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Tag: Arthur C. Clarke

  • STORIES FOR TOMORROW (1954) edited by William Sloane

    [I]\’ve got an interesting anthology in front of me at the moment. Actually, I\’ve got two different editions of it. Firstly an original US 1st Edition hardback, which I bought from a dealer on Amazon. This is an ex-library copy, and came without a dustjacket, otherwise the book itself is in excellent condition. The other…

  • RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA by Arthur C. Clarke

    TITLE: RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA AUTHOR: Arthur C. Clarke CATEGORY: Novel SUB-GENRE: Hard SF FORMAT: 1st Edition Hardback, 256 pages PUBLISHER: Gollancz (UK), June 1973. Published in the US in August 1973 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN: 0-575-01587-X. 2077: September 11th – an asteroid slams into northern Italy, destroying the cities of Padua and Verona, and…

  • RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA by Arthur C. Clarke

    TITLE: RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA AUTHOR: Arthur C. Clarke CATEGORY: Novel SUB-GENRE: Hard SF FORMAT: 1st Edition Hardback, 256 pages PUBLISHER: Gollancz (UK), June 1973. Published in the US in August 1973 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN: 0-575-01587-X. 2077: September 11th – an asteroid slams into northern Italy, destroying the cities of Padua and Verona, and…

  • The Age of Innocence – \”Sensawunda\” and the Older Science Fiction Fan

    Older sci-fi/SF fans (or \”fen\”, to give them their correct title), almost all have an incredibly developed Sense of Wonder, more often referred to in the SF world as \”sensawunda\”, that wide-eyed innocence and boundless enthusiasm, that willingness to see beyond the mundane world around us and embrace the infinite potential and possibilities of the…

  • SCIENCE FICTION edited by S. H. Burton

    TITLE: SCIENCE FICTION EDITED BY: S. H. Burton CATEGORY: Short Fiction SUB-CATEGORY: Anthology FORMAT: Hardback, 245 pages PUBLISHER: Longman, The Heritage of Literature Series, London, 1967. CONTENTS: Introduction by S. H. Burton \”Requiem\” by Robert A. Heinlein (Astounding Science Fiction, January 1940) \”A Present from Joe\” by Eric Frank Russell (Astounding Science Fiction, February 1949)…

  • 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…

  • Reading Science Fiction

    Reading Science Fiction literature has always been one of my main interests in life, and I\’ve been reading \”proper\” science fiction since I first signed out H.G. Wells\’ The Time Machine from the local library at the tender age of about eight or nine years old (circa 1969-1970). I usually prefer older (classic) SF, pre-\”New…

  • The Best of Arthur C. Clarke 1937-71

    [H]ere\’s another book of excellent short fiction, this time it\’s a single-author collection, THE BEST OF ARTHUR C. CLARKE 1937-71. TITLE: THE BEST OF ARTHUR C. CLARKE 1937-71 AUTHOR: Arthur C. Clarke EDITED BY: Angus Wells CATEGORY: Short Fiction SUB-CATEGORY: Collection FORMAT: Hardback – Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1973, ISBN: 0 283 97979 8); Paperback…

  • The Best of Arthur C. Clarke 1937-71

    Here\’s another book of excellent short fiction, this time a single-author collection, THE BEST OF ARTHUR C. CLARKE 1937-71. TITLE: THE BEST OF ARTHUR C. CLARKE 1937-71 AUTHOR: Arthur C. Clarke EDITED BY: Angus Wells CATEGORY: Short Fiction SUB-CATEGORY: Collection PUBLISHER: Hardback – Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1973, ISBN: 0 283 97979 8); Paperback –…

  • It’s a Geek\’s Life… (Part Two)

    The Golden Years – Geek Nirvana During the Seventies [T]he start of our teenage years is the sweet spot for the vast majority of us, particularly geeks, the beginning of what is probably the most fondly remembered period of our lives. It\’s long enough ago that most of our memories are fond, rosy ones, but…