Brian Aldiss’ 1958 Non-Stop (aka Starship ) is a landmark novel in generation starship stories.   Featuring a broken down ship hurtl...

Shorter review: Vanilla sf, i.e. story matches cover image. Longer review: Halcyon Drift (1972) is the story of Grainger, a man ...

The following review is of the fourth book in a series of n books. (Cherryh just keeps pumping them out, the latest count seventeen.)  Th...

Certainly one of the names of science fiction from not so long ago that the current glut (aka Age of e-pulp) is quickly eliding, Keith Rob...

Arthur C. Clarke’s 1955 Earthlight is a Silver Age classic. A light spy thriller plot draped over descriptions of what life on the moon ...

Regardless of year published, the following are the books I read in 2016 that stuck out for one reason or another.   (The best of only ...

The gods know there is a surfeit of serial killer novels in existence.   It is one of the most known tropes of fiction, let alone tel...

There are innumerable good writers who struggle to gain wider recognition.   Their style or content too non-formulaic for the average...

2016 is come to an end, and it’s time to take a look back and offer some first impressions (more solid impressions, of course, requir...

J.G. Ballard is a renowned writer across many fields of literature.   From science fiction catastrophes like The Drowned World to th...