MARTIANS GO HOME by Frederic Brown
Martians, Go Home (1955) by Frederic Brown This has to be one of the most hilarious science fiction novels ever written. Frederic Brown (1906-72), who had spoofed space opera with What Mad Universe in 1949,…
Category: Classic Science Fiction
The Yellowed Pages Our Dreams Are Made of: HAUNTED BY BOOKS by Mark Valentine
Haunted by Books by Mark Valentine (2015, Tartarus Press) Haunted by Books is an excellent collection of essays by weird literature expert Mark Valentine. I can’t recommend this collection enough if you have an interest…
Collections: CHANGE THE SKY AND OTHER STORIES By Margaret St. Clair
Change the Sky and other Stories by Margaret St. Clair (Ace, 1974) Change The Sky is the third and final of Margaret St. Clair’s short story collections. Published over ten years after Three Worlds of Futurity and…
Subterfuge: THE DOLPHINS OF ALTAIR By Margaret St. Clair
The Dolphins of Altair by Margaret St. Clair (Dell, 1967) 1967’s The Dolphins of Altair is the beginning of Margaret St. Clair’s “psychedelic” period. It would continue on with The Shadow People (1969) and conclude…
Doll Story: AGENT OF THE UNKNOWN By Margaret St. Clair
Agent Of The Unknown by Margaret St. Clair (Ace, 1956) Agent of the Unknown was originally published in Startling Stories in 1951. This was an abridged form and the full novel was issued as part…
Religious Revolution: THE GREEN QUEEN By Margaret St. Clair
The Green Queen by Margaret St.Clair (Ace, 1956) The Green Queen was Margaret St.Clair’s first published novel. Although it was issued in 1956 as part of an Ace double book (paired with Three Thousand Years), the…
Your God Or Mine: THE GAMES OF NEITH By Margaret St. Clair
The Games of Neith by Margret St. Clair (Ace, 1960) The Games Of Neith was released in 1960 as an Ace twin to Kenneth Blummer’s The Earth Gods are Coming. It’s one of the last whimsical…
Fungoid From Earth: SIGN OF THE LABRYS by Margaret St. Clair
Sign of the Labrys by Margaret St. Clair (Bantam, 1963) Sign of the Labrys seems to be the other Margret St Clair novel people remember. Although the cover art has little to do with the…
Manufactured Destruction: THE DEATH GUARD by Philip George Chadwick
The Death Guard by Phillip George Chadwick (RoC, 1992) A future history, supposedly written in the 1970’s, detailing the destruction of civilization through global war after Britain develops a synthetic life-form into the perfect soldier….
Future Insanity: THE BLACK CORRIDOR by Michael Moorcock
The Black Corridor by Michael Moorcock #8 The Black Corridor by Michael Moorcock. As civilization plunges toward destruction, a few people escape in a starship bearing mankind’s last hope. The rest in suspend animation, one man remains awake to pilot the…