Tag: Martin H. Greenberg

  • 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…

  • THE SWORD & SORCERY ANTHOLOGY edited by David G. Hartwell and Jacob Weisman

    TITLE: THE SWORD & SORCERY ANTHOLOGY EDITED BY: David G. Hartwell and Jacob Weisman CATEGORY: Short Fiction SUB-CATEGORY: Anthology PUBLISHER: Tachyon Publications, San Francisco, 2012 FORMAT: Trade Paperback, 1st Edition, 480 pages ISBN 13: 978-1-61696-069-8 ISBN 10: 1-61696-069-8 CONTENTS: Introduction: Storytellers: A Guided Ramble into Sword and Sorcery Fiction by David Drake \”The Tower of…

  • 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…

  • THE GREAT SF STORIES VOL. 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg

    TITLE: ISAAC ASIMOV PRESENTS THE GREAT SF STORIES VOL. 1 (1939) EDITED BY: Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg CATEGORY: Anthology SUB-CATEGORY: Short Fiction FORMAT: Paperback, 432 pages PUBLISHER: DAW Books, New York, 1st Printing, March 1979. Those are the various general details, and here\’s a listing of the contents: Introduction by Isaac Asimov \”I,…

  • 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…

  • 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…