SF Universe

Tag: Fantasy & Science Fiction

  • 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…

  • BEYOND THE BARRIERS OF SPACE AND TIME edited by Judith Merril

    This time around, we have an SF anthology. This one is an oldie, from 1955, and is compiled and edited by Judith Merril, another of my favourite anthologists. This is the first Judith Merril anthology that I’ve featured on this blog, and most certainly won’t be the last. TITLE: BEYOND THE BARRIERS OF SPACE AND…

  • 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…

  • BUG-EYED MONSTERS edited by Anthony Cheetham

    [T]his is a nice little anthology, containing ten stories (more accurately NINE stories and one radio play adaptation) spanning thirty years 1938-1968. It is edited by Anthony Cheetham, with whom I am totally unfamiliar. TITLE: BUG-EYED MONSTERS EDITED BY: Anthony Cheetham CATEGORY: Short Fiction SUB-CATEGORY: Anthology FORMAT: Hardback, 280 pages PUBLISHER: Sidgwick & Jackson, London,…

  • 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…