Posted by Nathan Okerlund | Sep 17, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 7
Free Live Free by Gene Wolfe First of all, let me lay a few cards on the table: Gene Wolfe is my favorite science-fiction author and might be my favorite author, period. I’d give something like fifteen of his books five-star reviews; the only other author who comes close to that is Jack Vance. Free […]
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Posted by Rob Weber | May 20, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 7
Icehenge by Kim Stanley Robinson Icehenge is Kim Stanley Robinson’s second published novel. It was published the same year as his first novel The Wild Shore, the first part in his THREE CALIFORNIAS triptych. The subject of Icehenge is very different from The Wild Shore. It would be selling the book short to say it is a first step […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | May 12, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks Perusing bookshops in Poland one finds fiction is categorized along the same genre lines as America or Britain. They have horror, fantastyka, science fiction, kryminalny — all of which are readily recognizable to the English speaker. There is one additional category, however, that I’d never seen before: sensacyjny. Neither […]
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Posted by Sandy Ferber | Nov 27, 2015 | SFF Reviews | 4
The People of the Mist by H. Rider Haggard Sir Henry Rider Haggard, the so-called “Father of the Lost Race Novel,” didn’t write such stories featuring only Allan Quatermain and Ayesha, She Who Must Be Obeyed. For example, his 17th novel, The People of the Mist (1894), is a smashing, wonderfully exciting, stand-alone lost-race tale […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Nov 27, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Ghost Light by Fritz Leiber Fritz Leiber’s The Ghost Light, recently produced in audio format by Audible Frontiers, is a collection of nine short stories and novelettes and an autobiographical essay by Fritz Leiber. Only the first novelette, “The Ghost Light,” and the essay, “Not so Much Disorder and Not so Early Sex: an […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Oct 19, 2012 | SFF Reviews | 0
Death Sentences by Kawamata Chiaki How to describe the copy of Death Sentences, by Kawamata Chiaki (translated by Thomas Lamarre and Kazuko Y. Hehrens) I recently received? Take a heaping helping of Philip K. Dick, a dollop or two of Ray Bradbury, layer into a pan, then frost liberally with my undergrad survey course in artistic […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Nov 21, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 31
Lies, Inc by Philip K. Dick In the early 21st century, Earth has become overcrowded and has begun to look toward space as a potential new home. Only one habitable planet has been found — Whale’s Mouth — and it’s said to be a paradise. Rachmael ben Applebaum’s company has developed a spaceship that will […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Aug 6, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 5
Armor by John Steakley …everything you were hiding from was in there with you. That’s the trouble with armor. It won’t protect you from what you are. Felix is a loner, a broken man with a mysterious past. When he’s dropped with thousands of fellow soldiers on a toxic planet nicknamed “Banshee,” he’s the only […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Aug 5, 2011 | SFF Reviews | 4
The Changeover by Margaret Mahy [In our Edge of the Universe column, we review mainstream authors that incorporate elements of speculative fiction into their “literary” work. However you want to label them, we hope you’ll enjoy discussing these books with us.] I read Margaret Mahy’s Carnegie-winning novel first as a teenager and again just recently, in […]
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Posted by Ruth Arnell (RETIRED) | Jul 5, 2009 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Seven Towers by Patricia C. Wrede I was strangely dissatisfied by The Seven Towers but really couldn’t figure out what exactly was the problem until I sat down to write the review. I normally start with a plot summary, and I couldn’t figure out how to summarize the story. A lot of stuff happens, […]
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Posted by Guest | Apr 21, 2008 | SFF Reviews | 0
To Reign in Hell by Steven Brust The accomplishments here are nothing short of spectacular. Imagine writing a book populated with some of the most well known characters in Western history: Yahweh, Jesus, Satan, Lucifer (yes, they are separate), and the archangels Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel. They all need unique personalities. If they’re not, if they’re […]
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Posted by Rebecca Fisher | Dec 31, 2007 | SFF Reviews | 0
Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones Fire and Hemlock is possibly Diana Wynne Jones’ most complex and subtle novel, and it’s certainly not for the younger readers who’ve enjoyed her most famous work, the Chrestomanci novels. It is most basically described as a retelling of the Tam Lin/Thomas the Rhymer ballads, set in 1980’s […]
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