review of Alexei Panshin's Rite of Passage by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - December 24, 2014 Time to read yet-another SF author whose work I haven't previously read. This one was the winner of a Nebula Award, an award I respect since I usually agree about the merit of the work so honored. In this...
In 1990, Alexei and Cory Panshin's massive history of science fiction, The World Beyond the Hill, won the Hugo award in competition with books by Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula LeGuin, and Harlan Ellison. Isaac Asimov called it, "The best, the BEST, history of science fiction I have ever read." Explori...
Collection of short works by this American science fiction writer and critic. Introduction by the author, plus the stories: What's Your Excuse? (1969)The Sons of Prometheus (1966)The Destiny of Milton Gomrath (1967)A Sense of Direction (1969)How Georges Duchamps Discovered a Plot to Take Over the...
The advent of this self-described “new sort of magazine”200 was an indication that one major phase in the development of SF was drawing to a close and another stage about to begin.In the Age of Technology which started around 1870, as we’ve been able to see, it became possible for the first time ...
That was while Oliver was following the hill path that led down into the glen where Duke Girard lay encamped. On his heels were the two boy outlaws who had come upon him in his great confusion after he awoke alone at Leaning Rock. These boys still wore clothes sewn by their mothers, though overse...
Present styles in drapeaus are shortly passé, and what once appeared nothing short of bizarre becomes commonplace. The article of clothing is as close to being totally without utility as any ever devised. And yet anyone who is anyone will wear a drapeau, comment at length on color, pattern, and d...