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The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett My rating: 4 of 5 stars By all accounts I've read, Brackett's 1955 novel is the first, post-...

The world, or at the very least life as we know it, ended nine times for me this past year. In January I went on a J.G. Ballard reading bing...

When I renewed my reading of science fiction back in June, I had in mind that Samuel R. Delany was a writer I was particularly interested in...

Science Fiction as a prescient guide to future technology and society has never much interested me. I read recently that Jules Verne kept ab...

I have over the past months read enough mid-century sf to notice several recurring themes, and to have settled on a favorite. Several novel...

Poul Anderson's Tau Zero (1970) has been my first encounter with hard sf. But this is not as spicy as it sounds. Hard science fiction i...

Dear Mr. Sturgeon, This letter is something of an apology. I confess I had never considered you a serious writer. It's not as though...

Ward Moore (1903 - 1978), one of the writers on the Pringle list, was new to me. And now it turns out that I have gone and read the wrong ...

This whole SF thing started because I spent most of last January reading J.G. Ballard novels. Even though I knew they would be science ficti...

I am pretty good at literary quizzes, and I especially like those where you identify a work based on its first line. I always get this one r...

My disdain for science fiction reached its peak in the mid to late seventies. I was working in a used bookstore, and more and more of what w...

Since my return to science fiction I have read a novel that takes a billion years in the future, one set about 30,000 years in the past, and...

Jan Rodericks is the last man on earth. Since he has spent the previous 80 earth years in another galaxy, making the journey there and back ...

What three things do Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, Elfriede Jelinek, and Claude Simon have in common? 1) There are all three Nobel Laureates...

Thirty thousand years ago, remnants of the Martian race left their dying planet and settled on earth. They live in vast underground and subm...

There's a lot of ground to cover here, but I am going to try to keep it short. When I decided to start a blog the one thing I knew I did...