Posted by Kat Hooper | May 12, 2022 | SFF Reviews | 2
The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson Poul Anderson’s millennia-spanning epic The Boat of a Million Years (1989) follows the lives of several unusual human beings starting from a few hundred years before the birth of Christ and ending sometime in the far future. For some unknown reason, these folks are essentially immortal, […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Aug 31, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 2
Buying Time by Joe Haldeman Dallas Barr is a Stileman — one of the few humans who’ve paid a million pounds and given up all their assets to have their bodies rejuvenated. These folks need the process repeated every decade or so, so they spend that decade earning the money needed for the next treatment. […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Aug 10, 2018 | SFF Reviews | 1
Angel Station by Walter Jon Williams Ubu Roy and Beautiful Maria are a couple of young adults who were genetically engineered by their “father,” a spaceship pilot and explorer who recently committed suicide on his ship, leaving his two “kids” to fend for themselves. The money is gone, and so are their prospects, so Ubu […]
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Posted by Katie Burton | Sep 6, 2017 | SFF Reviews | 0
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel A bit of classic magical realism today. First published in 1989 in installments, Like Water for Chocolate was a bestseller in Laura Esquivel’s native Mexico and subsequently around the world. A popular film version earned the story a place in yet more hearts (if you are tempted to […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Nov 25, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 4
Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick by Lawrence Sutin Philip K. Dick is certainly one of the most iconic, unusual, and hard-luck SF writers ever to grace the field. His books subvert our everyday reality, question what is human, and explore paranoia and madness, all with a uniquely unadorned and often blackly-humorous style. […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Sep 7, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Doomed City by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, translated by Andrew Bromfield The Doomed City is a late 1980’s work by, according to my jacket liner, the two “greatest Russian science fiction masters”: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Having never read their other works, or much at all by any other Russian sci-fi authors, I can’t speak […]
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Posted by Rob Weber | Jul 15, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 1
Escape from Kathmandu by Kim Stanley Robinson Kim Stanley Robinson is primarily known as a science fiction writer, but that category doesn’t fit all of his work. For example, just before he published the novel A Short, Sharp Shock (1990), which could be labeled as surrealistic fantasy, he published Escape from Kathmandu, a collection of four linked […]
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Posted by Stuart Starosta | Jul 1, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 12
Cyteen by C.J. Cherryh After enjoying C.J. Cherryh‘s 1982 Hugo Award winner Downbelow Station, it was a natural thing to move on to her 1989 Hugo winner, Cyteen. I know that Cyteen is a very different creature, of course. It is a hefty 680 pages long, and extremely light on action. In fact, if you […]
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Posted by Katie Burton | Apr 18, 2016 | SFF Reviews | 1
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson Those who have read Jeanette Winterson before may not be surprised by Sexing the Cherry. Those who haven’t, or who have only read Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (as I had) may wonder what on earth they have got themselves into. It is a weird story, a surreal […]
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Posted by Sarah Chorn | Oct 20, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 2
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons Carrion Comfort is one of Dan Simmons’s earlier works, first published in 1989. It is about psychic vampires who feed off of other people, manipulating their thoughts and thereby controlling their actions. The notion of a psychic vampire is what made me want to read this book — it’s an […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Sep 15, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 3
Out On Blue Six by Ian McDonald Courtney Hall is a cartoonist because that’s the job she’s been assigned by the tyrannical government agencies that dictate all of the details of everyone’s life — where they live, who their friends are, who they marry, what job they do. The goal of the government, which consists […]
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Posted by Jesse Hudson | Aug 13, 2014 | SFF Reviews | 0
Crystal Express by Bruce Sterling Crystal Express is a 1989 collection of short stories by Bruce Sterling, originally published between 1982 and 1987. Five of the stories are set in his Shaper/Mechanist universe made popular in Schismatrix, three are general science fiction, and four lean toward the fantasy genre. The stories are grouped along these […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Oct 22, 2013 | SFF Reviews | 2
The White Isle by Darrell Schweitzer Readers familiar with Darrell Schweitzer probably think of him mostly as someone who writes short stories, edits magazines and anthologies, and writes books and essays about speculative fiction. But he’s written a few novels, too. The White Isle, published in 1989, is one of these, though it was originally […]
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Posted by Kelly Lasiter | Jun 12, 2010 | SFF Reviews | 3
The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers I thought I was sick unto death of vampire novels until I read this one. The Stress of Her Regard reminds me of Anne Rice at her best, some years ago, except with more action and less description of the carpeting. The story centers around the nephelim, […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Apr 13, 2009 | SFF Reviews | 0
Knights of Dark Renown by David Gemmell It’s been six years since the legendary Knights of the Gabala rode through a gate to hell in order to fight the evil that threatened the realm. They haven’t been heard from since. But they are desperately needed now because the King, once a noble man, has begun […]
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