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Tag: Isaac Asimov

  • SCIENCE FICTION OF THE THIRTIES edited by Damon Knight

    TITLE: SCIENCE FICTION OF THE THIRTIES EDITED BY: Damon Knight CATEGORY: Short Fiction SUB-CATEGORY: Anthology PUBLISHER: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., Indianapolis/New York, 1975 FORMAT: Hardback, 1st Edition, 464 pages CONTENTS: Foreword by Damon Knight \”Out Around Rigel\” by Robert H. Wilson (1931) \”The Fifth-Dimension Catapult\” by Murray Leinster (1931) \”Into the Meteorite Orbit\” by Frank…

  • 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…

  • BEACHHEADS IN SPACE edited by August Derleth

    TITLE: BEACHHEADS IN SPACE EDITED BY: August Derleth CATEGORY: Anthology SUB-CATEGORY: Short Fiction FORMAT: Hardback, 224 pages PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1954 (Originally published in the US in 1952 by Pellegrini & Cudahy). That\’s the various general details, here\’s a listing of the contents: \”Beachhead\” by Clifford D. Simak (1951) \”The Years Draw Nigh\”…

  • 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…

  • 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 One)

    [H]ere\’s the first part (of three) in the story of my rise to geekhood. Early Days in the Sixties – Genesis of a Geek I’m a card-carrying geek. I’ve always been a geek. I\’ve been one all my life, right from when I was a very young child, and I simply can’t conceive of being…

  • 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…

  • It\’s a Geek\’s Life… (Part One)

    Here\’s the first part (of three) in the story of my rise to geekhood. Early Days in the Sixties – Genesis of a Geek I’m a card-carrying geek. I’ve always been a geek. I\’ve been one all my life, right from when I was a very young child, and I simply can’t conceive of being…

  • Some New Books

    I\’ve built up a new stash of recently acquired books to add to my ever-growing \”To Read\” pile. If I can acquire a couple of extra lifetimes, I might even get to read a few of them. First up is a large hardback anthology, Machines That Think, edited by Isaac Asimov, Patricia S. Warwick and…