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Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 12 years ago
This is an unabridged version, running for 10 hours. Read by Stefan Rudnicki.blurb - Jack Williamson's novel, The Humanoids (1949), is considered one of the most important stories about robots and humanity. Many previous stories about robots, excluding Asimov's, portrayed robots as evil beings bent...
Carolyn Cannot Live Without Books!
Carolyn Cannot Live Without Books! rated it 13 years ago
Anthology. This was a better than average anthology, although I didn't read all of the short stories. My feminist proclivities have made an appearance in this anthology. I only read the works by the female authors. What is extremely interesting in this anthology are the mini-biographies about ea...
FriedEgg
FriedEgg rated it 13 years ago
The central conundrum this novel explores is the dichotomy between safety and liberty. At first glance they seem to be mutually exclusive, an inevitable trade-off between one and the other, but is it conceivable that they might ever be reconciled, for humanity to achieve both completely?Humanity has...
Tales from the Infinite Horizon
Tales from the Infinite Horizon rated it 14 years ago
Isaac Asimov could sure put together a mean anthology, and this has to be one of his best. There are so many great stories in this book that I won't list them all, but my favourite has to be Jack Williamson's classic Wellsian tale "The Moon Era". This is an absolute gem of a story, which featured a ...
Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous
Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous rated it 14 years ago
I found this for a dollar, and I do really love the grandeur of sci-fi stories that involve actually going far out into space, so I gave it a read. It's too bad it isn't better known, because there's a lot of really good stories in here, and they were all written expressly for this collection.I real...
Xdyj's books
Xdyj's books rated it 14 years ago
Read it many years ago. Entertaining old fashioned sf. A product of its time.
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 15 years ago
Home audio F:bookiesnot essentialto readJack Williamson - The Stonehenge GateThis is an unabridged version running for 9 hours.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------blurb - This is Jack Williamson's last book, at least it's the last book published in his ...
Tower of Iron Will
Tower of Iron Will rated it 15 years ago
Excellent atmospheric dark fantasy novel, with enough SF elements to keep it from drifting into horror range. The scene where the main character first transforms is unforgettable. The title pretty much sums up my reaction to the ending.
michael
michael rated it 16 years ago
This book is to the werewolf story what "I Am Legend" is to the vampire story. That is high praise and I enjoyed this book immensely.The intermingled themes of folklore, anthropology, Indiana-Jonesesque archeology, quantum physics, pulp-noir detective, witchcraft, psychological and supernatural mur...
FriedEgg
FriedEgg rated it 17 years ago
A gripping story from start to finish that provides a different take on the idea of lycanthropy drawing together strands from quantum mechanics, freudian psycology and evolutionary theory.
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