(Original Review, 1980-08-24)On the question of Dickson's Dorsai or Childe cycle: I understand that originally there were to be 9 books. 3 historical fiction, 3 present day fiction, and 3 SF. I also read that publishers were unwilling to put out SF books of the size of the 3 proposed so they were ea...
Reading this book was sort of like exercising. I didn’t really want to start reading it but, once I did, I found I was enjoying it. Then tedium started to set in and, by the end of the book, I was happy to be done. Once it was over, I was glad I had read it. This is one of the many sixties-era scien...
This book caught my interest because it was said that it, together with Starship Troopers, is considered as a classic that are responsible for the rise of military science fiction. Well, for Starship Troopers I can perhaps understand such a statement. For this one, not so much. Actually, to me, this...
I enjoyed this greatly. The basic premise is one you see a lot in fantasy fiction--Jim Eckert, a present-day man of our world, is transported into a magical medieval world of talking beasts and monsters. That's similar in premise to a book of Poul Anderson's I recently reread, Three Hearts and Three...
A book that sounded interesting when first heard about but one that did not live up to expectations. This is not a close to the Childe Cycle (that apparently will never be written) but rather another book about Bleys Ahrens. This one follows a similar timeline as the Final Encyclopedia but tells the...
A selection of 3 stories, none of which sparked any real interest for me. The first is set in Arabia and is fantasy, second as a scout ship and is SF and third is about a man who has lived for a long time.
I first read perhaps all of these books back in high school, and from that era, they're the only genre series I've actually come back to and still liked. Not that there aren't issues: there are plenty.But that's why I've just added a guilty-pleasures shelf, because it's far too late for me to actual...
Mix of memorable shorts & novellas here. The two Vance pieces appear to be Anything-Goes concoctions of science fiction & fantasy, wherein each we're led to sympathize with a deplorable ruling class, though it's not unambiguous. Anderson's is post-apocalyptic with fascistic protagonists and benevo...
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