The Generation Starship in Science Fiction, A Critical History, 1934-2001, by Simone Caroti, involved much more detail into individual stories than one would typically imagine in a book that covers so many decades of stories. Definitely not being an expert myself on the subject, but a mere science fiction fan who is decently read but […]

Visitants, an anthology about angels both good and bad edited by Stephen Jones, is definitely a mixed bag. Most of the contributors will be known to those who follow speculative fiction, and some are household names, such as Robert Silverberg and Neil Gaiman, and Ramsey Campbell for those living in the UK. This was an […]

I enjoy critical essays on subjects I love, yet this book touched on several topics I wasn’t all that familiar with. It starts off with an essay on Harry Potter. I read the first volume aloud to my children and found myself daydreaming often as the nights wore on. It’s also a family joke about […]

When I saw that I would be receiving Bryan Litfin’s novel The Gift to review, I discovered that it was the second in a planned trilogy. Sometimes you run across a book in a series and it doesn’t matter if you haven’t read the previous books, but in this case I fill it’s pretty essential […]