Read of the Day
Had to get back on to share a classic from Poul Anderson, Turning Point. It's classic Anderson, a team of traders figuring out how to handle an alien race that's so superior and nice it's just not fair. Anderson's heroes are broad-living men, good at most everything they do, and can even handle it if they are not the best. Eric Flint's intro to the story casts Anderson in the same light. This is from a collection called The World Turned Upside Down, which I will return to after a detour into some Christopher Anvil...
3 stars for this one.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
The Horny Chicken
The Horny Chicken is a name that gives one pause. My first assumption was that this would be a Hooters-Bombshells-etc. kind of place. Put th...
-
The introduction to Slow Tuesday Night is by Gardner Dozios, the great editor, and he tells us that "only those stories that were the ...
-
There are some interesting theories out there on what Gene Wolfe's "The Ziggurat" short story means . Indeed, Wolfe is heavil...
-
Wired Magazine's January issue consists of 15 science fiction stories they commissioned to allow us to "approach reality a little m...
No comments:
Post a Comment