SF Universe

Month: March 2014

  • Some New Books, First Quarter 2014

    Here are some SF books, some new, some old, that I\’ve picked up over the past two or three months from various places such as Ebay UK, Amazon UK and my regular supplier of comics and books in the US: Novels: THE SPACE MACHINE & A DREAM OF WESSEX Omnibus by Christopher Priest (paperback) STARFARERS…

  • EMPIRE by H. Beam Piper

    TITLE: EMPIREAUTHOR: H. Beam PiperCATEGORY: Short FictionSUB-CATEGORY: CollectionFORMAT: PaperbackPUBLISHER: Ace Books, New York, 1981 (ISBN: 0-441-20557-7-250) CONTENTS: Terro-Human Future History Chronology Introduction, by John F. Carr The Edge of the Knife A Slave is a Slave Ministry of Disturbance The Return (with John J. McGuire) The Keeper Last time out, I featured FEDERATION, the first…

  • CLASSIC TUNES: \”Tighten Up\” by Archie Bell & the Drells

    I\’ve been sitting back on a quiet Saturday evening, chillin\’ out and listening to some good music. Playing right now, all the way from 1968, it\’s one of the great funk classics, \”Tighten Up\”, by another of my favourite groups, Archie Bell & the Drells. This is one of the early true funk masterpieces, with…

  • CLASSIC TUNES: \”Tighten Up\” by Archie Bell & the Drells

    I\’ve been sitting back on a quiet Saturday evening, chillin\’ out and listening to some good music. Playing right now, all the way from 1968, it\’s one of the great funk classics, \”Tighten Up\”, by another of my favourite groups, Archie Bell & the Drells. This is one of the early true funk masterpieces, with…

  • Doctor Who: 50 Years in Space & Time (Part 8)

    Here\’s the next part of my look back at the Best of the Bunch from Doctor Who\’s 50th Anniversary: The reshowing of An Unearthly Child The Ultimate Guide to Doctor Who The Science of Doctor Who Special 5. An Unearthly Child In fifth place was the reshowing of all four episodes of An Unearthly Child…

  • UFO – The Last Four Episodes

    Gerry Anderson\’s UFO has always been one of my favourite telefantasy series. This past week, I\’ve been indulging myself with a marathon session, watching all twenty-six episodes, spread over two box sets and eight DVDs. Tonight, I\’m sitting here with a couple of old friends, watching the final DVD, which contains the last four episodes…

  • BEACHHEADS IN SPACE edited by August Derleth

    TITLE: BEACHHEADS IN SPACE EDITED BY: August Derleth CATEGORY: Anthology SUB-CATEGORY: Short Fiction FORMAT: Hardback, 224 pages PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1954 (Originally published in the US in 1952 by Pellegrini & Cudahy). That\’s the various general details, here\’s a listing of the contents: \”Beachhead\” by Clifford D. Simak (1951) \”The Years Draw Nigh\”…

  • Sci-Fi on Television (Part 2)

    [I]f the 1970s were the golden years of telefantasy for me, the 1980s were a bit of a disappointment, with many of my favourite series going into decline or disappearing off the air altogether, and very few decent new sci-fi series stepping up to take their place. My favourite TV series, Doctor Who, after the…

  • Andersonic Issue 17 Is Out Now

    [S]everal posts back, I mentioned that Issue 3 of the excellent Doctor Who fanzine Plaything of Sutekh had hit the stands. And now, what seems like barely five minutes later, Richard Farrell and His Merry Crew have also unleashed Andersonic #17 upon the unsuspecting world. I haven\’t even had time to finish reading Plaything of…

  • Sunday TV Viewing

    I\’m just having a nice, quiet Sunday afternoon here, chillin\’, sitting at my computer and watching some TV. Sunday is always good for sci-fi films on UK television, and today has been no exception. I\’ve just spent the past few hours watching the movie adaptation of Neil Gaiman\’s Stardust (2007). I\’ve got the novel and…