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Review: The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, volume 1, part 2
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1: 1929-1964 Edited by Robert Silverberg I started reading this last year. The first half of this review can be found elsewhere. To recap: My general purpose in...
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Cowardice and Espionage
Betrayer of Worlds by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner It’s worth noting that there are now as many books in this prequel series as there are in the “Ringworld” series itself: This is fourth novel in...
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Friday on the web
Every so often, the web produces something literate and intelligent; these gems are often found buried under unused MySpace pages and hypnotically useless web sites. (Seriously, let that one run for a...
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Heinlein’s World as Myth (and how to read it)
The Number of the Beast is a novel with a reputation for being brilliant, impossible to read, and even a work of supreme authorial conceit. I concede that the latter is possible, and the book has...
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Guest actors on Star Trek who saved the day
Many lists of favorite Star Trek episodes feature stories such as The Enemy Within, The City on the Edge of Forever, and Mirror, Mirror. These are all excellent stories, but this 1960′s in-full-color...
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Guest actors on Star Trek who saved the day (part 2)
This post is a continuation of part 1. In short: The 1960′s television series Star Trek made excellent use of guest actors, sometimes to the point of being the saving grace of the episodes they were...
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Neutron Star
Neutron Star, by Larry Niven The first thing I read by Larry Niven was a short story in the anthology Where Do We Go From Here. Soon after, I picked up the 1968 collection Neutron Star. It was to be...
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Book Review: Dying Inside
I recently left a note in a writer’s manuscript, letting her know that she was mixing tenses and persons. Most of the chapter was in past-tense third-person: “he”, from the view of an outside narrator...
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You should read this: Rule 34
As you’re reading the review, it’s quickly apparent to you that the book in question is a bit of an experiment. Not only are there multiple viewpoint characters, but the text is written in the second...
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Asimov’s Robots and Empire (and how to read it)
Inspired by historian Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” trilogy tells the story of a future humanity, and a small group of scientists...
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