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Tag Archives: science fiction
Roger Zelazny’s Creatures of Light and Darkness
Roger Zelazny’s Creatures of Light and Darkness is one of the more bizarre science fiction novels in the canon. I should point out that before the advent of the New Wave writers in the 1960s, science fiction reserved its adventurousness … Continue reading
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Tagged myth, science fiction
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Carol Emshwiller’s The Secret City
Carol Emshwiller is one of those writers who seems to have been a closely guarded secret until recently. With the emergence of slipstream fiction, she is becoming more and more of a household word (in some households, at least) and, … Continue reading
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Tagged science fiction, slipstream
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Luis Ortiz’ Emshwiller: Infinity x Two — The Art and Life of Ed and Carol Emshwiller
“I like the idea of going through different careers. It’s like being reborn a number of times.” That is probably the best summation of Ed Emshwiller’s life, from the horse’s mouth. Known to science-fiction fans of the 1950s, ’60s and … Continue reading
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Tagged biography, illustration, nonfiction, science fiction
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Kage Baker’s The Machine’s Child
The Machine’s Child is, unless I have lost count somehow, the ninth episode in Kage Baker’s ongoing series of the Company, the shadowy organization that has a lock on time travel and is using it to loot the past. This … Continue reading
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Tagged science fiction, time travel
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Thomas M. Disch’s The Wall of America
Thomas M. Disch was one of the more challenging of the American New Wave science-fiction writers. Where writers such as Roger Zelazny and Samuel R. Delany were pushing the boundaries of the formally acceptable in science fiction (and fantasy, for … Continue reading
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Tagged science fiction, short fiction
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Roger Zelazny’s The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth and Other Stories
Although he published his first story in the early 1950s, Roger Zelazny didn’t really impact the science fiction scene until 1963. That’s when I remember reading “A Rose for Eccelsiastes” in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (with their … Continue reading
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Glen Cook’s Passage at Arms
This edition of Glen Cook’s Passage at Arms is a reissue of one of his early science-fiction novels, first published in 1985. Those who know Cook from The Black Company or Garrett P.I. may be surprised to learn that he … Continue reading
Glen Cook’s Stars’ End
Glen Cook brings his Starfishers Trilogy to a close with Stars’ End, tying up all the loose ends involving Masato Igarashi Storm, Moyshe benRabi, the Confederation Navy, the Sangaree, and the High Seiners, the Starfishers. Well, pretty much. This being … Continue reading
Glen Cook’s Starfishers
Starfishers continues the story of Masato Igarashi Storm and his vendetta against the Sangaree begun in Shadowline. Compared to its predecessor, it’s a very different kind of story.
Glen Cook’s Shadowline
Glen Cook dedicated Shadowline, the first volume of his Starfishers trilogy, to Richard Wagner. Yes, that Richard Wagner. Think Götterdämmerung. It’s hard to know where to start with this one. Let me give you a setting: the “now” is the … Continue reading