From Monday, 4 November to Friday, 15 November, I read Poul Anderson's The People of the Wind (NY: Signet Books [The New American Library, Inc.], May 1973 [tenth printing; undated, but cover price is U.S. $0.95]; 176 pps.); originally published in the Feb. through Apr. 1973 issues of Analog: Science Fiction and Fact. The unsigned cover is by ( Read more... )

From Monday, 7 October through Friday, 11 October, I read Poul Anderson's Mirkheim (NY: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1977; hardcover; book club edition; 183 pps.). The name of the artist who painted the rather abstract cover is Richard Powers, although his name is not given in this edition.


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From Wednesday, 5 December through Thursday, 13 December, I read Poul Anderson's Satan's World (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.; 1969 [previously published, "in a somewhat different form," in Analog Science Fact - Science Fiction from May -- August 1968, and copyright 1968 by The Condé Nast Publications, Inc.]; hard cover; book club ( Read more... )

From Wednesday, 28 December 2011 through Sunday, 1 January 2012, I read Poul Anderson's The Trouble Twisters (NY: Berkley Medallion Books [Berkley Publishing Corporation]; 1976 [originally published in 1966 by Doubleday & Company, Inc. in 1966], 2nd printing; 190 pps.), which is nominally the second book in Anderson's Polesotechnic League series, ( Read more... )

I still haven't read any of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest), but, what with the 23 December release of the U.S. movie adaptation of the first book, directed by David Fincher (Alien 3, se7en, Fight Club, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin ( Read more... )

I read Poul Anderson's Trader to the Stars (NY: Berkley Publishing Corporation [by arrangement with Doubleday & Company]; Aug. 1976 [originally published in 1964]; 159 pps.; SBN: 425-03199-3; Berkley Medallion book number Z3199) from Sunday, 2 October 2011 through Wednesday, 5 October 2011.


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I guess I should be thankful, in the wake of this year's Thanksgiving, that I don't have a bigger Net presence than I do; because I don't see how I could frickin' stand all the trolls that are out there ( Read more... )

Finished re-reading Robert A. Heinlein's "comeback" novel ("comeback" since it was the first novel since 1973's Time Enough For Love -- arguably since 1966's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress -- to have received wide acclaim in the science fiction fan community) Friday (NY: Ballantine Books; 1982; ISBN 0-345-30988-X; mass market paperback; Fourth ( Read more... )