A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick My rating: 2 of 5 stars Read for the 12 Awards in 12 Months and the Science Fiction Masterworks Challenge. This book won the 1978 British Science Fiction Association Award. This is my third PKD book, and I have to say at this point, I think he’s a […]
Read More Book Review: A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. DickEmphyrio by Jack Vance My rating: 3 of 5 stars Read for the SF Masterworks Reading Challenge and the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club. I had a really hard time getting into this book. At first I was ready to dismiss this whole thing as a bunch of right wing propaganda claptrap. Ghyl, our protagonist, […]
Read More Book Review: Emphyrio by Jack VanceThe Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut My rating: 3 of 5 stars Read for the SF Masterworks Reading Challenge and the Second Best Reading Challenge at Worlds Without End. I had to struggle to determine what I was going to give this book as a rating. I can’t say it was a bad book, […]
Read More Book Review: The Sirens of Titan by Kurt VonnegutThe Drowned World by J.G. Ballard My rating: 2 of 5 stars Read for the Apocalypse Now! Reading Challenge and the SF Masterworks Reading Challenge. Method of the world’s destruction: fluctuations in solar radiation melt the polar ice caps, causing massive flooding in most of the world’s major cities, rising heat, and heavy rains that […]
Read More Book Review: The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard…I apparently read a lot of outstanding books over the course of the year and simply could not pick a top ten list! More than twenty of the 56 that Goodreads tells me I read (my goal was 50,) I gave a rating of five stars to. And choosing which ones stayed with me the most between […]
Read More I Tried to List the Top Ten Books I Read in 2016, But…I’m publishing a lot of book reviews I’ve already done if I don’t have anything else to post for the day, until I run out of book reviews worth sharing. (No, I’m not reading this fast. I’m just establishing the flavour of my content because the site is new.) Here’s my review of another one […]
Read More Book Review: Stand on Zanzibar by John BrunnerA little more than a year ago I decided that I was going to read an imprint called the SF Masterworks in order of publication, and I formed a book club so that others could join me, share my interest, and discuss the books in question. The imprint was created to circulate classics of the […]
Read More Seven Things I’ve Learned from the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club
