(Original Review, 1980-08-08)I also picked up a couple of the Lensmen books after reading about them here in the SF-Lovers newsletter. Umm, as one of those narrow-minded types who happens to think the Golden Age of Science Fiction is right now, I recommend that anyone else who is tempted to do so sc...
I just watched the film, "The World, The Flesh & The Devil" (1959) which is based on this book. Then I read that HP Lovecraft loved this novel. Now I HAVE to read it!
This book is what is termed as being future history and some say that it is an extension of HG Wells' historical text 'A Short History of the World'. It is suggested that what Wells is doing is using recent history to look forward to the next stage of human evolution. It is not the first time that h...
This book is amazingly entertaining and, by coincidence, extremely topical. I wonder why it never became that popular worldwide. Perhaps it will soon.Just think about the trouble we're currently having with that Icelandic vulcano, the tongue-twister Eyjafjallajokull.What if those spiteful ashes were...
Despite my acerbic comments made while reading, I found myself enjoying this book much more than I thought I would, especially once I got past the first two parts, which chronicle the collapse of Western civilization. As a novel, this book is a real stinker; if there were negative stars on GoodReads...
This book is why some people think I'm an arsehole. See, I used to own this book in the early 1980s and, being young and naïve, when a guy I used to work with (Russ Melling) asked to borrow it from me, I let him. I never saw it again and bitterly regretted having let it out of my clutches. Lesson le...
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