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Tag: Jules Verne

  • A SENSE OF WONDER edited by Sam Moskowitz

    [A]t only 197 pages long, A SENSE OF WONDER is quite a short anthology. But it\’s also an old favourite of mine. TITLE: A SENSE OF WONDER EDITED BY: Sam Moskowitz CATEGORY: Short Fiction SUB-CATEGORY: Anthology FORMAT: Hardback, 197 pages PUBLISHER: Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1967. Originally published in the US in 1967 by Doubleday…

  • Favourite SF Authors – H.G. Wells

    This is the first of my Favourite SF Authors postings, and who better than the author who started it all for me, the man dubbed the \”father of science fiction\”, H.G. Wells. The first time I saw George Pal\’s film adaption of The Time Machine (1960) on television was probably the first event in my…

  • 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…

  • Favourite SF Authors: H.G. Wells

    This is the first of my Favourite SF Authors postings, and who better than the author who started it all for me, the man dubbed the \”father of science fiction\”, H.G. Wells. The first time I saw George Pal\’s film adaption of The Time Machine (1960) on television was probably the first event in my…

  • 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…