Flash reviews — September ‘09

Title: The Gold at the Starbow’s End
Author: Frederik Pohl
Year: 1972
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
A very decent collection of stories, most of them somewhat long since there are only five in total. Not really a bad story in the bunch; I enjoyed them all, to varying degrees. Nothing here [...]

Immortality and its discontents

It was the same dream for everyone. The dream was complex, but the dream in its most fundamental form was a single thought, a question posed in six billion human skulls and more than three thousand languages.
The question was: Do you want to live?
Title: The Harvest
Author: Robert Charles Wilson
Year: 1992
Rating: [...]

Through the wormhole 9/13/09

Linky time again.
Sci Fi Wire has a map of 68 must-see sci-fi sites around the U.S. (with a few in Canada as well). Museums, buildings and locations used in movies, that sort of thing. Some of them are pretty lame; and hey, what’s The Texas Chainsaw Massaacre doing in there? The Midwest [...]

A galaxy full of SF/F/H sites

I guess I’m a little late in posting this, but here I am, doing my duty (I’m such a damned procrastinator). John at Grasping for the Wind went to the trouble of compiling this massive list of sites/blogs that include, as at least a portion of their mission, reviews of science fiction and/or fantasy [...]

Disch presents a ruinous anthology

While most of us listened, enraptured by the siren-songs of Technology, they [the authors included in this volume] have never ceased to warn of the reefs awaiting us on the other side of the song.
Title: The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future
Editor: Thomas M. Disch
Year: 1971
Rating: [...]

Book meme: My Life as Literature

Here’s a fun book meme I recently saw somewhere — I don’t recall exactly where. I wish I knew where it started so I could give proper credit. Oh well, such are the vagaries of the blogosphere. Copy the following questions, and answer them using only the titles of books you have [...]