Book Reviews
Here you will find a section of book, magazine, and film reviews. Of course, any review is only the opinion of one person, but we try to review most of the books we read and keep a record of our thoughts and responses. If you are interested in having your book reviewed (science fiction only) please feel free to get in touch via the contact page.
Cover | Title | Author | Genre | Format | Year | Rating | Buy |
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Things I Learned From Falling | Claire Nelson | Memoir | 2021 | 10 | Buy | ||
I Rode a Flying Saucer | George Van Tassel | Channeled | 1953 | 8 | |||
The Philadelphia Experiement | Moore / Berlitz | Conspiracy | 1979 | 6.5 | |||
The Day of Creation | J.G. Ballard | Fiction | 1987 | 8 | |||
About Time | Paul Davies | Science | 1995 | 9 | |||
68 Cantos | William Weiss | Science Fiction | 2019 | 8 | |||
2019 Rhysling Anthology | David C. Kopaska-Merkel Ed. | Speculative Poetry | 2019 | 9 | |||
The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn | Strugatsky Brothers | Mystery / SF | 1970 | 7 | |||
Now and Forever | Ray Bradbury | Science Fiction | 2007 | 9 | |||
A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter M. Miller Jr. | Science Fiction | 1959 | 10 | |||
Poetics | Aristotle | Non-Fiction | 330 B.C. | 10 | |||
Destination Moon | Robert A. Heinlein | Science Fiction | 1950 | 7.5 | |||
My View of the World | Erwin Schrodinger | Metaphysics | 1961 | 6.5 | |||
The Starry Rift | James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon) | Science Fiction | 1986 | 7 | |||
All My Sins Remembered | Joe Haldeman | Science Fiction | 1977 | 5 | |||
Pro | Gordon R. Dickson | Science Fiction | 1978 | 6 | |||
The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains | Neil Gaiman | Fantasy | Audiobook | 2010 | 6.5 | ||
Embers of War | Gareth L. Powell | Science Fiction | 2018 | 8 | |||
The Wind From Nowhere | J.G. Ballard | Science Fiction | 1961 | 6 | |||
Alyx: An AI’s Guide to Love and Murder | Brent A. Harris | Science Fiction | 2021 | 10 | |||
The Blue Monday Diaries | Michael Butterworth | Non-Fiction | 2016 | 10 | |||
Brothers of Earth | C.J. Cherryh | Fantasy | 1976 | 3 | |||
The Resurrection of Roger Diment | Douglas R. Mason AKA | Science Fiction | 1972 | 3.5 | |||
Machines in the Head | Anna Kavan | Fiction | 2019 | 7 | |||
The City in the Middle of the Night | Charlie Jane Anders | Science Fiction | 2019 | 8.5 | |||
Hyperion | Dan Simmons | Science Fiction | 1989 | 8 | |||
Hello America | J.G. Ballard | Science Fiction | 1981 | 9 | |||
Fools | Pat Cadigan | Science Fiction | 1992 | 10 | |||
Rogue Queen | L. Sprague De Camp | Science Fiction | 1951 | 5 | |||
The Futurological Congress | Stanislaw Lem | Science Fiction | 1974 | 8 | |||
Born Under Mars | John Brunner | Science Fiction | 1967 | 8 | |||
Outlaws of the Moon | Edmond Hamilton | Science Fiction | 1942 | 7 | |||
The Hollow Lands | Michael Moorcock | Science Fiction | 1974 | 8 | |||
Communion | Whitley Strieber | “Non-Fiction” | 1987 | 5 | |||
Butterworth | Michael Butterworth | Science Fiction | 2019 | 10 | |||
The Prisoner | Thomas M. Disch | Science Fiction | 19__ | 7.5 | |||
Eon | Greg Bear | Science Fiction | 19__ | 7.5 | |||
Dead Sky | Weston Ochse | Horror | 2019 | 9.5 | |||
The Invisible Man | H.G. Wells | Science Fiction | 1897 | 9 | |||
The Stars My Destination | Alfred Bester | Science Fiction | 1956 | 10 | |||
When the Tripods Came | John Christopher | Science Fiction | 1988 | 9 | |||
The Postman | David Brin | Science Fiction | 1985 | 10 | |||
Exiles to Glory | Jerry Pournelle | Science Fiction | 1978 | 8 | |||
The Stepford Wives | Ira Levin | Science Fiction | 1972 | 7.5 | |||
My Servant the Wind | Michael Butterworth | Science Fiction | 2019 | 8.5 | |||
Stories of Your Life | Ted Chiang | Science Fiction | 2002 | 10 | |||
The Diagnosis | Alan Lightman | Fiction | 2000 | 6 | |||
The Evolution Man | Roy Lewis | Science Fiction | 1960 | 7 | |||
Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel | Science Fiction | 2014 | 7.5 | |||
Kindred | Octavia E. Butler | Science Fiction | 1979 | 10 | |||
Deeper than the Darkness | Gregory Benford | Science Fiction | 1970 | 6 | |||
Eye for Eye | Orson Scott Card | Science Fiction | Audiobook | 1987 | 7 | ||
Slan | A.E. van Vogt | Science Fiction | 1940 | 9 | |||
Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | Science Fiction | 1961 | 10 | |||
Desert Oracle #8 | Ken Layne Ed. | Reference / Folklore | 2019 | 10 | |||
Synths | James C. Glass | Science Fiction | 2018 | 8 | |||
Hauser’s Memory | Curt Siodmak | Science Fiction | 1968 | 6 | |||
An Alien Heat | Michael Moorcock | Science Fiction | 1972 | 10 | |||
New Worlds Quarterly #1 | Michael Moorcock Ed. | Science Fiction | 1971 | 9 | |||
Out of the Silent Planet | C.S. Lewis | Science Fiction | 1965 | 8 | |||
Lagoon | Nnedi Okorafor | Speculative Fiction | 2014 | 7 | |||
The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies | John Scalzi | Reference | 2005 | 8 | |||
Pilgrimage | Zenna Henderson | Science Fiction | 1961 | 6 | |||
The Hate Poems | John Tottenham | Poetry | 2018 | 9 | |||
On the Beach | Nevil Shute | Post-Apocalyptic | 1957 | 5 | |||
Mockingbird | Walter Tevis | Science Fiction | 1980 | 8 | |||
The Hunger | Whitley Strieber | Horror | 1981 | 7 | |||
Revelation Space | Alastair Reynolds | Science Fiction | 2000 | 8 | |||
Spin | Robert Charles Wilson | Science Fiction | 2005 | 8 | |||
I Am Legend | Richard Matheson | Science Fiction | 1954 | 9 | |||
Blood Music | Greg Bear | Science Fiction | 1985 | 10 |