The Night Blooming Saurian by James Tiptree jr
Duncan This Short Story was in the Anthology DINOSAURS! (1990) edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois published by Ace ISBN044114883-2 Digging into the sub-genre of Time Travel, rich idiots hunting…
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The Long Loud Silence by Wilson Tucker (1952)
The Long Loud Silence is another case of a book that should really be in print that isn’t. Wilson Tuckers brutal 1952 post apocalyptic novel is a forgotten classic.
Technology is meant to be fun isn’t it? Part 1
I’m of an age that I remember a time pre-internet, even pre-home computers. For me as a Science Fiction fan raised on a steady diet of Star Wars, Star Trek,…
Who is Tiptree, What is He? by Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverberg’s Full Introduction from James Tiptree’s Warm worlds and other (1972). There is one paragraph normally quoted from this text but rarely is the whole introduction shown in which…
The Short Stories of Roger Zelazny
My first exposure to the works of Roger Zelazny was the film Damnation Alley (1977), at the time I didn’t realise was based upon his work. The film starring George…
A Tale of Two Surgeons
A Tale of two Surgeons It’s always interesting when you get two books with the same title covering similar ground. Here we have the tale of two Star Surgeons, both…
Black Fire by Sonni Cooper
The Vulcan with the Jewel Earring As always I believe that we all judge books by their covers, otherwise why bother with one? The cover of Black Fire is a…
Artemis by Andy Weir
A Fun Crime Caper in a Hostile Environment Andy Weir’s rise to prominence with The Martian (2011) is well known, he started by serialising it on his website and then…
City by Clifford D. Simak
A Lamentation to Mankind City is a Post Apocalyptic novel, don’t let anyone tell you any different. The Apocalypse may not be a large single world changing even but the…
All the Weyrs of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
A Solid addition to the Dragonriders Series Anne McCaffrey was inspired in part to write Science Fiction due to some of the ways women were portrayed in the genre. She…