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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I have always had some book content on this blog, but now I’m hoping to expand that. Reading has been a constant throughout my life, there have been times when…
Books for the Year I know it’s March and I probably should have posted this earlier, but life happens. Part of my plans this year is to read more, sometimes…
Sometimes we all just need another world to escape into …… …. Part 2 – Mars In the second part of this article rather than give suggestions on different fictional…