Note: My read but “waiting to be reviewed pile” is growing. Short rumination/tangents/impressions are a way to get through the stack before my memory and will fades. My website partially serve…| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Margo Herr’s cover for the 1st edition 3.75/5 (collated rating: Good) Alien sex dolls. Carpet stain entities constructing love-nests. Underground retirement community entertainment. Jack Dann…| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Frank R. Paul’s cover for Wonder Stories, ed. Hugo Gernsback (September 1934) The following review is the 36th installment of my series searching for “SF short stories that are critical in so…| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Photo of Chukwunonso Ezeiyoke’s Nigerian Speculative Fiction: The Evolution (2025) Over the last few years, I have highlighted a smattering of the vast range of spectacular scholarship on sci…| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
The following reviews are the 31st and 32nd installments of my series searching for “SF short stories that are critical in some capacity of space agencies, astronauts, and the culture which produce…| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
(Ed Valigursky’s cover for the 1956 edition) 2.5/5 (Bad) Almost the surprise of the year! E. C. Tubb’s The Space-Born (variant title: Star Ship) (1955) first appeared as a serial in New…| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
(David McCall Johnston’s art for the 1971 edition) 3.25/5 (collated rating: Vaguely Good) New Writings in S-F 6 (1965) is the third I’ve read so far in John Carnell’s anthology se…| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Note: My read but “waiting to be reviewed pile” is growing. Short rumination/tangents/impressions are a way to get through the stack before my memory and will fades. My website partially serve…| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
The following reviews are the 33rd, 34th, and 35th installments of my series searching for “SF short stories that are critical in some capacity of space agencies, astronauts, and the culture which …| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
