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Ellison in middle age This was my first and is likely to be my only encounter with the writing of Harlan Ellison. It's not as th...

Since January, I have read a novel a month by one of the winners of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, given by the Science Fic...

My Junior high school library had a copy of   Starship Troopers   on the shelf. I never read it. I had read some of the Heinlein juveniles...

Fritz Leiber looking very much the Grand Master The universe is at war. Leiber's short novel is set, on one level, in the later par...

Silverberg about the time he wrote The Stochastic Man Robert Silverberg considered  The Stochastic Man  a valedictory offering. When ...

Le Guin, possibly from around 1970 Rocannon's World  was Ursula K. LeGuin's first published novel and is the first of her no...

I have not chosen well when it comes to my reading of the Grand Masters of Science Fiction. I have searched out early honorees by whom I h...

I am not by nature a fantasy reader. I am not intrigued by magic or wowed fantastic creatures; I find pseudo-medieval settings or language o...

(The science fiction site Worlds Without End is sponsoring a challenge for members to read one novel a month by a recipient of the Damon Kni...

(The sf website Worlds Without End is encouraging members to read and review a book by one of the Science Fiction Writers of America Grand M...