Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
Duncan "It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or…
I think We need a Bigger Boat – Jaws 50th Anniversary Re-Issue
Last week I had the pleasure of seeing Jaws in the Cinema again. What is considered to be the first blockbuster has an enduring place in our culture. The first…
Get in the Van by Henry Rollins
As a member of the seminal punk band Black Flag, Henry Rollins kept detailed tour diaries that form the basis of Get in the Van . Rollins's observations range from…
Tunnel in the Sky by Robert Heinlein
A high school senior goes through the gate to an unknown planet for a two-to-ten day final exam in Advanced Survival, and realizes, after a period of fighting the elements…
Edison’s Conquest of Mars by Garrett P. Serviss
Edison's Conquest of Mars By Garrett P. Serviss is the first sequel the H.G. Wells War of the Worlds. Even though it's a sequel to Well's book it is a…
The Night Blooming Saurian by James Tiptree jr
This Short Story was in the Anthology DINOSAURS! (1990) edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois published by Ace ISBN044114883-2 Digging into the sub-genre of Time Travel, rich idiots hunting…
The Long Loud Silence by Wilson Tucker (1952)
The Long Loud Silence is another case of a book that should really be in print that isn’t. Wilson Tuckers brutal 1952 post apocalyptic novel is a forgotten classic.
Technology is meant to be fun isn’t it? Part 1
I’m of an age that I remember a time pre-internet, even pre-home computers. For me as a Science Fiction fan raised on a steady diet of Star Wars, Star Trek,…
Who is Tiptree, What is He? by Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverberg’s Full Introduction from James Tiptree’s Warm worlds and other (1972). There is one paragraph normally quoted from this text but rarely is the whole introduction shown in which…
The Short Stories of Roger Zelazny
My first exposure to the works of Roger Zelazny was the film Damnation Alley (1977), at the time I didn’t realise was based upon his work. The film starring George…