Every so often, I run across a book that has an intriguing idea, but is rather dull and dry for reading. Vinge’s Rainbows End and Flynn’s Eifelheim are two recent examples, and now Williamson’s The Humanoids can go on that list. I discovered the book through a Webcomic, of all things, but the descri...
Alien Pets is a novel about, well, Alien Pets. Contained within are stories that are warm and fuzzy, hilarious and downright heartbreaking (though most are on the lighter side). As is the case with most anthologies, some of the stories just couldn’t hold my interest (the more techie sci-fi based one...
The "Seetee" in the title means "Contraterrene", an old-fashioned word for anti-matter. This inordinately tedious story features a bunch of cardboard stereotypes running around in a creaky, implausible plot, chasing a piece of anti-matter that it's impossible to believe in or take seriously. I can't...
A strange, poetic SF nightmare with some wonderful images. The cruel Planner's machines are tended by a class of priestesses who speak to them in Mechanese, a staggeringly complex tone language which demands perfect pitch and unwavering life-long discipline. Pyropods, a kind of animate spaceship, cr...
Another in my 12 in 2012 reads. Reading all this classic science fiction, I'm starting to see a pattern. So many of the books I've read seem to be centrally concerned with "the future of mankind," as if we all have a single future. For good or ill that future is generally in the hands of a few sp...
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