"Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there." -John Barth
by Frank Herbert "They tried and failed, all of them?" "Oh, no." She shook her head. "They tried and died." OK. Wow. Monster of a novel. But it’s not just the length. We’ve all read books this long and much longer. There’s a unique quality here in terms of world realization—this one’s got it, and... Continue Reading →
by Isaac Asimov “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!” In 1966 the Hugo Awards presented a new category: Best All-Time Series. Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy won, knocking out its competition which included no less than The Lord of the Rings. Using advanced mathematics Hari Seldon has predicted the fall... Continue Reading →
by Isaac Asimov “The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.” Winner of both Hugo and Nebula awards, The Gods Themselve is one of Dr. Asimov’s most highly respected novels and is broken up like three interconnected novellas. In the first, a bizarre exchange of electrons has been noticed by an... Continue Reading →
by Lester del Rey “They needed a new frontier, free of national barriers, where the headstrong could fight nature instead of their brothers.” I say, “Grandmaster,” you say, “yeah.” Grandmaster Yeah! Grandmaster Yeah! Most of us are familiar with at least a few of the 33 authors on the SFWA Grand Master list. They have... Continue Reading →
by Neil Gaiman “Melinda thinks the sun looks beaten.” More poetry than prose, Melinda is very short graphic novel bound as a limited edition hardcover and is heavily illustrated by Dagmara Matuszak with full page black and white drawings as well as half page color plates pasted in. It’s a sad, brief walk through a... Continue Reading →
by Dan Simmons “Sometimes . . . the shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.” Set a few hundred years after the conclusion of The Fall of Hyperion, our narrator, Raul Endymion, trapped in a jail cell that will kill him at any moment, recalls the adventures leading up to his incarceration. The Cruciform, a... Continue Reading →
by Charles L. Harness Gene Wolfe’s words to the publisher sells this title beautifully, reprinted here: “There are perhaps a thousand wonderful books. Most of us are fortunate if we so much as hear the titles of them in the course of a lifetime. Very few of us ever touch the covers of more than... Continue Reading →
by David Weber Every time I've gotten into trouble in my life, it's been because someone convinced me it was the 'right thing to do.' This career retrospective collection covers a range of speculative fiction including some decently hard science fiction, some military fantasy and some historical fiction. It’s a massive book with a quarter... Continue Reading →
by Chuck Palahnuik “By the time you turn thirty, your life is about escaping the person you’ve become in order to escape the person you’ve become in order the escape the person you started as.” Folks talk about varied collections. The phrase “runs the gamut” has been overused to the extent you might cringe whenever... Continue Reading →
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