Tag: Cyril M. Kornbluth

  • THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF LUCKY STARR by Paul French (Isaac Asimov)

    [S]everal posts ago, I listed some of the SF novels that I\’d picked up recently, among them two of Isaac Asimov\’s Lucky Starr juvies that he wrote back in the 1950\’s under his Paul French pseudonym. Well, that set me to searching for the only single-volume omnibus of all six Lucky Starr novels, which I…

  • Remembering Frederik Pohl (1919-2013)

    Back in June, this blog marked the first anniversary of the sad and untimely death of one of my favourite SF authors, Iain M. Banks, who we lost to cancer last year at the age of only 59. This month marks the first anniversary of the death of yet another of my favourite SF authors,…

  • Remembering Frederik Pohl (1919-2013)

    Back in June, this blog marked the first anniversary of the sad and untimely death of one of my favourite SF authors, Iain M. Banks, who we lost to cancer last year at the age of only 59. This month marks the first anniversary of the death of yet another of my favourite SF authors,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • It’s a Geek\’s Life… (Part Two)

    The Golden Years – Geek Nirvana During the Seventies The 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…