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Monday, December 1, 2014

"Life-Line" and "Solution Unsatisfactory" by Robert Heinlein

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A 1966 edition  Today I finished the fiction in my 1972 Ace printing of The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein . The subtitle of my copy is ...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

"Monsters of the Atom," "Red Gem of Mercury" and "The Crystal Circe" by Henry Kuttner

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Strap on your needle pistol, we're going on three more adventures with Henry Kuttner, courtesy of Thunder in the Void ! Thunder in the V...
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Thursday, November 27, 2014

"Free Men," "Blowups Happen" and "Searchlight" by Robert Heinlein

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I think of Heinlein as an optimistic writer, so the skull, to me, seems an odd choice for the cover image The subtitle on the ...
Monday, November 24, 2014

Five Fates, Part 2: Harlan Ellison and Keith Laumer

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An edition from 1975 Five Fates , copyright 1970 by Keith Laumer, is a SF experiment.  The book is a collection of stories by five Hugo-...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

Five Fates, Part 1: Poul Anderson, Frank Herbert, & Gordon Dickson

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At the big antiques mall just off Route 80 in Des Moines I spotted Five Fates , a 1971 paperback.  Having a big pile of unread books at h...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Ten More Science Fiction Short Shorts

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I shouldn't make predictions on this blog.  On November 7 I voiced my plans to read ten more science fiction short shorts from 1978...
Sunday, November 16, 2014

Three stories from The Crimes of Love by the Marquis de Sade

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My copy There was a period in my life when I thought I might become a professor of 18th century history.  One result of this delusion is...