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: Stories of Fallen Angels and Heavenly Hosts… by Stephen Jones
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 […]
Millennial Mythmaking: Essays on the Power of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Films and Games… by John Perlich
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 […]
The Gift book review
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 […]
Various Reads
Since last we met, I’ve been reading from various books in trying to close out the year with 50. That’s the number I read last year, and there is no reason why I can’t match it again. For my Sunday School class I’m reading through Sacred Marriage, but we do one chapter a week, and […]
Fantasy & Science Fiction (Part 3)
These are my final thoughts on the December 2009 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Nancy Springer’s story Iris reminds me somewhat of an old movie from the seventies starring Jimmy Stewart called Mr. Krueger’s Christmas. The lonely old lady in the story fashions a memorable Christmas for herself after all. It’s […]
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