This was the second pair of the tête-bêche Ace Doubles I read from the set that I claimed from a giveaway bin, and like the first two-book combo I enjoyed it proved something of a mix in terms of quality. I started with Jack Williamson's Dome Around America, which I was eager to read given the autho...
The Reign of Wizardry by Jack WilliamsonS.E.: 4 of 5 starsThanks to the Sword and Sorcery Group on Goodreads continuing to sponsor group-reads, I re-discovered Jack Williamson who wrote fantasy from ~1930-2001. I tracked down The Reign of Wizardry (with the Frank Frazetta cover) and Golden Blood to ...
(Original Review, 1980-12-03)There is yet another possible method of time travel which was used in Williamson’s novel (made up of two novellas: “Legion of Time” and “After World’s End”). This version takes time travel to its logical conclusion when you take quantum mechanics into account. At any giv...
I finally finished this sucker. Far from being a page turner, I found it tedious. For me the novel has four big problems: the writing is bad, okay it's pulpy, it hasn't dated well, the main character who tells the story from a first person perspective is a fool that we NEVER sympathize with, and lyc...
There was much to appreciate here, but I didn't appreciate this book much. Aliens that aren't just humans in disguise, some discussion of the psychological impact of a technology that replicates you over interstellar distances and a Mysterious Giant Object which gets more weird the more you learn ...
bookshelves: spring-2013, sci-fi, tbr-busting-2013, fraudio, under-50-ratings, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, published-1947 Read on April 13, 2013 This is an unabridged version, running for 10 hours. Read by Stefan Rudnicki.[blurb - Jack Williamson's novel, The Humanoids (1949), is considere...
What I liked most about this book, despite the dated prose and setting, is that it effectively merges the Homo Lycanthropus with Homo Sapiens to form a coherent explanation about the influence of the Lycantrope on human history...
A story about a man and a werewolf and his descent into madness or werewolf. It's interesting but it's really not my kind of thing. I didn't really get any connection with the characters and almost stopped reading in the middle due to this lack of interest. It was interesting to compare some of t...
It’s psychics versus robots! We´re not in Asimovian territory...And it gets weirder from there. I’m not sure if it’s just the nature of Golden Age SF, but this book is a real mess. I remember reading it a long time ago in my teens. The pacing is weird, as Jack Williamson goes through the key moments...
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