This is Steve’s first Dean Koontz book review in several years, because it’s the first new Dean Koontz book he’s read in that stretch of time. He thinks it was worth it, with a few caveats. What are they? Read the column and find out.
James Coburn had a long TV and movie career, but his first starring role in a movie was as Derek Flint, superspy, in the 1960s. Who is or was Derek Flint? Read and find out, young padawan!
The book More Than Human is over 70 years old. In it, Theodore “Ted” Sturgeon posits that a superhuman “Homo gestaltus” can supersede us ordinary people. Is it possible? Steve remains skeptical, but the book’s a winner!
Steve retro-reviews possible cult classic John Dies at the End, because it showed up on his satellite system several times this week, and he missed it when it first came out. Did he like it? (Will you?) Read the column for a possible answer.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication date: 01/10/2012 ISBN: 9781451673319 Pages: 159 Author: Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury was originally published in 1953, but it speaks volumes to the world today. I originally […]
Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation are the three books that make up the original Isaac Asimov sci fi classic Foundation Trilogy. These books were originally published as a series of short stories in […]
Steve takes you back to 1954, when newspapers cost a nickel and a bus trip through town was a dime. Back then SF writers were real men and women, not like today’s namby-pamby… er, he finds a lot of old SF fun and involving to read. He hopes you will too.
While trying to find a “good old” SF movie, Steve stumbles on a 1958 epic called “Space Master X-7,” which is kind of a pre-apocalyptic movie. Will the world end?
Again, Steve reviews a retro movie from the ‘50s. He must like them… except we don’t think he liked this one!
Some fans don’t like old black-and-white movies. This one, while not without a certain charm, may be part of the reason. Or not… you decide!
This week Steve retros back to 1958, taking a look at a fantasy musical, “Damn Yankees,” with Tab Hunter and Gwen Verdon. Did he like it? Seems like it, doesn’t it?
Exploring the fictional Professor Bernard Quatermass, whose experiments lie (as Rod Serling says) “between the pit of man’s fears, and the summit of his knowledge”! Go get some!
Following on the heels of his Heinlein columns, Steve decides to retro review The Door Into Summer. Is it worth reading? Well… that depends. Read this and find out.
A lot of old (’50s and early ’60s) SF was written by women under masculine or masculine-sounding names. One of the best was Andre Norton. Join Steve in a look at this terrific action/adventure SF like they “just don’t write anymore!”
Steve has been an active fan since the 1970s, when he founded the Palouse Empire Science Fiction Association and the more-or-less late MosCon in Pullman, WA and Moscow, ID, though he started reading SF/F in the early-to-mid 1950s, when he was just a sprat. He moved to Canada in 1985 and quickly became involved with Canadian cons, including ConText (’89 and ’81) and VCON. He’s published a couple of books and a number of short stories, and has collaborated with his two-time Aurora-winning wife Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk on a number of art projects. As of this writing he’s the proofreader for R. Graeme Cameron’s Polar Borealis and Polar Starlight publications. He’s been writing for Amazing Stories off and on since the early 1980s. His column can be found on Amazing Stories most Fridays.
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