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Vintage SF Month: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
It is accepted that we live in an Early Dystopian State. Claiming that we are merely decadent is what passes for optimism these days. The real debate is not whether things are bad but over which...
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Throwback SF Thursday: A Moon Full of Stars by Jon Mollison
There are a lot of different kinds of post-apocalyptic novels, from Fahrenheit 451 to Hiero’s Journey. Jon Mollison has graced us with a story much more in the spirit of Hiero’s Journey with A Moon...
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Throwback SF Thursday: Conan the Rogue by John Maddox Roberts
John Maddox Roberts is probably my favorite of the Conan pastiche authors, but Conan the Rogue isn’t my favorite of his Conan books. It is a fun book, and the concept of Conan as the greatest rogue...
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Throwback SF Thursday: Scott Oden Presents The Lost Empire of Sol: A Shared...
Can writers today still produce stuff with the verve and the flavor—the outright joy—of the pulp and pulpy tales of yesteryear? The Lost Empire of Sol is evidence they can. A collection of otherwise...
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Throwback SF Thursday: The Verdant Passage by Troy Denning
Troy Denning was one of the primary game designer for Dungeons & Dragons’ Dark Sun setting, so it is no surprise he got tapped to pen the first Dark Sun novel, The Verdant Passage. Dark Sun is...
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Vintage SF Month: A Fighting Man of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Goodreads used to give you nifty little pie charts divvying up your books read in a year by genre or however you categorized your books in shelving them. Google (as Google does) discontinued the tool...
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Vintage Science Fiction Month: Conan the Valorous by John Maddox Roberts
I’ve said before that John Maddox Roberts is neck-and-neck with Robert Jordan for best writer of Conan pastiches, but that he gets Conan better than any other writer of pastiches I have read. Conan...
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Vintage Science Fiction Month: Fire Time by Poul Anderson
It’s not exactly Vintage Science Fiction Month anymore, but just because I let this one slip last week doesn’t mean I’m not going to post a review of Poul Anderson’s Fire Time. As I remember it, I...
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Throwback SF Thursday: Firestarter by Stephen King
Firestarter is the story of Andy McGee, possessing mild powers of mind domination, and his young daughter, Charlie McGee, possessing very un-mild powers of pyrokinesis. The story begins with Andy and...
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Rings of Power Redux
I finished season one of Amazon’s The Rings of Power show adapting material from the appendices to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.[1] I also did two other things since my last post on the show...
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