I have this distinct feeling I missed blogging last week. One day a week and I’m still struggling. Things will improve. I’ve been doing a lot of rereading as I said the other week. I moved from Robert Asprin to Tom Holt and then to Anne McCaffrey. Reading many in the one series I’m beginning […]
Tag: Science Fiction
Ursula Le Guin – Vale
I’ve written a lot about Ursula Le Guin over the years. What reason could there be to write again? To celebrate her writing in the wake of her death. Considering she died this week I think it only appropriate to start with a photo of the books of hers we happen to have on the […]
Flight 404 / The Hunt for Red Leicester – Simon Petrie
Flight 404 / The Hunt for Red Leicester by Simon Petrie, Edwina Harvey Published by Peggy Bright Books on September 27th 2012 Pages: 144 Goodreads Two SF novellas. In ‘Flight 404’, the search for a missing spacecraft brings Charmain Mertz back to the world of her boyhood. In ‘The Hunt for Red Leicester’, space-elevator employee […]
An Eclectic Collection of Stuff and Things – Edwina Harvey
Another of the books I was sent a while ago with the hope I’d give a review. I’ll try to be comprehensible or even understandable. This is a series of short stories written by Australian writer, Edwina Harvey. As always she aims to write an ending we’re not expecting. Not only that but she seems […]
Randomly Shelves or Something
My brilliantly aptly named new series continues. Where I randomly select two books from my shelves and attempt to find a link. I do not promise it will be a good link, only that it will be a link. It might be anything at all. One thing I do promise is that the link will not be […]
The Snow Queen – Joan D. Vinge
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge Goodreads This reissue of a modern classic of science fiction, the Hugo and Locus Award-winning and Nebula-nominated The Snow Queen, marks the first time the book has been reprinted in fifteen years. The imperious Winter colonists have ruled the planet Tiamat for 150 years, deriving wealth from the […]
The Whale’s Tale – Edwina Harvey
The Whale’s Tale by Edwina Harvey Published by Peggy Bright Book on January 1st 1970 Pages: 230 Goodreads In a future where whales and dolphins can communicate with humans, and where the Whale Nation has brought space travel back from the brink of extinction, humpback whales tour the galaxy in massive spaceships called “The Whaling […]
Randomly Shelves or Something
My brilliantly aptly named new series continues. Where I randomly select two books from my shelves and attempt to find a link. I do not promise it will be a good link, only that it will be a link. It might be anything at all. One thing I do promise is that the link will not be […]
Randomly Shelves or Something
by Joan D. Vinge, Ursula K. LeGuin Published by Panther Science Fiction My brilliantly aptly named new series continues. Where I randomly select two books from my shelves and attempt to find a link. I do not promise it will be a good link, only that it will be a link. It might be anything at all. […]
Rare Unsigned Copy – Simon Petrie
by Simon Petrie Published by Peggy Bright Books My lovely little plugin has given you the synopsis which isn’t too bad for a description of the contents of this little tome. I bought this some time ago wanting to support the author, I’d known of him for some time but this is the first time […]