Month: February 2014
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Some New Books
Here are some new books that I\’ve recently picked up from Ebay UK, Amazon UK, and from my regular supplier of comics and books in the US, genial Jack Curtin: THE GREAT SF STORIES 19 edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg (paperback) THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF TIME TRAVEL SF edited by Mike Ashley…
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Classic Tunes: \”Separate Ways\” by Journey
I\’m sitting back at the moment, relaxing, and listening to one of the greatest arena rock albums of all time, the classic 1983 six-times platinum masterpiece, FRONTIERS, by US band Journey, which came out on the Columbia Records label. This is one of my all-time favourite rock albums, and is, in my opinion, Journey\’s strongest…
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FEDERATION by H. Beam Piper
TITLE: FEDERATIONAUTHOR: H. Beam PiperCATEGORY: Short FictionSUB-CATEGORY: CollectionFORMAT: PaperbackPUBLISHER: Ace Books, New York, 1981, ISBN: 0-441-23189-6-295) Contents: Preface, by Jerry Pournelle Introduction, by John F. Carr Omnilingual Naudsonce Oomphel in the Sky Graveyard of Dreams When in the Course- The book starts with the brief Preface by Jerry Pournelle, a short but fitting tribute to…
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Doctor Who: 50 Years in Space & Time (Part 7)
Here\’s the next part of my look back at the Best of the Bunch from Doctor Who\’s 50th Anniversary: The November DVD release of The Tenth Planet The November 50th Anniversary edition of Doctor Who Magazine 3. The Tenth Planet In third place, it\’s the November DVD release of The Tenth Planet. I\’ve been waiting…
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Sci-Fi on Television (Part 1)
I\’m a big fan of sci-fi on television, which I almost always refer to by its \”proper\” name, telefantasy. The 1950s-1990s were, in my opinion, the Golden Age of telefantasy, and the first real telefantasy started about a decade or so before my birth (in December 1960), when Captain Video and His Video Rangers first…