Time-Jump by John Brunner (1973) I know I’m reliving my youth, but I picked up “Time-Jump” by John Brunner for some classic science fiction. It was published in 1973 but contains his pulp science fiction stories from the periodicals of the fifties and the sixties. This is a short collection of ten of his time-related tales. At first glance, you’d think “these stories have all been done before” until you realize that these classic tales are the originals. Written before Twilight Zone and Outer Limits, […]
Just a Spoon Full of C12H22O11
SciFan Magazine, Dayne Edmondson, Richard M. Mulder, and Patrick Hodges, Editors (2017) This anthology is a little different than most. Not only does it include science fiction and fantasy short stories, but it also contains excerpts from new science fiction and fantasy novels. It’s an interesting way to read a bit of a novel and see if you like it or not. Clever. I’ve marked the excerpts with an asterisk. Across the St. Lawrence: A Tale of the Pendragon Empire by Teel James Glenn – […]
He Had Me Right Up Until the Sasquatch Started Singing
In the Ocean of Night by Gregory Benford (1972) I want to like Mr. Benford’s books. I really do. He’s one of the SF Masters, up there with Asimov, Clarke, and Norton, and he’s a scientist, too. But each time I try to delve into one of his hard SF books, he goes off onto a tangent (in this case, a metaphysical one). I guess it worked for Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001 when the science got so dense that we saw God, but this book […]
A Hard Man is Good to Find
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (1974) For military science fiction, there can be no better example than Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War. Not only does it show the life of a military grunt as he proceeds through the ranks, but it gives us a young man easy to relate to as he fights an alien enemy. The novel is split into clever sections: Private, Sergeant, Lieutenant, and Major and takes us along on his life trip as he grows to be a man and […]
Takin’ a Trip to Goofyland
Question Quest by Piers Anthony (1991) Xanth is a very magical realm and a complete series of fantasy books by cheeky Mr. Anthony. In this ongoing story of Xanth, it begins with a simple girl on a simple quest. She, like everyone else on Xanth, has a magical ability but that’s not the reason she’s come to ask an ancient wizard a Question. She thinks she is an old maid at thirty and perhaps the proposal she turned down when she was younger could be […]
Commander Uhura to the Rescue
Firestorm by L.A. Graf (1994) The author L.A. Graf is really the housename for three writers: Julia Ecklar, Karen Rose Cercone, and Melissa Crandell. Their group name stands for Let’s All Get Rich and Famous which is clever enough in itself. They primarily focus on Star Trek pro-novels and are the few Star Trek novels I keep on my reread shelf. I always enjoy them. Primarily, because the trio focus on the secondary Star Trek characters of Uhura, Sulu, and Checkov. Full disclosure here: I […]
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