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Star Trek TOS Re-watch: Introductory Post
Greetings and salutations. I’m Eugene Myers and I’m pleased to tell you about an exciting new blog series at Tor.com in preparation for (and perhaps eventual recovery from) J.J. Abrams’s new Star Trek...
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How to Who: On Starting to Watch Classic Doctor Who
While you can start with the first episode and go from there, you can’t watch Doctor Who, from the very beginning, in its entirety. Literally, it is impossible. The BBC recorded over old film to save...
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The Silver Age of Science Fiction
Welcome back to the British Genre Fiction Focus, Tor.com’s regular round-up of book news from the United Kingdom’s thriving speculative fiction industry. Leading this week, the launch of HodderSilver:...
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Us and Them: The Thing From Another World
“I’ve tried to tell you before, scientists have always been pawns of the military.” I can’t speak to the relationship between scientists and military personnel in Starfleet, but David’s warning to his...
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“There’s No Escape Out of Time”: La Jetée
Heads up, people: the following contains spoilers. Few short films have had as long a life as the 1963 French sci-fi classic La Jetée. Simply surviving and accruing a cult following over the years is...
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Forever Autumn: Gollancz Announces Another War of the Worlds
The inestimable Simon Spanton might have moved on, but Gollancz still has a few tricks up its sleeve, it seems… This morning, Orion’s genre fiction imprint was delighted to announce the acquisition of...
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Front Lines and Frontiers: Sleeping Planet by William R. Burkett, Jr.
This post is the first in what will be a monthly series of reviews of classic science fiction books. I’ll be looking at the front lines and frontiers of science fiction; books about soldiers and...
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Who Guards the Guards?: The Compleat Bolo by Keith Laumer
In this monthly series reviewing classic science fiction books, Alan Brown will look at the front lines and frontiers of science fiction; books about soldiers and spacers, explorers and adventurers....
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A Universe of Possibilities: The Best of James H. Schmitz
In this monthly series reviewing classic science fiction books, Alan Brown will look at the front lines and frontiers of science fiction; books about soldiers and spacers, explorers and adventurers....
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Lonely Hospital at the Edge of Space: A Return to Sector General
In the far reaches of Sector 12, a massive interspecies hospital drifts in space, home to a diverse cast of doctors and patients from every intelligent race in the galaxy. Sector 12 General Hospital...
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Troubled Futures: The Mercenary by Jerry Pournelle
In this monthly series reviewing classic science fiction books, Alan Brown will look at the front lines and frontiers of science fiction; books about soldiers and spacers, explorers and adventurers....
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Reduced to Absurdity: Bill, the Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison
In this monthly series reviewing classic science fiction books, Alan Brown will look at the front lines and frontiers of science fiction; books about soldiers and spacers, explorers and adventurers....
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Keeping Telepaths in Mind: The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun. With the Hugo...
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A Genre Cornerstone: Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
In this monthly series reviewing classic science fiction books, Alan Brown will look at the front lines and frontiers of science fiction; books about soldiers and spacers, explorers and adventurers....
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7 Reasons Why Robert Silverberg Remains a Must-Read
Robert Silverberg, one of science fiction’s Grand Masters, is a fascinating guy to chat with. I recommend it, if you get the chance at the next WorldCon—and he’s attended sixty-two in a row, so,...
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Robinson Crusoe of Tschai: Jack Vance’s Planet of Adventure Tetralogy
Adam Reith is a scout aboard the Explorator IV, a research and scouting vessel of a future Earth that is expanding into the stars.¹ A scout, to quote Chief Officer Deale, is “half acrobat, half mad...
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The Sleeper Has Awakened: Welcome to the Reread of Frank Herbert’s Dune!
Over half a century ago, a little publishing house called Chilton Books (primarily known for their auto manuals) put out a novel called Dune by Frank Herbert. It was not an immediate success—despite...
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Science Fiction in Your Own Back Yard: Pavane, by Keith Roberts
I’m not sure how old I was when I first read Keith Roberts’s Pavane, maybe fifteen or sixteen, but it had a profound effect on me. I’d begun my science fiction reading at junior school with H.G. Wells...
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Gateways in the Library: The Beast Master by Andre Norton
In this monthly series reviewing classic science fiction books, Alan Brown will look at the front lines and frontiers of science fiction; books about soldiers and spacers, explorers and adventurers....
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War Without Glory: The Forlorn Hope by David Drake
In this monthly series reviewing classic science fiction books, Alan Brown will look at the front lines and frontiers of science fiction; books about soldiers and spacers, explorers and adventurers....
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