You can't talk about the Golden Age of science fiction without mentioning Damon Knight's "To Serve Man." This goes for short stories and sci-fi in general. You might know about this story from the season 3 episode 24 of The Twilight Zone. However, the story comes from Damon Knight and might be some of his … Continue reading To Serve Man Review
I know I said I would write book reviews about Golden Age science fiction. However, I made an exception with this book. I also made an exception with myself because I don't normally read military sci-fi. However, I plan on reading Starship Troopers in the future. This book, The Forever War, was written by Joe … Continue reading Forever War Review
So a year has come and gone, and that means another year over for this blog. Crazy to believe that it'll be five years next day since I started this blog. I can't wait to see where it goes this year! But a new year means new projects... Personally, it's been harder to keep up … Continue reading A New Year of New Projects!
What if you wanted to read a story that was equal parts fantasy and science fiction, adventure and misfortune? That's about what I got when reading Leigh Brackett's The Sword of Rhiannon. Reading science fiction and fantasy from the Golden Age eventually led me to this surprisingly short novel. So after reading, I decided to … Continue reading The Sword of Rhiannon Review
Welcome back to another book review! I just finished reading Alfred Bester's novel The Stars My Destination, and I gotta say, I have a lot of thoughts. In the spirit of reading more classic science fiction and learning more about well-known authors during that time, I chose this novel to learn more about Bester's writing … Continue reading The Stars My Destination Review
As November kicks off (and I realized I accidentally scheduled a Saturday post for Sunday, whoops), I thought I would write a book review for a book I recently finished. I'm talking about Anne McCaffrey's first novel in The Dragonriders of Pern series, Dragonflight. Ballantine Books published this book in 1968. However, the book previously … Continue reading Dragonflight Book Review
This is admittedly my first time reading anything by J. G. Ballard. I was familiar with some of his work, such as Crash (1973) and The Drowned World (1962), which is on my TBR. But in the spirit of reading more classic science fiction, I thought I would take a look at Ballard's short story … Continue reading Billenium Short Story Review
By the time I sat down to read Jerome Bixby's "It's A Good Life," I was already familiar with the classic Twilight Zone episode. I had already been substantially creeped out by it, and I wondered if the short story would live up to the hype. After all, the TZ episode is a classic. The … Continue reading It’s A Good Life Review
Buckle up, everybody, because this is probably the most horrifying sci-fi short story I've ever read in my life. Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" is also definitely up there, but this is on a whole other level. This story combines elements of science fiction as well as post-apocalyptic fiction. Published in 1967 in IF: Worlds of … Continue reading I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream Review
Full disclosure: this might be one of my favorite Heinlein short stories that I've ever read. It's got all of my favorite things that I look for in a sci-fi short story: time travel, an epic twist, a dash of horror. But I won't spoil it all right now. I'll just say that I really … Continue reading —All You Zombies— Review
