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The War With The Newts by Karel Čapek
This is the translation of a book written in 1936 - if the name of the author seems vaguely familiar it might be because he's the guy credited with the invention of the word robot (from the Czech for 'forced labour). Here again the basis of the story is social economics and a source of non-human labour, here however it is a genus of intelligent ( Read more... ) -
The Last Ghost by Stephen Goldin.
Having talked about the girl stories in Nebula 7 now it's the boys' turn ( Read more... ) -
The Missing Man - Katherine Maclean
Having picked up a copy of Nebula Award Stories 7 (same charity bookshop) I started by reading the girls... and yes that's plural. The Nebula Awards featured here are for the year 1971, a year when (according to the introduction) 304 SF books were published against 269 the previous years, and the first tower of the World Trade Centre reached its ( Read more... ) -
Pride and Prejudice and Chipmunks. Part 3
I mentioned ignorance bordering on the offensive, didn't I ( Read more... ) -
Pride and Prejudice and Chipmunks. Part 2
I read on, slowly and painfully, regularly turning away to do just about anything else but read on... and got to the end ( Read more... ) -
Pride and Prejudice and Chipmunks Part 1?
I wrote the following when I got to around page 70 in the book...
Now and then, having judged a book by it's cover - or concept - I eventually end up trying to read it. So running across a really nice condition copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith, in the local British Heart Foundation bookshop, seemed like the universe ( Read more... ) -
Because It May Have Dodo-ed
There was fail when I tried posting this to there ---->
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/08/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying.htmlJC - I know you've left the building, but for anyone else considering that requiring semi-regular attendance at Worldcons before a member can nominate or vote etc. I'd like to reply from my own experience ( Read more... ) -
For Nothing Now Can Ever Come To Any Good
Warning -- the following involves the death of a major character ( Read more... )
