Tag: Larry Niven

  • 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…

  • Some New Books: April – August 2014

    This month marks the first anniversary of the first post to this blog, which has chugged along with at least one post per month, each month, since the blog began. Considering the fact that I believed that this might just be a short-lived offshoot of my main blog, and that it most likely would be…

  • 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…

  • Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells… What Did Santa Bring Me For Christmas?

    I\’ve had a nice, quiet few days, spent with family and friends. The food and booze have been flowing thick and fast, and I feel like an overstuffed turkey right now. I\’ve put on a few pounds, as is usual at this time of year, and now I have to spend the next couple of…