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In Memoriam – Brian Aldiss

2017-08-21

In case you hadn’t heard, Brian Aldiss passed away in the early hours of Saturday the 19th, having just celebrated …

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A Case of Conscience – James Blish

2017-01-21

Father Ruiz-Sanchez, biologist and Jesuit priest, struggles with a moral and ethical dilemma: a planet whose inhabitants are innately peaceful, moral, and without God.

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The Demolished Man – Alfred Bester

2017-01-04

For the first time in centuries, someone has committed premeditated murder—almost unthinkable in an age of telepathy. Psychic detective Lincoln Powell will risk it all to meet out justice.

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Grotto of the Dancing Deer – The Complete Clifford D. Simak, Vol. 4

2016-09-17

In the span of his fifty-five year career, Clifford Simak penned some of the most iconic science fiction ever written: …

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The Word for World is Forest – Ursula K. Le Guin

2015-06-06

Terran exploitation of an alien planet causes the “docile” near-human natives to rise up in bloody rebellion, in this novel rich in ’70s SFnal themes.

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Hothouse – Brian Aldiss

2015-06-02

Tens of thousands of years into the far flung future, the Earth has become a veritable hothouse, home to new forms of plant life that threaten humanity with extinction.

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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang – Kate Wilhelm

2015-04-19

In the face of a looming eco-apocalypse, a small band of survivalist scientists turn to cloning to preserve the human race. The clones, of course, have other goals in mind.

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Adventures in Art – Virgil Finlay’s Color Covers

2014-12-16

Virgil Finlay (1914 – 1971) was one of the dominant speculative fiction magazine artists of his day; he started doing illustrations for Weird …

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Gateway – Frederik Pohl

2014-08-18

Mankind uses abandoned alien spacecraft to explore the unknown, which often leads to disastrous consequences—or, in a few cases, to wealth beyond measure.

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Adventures in Art – Virgil Finlay’s B&W Interior Art (1)

2014-07-16

When I saw the collector’s artbook of Virgil Finlay looking for funding on Kickstarter, it got me thinking about Finlay.  I consider Finlay (1914 …

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In Memoriam – Lucius Shepard

2014-03-27

I never read as much Lucius Shepard as I should. Or want to, really. I own plenty of his books. …

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