Tag: Asimov’s SF Magazine

  • Some New Books – January 2016

    I haven\’t bought any new SF books in ages now, but, with Christmas behind me and a few quid spare in my pocket, I took the notion over the past couple of weeks to trawl Ebay.co.uk for some books. Actually, none of them are \”new\”, as there\’s not a lot of modern SF that I…

  • THE SWORD & SORCERY ANTHOLOGY edited by David G. Hartwell and Jacob Weisman

    TITLE: THE SWORD & SORCERY ANTHOLOGY EDITED BY: David G. Hartwell and Jacob Weisman CATEGORY: Short Fiction SUB-CATEGORY: Anthology PUBLISHER: Tachyon Publications, San Francisco, 2012 FORMAT: Trade Paperback, 1st Edition, 480 pages ISBN 13: 978-1-61696-069-8 ISBN 10: 1-61696-069-8 CONTENTS: Introduction: Storytellers: A Guided Ramble into Sword and Sorcery Fiction by David Drake \”The Tower of…

  • A Couple of Classic Alternate History Stories

    [I]\’ve recently come upon an unusual (but nice) little paperback anthology of alternate history stories, OTHER EARTHS edited by Nick Gevers and Jay Lake. I\’ll talk more about that one at a later date. Strangely enough (well, maybe not so much for me), finding this anthology started me on a major alternate history trip, sending…

  • It\’s a Geek\’s Life… (Part Three)

    This one has been a long time coming, far too long. But better late than never, I suppose… 🙂 The Barren Years – The Near-Death of Geekery During the Eighties All throughout the first half of the 1970\’s, I was in geek heaven, having seemingly unlimited time to spend on my obsessions with comics, sf…

  • It\’s a Geek\’s Life… (Part Three)

    The Barren Years – The Near-Death of Geekery During the Eighties [A]ll throughout the first half of the 1970\’s, I was in geek heaven, having seemingly unlimited time to spend on my obsessions with comics, sf literature, telefantasy and sci-fi films. But by 1977-78, things began to change considerably. I began my A-Levels at college…

  • Reading SF: Galactic North, by Alastair Reynolds

    Now Reading: Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds I\’ve just bought a very nice collection of SF stories by leading British/Welsh \”hard\” SF author Alastair Reynolds. A signed 1st edition hardcover of Galactic North, a collection of stories set in his Revelation Space universe. I\’ve been a fan of Alastair\’s SF going right back to \”Spirey…