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The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov – A Review for #VintageSciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

The End of Eternity

Isaac Asimov’s The End of Eternity combines ideas about time travel with a questioning of the direction humanity could or should take over millions of years. However, the big issues about society, the development of humanity and the nature of Eternity are left to the end when a powerful turnabout occurs where expectations and assumptions […]

Filed Under: Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: eternity, future history, genetic change, governing the future, Isaac Asimov, society, time travel

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin – A Review for #VintageSciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

Cities of science fiction - We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Ursula K. Le Guin wrote that Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We was the greatest science fiction novel that had yet been written. I’m not as well-read as she was, but We, so influential on later books like Brave New World and 1984, is definitely the greatest one in my experience. From the beginning, its narrator, known like […]

Filed Under: Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: 1984, dystopia, freedom, government, imagination, mathematics, rebellion, We, wildness

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick – A Review for #VintageSciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick drew me in with one tightly written, deeply engaging scene after another. And like so many of Dick’s novels, it turns the protagonist’s life upside down and inside out in the first couple of chapters. It’s a must-read for any fan of Dick’s fiction. The […]

Filed Under: Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: dystopia, grief, identity, love, Philip K. Dick, privilege, reality

Lining Up My Vintage SciFi Month and the Winter TBR

By John Folk-Williams

Vintage SciFi Month - The Dispossessed

Vintage SciFi Month for 2022 is coming up fast, and I wanted to set out my planned reviews for this event. The great thing about this is its simplicity. You just use the tag #VintageSciFiMonth on Twitter or your blog or Instagram to post anything of interest about science fiction written before your birth year […]

Filed Under: Taking on My SFF TBR, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: Gareth L. Powell, Isaac Asimov, James S.A. Corey, Nnedi Okorafor, Philip K. Dick, Tochi Onyebuchi, Ursula K. Le Guin, Yevgeny Zamyatin

H.G. Wells’ Things to Come – the 1936 Film

By John Folk-Williams

H. G. Wells Things to Come

H. G. Wells wrote the screen adaptation of his future history, The Shape of Things to Come, to give a dramatic setting to his sweeping vision of a world first devastated by war then resurrected by a corps of brilliant engineers. The result was Things to Come, a 1936 film produced by Alexander Korda and […]

Filed Under: Future History, Post-Apocalytic, Scifi TV/Movies, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: city, civilization, dystopia, future history, H.G. Wells, space travel, technology, Things to Come

Northwest Smith Stories by C. L. Moore

By John Folk-Williams

Northwest Smith by C. L. Moore

Getting to the end of Vintage SciFi Month, I’m back to the 1930s again with the amazing Northwest Smith Stories by C. L. Moore. Lurid and pulpy though they are, well matching the Weird Tales cover art of Margaret Brundage, each story is a tour de force of riveting intensity. But be prepared. Lurid they […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: C.L. Moore, consciousness, Mars, mind, Northwest Smith, pulp fiction, Siren, supernatural, trance, transhuman, vampire, Venus

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