Book review: Out of the Silent Planet MY VERDICT: Lewis’s elegant, poetic prose and linguistic worldbuilding hooked me immediately. A unique first-contact story, packed with Christian themes.

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MY VERDICT:
Lewis’s elegant, poetic prose and linguistic worldbuilding hooked me immediately. A unique first-contact story, packed with Christian themes.

Friday Book Hooks #5 The Friday Book Hooks #5 Meme inspired by Adele Bound in Books #bookhooks #firstlineFriday #bookbeginnings #Friday56 📚  📚 📚 Another vintage scifi for my Book Hooks #5: This Perfect Day, by Ira Levi…

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Book review: This Perfect Day MY VERDICT: An impressive and chilling 1970 dystopia that feels like it was written for today. Clever, prescient, it makes you question everything about freedom versus control.

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Friday Book Hooks #4 The Friday Book Hooks #4 Meme inspired by Adele Bound in Books #bookhooks #firstlineFriday #bookbeginnings #Friday56 📚  📚 📚 A vintage scifi for my Book Hooks #4: Alpha Centauri or Die, by Leigh Bra…

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Alpha Centauri or Die, #scifi by #Leighbrackett
VERDICT:
What we mean by intelligence and should be ready to confront if we price freedom. The freedom to be humans and not parts of a machine.
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Interpret as you please: #VintageSciFiMonth From Athanasius Kircher’s Mundus Subterraneanus (1665). The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish. Penguin Archive, 2025 (1666). What, said the Empress, can any mortal be a creator? Yes, answer…

A review of 'The Blazing World' by Margaret Cavendish (1666).
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Sunday Post #154: back to normal life The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have receive…

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Alpha Centauri or Die, by #LeighBrackett (1963) #scifi #sciencefiction wordsandpeace.com/2026/01/11/s...

'The Marching Morons': Lessons from Vintage Sci-Fi Explore the insights of 'The Marching Morons', a vintage sci-fi gem with modern relevance.

Today, for #VintageSciFiMonth, I review C.M. Kornbluth's 1951 short story THE MARCHING MORONS. #booksky ruinedchapel.com/2026/01/02/v...

Vintage SF Month: Trouble with Lichen When two brilliant scientists separately discover the effect of a rare lichen, Francis is paralysed by uncertainty while Diana architects an ambitious plan to protect women’s rights. Wyndham …

I’m taking advantage of #VintageSciFiMonth to review a book I reread last autumn: John Wyndham’s Trouble With Lichen

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Vintage SF Month: The Death of Grass John Christopher’s classic 1956 apocalypse The Death of Grass considers the impact of a deadly virus affecting first rice, then cereals, ending our ability to feed ourselves on a global scale…

For #VintageSciFiMonth I read The Death of Grass, John Christopher’s bleak 50s apocalypse novel with very little faith in humanity

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One Billion Years to the End of the World by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky Translated by Antonina W. Bouis I managed to fit in a post for #VintageSciFiMonth this January in my third encounter with the Strugatsky brothers, after the completely lovable and madcap Monday sta…

It's #VintageSciFiMonth so I've reviewed One Billion Years to the End of the World by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky annabookbel.net/one-billion-...

Space Western Comics: A Review It’s tempting to look at pop culture trends in the 1950s and ‘60s in broad strokes, shaped by after-the-fact simplifications like Toy Story 2. In that film, classic cowboy Westerns were put out to …

I got my copy of Craig Yoe's SPACE WESTERN COMICS collection when it dropped in November. I am *finally* posting my review:
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Do Not Enter:  #VintageSciFiMonth Detail from the Hell panel of Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’. Hard to Be a God by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Translated by Olena Bormashenko (2014)…

My review of 'Hard to Be a God' by the brothers #Strugatsky for #VintageSciFiMonth: this year is the century of Arkady's birth.
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I second #VintageSciFiMonth let’s make it a thing! Is that January, a calendar month?or an arbitrary month starting now?

There’s so much good stuff out there. I’ll have to think what I want to post about.

Vintage Science-Fiction Month Book Review: “The Left Hand of Darkness” by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969) This is a classic novel about an envoy to a planet known as Winter, a world as cold as the name suggests and populated by ambisexual humanoids. Naturally, this results in quite a culture shock for …

Is #VintageSciFiMonth a thing on here yet? Well, it ought to be. Anyway, for it, I review Ursula K. Le Guin's 1969 classic THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS:
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#VintageSciFiMonth My short #book #review of The Day of the Triffids, by #JohnWyndham #booksky
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Happy Sunday Womble! I’m aiming to finish Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver today to close out my winter spooky season, before I pivot to a suitable #VintageSciFiMonth read

Don't forget January is #VintageSciFiMonth, and I'm open to book recommendations. 🤓

Vintage Science Fiction Month: Star Maker - Kaedrin Weblog A review of Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon for Vintage Sci-Fi Month, with thoughts on its novel ideas and surprisingly spiritual nature...

Olaf Stapledon’s Star Maker is an odd book, essentially an extended info-dump or fictional anthropology text, but a perfect example of why #VintageSciFiMonth is a fun exercise… kaedrin.com/weblog/2024/...

Swordsmen from the Stars by Poul Anderson. The cover art by Allen Anderson depicts a blonde woman in a gold dress blowing a horn with creatures beside her ready to do battle.

Swordsmen from the Stars by Poul Anderson. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (DMR Books, 2020) Cover art by Allen Anderson. Reprints three sword & planet stories from 1951. “Witch of the Demon Seas,” “The Virgin of Valkarion,” and “Swordsman of Lost Terra”
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Agent of the Terran Empire by Poul Anderson. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cover art by Michael Whelan. Ace Books,1980. Reprints four Dominic Flandry stories stories from the 1950s plus an essay about the series.
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Biological meddlings Image created using https://wepik.com/ai-generate The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. Penguin, 1999 (1951). '... their true origin still remains obscure. My own belief, for what it is worth, is t...

A review of The Day of the Triffids by #JohnWyndham for #VintageSciFiMonth.
Also the fourth title in my Year of Reading Randomly with books only from my TBR pile. wp.me/s2oNj1-triffid

Tiger by the Tail by Poul Anderson. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Planet Stories, Jan 1951.
Agent of the Terran Empire, 1980. 1st appearance of Capt Flandry of the Imperial Naval Intelligence Corps: The Long Night, civil war, a space battle, and a sword fight. Yojimbo in space w/some tragic love.
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Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950-1985

I believe that January is #VintageSciFiMonth Those of you looking for reading recommendations might find the book I co-edited a couple of years ago a useful guide, DANGEROUS VISIONS & NEW WORLDS: RADICAL SCIENCE FICTION 1950-1985. It's out via PM Press
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Ok, blsky folks what am I reading for #vintagescifimonth? #classicscifi #scifi
I got zero responses on the other joint.

The Book Queue - Kaedrin Weblog A look at the science fiction (and SF-adjacent) novels on my book queue, with novels from John Scalzi, Martha Wells, and moar...

Some SF that’s been accumulating on the Book Queue of late (including one all important vintage SF novel for #VintageSciFiMonth) kaedrin.com/weblog/2023/...