Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land is one of genre’s more divisive offerings.   Loved or hated, it tells of an alien arriv...

Abductions in the middle of lonely fields; crop circles; strange lights hovering in the sky and disappearing at impossible speeds; be...

Robert Heinlein was one of the most influential writers of sci-fi in the 20th century.   He published more than thirty novels, severa...

Imagine a person, their heart set on a steak.   They go to the shop, buy a hunk of meat and throw it on the grill.   But just as the juice...

I really wanted to give this book high praise; its ideas are at times truly fantastic.  But in the end Ringworld is hurt by a lack of style...