The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club. “What a lovely book!” I said to my partner with a delighted sigh as I closed the cover, after having done nothing all day but glue my eyes to these pages, and […]
Read More Book Review: The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le GuinVALIS by Philip K. Dick My rating: 2 of 5 stars Read for the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club. I gotta tell ya, I’ve read enough PKD on the SF Masterworks imprint list by now (holy sh*t, FOURTEEN PKD books on this list and NOT ONE Lois McMaster Bujold?! Are you people out of your […]
Read More Book Review: VALIS by Philip K. DickBring the Jubilee by Ward Moore My rating: 4 of 5 stars Read for the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club. One might be deterred by a book with a Confederate shield on the front of it, and rightfully so. But don’t let it dissuade you; this isn’t what it looks like. This is a well-written […]
Read More Book Review: Bring the Jubilee by Ward MooreJem by Frederik Pohl My rating: 4 of 5 stars Read for the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club. This book was absorbing, interesting, and kept me picking it up to see what would happen next. It was also joyless, cynical, and depressing in a way that makes A Song of Ice and Fire seem hopeful […]
Read More Book Review: Jem: The Making of a Utopia by Frederik PohlBlood Music by Greg Bear My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club. Basic plot: mad scientist full of his own god-complex is told to shut down his experiment, but he persists anyway, and then THINGS GO HORRIBLY WRONG. Basically, it’s Frankenstein. Except that this is Frankenstein with a […]
Read More Book Review: Blood Music by Greg BearThe City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke My rating: 4 of 5 stars Read for the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club. This is one of the great classics of science fiction by one of the Triumvirate (the others, of course, being Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein.) In a city in the far […]
Read More Book Review: The City and the Stars by Arthur C. ClarkeThe First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club and the SF Masterworks Reading List. This classic science fiction novel by H.G. Wells has not seemed to have aged well. Of course we have been to the moon, and found no […]
Read More Book Review: The First Men in the Moon by H.G. WellsNova by Samuel R. Delany My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for The Second Best Challenge, the LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge, and the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club. This book was nominated for the 1969 Hugo Award. I think I really like New Wave sci-fi. This book was an excellent retelling of Moby […]
Read More Book Review: Nova by Samuel R. DelanyNon-Stop by Brian W. Aldiss My rating: 4 of 5 stars Read for the SF Masterworks Reading Challenge and the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club. This was an extremely interesting book. A generation ship suffers a major plague, and the resulting society changes, to the point where the descendants of the original crew lack the […]
Read More Book Review: Non-Stop by Brian W. AldissDr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick My rating: 4 of 5 stars Read for the Second Best Challenge, the Apocalypse Now! Challenge, and the SF Masterworks Challenge. Method of the world’s destruction: nuclear war I am not a fan of PKD; I think those who follow my reviews probably know that by now. I don’t […]
Read More Book Review: Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick
