Magazine Review: High Adventure #164: War Fiction – F. Van Wyck Mason edited by James Gunnison Filling in a back issue here, this one is World War One stories, mostly by the fellow mentioned in the title. Francis Van Wyck Mason (1901-1978), the introduction tells us, was a veteran of the French Army and then… Continue reading Magazine Review: High Adventure #164: War Fiction – F. Van Wyck Mason
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Magazine Review: Astounding Science Fiction February 1956
Magazine Review: Astounding Science Fiction February 1956 edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. We begin this issue of the classic science fiction magazine with an editorial on “The Science of Psionics.” While the study of psychic phenomena is large discredited in the 21st Century, back in the 1950s it was still considered a serious if… Continue reading Magazine Review: Astounding Science Fiction February 1956
Book Review: Land of the Giants
Book Review: Land of the Giants by Murray Leinster In the near future of the 1980s, the Spindrift, a suborbital plane, is getting ready for takeoff. It will be Flight 703 from Los Angeles to London with an expected duration of 41 minutes. The crew is Captain Steve Burton, pilot; Dan Erickson, co-pilot; and Betty… Continue reading Book Review: Land of the Giants
Book Review: Falcon
Book Review: Falcon by Emma Bull Dominic “Niki” Emrys Ieuan Glyndwr is a prince of Cymru, a backwater planet primarily settled by people of Welsh descent who’d finally won their freedom from the English. He and his brilliant geneticist mother Morwenna have been on a long summer break from the press of palace affairs and… Continue reading Book Review: Falcon
Magazine Review: Other Worlds December 1951
Magazine Review: Other Worlds December 1951 edited by Ray Palmer Let’s have another look at this long-running science fiction magazine! The opening editorial by Ray Palmer hypes up the serial which will start in the next issue, Rog Phillips’ These Are My Children, advertised here as something truly special. Sadly, the book version seems to… Continue reading Magazine Review: Other Worlds December 1951
Movie Review: Starship Troopers
Movie Review: Starship Troopers (1997) directed by Paul Verhoeven John D. “Johnny” Rico (Casper Van Dien) is a jumpball star at his local high school in Buenos Aires in the 22nd Century. But he has decided he doesn’t want to go professional, and he’s having second thoughts about simply working for his wealthy father’s (Christopher Curry)… Continue reading Movie Review: Starship Troopers
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #493
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #493 edited by Carl Gafford It’s time for another Adventure Comics digest, though the cover is somewhat misleading. “When Destiny Calls!” story by Bob Rozakis, pencils by George Tuska, inks by Andy Mushynsky, is what it purports to be, a revised retelling of the origin of the Challengers of the… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #493
Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #30: Detective Comics
Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #30: Detective Comics edited by Len Wein Detective Comics is one of DC’s longest-running comic book series, and indeed, they’re named after it. While it’s best known as the birthplace of Batman, over the years it’s hosted several other features involving some form of detection or mystery solving.… Continue reading Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #30: Detective Comics
Book Review: The Second If Reader of Science Fiction
Book Review: The Second If Reader of Science Fiction edited by Frederik Pohl If was a science fiction magazine that ran from 1952-1974, with its most successful years being under editor Frederik Pohl, winning three consecutive Hugos for Best Professional Magazine 1966-1968. Mr. Pohl has considerately included some stories from before his tenure in his… Continue reading Book Review: The Second If Reader of Science Fiction
Anime Review: Dragon Ball Daima
Anime Review: Dragon Ball Daima Previously, on Dragon Ball: Son Goku was rocketed to Earth as an infant from the dying planet Vegeta–to conquer it. Instead, he became its greatest defender and the universe’s best martial artist. Along with his friends, quite a few of whom were former enemies, Son Goku defeated threat after threat.… Continue reading Anime Review: Dragon Ball Daima