One of my favorite reading pleasures is the short story collection. Such books provide a nearly perfect combination of diversity and readability within a single volume. This is especially true when the collection consists of stories from multiple authors and their different styles of writing. And ...
It has been a while since I read his “Trillion Year Spree”, but I would respectfully submit that Aldiss may very well have made his case for the essential nature of science fiction in making and moving on the modern world. It is difficult to think of another genre so relevant, and at the same time...
The central character in this book is the planet Helliconia. The story shows how the primitive civilizations and flora and fauna are influenced by planetary forces with seasons that last thousands of years. Readers must keep in mind that this book is the start of a trilogy or they will not like the ...
The world is going out with a whimper instead of a bang. The entire human race is pretty much sterile due to a nuclear accident. More large animals, except reindeer have suffered the same fate, while other small animals thrive to the point of being a threat. Civilization despairs and collapses, but ...
Received via NetGalley from the Open Road Media in exchange for an honest and completely unbiased review. Also posted on Silk & SerifFinches of Mars is the work of science fictions most eminent authors. I researched Aldiss upon completion of this book and learned that most of his books require anal...
Millions of years into the future, the Earth is tidally locked with the sun and the sunny side is dominated by a banyan tree of mind-boggling size. Mile-wide plant spiders crawl from the Earth to the moon on vast webs. As for man, he is now a foot and a half high, green, and running scared all the t...
hs This collection is not as good as the previous collection, though it does have slightly more international feel (several stories are translations). Despite the title, there is more than Greek mythology in play here as well. Perhaps because it is sadder, the term that Bernheimer us...
New Review! GREYBEARD by British SF legend Brian W. Aldiss (HELLICONIA series) http://tinyurl.com/nb5zvwz It's a 50-year-old postapocalypse tale that proves Aldiss saw a childless world as a hellish extinction. SF is never scarier than when it's predicting improbable futures...and then they come...
Re-reading after almost 10 years. One of the first science fiction book that I've read. Amazing and disturbing book with great ending. That's how my love to SF has started.
The giant ship is sent to colonize a planet Procyon V. During the ship’s approach to the planet, something has happened. A new form disease, A Nine Days Ague derived from the planet killed a lot of people in the ship. The crew and inhabitants decided to turn back to the Earth. It took more than twen...
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