Time travel done with elegance and intelligence

The place you stand is always the present and that’s all you ever really have — I don’t think that’s a bad thing.
Title: A Bridge of Years
Author: Robert Charles Wilson
Year: 1991
Rating: 4/5 stars
I plan to eventually read every novel Robert Charles Wilson has written, and I’m slowly working my way toward [...]

13 tales of caution, karma, and revenge, from Brunner

From This Day Forward (1972) features thirteen stories showcasing John Brunner’s discerning style and wit. Correction: twelve stories and a poem. If there is a general theme running through this volume, it is that of poetic justice. Karma. Bad choices and mistakes coming back to haunt you. Evil or [...]

Dancing the Space Opera Two-step

My second taste of Michael Flynn’s work is his 2008 interstellar thriller The January Dancer, a fairly decent adventure tale that doesn’t fail to entertain, but does fail to rise above a typical novel of its type. Tor’s marketing campaign called the book “a triumph of the New Space Opera,” which — typical of [...]

S is for Splendid, Superb, Super Stories (by Bradbury)

You just gotta love Ray Bradbury. Even beyond and above his skill with the written word (which is considerable), there’s such a vibrancy that comes across in his work, an appreciation of the wonder and awe of the universe and the joys of living. The stories found in this 1966 collection, S Is [...]

Some recent blogroll additions

I want to mention a couple sites I’ve added to my Blogroll in the last few weeks, to help send them some of the attention they deserve.
First is a relatively new one by none other than Frederick Pohl, called The Way the Future Blogs. He describes it as a sort of continuation of, or [...]

Wilson goes weird — Perseids doesn’t quite work for me

This is going to be a rather short review, because I just don’t have much to say about Robert Charles Wilson’s short story collection, The Perseids and Other Stories (published in 2000). Don’t get me wrong now, Wilson is one of my favorite authors, but as much as I’d like to be able to [...]