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Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art: Future Archaeology and Mysterious...
(Hannes Bok’s cover for the Space Science Fiction [UK], Volume 1 No. 4 (1953), ed. unlisted) A spaceship arrives on Mars… After a cursory initial exploration, the human astronauts conclude that the...
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Updates: Recent Science Fiction Acquisitions No. LXVIII (Varley + Cherryh +...
Some fun finds! Perhaps surprisingly, I still haven’t read Clarke’s “The Sentinel” (1951) so I was happy to find it in a collection collated by Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest — Spectrum 3 (1963)....
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Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art: The Statue of Liberty on Pre-1968...
(Richard Weaver’s cover for the 1968 edition of The Monitors (1966), Keith Laumer) Here’s an evocative collection of SF Statue of Liberty covers from before and after WWII… Make sure to take a peek at...
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Book Review: Godling, Go Home!, Robert Silverberg (1964)
(Uncredited cover for the 1964 edition) 3.25/5 (Average) Before Robert Silverberg wrote his late 60s and early 70s New Wave masterpieces (A Time of Changes, Dying Inside, The World Inside, etc), he...
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Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art: Futuristic Telescopes and Radar Dishes
(Brian Lewis’ cover for the July 1960 edition of New Worlds Science Fiction) Brian Lewis’ fantastic cover for the July 1960 edition of New Worlds Science Fiction (if there’s a single magazine I...
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Adventures in Science Fiction Art: Spacewomen of the Future (flying...
(Ed Emshwiller’s cover for the February 1953 issue of Space Stories, ed. Samuel Mines) Part II of my Spacewomen of the Future series – Part I. In my first installment I discussed the stereotype of the...
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Book Review: The Human Angle, William Tenn (1956)
(Richard Powers’ cover for the 1964 edition) 3.75/5 (collated rating: Good) I’ve been in a 50s SF short story craze of late, devouring collections by Robert Silverberg (Godling, Go Home!), Walter M....
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Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art: The City as Canvas, Part I
(Richard Powers’ cover for the 1969 edition of Cosmic Engineers (1939), Clifford D. Simak) The theme of this post is the future metropolis as canvas where the entire surface of the cover is arrayed...
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Book Review: Doomsday Morning, C. L. Moore (1957)
(Richard Powers’ cover for the 1958 edition) 4.25/5 (Good) C. L. Moore’s Doomsday Morning (1957) — she’s best known for her revolutionary 1930s works including “Shambleau” (1934) and the “Jirel of...
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Book Review: The Mercy Men (variant title: A Man Obsessed), Alan E. Nourse...
(Uncredited cover for the 1968 edition) 2.5/5 (Bad) Alan E. Nourse’s The Mercy Men (1955) contains all the necessary parts for a riveting 1950s SF thriller: a disturbing future America where the...
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Updates: Recent Science Fiction Acquisitions No. LXXV (Heinlein + Sheckley +...
A fun bunch of thrift store finds and gifts…. I’m most excited about Robert Sheckley’s novel Immortality, Inc. (1958) — not only is the cover gorgeous (the initials read LSG but I can’t figure out who...
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Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art: Eye[s] in the Sky, Part II
(Peter Goodfellow’s cover for the 1979 edition of The Moment of Eclipse (1970), Brian Aldiss) Make sure to take a peek at Part I if you enjoyed this collection! In Part I I described how I was...
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Updates: Recent Science Fiction Acquisitions No. LXXVI (Effinger + Morgan +...
A nice haul from the local used book store and various internet sources…. After Effinger’s masterpiece What Entropy Means to Me (1972) I was desperate to get my hands on another one of his novels (or...
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Updates: Recent Science Fiction Acquisitions No. LXXVII (Cowper + Asimov +...
Bargain bins yield some Clarke and Asimov classics I read when I was a teen but never owned…. I remember thinking at the time that Imperial Earth (1975) was one of Clarke’s best novels. Dickson’s...
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Updates: A New Classic SF Review Blog to add to your list
MPorcius, a frequent and well-read commentator on my site, has started transferring his numerous amazon reviews and writing new reviews of classic SF (a substantial portion is pre-1980s) to his blog....
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Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art: Diagrammatic Wonders (alien sand art...
(Virgil Finlay’s cover for the April 1957 issue of Fantastic Universe, ed. Hans Stefan Santesson) At first glance this is a miscellaneous collection of covers on diagrammatic wonders — the aliens (or...
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Book Review: A Way Home, Theodore Sturgeon (1956)
(Mel Hunter’s cover for the 1956 edition) 3/5 (collated rating: Average) Although Theodore Sturgeon is generally considered a master of the SF short form, his collection A Way Home (1956) contains...
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Updates (New Resource): List of Immortality Themed SF (a call to contribute!)
This post is a call for readers to submit their favorite immortality themed science fiction NOT included on my list below (and even examples they did not care for so I can make this a more substantial...
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Book Review: Xenogenesis, Miriam Allen deFord (1969)
(Richard Powers’ cover for the 1969 edition — there is some speculation that it might be a collaboration with Leo and Diane Dillon) 3.5/5 (Collated rating: Good) Miriam Allen deFord–one of the more...
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Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art: Fractured Bodies (unraveling,...
(Paul Lehr’s cover for the 1979 edition of Crompton Divided (variant title: The Alchemical Marriage of Alistair Crompton) (1978), Robert Sheckley) Paul Lehr’s cover for the 1979 edition of Robert...
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