Of all of the Star Trek novels that I read, there are none that I look forward to reading more than the ones by authors who also scripted episodes of the show itself, in no small part because they developed the canon upon which the entire series is based. Though Theodore Sturgeon's novel was develop...
First of all, I love the idea of a quartz-powered time machine. I'd never read a complete work by Wells before this, and I was pleasantly surprised. It has all of the hallmarks of a work from the Victorian era, but it still has the feeling of fresh invention despite all of the adaptions of the story...
Rereading.
I really did like this book, but at the same time it annoyed me. First, I have always been annoyed that fantasy and science fiction are lumped together as if they were one genre. Oh, I am aware of the history that brought that about and, in fact, this book has an essay by Orson Scott Card in which s...
Read it many years ago. Entertaining old fashioned sf. A product of its time.
This classic of sci-fi is a must-read. Although the writing style may be a tad dated, the story itself is excellent (and somewhat prescient). It is a morality tale (about war, segregation, and slavery) while also being a foundational sci-fi book that sparked the imagination of an entire genre.Must...
This came for free along with my PDA, so I thought I might as well read it ;) Turned out, I really enjoyed it. It's not quite the same reading books on a PDA as 'for real', but I still prefer it to ordinary e-books. At least you can take a PDA with you everywhere :)
A anthology of eleven science fiction short stories, selected and introduced by Isaac Asimov. The book is published under the Dragon Books imprint which was a children's books publisher. The book is marked with a 'red' dragon - which categorises it as a book for 8 year olds and above.I was definitel...
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