Book Review: The Moon Maid by Edgar Rice Burroughs It is the 2020s, and it is at last time for the humans of Earth to visit their neighbors on Mars, or as its natives call it, Barsoom. The first spaceship to essay the journey is also named the Barsoom. It carries a crew of five,… Continue reading Book Review: The Moon Maid
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Magazine Review: Analog Science Fiction Science Fact June 1969
Magazine Review: Analog Science Fiction Science Fact June 1969 edited by John W. Campbell The editorial for this issue of the venerable science fiction magazine talks about two “elegant solutions” to technical problems, the first one being a better spacesuit, and the other being a better microphone. Neither of these notions worked out in real… Continue reading Magazine Review: Analog Science Fiction Science Fact June 1969
Book Review: The Automaton
Book Review: The Automaton by Ian Young XR-345x awakens to find itself apparently the last of its kind. According to his holographic AI helper Holographic Automaton Navigation Console (Hank for short) humans left the surface of the earth around five thousand years ago, and the other automatons eventually followed suit. But an anomaly has arisen… Continue reading Book Review: The Automaton
Book Review: Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2025
Book Review: Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2025 edited by Robert Greenberger Disclaimer: I contributed to the Kickstarter for this book. A lesser known aspect of pulp fandom is the creation of new stories in the tradition of the pulp magazines of old, action-packed and exciting. Thus this series of books which feature modern authors trying their… Continue reading Book Review: Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2025
Manga Review: Attack on Titan Vols. 1 & 2
Manga Review: Attack on Titan Vols. 1 & 2 by Hajime Isayama One hundred years ago, humanity lost its war with the Titans. The gigantic humanoid anthropophages were just too powerful and numerous. What remained of the human race withdrew into a city-state guarded by three circles of fifty-meter tall walls. The Titans found these… Continue reading Manga Review: Attack on Titan Vols. 1 & 2
Manga Retrospective: Undead Unluck
Manga Retrospective: Undead Unluck by Yoshifumi Tozuka Fuuko Izumo has had a miserable life due to her curse of Unluck. Anyone Fuuko touches suffers a statistically improbable misfortune, often to lethal effect, with the first victims being her own parents. At age 18, the only thing that has kept her alive has been wanting to… Continue reading Manga Retrospective: Undead Unluck
Comic Book Review: House of El Book Two: The Enemy Delusion
Comic Book Review: House of El Book Two: The Enemy Delusion written by Claudia Gray, art by Eric Zawadzki Sera-Ur and Zahn-Re come from the same world, Krypton, but very different subcultures. Sera is a member of the military caste, and until recently was content to follow orders. Zahn is from the elite science caste,… Continue reading Comic Book Review: House of El Book Two: The Enemy Delusion
Book Review: The Ginger Star
Book Review: The Ginger Star by Leigh Brackett Skaith is a dying world. Its sun, once a vibrant red, has faded to a brownish ginger and the warmth reaching the surface has ebbed over the centuries. Slowly, the civilizations that once fared over the globe have moved away from the increasingly frozen poles towards the… Continue reading Book Review: The Ginger Star
Open Thread: Top Ten Lists for 2024!
Open Thread: Top Ten Lists for 2024! Well, that was certainly a year, wasn’t it? Before we step into the dreaded new year, let’s take a look back at what you, my faithful readers, looked at the most in 2024 Top Ten Posts in 2024 For the first time ever, books do not dominate the… Continue reading Open Thread: Top Ten Lists for 2024!
Comic Book Review: Space Adventures Volume 2
Comic Book Review: Space Adventures Volume 2 by various creators Space Adventures, sometimes titled “Science Fiction Space Adventures” or other temporary titles, was a science fiction anthology comic book series published by what would become Charlton Comics starting in 1952. It featured early work by such later famous artists as Dick Giordano and Steve Ditko.… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Space Adventures Volume 2