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  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • Remembering Iain M. Banks (1954-2013)

    This month marks the first anniversary of the passing of science fiction author Iain M. Banks, who died on June 9th, 2013. He was taken from us at the tragically young age of only fifty-nine, after many months battling against terminal cancer. His death robbed the science fiction world of one of its greatest authors…

  • Remembering Iain M. Banks (1954-2013)

    This month marks the first anniversary of the passing of science fiction author Iain M. Banks, who died on June 9th, 2013. He was taken from us at the tragically young age of only fifty-nine, after many months battling against terminal cancer. His death robbed the science fiction world of one of its greatest 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…

  • Frederik Pohl (1919-2013)

    Back in June of this year, I made a blog posting about the tragically sad and untimely passing of one of my favourite SF authors, Iain M. Banks, who we lost to cancer at the far, far too young age of 59. He was merely the latest in a long line of all-too frequent announcements…

  • Iain M. Banks (1954-2013)

    I was really saddened to learn of the death of science fiction author Iain M. Banks on June 9th. It wasn\’t really a surprise, given that he\’d announced to the world two months before that he had terminal cancer. But most of us thought he\’d be with us for a few more months at least,…