We Read Science Fiction

I’m tired. For the last week I’ve been staying up late reading as fast as I can. Last night I finished Seeker by Jack McDevitt and tonight I’m going to bed early. Seeker is my first exposure to Mr. McDevitt’s work and was a recommendation that Amazon gave me based on the other books I’ve [...]

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Every so often I’m contacted by a new author who would like me to read his or her new book. If they’ve at least bothered to print a hard copy that I can read in bed, then I usually accept. Far too long ago, Simon Just contacted me and asked me if I’d be interested [...]

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Last night I finished reading The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and CM Kornbluth. This one has been on my list for a very long time. I’m not sure where I got the recommendation, but whoever told me about it — Thank You! It’s a short book and probably could be described as a novella [...]

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No “Ultimate Top 10 Science Fiction” list would be complete without a little Asimov, but this is one of his lesser known works. Nearly everyone is familiar with I Robot after Hollywood got through with it, and the Foundation series isn’t far behind. However, I chose what I believe is Asimov’s most powerful, gripping and [...]

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Spin by Robert Charles Wilson is number 9 on my all-time top 10. A strange addition, as I’m sure you’ll agree, since it was only written in 2005. However, as I was reviewing my list, the stories all seemed to be a least 10 years old, and therefore didn’t take much of the new science [...]

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