Ubik – Philip K. Dick
Glen Runciter is dead. Or is it that his team of anti-psychics led are all dead? Dick’s surreal masterpiece questions the nature of reality, an existential nightmare trapped in half-life.
Tag Archives: 1969
I Am Crying All Inside – The Complete Clifford D. Simak, Vol. 1
By the time he was named the third Science Fiction Grand Master in 1977, Clifford D. Simak had already been …
Richard Matheson – Assorted Short Stories
Ten stories of horror, fantasy, and science-fiction that come bundled in the one Tor/Orb version of I Am Legend. Mostly old magazine reprints; mostly hit or miss.
One Endless Hour – Dan Marlowe
Battered, burned, and captured, the man who will call himself Earl Drake is looking for an escape route out of a hospital ward. That escape comes in the form of a Pakistani plastic surgeon.
Adventures in Art – Late-’60s Avon Horror
To be honest, I’m not a big horror fiction reader, in part because I’m not sure where to start. Though I do get a kick out of horror novel covers. Like these very ambient covers for Avon in the late 1960s; very evocative, definitely horror, nice colors, and an interesting running theme (same angle, same color pattern).
The Ship Who Sang – Anne McCaffrey
Girl born with severe physical deformities is encased in titanium and linked up to become the “brain” of a starship. Collects various stories of her many adventures.
The Starchild Trilogy – Jack Williamson & Frederik Pohl
Three loosely related novels of adventure set in a universe which could never be: it uses Hoyle’s obsolescent steady-state physics as a backdrop.
Somebody Owes Me Money – Donald Westlake
Hapless New York cabbie gets a hot tip on a winning horse, but somebody offs his bookie before he’s paid. Now he’s looking to collect. Fantastic old romp by Westlake.
Adventures in Art – ’60s-’70s Horror Digests
You never know what you’re going to find at library bag sales; those things are a great dumping place for …
Zero Cool – John Lange
Witty radiologist vacationing in Spain finds himself mixed up in murder and intrigue; he has to stay one step ahead of a French-speaking cowboy, a crazy mathematician, and a dwarf wealthy beyond measure. Really.
Battered, Tattered, Yellowed, & Creased 