For my complete review, as well as reviews of each selection, please visit Casual Debris.Of the two titles the anthology has appeared under, Space Movies is by far the most appropriate. Haining's focus in both the selections and the introductory material is on film, more specifically on special effe...
It’s an alternate history SF book. The book describes the life of Mr Backerman from his 17 years of age and his time-travel through the past. His difficult life is stressed. well, I liked a gentleman-like manner the events had been described with. A good deal of rarely used old words made it a bit l...
Greener Than You Think is a satire rather than an adventure story. One plant (a Bermuda grass treated with a special growth chemical) slowly spreads across California and beyond, swallowing cities and making vast tracks of land uninhabitable.One challenge with this book is that the narrator, Albert ...
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Though not ranked among the giants of the “golden age” of science fiction, Ward Moore produced some of the more memorable novels and short stories of the period. Perhaps best known for his seminal alternate history/time travel novella Bring the Jubilee, his tales emphasized humor and character devel...
What a wonderful surprise this was. Ok, my expectations should have been high starting another book in the SF Masterworks series but I hadn't heard much talk of this author and wasn't overly bowled over by the premise. This is an alternative history story, what might have happened if the south had w...