The mixed reviews of this book fascinate me! I am wondering of this is due to how hard it is to understand the hard science. I am not a theoretical physicist, so my own understanding probably didn't even scratch the surface. But I became fascinated with the idea of sending messages to the past and c...
Short-story anthologies can often be a mixed bag consisting of both the good and the bad. This is one of the reasons why Gardiner Dozios and Stanley Schmidt’s book stands out; taken from the pages of both Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine and Analog Science Fiction and Fact, it offers a stronger ...
In the alternate history genre, it's commonplace to have historical figures as important characters. It's far less common, however, for the author's characterization of those historical figures to be based upon their firsthand knowledge of them. As a physicist who knew personally some of the leading...
So... this is really hard. I really, really loved The Mars Girl. And I really, really hated As Bit as the Ritz. I'm gonna get Big out of the way first. Bedford got way, way more technical and scienc-y than Haldeman did, and it bored me. Even so, his story wasn't that bad, although it cen...
I just finished (for probably the fifth time) Clarke and Benford's "Beyond the Fall of Night." There are certain works of science fiction that transcend the limits of the genre—indeed, the limits of the MEDIUM—and leave an experiencer with a higher sense of what it means to be conscious and alive a...
ABR's original The Martian Race audiobook review and many others can be found at Audiobook Reviewer.Nicholas Sansbury Smith continues his exciting series with this second book, Extinction Edge. At the close of Extinction Horizon, we are told there is a cure or rather that Dr. Lovato has created a “...
Synopsis: A spaceship on a centuries long journey to establish a colony on a far off planet encounters a vast, flat bowl structure hugging a star as it is propelled through space. A landing party investigates and is immediately split with some being captured by the bowl's inhabitants and the others ...
An interesting premise but not one that delivered on it. I struggled to finish this one as it just did not keep my interest. On the fence on whether to read the follow up to this which is actually the second half of the story...
What an odd book. I don't know that I expected it to be a carbon copy of one of Asimov's novels in the series, or even one that sounded like a Foundation novel, but what I found here was very different from my expectations.For one thing, Foundation's Fear has better characterization than anything A...
I received an ARC from Goodreads in exchange for an honest review. This is a really cool anthology of Grand Tradition science fiction. There were stories I definitely liked better than others, but I enjoyed the range of pieces included. On the whole, the stories contained realistic and 3-dimentional...
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