
Kindred by Octavia Butler Kindred (1979) is Octavia Butler’s earliest stand-alone novel, and though it features time travel, it’s not really science fiction or fantasy. It’s an exploration of American slavery and its painful legacy from the eyes of a contemporary (well, circa 1976) young black woman named Dana. So don’t expect to learn why […]
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Posted by Katie Burton | Jan 13, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 10
The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories by Angela Carter Angela Carter’s style is rich and dense. Her short stories are the most sumptuous of literary feasts. In The Bloody Chamber Carter reworks a number of fairy stories and folk tales, from “Little Red Riding Hood” and “Beauty and the Beast” to “Puss-in-Boots”. But Carter never intended […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Oct 29, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard by J.G. Ballard The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (1979) was published in 1977 in the UK and 1978 in the US. It contains a few stories from J.G. Ballard’s earlier, more conventional SF phase in the late 1950s, his most productive and lyrical phase in the […]
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Posted by Ryan Skardal | Aug 26, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Long Walk by Stephen King Ray Garraty, Maine’s own, lives in a near-future dystopian America where boys enter an annual game, the Long Walk, in which the winner is given anything he wants. The winning boy must walk at four miles per hour longer than any other boy in the competition. Boys whose pace […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | May 21, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 2
Morlock Night by K.W. Jeter K.W. Jeter’s Morlock Night (1979) is often cited as the first novel to be categorized at “steampunk.” In a 1987 letter to Locus magazine, Jeter coined the term in an effort to describe the types of stories that he and his friends Tim Powers and James P. Blaylock were writing: […]
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Posted by Terry Lago (GUEST) | Aug 10, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 0
Engine Summer by John Crowley Fey, muted, beautiful. The story of Rush-that-speaks is a bildungsroman that will haunt you long after you have read the last page. Engine Summer follows the charming and inquisitive Rush as he grows up in his enclave of ‘True Speakers,’ one of the few groups of humanity left after an […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Dec 31, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke The latest scheme dreamed up by Dr. Vannevar Morgan, a materials engineer, is either pure genius or pure crackpot: He wants to build an elevator to space. He’s discovered a new material that he thinks is strong enough to withstand the gravitational and climatic forces that would […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Feb 8, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 1
Which Witch? by Eva Ibbotson Arriman Canker (better known as Arriman the Awful, Loather of Light and Wizard of the North) is a dark wizard in search of an heir after a gypsy fortune teller prophesies the coming of another wizard to Darkington Hall. Arriman is excited about the prospect of a pupil in the […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Jan 2, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 1
A Touch of Chill by Joan Aiken Joan Aiken is one of my favourite authors, best known among children as the writer of the alternative-history series The Wolves Chronicles. She is also a writer for adults, and the same sense of imagination, wit and mystery found in her earlier books are found in this collected […]
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Posted by Rob Rhodes | Jan 21, 2008 | SFF Reviews | 0
Gloriana, or The Unfulfill’d Queen: Being a Romance by Michael Moorcock Gloriana (1979) is Moorcock’s homage to Mervyn Peake (author of the Gormenghast saga), and fittingly, is a lush tale of intrigue told in thoroughly British prose. At times brilliant (especially in the descriptions of the seasonal festivities), often captivating and humorous, often sluggish and […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Oct 16, 2007 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende The Neverending Story is probably best known to the general public through Wolfgang Peterson’s movie, whereas the original novel by Michael Ende is less well known. Despite the horrid sequels and the even worse television series that Michael Ende desperately tried to prevent in the last years of his […]
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