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2 posts published by Joachim Boaz during August 2025| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
2 posts published by Joachim Boaz during August 2025| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Today I’m joined again by Rachel S. Cordasco, the creator of the indispensable website and resource Speculative Fiction in Translation, for the fifth installment of our series exploring non-English language SF worlds. Last time we covered Kathinka Lannoy’s strange (and unsuccessful) Dutch language story “Drugs’ll Do You” (1978, trans. 1981). Please note that Rachel and … Continue reading Short Story Review: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s “Wanderers and Travellers” (1963, tra...| 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
What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading or planning to read next month? Here’s the June installment of this column. I adore teaching American History for college credit. Every summer I ponder what to change and improve. And this year, I want to integrate a few science fiction stories! My 1950s unit in the spring semester could be … Continue reading What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXIV| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
3.75/5 (Good) Zoë Fairbairns’ Benefits (1979) charts the struggles of the British women’s liberation movement in a dystopic near future. An anti-feminist fringe political party called FAMILY comes to power, simultaneously proclaiming family values while systematically dismantling the welfare state. Benefits effectively eviscerates governmental doublespeak and champions the need to organize and educate in order … Continue reading Book Review: Zoë Fairbairns’ Benefits (1979)| 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
For the Novel Reviews and Anthologies by Rating (here) Anthologies The 1972 Annual World’s Best SF (1972), ed. Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha The 1977 Annual World’s Best SF (197…| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
TV Reviews Survivors (1975-1977) Season 1, episode 1: “The Fourth Horseman” Season 1, episode 2: “Genesis” Season 1, episode 3: “Gone Away” Space: 1999 (1975-197…| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
This extensive index is divided into three categories. 1) Themed SF Cover Art Posts 2) Cover Art posts organized around an artist 3) Adventures in Interior SF Art and Maps SF Cover Art Posts on a T…| 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
(Uncredited—but looks like Paul Lehr—cover for the 1971 edition) 4.5/5 (Very Good) “…I see no reason why we shouldn’t go to Mars in 1982…” Vice President o…| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
3 posts published by Joachim Boaz during April 2025| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
If you’ve ever browsed through an Italian SF catalogue, the name that springs out immediately is the fantastic Dutch painter Karel Thole (1914-2000). Thole’s surreal (and often stunning) covers dominated the Italian visual SF landscape for years and even appeared on a handful of American editions. However, the main Italian SF press Casa Editrice La … Continue reading Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art: The Flowering Bodies of Attilio Uzzo| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
This is the 21st post in my series of vintage generation ship short fiction reviews. While not technically a short story, George Hay’s novel clocks in at a mere 112 pages. I’ve decided …| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Preliminary Note: I plan on reading all 116 issues of the influential, and iconic, SF magazine Galaxy under H. L. Gold’s editorship (October 1950-October 1961) in chronological order. How long this project will take or how seriously/systematically I will take it remain complete unknowns. See my inaugural post in this series for my reasoning behind selecting Galaxy under … Continue reading Magazine Review: Galaxy Science Fiction, ed. H. L. Gold (November 1950) (Brown, Asimov, Boucher, ...| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading or planning to read next month? Here’s the May installment of this column. In my interview with Jaroslav Olša, Jr. about his book Dreaming of Autonomous Vehicles: Miles (Miroslav) J. Breuer: Czech-American Writer and the Birth of Science Fiction (2025), an interesting methodological question jumped out to me: what is … Continue reading What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXIII| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Which books/covers/authors intrigue you? Which have you read? Disliked? Enjoyed? It’s the summer Joachim Boaz. Where are the reviews? I’m currently on a much needed vacation (Iceland). …| 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
