Tag: science fiction
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September 24, 2009 08:15 AM EDT --
Hunting Ground is written in the not so distant future. Phoron is a group of people from outer Space. They are on earth for the sole purpose of killing the earth species to extinction. . . .
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November 05, 2009 07:44 PM EST --
The Time Traveler's Wife is a non-traditional love story. Henry DeTamble is a Chicago librarian at the Newberry with what the author refers to as Chrono Displacement Disorder. This means that Henry randomly . . .
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November 06, 2009 11:41 PM EST --
Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle originally published in 1963 This 2000 edition published by Gramercy Books
Recently I set myself down in front of my television and watched a marathon of all . . .
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April 19, 2008 11:45 AM EDT --
More in the medical vein from the creator of ER than in the science-fiction of his Jurassic Park and Timeline, this is a longish but fast-reading book of short chapters speculating on many of the . . .
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January 30, 2007 08:58 PM EST --
As a child, and I was an only and lonely one, books of every imaginable type were often my closest companions. I . . .
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July 29, 2008 08:46 AM EDT --
First published in 1977, Lucifer's Hammer offers a terrific story built around a comet that strikes the earth. The nucleus of the Hamner-Brown Comet breaks up as the ice binding the rocky material . . .
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October 29, 2009 07:08 PM EDT --
A REBEL IN TIME, Harry Harrison, Tor, 1983, paperback, 315pp.
This is a time travel book and you can guess the gimmick just from the title and cover art. So you are several steps ahead of . . .
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December 10, 2008 07:37 PM EST --
Easy for science fiction fans. Name a science fiction author with one entry per response. I'll start off with one of my favorites:
Spider Robinson
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March 03, 2009 03:54 PM EST --
This was an impulse read. I was walking through the library, and the spine of this book caught my eye. It was not on my “to read” list, but I’m glad I went with the impulse.
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December 28, 2008 08:32 AM EST --
An alien merchant empire acquires a legion of Roman soldiers, the best soldiers who ever lived, to fight its battles on low-technology worlds, as dictated by their civil leadership. The Romans survived the . . .
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April 01, 2007 08:46 AM EDT --
Hello to all,
Havoc Swims Jaded by David J Schow, Subterranean Press 2006. Cover illustration by Frank Dietz.
This is a collection of 13 short stories that are like horror movies that play on the neurons . . .
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December 12, 2008 12:36 PM EST --
The founder and editor of "Famous Monsters of Filmland" died December 8, 2008 of a heart attack following a long illness.
Forest J. Ackerman, 92, considered the greatest of all science fiction . . .
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April 03, 2009 11:20 AM EDT --
GHOST OF THE GRAND BANKS, Arthur C. Clarke, 1990, not in print, check Amazon or Half.com
Clarke revisits the HMS Titanic with a novel based on the difficulties encountered by two rival groups who . . .
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May 21, 2009 11:57 AM EDT --
The Draco Tavern, Larry Niven, 2006, TOR Books, $6.99 316 pp., paperback
The Draco Tavern is an old science fiction convention with Larry Niven's signature. It is located in Siberia, . . .
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April 01, 2009 12:39 PM EDT --
BETWEEN TIME AND TERROR. Robert Weinzberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg, ed., 1995, 382pp.
An anthology of 17 science fiction stories with a dark fantasy slant. Horror stories . . .
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February 27, 2009 01:20 PM EST --
Years in the Making: The Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp, L. Sprague de Camp, 2005, The NESFA Press, 377 pp.
A collection of de Camp's tiem-travel science fiction including "Lest . . .
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February 15, 2007 09:36 PM EST --
Discussing religion and spirituality in SF/F literature is complicated by three main facts. The first being that there’s just so much interesting . . .
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November 30, 2007 07:23 PM EST --
See our review for details. Open to EU residents only, contest ends 15th December 2007 (midnight pacific time).
Triangulation: End of Time, edited by Pete Butler
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June 23, 2007 02:57 AM EDT --
Book of the Day - Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Hello members of ~ The Book Review ~ and anyone else who stumbles upon this review.
"Peace . . .
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December 21, 2007 07:35 PM EST --
In the tradition of Red Dwarf and The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Ga laxy comes a third great comedy/scifi universe. Spindle (c2005) by Australian comedy writer Ian Taylor, book one . . .
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