One of my favorite reading pleasures is the short story collection. Such books provide a nearly perfect combination of diversity and readability within a single volume. This is especially true when the collection consists of stories from multiple authors and their different styles of writing. And ...
For over a century time travel has remained one of the most enduring categories of science fiction. Authors such as Mark Twain and H. G. Wells established many of the ideas that were subsequently encapsulated in numerous stories that have entertained millions of readers. This anthology bring togethe...
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 ...
I first read L. Sprague de Camp's Lest Darkness Fall nearly 15 years ago, and I've reread it dozens of times since then. It's one of my all-time favorite novels, and as I reread it again I thought about why I regard it so. Probably the first reason is that it's a novel about time travel, one of my...
Before you even start, you already know you'll have to make several concessions. This book was written a long time ago, and in serial form. But even overlooking the problems those conditions would cause, this was not satisfactory to read.I took way longer than I expected to finish it, simply because...
I gave this the best shot I could, and though each book contained in this omnibus is brief, it never stopped feeling like a chore.I wanted to read this because I have a great respect for the authors who expanded the genres of fantasy and science fiction past childhood reading, and L. Sprague de Camp...
I love this book! It demystifies ancient science in a way that is accessible, entertaining and without a bunch of hard math. Extra kudos for the cool history and biographical details about real people and events. This would be great to give someone who's fallen for the Ancient Aliens-type TV shows a...
Yes, it's that Conan--the one that inspired the Schwarzenegger film, Conan the Barbarian. The best way to give you a flavor of the stories and the character is to quote you a bit that appears above the first story published and familiar from the film: Know, oh prince, that between the years when th...
This is actually the third book in a series but I had no idea that was the case when I bought the book and it stands on its own. Terrans come to a planet Ormazd where the humanoid Avtini are organized along the lines of a bee hive, with a fertile queen bee reigning over the clan with its harem of ma...
A historian, Martin Padway, is transported to Rome of 500AD and proceeds to introduce inventions (like the printing press, Arabic numerals) and innovations to prevent the Fall of Rome and the inception of the Dark Ages. This is an engaging mixture of time-travel and alternate history--in fact, given...
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