Showing posts with label SF novel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SF novel. Show all posts
Thursday, January 18, 2018

Robert J. Sawyer: Calculating God

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Robert J. Sawyer Calculating God I found this an intriguing novel  It's a first contact novel with a surprising theme.   An alien sp...
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Monday, June 5, 2017

Gregory Benford: The Berlin Project

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Gregory Benford The Berlin Project   The Berlin Project is an alternate universe tale that up to a certain point reads more like a docud...
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Thursday, August 11, 2016

Thea von Harbou: Metropolis--First Impressions

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Thea von Harbou Metropolis Silent with some text Black-and-white First Impressions This is my first reading of the novel, although I...
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Saturday, July 16, 2016

Alfred Bester's Masterpiece: The Stars My Destination, Pt. 2

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Alfred Bester The Stars My Destination Some random disconnected passing thoughts: I have read that the original title was Tiger! Tige...
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Thursday, June 23, 2016

Gene Wolfe: A Borrowed Man, one of Wolfe's quirkiest novels

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Gene Wolfe A Borrowed Man Gene Wolfe, who regularly turns out quirky novels (who else would write a quartet featuring a trained and lice...
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Thursday, March 24, 2016

Olaf Stapledon: Star Maker

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I suspect Olaf Stapledon is one of those SF authors more celebrated than read.  His language is dense, and the vocabulary is considerably ab...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Kim Stanley Robinson: Aurora

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Kim Stanley Robinson Aurora This will, no doubt, show up on  my Favorite SF Novels List for 2016, as it's hard to believe more than t...
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Saturday, November 7, 2015

Robert Silverberg: Downward to the Earth

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Robert Silverberg Downward to the Earth , Second Edition Published in 1970, this one somehow escaped me at that time. It's one of hi...
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Thursday, October 29, 2015

Felix Gilman: The Half-made World

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Felix Gilman:  The Half-made World This is the first book I've read by Gilman, and it's a great advertisement for joining book dis...
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Thursday, June 4, 2015

China Mieville: Railsea

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China Mieville Railsea.   Railsea  is certainly one of his most straightforward and least complex novels, and  has that YA feel to it.  ...
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Sunday, March 1, 2015

Gene Wolfe's NIGHTSIDE THE LONG SUN--First impressions

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Gene Wolfe Nightside the Long Sun I've finally managed to get to the book and am now in Chapter 4.  These are some random impressio...
Saturday, August 2, 2014

Colin Wilson: THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE, an SF novel

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Colin Wilson The Philosopher's Stone                                              PART ONE                                 The Q...
Monday, July 21, 2014

David Brin: EXISTENCE, an SF novel of the near future

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David Brin Existence This is, as far as I can tell, Brin's latest novel, and it's a hefty one at some five hundred and fifty+ pa...
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Monday, June 9, 2014

David Brin: EXISTENCE, an excerpt

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David Brin Existence SF novel, 553 pages I'm in the midst of reading a remarkable SF novel by David Brin.  I've always enjoyed ...
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Sunday, April 27, 2014

Franz Werfel: Star of the Unborn, Pt. 2

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What will humans and civilization be 100,000 years from now? The planet is unrecognizable to someone from the 21st century.  For the most ...
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Monday, March 31, 2014

Franz Werfel: Star of the Unborn, an SF novel

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Franz Werfel Star of the Unborn Published posthumously in 1946 607 pages Opening lines from Franz Werfel's Star of the Unborn ...
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Sunday, December 29, 2013

Drew Magary: The Postmortal

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Drew Magary The Postmortal   Drew Magary's  The Postmortal is probably the best SF novel that explores the theme of an extended li...
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Friday, September 7, 2012

Stanley G. Weinbaum: The New Adam

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Stanley G. Weinbaum was born on April 4, 1902 and died on December 14, 1935, when he was only 33.  He's one of those writers, composers,...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Dan Simmons' The Fall of Hyperion

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Dan Simmons' The Fall of Hyperion is really the second part of one massive 900 page novel, the first part being Hyperion which was pub...
Saturday, August 4, 2012

Thomas Mullen: The Revisionists

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When I first picked up Thomas Mullen's The Revisionists, I thought it was going to be a traditional Time Patrol novel.  Some agency in t...
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