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Updates: Recent Science Fiction Acquisitions No. CV (Russ + Spinrad +...
Dawn Treader bookstore haul part II [part I]! A batch of my favorite authors: Norman Spinrad, Joanna Russ, Barry N. Malzberg, and C. M. Kornbluth. Two novels and two short story collections! …and...
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Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art: Josh Kirby’s Astronauts (1957-1976)
(Josh Kirby’s cover for the 1970 edition of The Reproductive System (variant title: Mechasm) (1968), John Sladek) It has been too long since I collated a cover art post… I have a love hate...
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Updates: Recent Science Fiction Acquisitions No. CVI (Malzberg + Laumer +...
A few more wonderful acquisitions from my pilgrimage to Dawn Treader Books in Ann Arbor, MI from month or so ago. More Malzberg! And thankfully, one of the few really solid covers to grace his...
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Updates: Recent Science Fiction Acquisitions No. CVII (Anthology: Galactic...
Snatched all but one of these up at a 1$ SF hardback clearance sale at my local bookstore. The other, Watson’s The Jonah Kit (1976) came via The Dawn Treader Bookstore in Ann Arbor, MI. I am not...
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Book Review: Three Novels (variant title: Natural State and Other Short...
(Alan Peckolick’s cover for the 1967 edition) 3/5 (Collated Rating: Average) Damon Knight’s Beyond the Barrier (1964) was so egregious that I have stayed away from his work until recently. Around a...
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Updates: Recent Science Fiction Acquisitions No. CX (Kornbluth + Pohl +...
A nice batch—some more from the $1 hardback sale at my local bookstore, one procured via abebooks, and one from a friend. I grabbed Cowper’s The Road to Corlay (1978) after seeing two solid reviews...
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Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art: The Skull (connected to mysterious...
(Richard Weaver’s cover for the 1972 edition of Dreadful Sanctuary (1948), Eric Frank Russell) THE SKULL. The bones of the dead, the empty sockets gazing at us, a deathly gaze…. I have collected for...
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Updates: Recent Fantasy Acquisitions No. I (Hoban + Peake + Eddison)
Something different! I have always had a soft sport for fantasy (mostly the non-Tolkein ripoff type) à la Mervyn Peake’s Titus Groan (1946), Stephen Donaldson’s Lord Foul’s Bane (1977), Shriek: An...
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Updates: Recent Science Fiction Acquisitions No. CXI (Effinger + Farmer +...
Two remaining books from the $1 hardback sale at my local bookstore…. A collection of Malzberg stories! Another novel by one of my favorite SF authors, George Alec Effinger (i.e. his amazing...
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Updates: Recent Science Fiction Acquisitions No. CXII (Spinrad + Vonnegut,...
I’m a proponent of book store traveling (travel where bookstores are the first target). Two Half Price Books and a quality independent used books store yielded what will be the first of many...
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Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art: Human Transformations +...
(Vincent Di Fate’s cover for Alien Horizons (1974), William F. Nolan) I have been gathering this series of SF covers for a while—the human shape contorting, manipulated, transforming into in-human...
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Book Review: The Voices of Time and Other Stories, J. G. Ballard (1962)
(Richard Powers’ cover for the 1962 edition) 4.25/5 (collated rating: Good) J. G. Ballard’s second short story collection, Voices of Time and Other Stories (1962), is only ever so slightly less...
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Updates: Recent Science Fiction Acquisitions N. CXIII (Dangerous Visions +...
Recent travels yield wonderful SF hauls—including one of the most famous post-apocalyptical novels of all time, George R. Stewart’s Earth Abides (1949). Thankfully my edition is graced with a gorgeous...
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Updates: Recent Science Fiction Acquisitions No. CXV (Moorcock + Brown +...
A varied lot for sure… One of the more intriguing is an anthology of nuclear themed SF containing stories by Sturgeon, Merril, Ward Moore, Ellison, Wilhelm, Spinrad, etc. A Michael Moorcock novel An...
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Updates: Recent Science Fiction Acquisitions No. CXVI (Le Guin + MacApp +...
In my youth I read Ursula Le Guin like a madman—somewhere in the intervening years I misplaced my copies of her short story collections. So, while voyaging to a nearby city (with Half Price Books) I...
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Book Review: Drunkard’s Walk, Frederik Pohl (1960)
(Nik Puspurica’s cover for the 1960 edition) 3/5 (Average) Frederik Pohl’s best early SF was produced with his frequent collaborator C. M. Kornbluth—the most notable of which include the masterpiece...
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Updates: My Top 10 SF works (pre-1980) for inclusion in the Gollancz...
The Gollancz Masterwork series [list] ranges from famous novels such as Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) to lesser known short story collections such as The Caltraps of Time (1968)...
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Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art: A Multiplication of Faces
(Uncredited cover for the 1976 edition of Mindfogger (1973), Michael Rogers) It’s been more than four months since my last Adventures in Cover Art post…. Here is a bizarre, and perhaps less than...
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Updates: 2014 in Review (Top 10 SF novels + Top 10 Short SF works + Other...
I like lists! I like reading lists! Here’s my rundown of the best and worst of what I read in 2014. This year I have tried something new—my first guest post series. My ten post Michael Bishop review...
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Updates: Recent Acquisitions No. CXXII (Vance + Silverberg + Cooper + Zelazny)
Part I of II. Thankful to have a fiancé who takes my massive, alphabetized, master list of used SF to acquire and wades through the dusty shelves of used book stores (while on a trip home to visit her...
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