As a pure science fiction collection, this was first rate. I really enjoyed the science involved. The authors of the 60s really stick to what is plausible, even though it may not be probable. Today's science fiction involves too many impossibilities. For example, Star Wars and Star Trek gave us n...
Space... The Final Frontier...I am aware that this is a quite longer review than usual, but since it's an anthology, I thought that it was the only fair way to express my thoughts on each story collected on the book. A FASCINATING PROJECTThis is the first novelization published featuring episode...
This review is prompted by my second reading of Doctor Mirabilis, which I first read when I was far too young to appreciate it or even understand it properly. Besides, I was expecting it to be science fiction (because it's by James Blish) and was frightfully disappointed to find that it wasn't.Th...
A Collection of Short Stories 13 • A Style in Treason • (1970) 51 • The Writing of the Rat • (1956) 67 • And Some Were Savages • (1960) 94 • A Dusk of Idols • (1961) 122 • None So Blind • (1962) 128 • No Jokes on Mars • (1965) 138 • How Beautiful With Banners • (1966) 151 • Skysign • (1968)
"Get back into your hammock before you make things twice as bad for yourself. You're a sick man, can't you realize that?" "Not as sick as I look," Cleaver said, with a ghastly grin. "Actually I feel pretty fair. My mouth is almost all cleared up, and I don't think I've got...
The main story, which takes place so far back in the history of the Enterprise that the only familiar face aboard her then was Spock, appeared surrounded by and intercut with an elaborate "framing" story, in which Spock is up for court-martial on charges of mutiny and offers the main story as an ...
Otherwise his preparations were all made. He had performed the blood sacrifices the previous evening, and then had completely rearranged the furniture in the workroom to accommodate the Grand Circle – the first time he had had need of it in twenty years – the Lesser Circles and the Gateway. There...
These two books, considered as a unit, in turn make up the second volume of a trilogy under the overall title of After Such Knowledge. The first volume is a historical novel called Doctor Mirabilis; the last, a science-fiction novel called A Case of Conscience. These two volumes are independent o...