The Short: Perhaps inspired by James Davis Nicoll and his “five” essays in speculative fiction at Tor.com, here is my list of 5 SF novels by authors I think deserve more recognition. The Long: I like lists, especially fannish lists, as much as anybody. While I don’t read all of them, I do occasionally read, […]| A Deep Look by Dave Hook
The Short: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy – Short Fiction Group on Facebook is reading Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy, comprised of the Gnome Press collections Foundation, 1951, Foundation and Empire, 1952, and Second Foundation, 1953. I had not reread the whole trilogy in at least 15 to 20 years, and I had never read […]| A Deep Look by Dave Hook
The Short: I recently read Talk Like a Man Plus Women of the Doll Plus An Awfully Big Adventure and Much More, Nisi Shawl, 2019 PM Press. My favorite story was the SF short story “Walk Like a Man“, Bahamut #1 June 2015, which I rated “Very good”. Otherwise, I liked Terry Bisson’s interview with […]| A Deep Look by Dave Hook
The Short: I am a bicyclist and speculative fiction fan. Thinking about both, here is my link to my list of my favorite speculative fiction stories involving bicycles, with the superlative “…And Then There Were None“, a novella by Eric Frank Russell, Astounding June 1951, my very favorite. The Long: I have been a bicyclist […]| A Deep Look by Dave Hook
The Short: I read 6 Great Short Novels of Science Fiction, Groff Conklin editor, 1954 Dell last year. It’s an early anthology of novella/short novel length science fiction. It’s the first anthology of novella/short novel length science fiction, by a bit. The five novellas and one novelette included are all reprints. Although I found the […]| A Deep Look by Dave Hook
The Short: I recently read The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science, Edward L. Ferman editor, 1985 Octopus Books. While I was not surprised to find it a bit uneven, my overall average rating for the stories was 3.8/5, or “Great”. My favorites included three stories that I felt were classics, […]| A Deep Look by Dave Hook
The Short: I recently read How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems that Shape Our World, by Deb Chachra, 2023 Riverhead Books. While it starts with the more hardware based infrastructure I default to when I think of infrastructure, such as pipelines or highways, it’s about a whole lot more! My library had it, I read […]| A Deep Look by Dave Hook
I was selected to moderate a panel on “The Evolution of Comics” at Seattle Worldcon 2025. The panel description was: Early Western comics such as Little Nemo featured meticulously rende…| A Deep Look by Dave Hook
