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megancsparks
megancsparks rated it 14 years ago
This is an excellent collection of time travel stories, all ranging from a period in the mid-1940s to the early 1960s. It's very interesting to read about mid-century nostalgia for the turn of the century, and ruminations on how life might be in the future. The stories are well-written with a great ...
UNICORN PORN FOR ALL
UNICORN PORN FOR ALL rated it 14 years ago
What an interesting selection.One of my coworkers is an early scifi geek, which is cool; he was telling me about this Hoffman guy. This thing has, like, Hawthorne in it. Just a neat way of looking at it.
Deb's books
Deb's books rated it 14 years ago
All of these stories are reprints and I had already read some of them. The introduction is good and the books are in order by copyright date. The copyright dates are listed under permissions at the back of the book. Some of the older stories are dated and some suffered a bit by being the influence o...
Kealan Patrick Burke
Kealan Patrick Burke rated it 14 years ago
Creepy, classic science fiction/horror from one of the masters.
thomcat
thomcat rated it 14 years ago
Some classics in here, some new to me.
FriedEgg
FriedEgg rated it 14 years ago
Having not seen the film version though still having a vague idea what it was about, I was pleasantly surprised by this story. Thoroughly engaging and exciting right from the start, it is one of those books that draws you in, pulls you inexorably on and spits you out at the end.This book tells of a ...
Ms. Margie
Ms. Margie rated it 14 years ago
I'm really conflicted about this book. I read it years ago and loved it. I've spent the past few years trying to remember the title so that I could reread it. I was excited when I finally remembered and got a copy.This time I was much more aware of the flaws. As Mary Jo pointed out, time travel ...
FriedEgg
FriedEgg rated it 15 years ago
Essentially this is the story of Si Morley who is chosen by a secret government project that is researching the possibilities of time travel into the past. Plucked from his hum drum life, he accepts without knowing anything about the project before hand but welcomes the chance to give his life more ...
The Drift Of Things
The Drift Of Things rated it 16 years ago
I was desperate for a talking book, and this is what I found at the library, so I listened to it. Written in 1955, it seems so unsophisticated compared to modern sci-fi/horror---almost to the point of being laughable rather than scary. But it held my interest with the exception of a few philosophi...
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 17 years ago
Ah, the good old days without all that nasty feminism. Of course it's better to live a hundred years ago, when there wasn't pollution except from all the fires and the horse poop, and when pregnancy was quite likely to kill the girl of your dreams, if some other disease for which she's never been v...
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