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Month: September 2013

  • VOYAGERS IN TIME edited by Robert Silverberg

    [I]n my last SF Anthologies post I commented that I\’d recently bought a couple of nice old SF anthologies from Amazon UK. I made a few comments about the newer of the two anthologies, TRIPS IN TIME and gave a contents listing for it. Here\’s the same routine for the second anthology, which was published…

  • VOYAGERS IN TIME edited by Robert Silverberg

    TITLE: VOYAGERS IN TIME – Twelve Stories of Science Fiction EDITED BY: Robert Silverberg CATEGORY: Short Fiction SUB-CATEGORY: Anthology PUBLISHER: Meredith Press, New York, 1967 FORMAT: Hardcover, 243 pages. In my last post I commented that I\’d recently bought a couple of nice old SF anthologies from Amazon UK. I made a few comments about…

  • TRIPS IN TIME edited by Robert Silverberg

    [R]ecently I bought a couple of nice old SF anthologies from Amazon UK, both edited by Robert Silverberg. The first of the two is: TITLE: TRIPS IN TIME – Nine Stories of Science Fiction EDITED BY: Robert Silverberg CATEGORY: Short Fiction SUB-CATEGORY: Anthology PUBLISHED: Wildside Press, 1977 FORMAT: Trade paperback, 152 pages. The anthology is…

  • Welcome to Science Fiction Reader

    Welcome to the new Science Fiction Reader blog. This blog is focused solely on science fiction literature, and is intended to review and recommend the best – in other words, my favourite 🙂 – SF anthologies and single-author short fiction collections that I\’ve come across over the years, as well as any new material that…

  • DJ Phil, a Brief Career Introspective – The Early Years (Part Three)

    Sometime around October-November 1986, the \”Gay Disco\” left the disastrous venue of the Union Hall and returned to its original home on the Magee College campus. A new Student\’s Union had opened, a temporary portacabin structure known as \”The Terrapin\”, which was to house all the student entertainment facilities until the current permanent Student\’s Union…

  • DJ Phil, a Brief Career Introspective – The Early Years (Part Two)

    Last time out, I made the comment that, if I was going to get regular work, I\’d have to start gigging outside my comfort zone of the rock and alternative scene, sell my soul to the dark side and start playing at commercial discos. Well, sometime in 1983 (I can\’t remember the exact date), and…

  • Frederik Pohl (1919-2013)

    Back in June of this year, I made a blog posting about the tragically sad and untimely passing of one of my favourite SF authors, Iain M. Banks, who we lost to cancer at the far, far too young age of 59. He was merely the latest in a long line of all-too frequent announcements…

  • DJ Phil, a Brief Career Introspective – The Early Years (Part One)

    Since I\’m a DJ and (obviously) one of my greatest passions in life is music, I reckon that the time\’s long overdue for me to start up a music blog, something covering both my thoughts and memories about music AND copious reviews of albums and specific music that I\’m a fan of. Given that I\’m…