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Futures to Infinity by Sam Moskowitz, Editor

April 29, 2022 by sabian30 Leave a Comment

On my bookshelf, I have a very battered paperback copy of Futures to Infinity. Written in 1970, I’ve had to tape the cover on, and the pages have gotten pretty brown over the fifty years since it was published. But like comfort food, we have comfort books, and this is one of mine. This book is a collection of short stories by the Greats: Asimov, Heinlein, Bradbury, and others. The fun thing about this collection, aside from being some of the lesser-known works of the […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: asimov, bradbury, Heinlein, hubbard, Sam Moskowitz, Editor, Simak

sabian30's CBR14 Review No:11 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: asimov, bradbury, Heinlein, hubbard, Sam Moskowitz, Editor, Simak ·
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Not Grokking this One

March 9, 2015 by reginadelmar 9 Comments

This book is part of my effort to read a few books in the science fiction genre, and while I loved Ursula LeGuin’s The Left Side of Darkness, Stranger in a Strange Land left me bored and disappointed. Yes, this book is over fifty years old and the imagined future is not the present, yet it seems so incredibly dated.  It felt very black and white, bouffant hair-dos, white lab coats intermingled with flying taxis and space travel. The story begins with a human mission […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Heinlein, mars, science fiction

reginadelmar's CBR7 Review No:4 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Heinlein, mars, science fiction ·
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