The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut The Sirens of Titan is a tough book to review. And it’s not really SF at all though it adopts the trappings of the genre. The thing about Kurt Vonnegut’s books is that they are so deceptively simple. The prose is spare, humorous, ironic, and to the point. […]
Read MoreStuart Starosta and Kat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Kurt Vonnegut | Audio, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut “Live by the foma that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.” Like all of Kurt Vonnegut’s books, Cat’s Cradle (1963) is very easy to read but fiendishly difficult to review. It’s basically about two main themes: 1) Some scientists are completely unconcerned with what their research and […]
Read MoreStuart Starosta and Kat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Kurt Vonnegut | Audio, Edge, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut [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.] Kurt Vonnegut was a POW in Dresden during World War II. He only survived the allies’ […]
Read MoreKat Hooper and Stuart Starosta´s rating: 5 | Kurt Vonnegut | Audio, Edge, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut Kilgore Trout, who appears in many of Kurt Vonnegut’s novels, is a science fiction writer whose ideas and stories are interesting even though his plots and characters are dreadful. My favorite Kilgore Trout story is summarized in Breakfast of Champions. Here, Trout writes about extra-terrestrials that come to earth to prevent nuclear […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal, Stuart Starosta and Kat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Kurt Vonnegut | Edge, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut’s A Man Without a Country collects essays about living in George W. Bush’s America. Published in 2005, these essays were written after America invaded Iraq in order to defeat terrorism, to find and neutralize weapons of mass destruction, and to spread freedom and democracy throughout […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 3 | Kurt Vonnegut | Non-fiction | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Collection: The Big Trip Up Yonder, 2BR02B Brilliance Audio is now producing some science fiction story collections on audio, and recently they sent me a few of them to review. The first one that caught my eye was this one by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. It contains two related stories: “The Big Trip […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Kurt Vonnegut | Audio, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young by Kurt Vonnegut If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young collects nine graduation speeches delivered by Kurt Vonnegut. Published in 2013, this posthumous collection is introduced by the writer Dan Wakefield. The earliest speech was delivered in 1978, while the latest was […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal and Kat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Kurt Vonnegut | Edge, Non-fiction | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Here are a few short stories we’ve recently read and listened to that we wanted you to know about. This week’s selection includes some excellent classic tales. “The Uncarved Heart” by Evan Dicken (Nov. 2016, free at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 99c Kindle magazine issue, 0.99£ UK magazine issue) It’s hard to tell what someone is really made of, at […]
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Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories edited by John Joseph Adams Even people who don’t usually read science fiction will often be familiar with a few classic titles in the “dystopian SF” sub-genre. After all, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and of course the famous Aldous Huxley novel Brave New World are some of the few SF titles […]
Read MoreStefan Raets (RETIRED) and Ruth Arnell (RETIRED)´s rating: 5 | Caitlín R. Kiernan, Carrie Vaughn, Charles Coleman (C.C.) Finlay, Cory Doctorow, Genevieve Valentine, Harlan Ellison, Kate Wilhelm, Ken Liu, Kim Stanley Robinson, Kurt Vonnegut, Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, Paolo Bacigalupi, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Robert Silverberg, Tobias Buckell, Ursula K. Le-Guin | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 6 comments |
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