Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
Duncan "It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or…
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Get in the Van by Henry Rollins
As a member of the seminal punk band Black Flag, Henry Rollins kept detailed tour diaries that form the basis of Get in the Van . Rollins's observations range from…
Tunnel in the Sky by Robert Heinlein
A high school senior goes through the gate to an unknown planet for a two-to-ten day final exam in Advanced Survival, and realizes, after a period of fighting the elements…
Edison’s Conquest of Mars by Garrett P. Serviss
Edison's Conquest of Mars By Garrett P. Serviss is the first sequel the H.G. Wells War of the Worlds. Even though it's a sequel to Well's book it is a…
The Night Blooming Saurian by James Tiptree jr
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…
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.
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…