Posted on September 28, 2009 by Bill the sci-fi guy
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 [...]
Filed under: books | Tagged: anthologies, books, Edward James, Frederik Pohl, Gardner Dozois, Isaac Asimov's Utopias, sci-fi, science fiction, Science Fiction in the 20th Century, SF, Sheila Williams, short stories, The Gold at the Starbow's End, Ursula K. LeGuin | 4 Comments »
Posted on August 9, 2009 by Bill the sci-fi guy
What it all comes down to is that a colony on the Moon can be supported from Earth. A colony on Mars cannot. At least a colony of human beings cannot.
But what if one reshapes a human being?
Title: Man Plus
Author: Frederik Pohl
Year: 1976
Rating: 3/5 stars
Mars. It’s one of [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2008 by Bill the sci-fi guy
A while back I did a review of Charles Platt’s Dream Makers: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers at Work, a collection of interviews he conducted with numerous famous authors. The particular item I was reviewing was a 1987 hardcover edition that was, I stated at the time, a merger of two previous paperback [...]
Filed under: books | Tagged: A.E. van Vogt, Alfred Bester, Algis Budrys, Barry Malzberg, books, Brian Aldiss, C.M. Kornbluth, Charles Platt, Damon Knight, Dream Makers, E.C. Tubb, Edward Bryant, Frank Herbert, Frederik Pohl, Gregory Benford, Hank Stine, Harlan Ellison, Ian Watson, Isaac Asimov, J.G. Ballard, John Brunner, Kate Wilhelm, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Michael Moorcock, Norman Spinrad, Philip Jose Farmer, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Robert Sheckley, Robert Silverberg, Samuel Delany, sci-fi, science fiction, SF, Thomas Disch | 2 Comments »
Posted on July 27, 2008 by Bill the sci-fi guy
Here’s a short video clip of some of the big names in science fiction saying a few words about the genre. These are outtakes from a series of interviews recorded by James Gunn between 1968 and 1978 as part of his Literature of Science Fiction Lecture Series. You can actually purchase a 2-DVD [...]
Filed under: video clips | Tagged: Clifford Simak, Damon Knight, Frederik Pohl, Gordon Dickson, Harlan Ellison, Isaac Asimov, Jack Williamson, James E. Gunn, John Brunner, Poul Anderson, sci-fi, science fiction, SF | 2 Comments »
