Reviewing

I’ve been doing book reviews for a while. The reviews that I converted to for this website are listed below. Note: I no long do book reviews for books that are sent me.

Book Reviews:

Book Reviews

• New Worlds Number 4
• New Worlds
• The Triumph of Time, James Blish (1959)
• Anathem, Neal Stephenson (2008)
• The Webs of Everywhere, John Brunner (1983)
• Manshape, John Brunner (1982)
• Polymath, John Brunner (1974)
• The Infinitive of Go, John Brunner (1980)
• The Serpent Mage (1986) -Greg Bear
• Orbit Unlimited (1961) -Poul Anderson
• Echo X by Ben Barzman (1960)
• Black Glass by John Shirley (2008)
• Quicksand, John Brunner (1967)
• Galaxy Magazine, August 1959
• The Annual 1978 World's Best SF
• Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, July 2008
• Brigands of the Moon. Ray Cummings (1931)
• Voyage to the City of the Dead, Alan Dean Foster (1984)
• The Sword of Rhiannon, Leigh Brackett (1953)
• Rogue in Space by Frederic Brown (1957)
• The other Side of the Sky by Arthur C. Clarke (1959)
• Bradbury Odds and Ends
• Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes
• Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles
• The Vintage Bradbury
• Lorelei of the Red Mist - Brackett & Bradbury
• Year 2018! by James Blish (1957)
• Ray Bradbury - The Machineries of Joy
• Ray Bradbury - A Medicine For Melancholy
• Ray Bradbury Prune Commercial
• Free Ray Bradbury Story MP3 Files
• Ray Bradbury - The Illustrated Man
• Ray Bradbury - The October Country
• Ray Bradbury - Quicker Than the Eye
• Ray Brabury - Golden Apples of the Sun
• Ray Bradbury - The Cat's Pajamas
• Ray Bradbury - Zen in the Art of Writing
• 6 From Worlds Beyond, ed. T. E. Dikty (1956)
• Born Under Mars, John Brunner (1967)
• Conquest of Earth by Manly Banister (1957)
• The Worlds of Poul Anderson, Poul Anderson (1974)
• Llana of Gathol, Edgar Rice Burroughs (1963)
• Voices From The Sky, Arthur C. Clarke (1980)
• Siege Perilous, Lester Del Rey (1966)
• D-99, H.B. Fyfe (1966)
• The Cost of Kindness and Other Fabulous Tales, Shinichi Hoshi (1985)
• Tales - Mystery and Occultism, Edgar Allan Poe (1904)
• A Life for the Stars, James Blish (1962)
• Timescoop by John Brunner (1969)
• John Brunner, The Dramaturges of Yan (1972)
• Stand On Zanzibar by John Brunner (1969)
• Frontera by Lewis Shiner (1984)
• Nebula Alert by A. Bertram Chandler (1967)
• Bleak History by John Shirley (2009)
• Earthman, Come Home, James Blish (1955)

4 Comments

• March 29, 2012 at 2:11 pm

  Hi,

  Just read your ten rules for writing SciFi. I might have nailed 9 out of 10 of your points – a little crookedly, but still;-)

  Do you still review books, and would you take a look at BIRDIE DOWN? It’s a free-to-read at Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/134591

  The blurb:

  The Outer-Rim rebellion stumbles into its second day – and in the wrong direction. Can it survive a third?

  The third generation residents of the resource-rich New Worlds are seeking to throw off the yolk of corporate rule. Ex-Resource War veteran, Sebastian Scatkiewicz and his colleague, Andrew ‘Birdie’ Goosen, have dared to take on the biggest company of them all. Hot from attacking the Lynthax Corporation head offices on Trevon and then on G-eo they’re planning to attack a third. But there’s friction in the rebel camp. Scat’s ignoring the advice of colleagues. His personal beef with Jack Petroff, Lynthax’s head of security, is affecting his judgement; his friends and political masters are doubting his motives; and the loyalty of the newest recruits is far from certain…

  The first in a break-out series, based on the Smashwords novel ‘Scat’.

  Kind regards
  Jim Graham

  • March 29, 2012 at 2:26 pm

    Jim,

    Great name. My grand uncle was named James Graham. I am trying to trace the genealogy of my Grahams. James was supposed to have moved to Campbell Hall, NY. Any info? I am descended through James’ brother Peter Graham born about 1880, whose father was Jacob who may have come from Scotland or Ireland around 1860. Very little information there, so I ask every Graham that I meet, but there are a lot of Grahams.

    I have downloaded the book and it is my Kindle. I will check it out when I finish what I’m reading. If I find that I have enough nice things to say about it, I will put up a review.

    Thanks,

    Keith P. Graham

• May 12, 2012 at 8:33 am

  I wonder what you think of “Stranger in a Strange Land” by Robert Heinlein”, or, for that matter his general “future history series”. Also, of anything fictional by Isaac Asimov,

  • May 12, 2012 at 8:50 am

    I read Heinlein over and over. I have many copies of his books, some autographed. I have them on tape and now I am buying them for my Kindle. I like the Juveniles and early novels best. My favorite is “Door Into Summer”.

    I have read all of Asimov. My favorite, I think, is Second Foundation – the best of the foundation books. The later foundation sequels were not very good. I liked all of his early stuff and the Robot Stories.