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Tor Doubles #5: Poul Anderson’s No Truce with Kings and Fritz Leiber’s Ship...
Cover for No Truce with Kings by RoyoCover for Ship of Shadows by Robin Wood Both Poul Anderson’s No Truce for Kings and Fritz Leiber’s Ship of Shadows originally appeared in issues of The Magazine...
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Tor Doubles #6: Barry B. Longyear’s Enemy Mine and John Kessel’s Another Orphan
Cover for Enemy Mine by MarenCover for Another Orphan by Tom Kidd The sixth Tor Double not only includes the two title stories, Barry B. Longyear’s Enemy Mine and John Kessel’s Another Orphan, but...
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When Satire is Overwhelmed by Reality: Moon Missing: Edward Sorel’s Report on...
Moon Missing (1962) At about 1:46 am EST in the middle of the American night of April 4, 1965 the Moon disappeared. The American people were informed the next day at a Presidential news conference....
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Tor Doubles #8: Leigh Brackett’s The Nemesis from Terra and Edmond Hamilton’s...
Cover for The Nemesis from Terra by Tony RobertsCover for Battle for the Stars by Bryn Barnard This volume includes the story Nemesis from Terra by Leigh Brackett and Battle for the Stars, byt Edmond...
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Transcendent and Creepy: Rich Horton on The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The Forever War (Ballantine Books, 1976). Cover by Murray Tinkelman Rich Horton continues to review classic science fiction novels at his blog, Strange at Ecbatan. Last month he turned his attention...
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A Kind Heart and the Right Sort of Hands: Carbonel, the King of the Cats by...
Carbonel the King of the Cats by Barbara Sleigh (Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1957). Illustrated by V.H. Drummond Over the past few years, I’ve started tracking down books I read as a child and still...
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Tor Double #9: Isaac Asimov’s The Ugly LIttle Boy and Theodore Sturgeon’s The...
Cover for The Ugly Little Boy by Alan GutierrezCover for The [Widget], the [Wadget], and Boff by Carol RussoThe ninth Tor Double collects novellas by Isaac Asimov and Theodore Sturgeon, the only...
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Half a Century of Reading Tolkien: Part Five: From the Beginning — The Hobbit...
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Chapter 1, An Unexpected Party – The Hobbit Fifty years ago, when I first read this book, I didn’t imagine I’d still be reading it so many years later....
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The Fundamentals of Sword & Planet, Part I: Don Wollheim, Edwin L. Arnold,...
Swordsmen in the Sky (Ace, 1964). Cover by Frank Frazetta Swordsmen in the Sky, edited by Donald Wollheim If our genre has a holy grail to find, this would be it. I read this collection as a kid....
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Vintage Empires: James Nicoll on Galactic Empires, Volumes One & Two, edited...
Galactic Empires, Volume One and Two (Orbit, October 1976). Covers by Karel Thole My fellow Canadian James Nicoll continues to be one of my favorite SF bloggers, probably because he covers stuff I’m...
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Where Dreams and Nightmares Come True: Greyhawk Adventures: Saga of Old City...
Greyhawk Adventures: Saga of Old City (TSR, October 1985) Greyhawk… A cruel city. A harsh, pitiless city for a young orphan boy with no money and no friends — but plenty of enemies! Enter the Old City...
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The Fundamentals of Sword & Planet, Part II: John Norman
The first six books in the Gor series, all from Ballantine Books: Tarnsman of Gor, Outlaw of Gor, Priest-Kings of Gor, and Nomads of Gor (all 1976), Assassin of Gor (1970), and Raiders of Gor (1976)....
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Tor Double #11: James Tiptree, Jr.’s Houston, Houston, Do You Read? and...
Cover for Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by Ron WalotskyCover for Souls by Dieter Rottermund Houston, Houston, Do You Read? was originally published in Aurora: Beyond Equality, edited by Susan Janice...
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The Fundamentals of Sword & Planet, Part III: Michael Moorcock, Michael...
The Warrior of Mars trilogy by Michael Moorcock: Warriors of Mars (DAW, January 1979), Blades of Mars (as by Edward P. Bradbury; Lancer, 1966), and Barbarians of Mars (DAW, March 1979). Covers by...
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Tor Doubles #12: Roger Zelazny’s He Who Shapes and Kate Wilhelm’s The...
Cover for He Who Shapes by Wayne BarloweCover for The Infinity Box by Royo He Who Shapes was originally serialized in Amazing Stories between January and February, 1965. It won the Nebula Award, tying...
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Pseudoplumes, Nom de Nyms, Birds, & Oooze: Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Language...
The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin (trade paperback reprint from Perigee Books, 1980). Cover by Michael Mariano I’m not a big fan of literary...
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The Fundamentals of Sword & Planet, Part IV: Dray Prescot by Alan Burt Akers
Dray Prescot #17-24, all from DAW: Captive Scorpio (1978), Golden Scorpio (1978), A Life for Kregen (1979), A Sword for Kregen (1979), A Fortune for Kregen (1979), A Victory for Kregen (1980), Beasts...
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Tor Doubles #13: Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Blind Geometer and Ursula K. Le...
Cover for The New Atlantis by Michael BöhmeCover for The Blind Geometer by Peter Gudynas The New Atlantis was originally published in The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction, edited by...
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Tor Double #14: Poul Anderson’s The Saturn Game and Gregory Benford and Paul...
Cover for The Saturn Game by NASACover for Iceborn by Marx Maxwell The Saturn Game was originally published in Analog in February, 1981. It was nominated for the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award,...
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Half a Century of Reading Tolkien: Part Six Bored of the Rings by Henry N....
This book is predominantly concerned with making money, and from its pages a reader may learn much about the character and the literary integrity of the authors. Of boggies, however, he will discover...
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