I've been reading quite a few science fiction books lately, particularly anthologies, and this one stands out as special. It's comprised of the 26 stories voted into the "Science Fiction Hall of Fame" as the best in the genre under 15,000 words by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Spanning fro...
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.
Fritz Leiber is a legendary name in science fiction and fantasy, up there among the stars with the likes of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke et al. I do not know whether the present book includes his best (since the author has endorsed it himself, it should), but it does have some fantastic stories.L...
Re-reading this book 30 years after first reading it as a teen, it has not aged as well as I expected. This is likely due to the book's deep influence in the evolution of role-playing games (especially the original Dungeons and Dragons) and subsequent computer games. This has rendered the story tr...
I'll definitely be checking out more Harlan Ellison!Paladin of the Lost Hour - Harlan Ellison ★★★★★The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule - Lucius Shepard ★★★★½Audience - Jack Womack ★★★★½Nets of Silver and Gold - James P. Blaylock ★★★★The Phantasma of Q_______ - Lisa Goldstein ★★★★Lady of the Skull...
I'm reading this to see whether Manny's bright 16 year old eye or Paul Bryant's jaundiced 20 year old's was right.Blow by blow as I plough through it, so more to come....1) Ballard: Paul 1 Manny 0Paul is so right. A dreary story and I fail to see what is sf about it. I hope it is true that this does...
I'm still trying to figure out how this novel won a Hugo. The best I can come up with was that it was a VERY weak year.Basically, Fritz Leiber's novel is a locked-room mystery rooted in a great premise. The idea of the Change War holds enormous promise, but here it's little more than the context for...
I'm still trying to figure out how this novel won a Hugo. The best I can come up with was that it was a VERY weak year.Basically, Fritz Leiber's novel is a locked-room mystery rooted in a great premise. The idea of the Change War holds enormous promise, but here it's little more than the context for...
In the last year or so, I've been trying to go back and read a lot of the classic science fiction/fantasy that I never got around to reading back in the day. For the most part, this has been a treat. Unfortunately, not this time.I've read other books by Lieber, and while they were not my favorites...
In my opinion this must have been a good novel at the time it was written. I imagined it had received good critics. But unfortunally reading it today I didn't felt connected to it. First of all I think Leiber is an excelent writer. No doubt about it. But the plot suffered for what I call TimeLife. M...
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