We Read Science Fiction

A good friend and regular reader here gave me a copy of Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend this summer and urged me to read it soon. This 1954 novella is largely credited with starting or significantly revolutionizing a number of fiction sub-genres — namely, the modern vampire, zombie and disease-induced apocalypse genres. Though I’d contest [...]

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At the end of May I told you about a free online ebook that you could download and enjoy direct from the author. Simon Haynes was then kind enough to send me printed copies of the first three Hal Spacejock books for a review and discussion here.
I’ve just finished reading the second book in his [...]

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I first mentioned this book back in January when I talked about my Christmas reading binge. Since then I’ve lent this book out to two friends and both have had the same reaction I did. Therefore, I thought I’d write a quick review here so that we could take the discussion online and share it [...]

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Rollback is on the final ballot for best novel in the Hugo awards this year, and it’s going against John Scalzi’s The Last Colony (the end of the Old Man’s War ‘trilogy’). If I had to pick between the two, even though I love Scalzi’s work and the OMW series, Rollback would win, but it’s [...]

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A big thanks to Steve Eley over at EscapePod for letting me know about Stanislaw Lem. Last year when I started working back through his archives on my new iPod I came upon episode #47 (Poet for Hire). In the intro Steve talked about Mr. Lem and his book about two competing, sentient, robotic inventors: [...]

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So, as promised here is the result of my holiday reading binge. If you want more of my thoughts on a given book, use the comments to ask me and if there is enough interest I’ll do a dedicated review for some of these books. They are all worthy of a review, I just don’t [...]

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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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The Last Question is a short story that was written by Isaac Asimov in 1956. It was Asimov’s favorite among the short stories he wrote, and is generally agreed to be one of the best science fiction short stories ever written. I stumbled across it about two weeks ago via Digg, and decided to [...]

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