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** Roger Zelazny - Angel, Dark Angel. In a utopian/dystopian future, society is manged by planned deaths, carried out by teleporting modified civil servants. But human emotion can interfere with the most carefully-laid plans. It's not a bad idea, but I didn't love the writing style - never been a ...
I really liked this book. Love me some vampires, it also helped that three of the stories were set on Halloween. And I really liked the Edgar Allen Poe story. Overall, there were only 2 stories that I thought were ok, the rest were really good.
I’ve had a recent urge to read short stories, no doubt I am avoiding the massive, 1000 page Peter Hamilton Neutronium Alchemist monster sitting on top of the reading table. Grabbed this collection of older shorts off the shelf. The Eve of Rumoko by Roger Zelazny: 3 stars. Reading this one week aft...
A good collection of science fiction mysteries, along with an explanation of that relatively obscure sub-genre from Isaac Asimov. I've read a fair number of SF mysteries, and had read most of the ones in the book; most of them are excellent examples of the form. The leading story, "The Detweiler Boy...
In a mere 128 pages, Lester Del Rey tells a better story than most modern writers can in 500. Day of the Giants feels astonishingly slim next to the mammoth tomes which are de rigueur these days, but that slimness just points up the fact that most of those gargantuan books are simply padded.The book...
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