The Cyborg and the Sorcerers by Lawrence Watt-Evans Del Rey, 1982 Price I paid: Slant the Cyborg Warrior had been ordered to kill the enemies of Earth and return with their weapons technology. His robot spacecraft was to see that he did―and kill him if he didn’t. Problem was―Earth had perished three hundred years before, … Continue reading The Cyborg and the Sorcerers
NYPD 2025 by Hal Stryker Pinnacle Books, 1985 Price I paid: 90¢ IN A WORLD OF THE NEAR FUTURE, WHERE DECENT PEOPLE LIVE IN FEAR, WHERE JUSTICE IS DYING AND THE LAW PROTECTS THE GUILTY― THE COMBAT OPERATIONS POLICE COME ROARING IN! The bleeding heart lawmakers have taken lethal weapons out of the hands of the … Continue reading NYPD 2025
Camelot in Orbit by Arthur H. Landis DAW Books, 1978 Price I paid: 90¢ Fomalhaut II was an inexplicable enigma in the annals of the Galactic Watchers. A world of knights and ladies, of dungeons and dragons, it was truly medieval and therefore out of bounds for science-armed Terrans. Yet science seemed thwarted there for magic … Continue reading Camelot in Orbit
The Fourth “R” by George O. Smith Ballantine Books, 1959 Price I paid: none Jimmy Holden was an experiment… He was normally bright, normal-sized, and enormously curious—just like most small boys. The only thing different in Jimmy’s life was a machine—a machine which could teach him better, faster, more completely and more thoroughly than any human … Continue reading The Fourth “R”
The Second War of the Worlds by George H. Smith DAW Books, 1976 Price I paid: 90¢ As everyone knows, there are parallel Earths. So when the Martians failed in their effort to conquer the Victorian world as told in H.G. Wells’ [sic] famous eye-witness account, they took one short step X-wise and, having immunized themselves … Continue reading The Second War of the Worlds
The Island Snatchers by George H. Smith DAW Books, 1978 Price I paid: 90¢ HIBERNIA HIJACKED! Flying machines had not yet been invented on Earth’s dimensional twin, Annwn. So Dylan MacBride thought it would be a good idea, even if a bit on the crackpot side from the viewpoint of that world’s somewhat backward Victorian viewpoint. … Continue reading The Island Snatchers
Doomsday Wing by George H. Smith Priory Books, 1963 Price I paid: 25¢ In the War Room of Command Post D the military and civilian analysts stared in horror as the message appeared on the big screen: ATTENTION ALL COMMANDS! SAMOS SATELLITE 105 REPORTS ROCKET FIRED FROM EASTERN SIBERIAN POINT. NORAD. A projection of the … Continue reading Doomsday Wing
The Humanoids by Jack WilliamsonSpectrum Literary Agency, 2011Originally published by Simon and Schuster, 1949Originally serialized in Astounding, March-May 1948Price I paid: $5.99 (eBook) Clay Forester is a scientist working in a weapons laboratory on a distant planet, when a vast army of robotic “humanoids” land and, as they have done on countless other worlds, take … Continue reading The Humanoids
(mostly) short reviews of (mostly) short fiction
Classic detective fiction and impossible crimes
Be not ashamed, my brothers, to stand before the proud and the powerful. Tagore
The many tongues of translated speculative fiction
Adventures in Fiction
Superheroes - Autism - Fantasy - Science Fiction
Kevin O'Leary Reviews Every Issue of Uncanny X-Men from the 1960s to the Present
Movies, thoughts, thoughts about movies.
Defending the planet from bad science fiction
Reviews of Vintage Science Fiction (1945-1985)
Joseph Nebus's work in progress.
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