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sSUPERVERSIVE: Two for One Review: “Ready Player One” and “Armada”
Tuesday , 22, November 2016 Uncategorized 11 CommentsI think there comes a time in everyone’s life when they start to remember the first decade of their life fondly. For a good ten or fifteen years, I remembered the 1980s as mostly a tacky of time overly synthesized music, big hair, gaudy colors, and acid washed jeans. The 1990s were where it was […]
Short Reviews – The Envoy, Her, by H.B. Fyfe
Friday , 18, November 2016 Uncategorized Leave a commentThe Envoy, Her by H.B. Fyfe appeared in the March 1951 issue of Planet Stories. It can be read here at Archive.org. “His Illustrious Sublimity the Lord Vyrtl, Viceroy of Terra, Emperor of Pollux,” yadda yadda yadda, is on Klo, the moon of Jursa, awaiting the envoy from the planet where the imperial armada has […]
Short Reviews – The Star Saint, by A.E. Van Vogt
Friday , 11, November 2016 Book Review, Uncategorized 2 CommentsThe Star Saint by A.E. Van Vogt appeared in the March 1951 issue of Planet Stories. It can be read here at Archive.org. The Star Saint is the first story I’ve read by A.E. Van Vogt; it’s a deconstruction of the Raygun Romance, and I hated it. A ship full of colonists is on its […]
SUPERVERSIVE Review: The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin.
Tuesday , 8, November 2016 Superversive, Uncategorized 10 CommentsI don’t hate fantasy novels, I just generally prefer science fiction. I have my tastes, y’know? We all do. Mine usually run to things with spaceships and antimatter torpedoes and Ominous Dark Things from Beyond the Stars, but every now and then, it’s good to branch out. Get a change of pace. Get some elves […]
Short Reviews – Duel on Syrtis, by Poul Anderson
Friday , 4, November 2016 Appendix N, Book Review, Uncategorized Leave a commentDuel on Syrtis by Poul Anderson appeared in the March 1951 issue of Planet Stories. It can be read here at Archive.org. One is a big game hunter who complains about liberals and suffrage, the other is a cute Martian owlbear just trying to make it in the cruel world. Riordan has a spaceship, a […]
SUPERVERSIVE and Horror Stories: A Day-After-Halloween Special.*
Tuesday , 1, November 2016 Superversive, Uncategorized 5 Comments*Yes, I know it’s All Saint’s Day, but then talking about horror doesn’t make all that much sense. I didn’t grow up watching horror movies, unless by “horror” you mean things like Frankenstein and The Wolf Man, and I don’t, particularly. As an Eighties kid, I had a pretty clear idea of what horror was […]
Recent discoveries have made me a little more adventurous with my audiobooks: Rather than shelling out for an audible subscription and trying to find the longest books I can to get the bang for my buck, it turns out there’s a nifty library app called “Overdrive” that allows access to your local library’s audiobook collection. […]
Retro Fandom Friday – One Letter to Make You Think
Friday , 21, October 2016 Uncategorized 6 CommentsMore Sex In The Future? appeared in the letters column of the Summer 1949 issue of Planet Stories. Though we’ve included the text in its entirety, it can be read here at Archive.org. I’ve noticed in the last couple stories I’ve read, including two of the three that I’ll be talking about in the upcoming weeks, […]
SUPERVERSIVE review: The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
Tuesday , 18, October 2016 Superversive, Uncategorized 5 CommentsI vaguely remember a sitcom called Perfect Strangers when I was young. I remember enjoying it, but it either must not have aged well or it must have been more or less terrible if you had two digits in your age, because since then, I haven’t seen hide nor hair of it. If this seems […]
Short Reviews – Stalemate in Space, by Charles L. Harness
Friday , 14, October 2016 Book Review, Uncategorized Leave a commentStalemate in Space by Charles L. Harness appeared in the Summer 1949 issue of Planet Stories. It can be read here at Archive.org. So far, I’ve read plenty of stories with great dames who are gorgeous, brave, competent and excellent foils for their male counterparts. But Stalemate in Space is the first Raygun Romance I’ve […]
SUPERVERSIVE Review: The Peripheral by William Gibson
Tuesday , 11, October 2016 Superversive, Uncategorized 3 CommentsThe problem with cyberpunk is that it generated a handful of wonderful, iconic works and then as far as I can tell, it just sort of disappeared. On one hand, I think we left behind the context that birthed it pretty drastically in the 1990s. On the other hand, as I understand it, both William […]
Life as a Macross fan is hard. Harmony Gold’s copyright jerkery makes it difficult to obtain in the West. Installments are infrequent, usually years apart. (Compare that to the Gundam meta-universe, which appears to have a new series in some continuity every other season.) When those installments do come, I, for one, start this whole emotional […]