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Galactic Patrol (The Lensman Series, Book 3)

27 reviews
Edward E. Smith, John Clute

Old Earth Books, 1998

Start here for the Lensman universe!
Doc Smith's "Lensman" series is one of those strange cases where almost everything the reviews say -- both good and bad -- is true. The key lies in the sentence found in so many of them: "I first read this when I was a kid". I think we all retain an affection for things we loved when we were young. Nonetheless, it would be a big mistake to think these books hold nothing for adults -- I've ...

Other Worlds, Better Lives

1 review
Howard Waldrop

Old Earth Books, 2008

Seven swell stories you need!
Seven great long stories by the resident weird mind of America: A Dozen Tough Jobs (1989) Fin de Cycle (1990) You Could Go Home Again (1993) Flatfeet (1996) Major Spacer (2001) The Other Real World (2001) A Better World's In Birth (2003) Michael Dirda of the Wasington post Book World has written: "If Philip K. Dick is our homegrown Borges (as Ursula K. Le Guin once said), then ...

Things Will Never Be the Same: A Howard Waldrop Reader: Selected Short Fiction 1980-2005

4 reviews
Howard Waldrop

Old Earth Books, 2007

Enthusiastically recommended for science fiction and fantasy buffs everywhere.
Things Will Never Be the Same: Selected Short Fiction 1980-2005 is the first career-retrospective anthology of Howard Waldrop's short stories, including the Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning tale "The Ugly Chickens" and the Hugo-nominated "The King of Where-I-Go". Sometimes mundane, sometimes dazzling, always peering into an ever-so-slightly askew "Waldropian" universe, these tales are ...

City

54 reviews
Clifford D. Simak

Old Earth Books, 2004

Just as absorbing as the day it was written
Simak wrote these interconnected stories in the mid-1940s, and it's a mark of his talent that you can't tell. So much early science fiction is marred for the modern reader by a telltale stiffness of language and a jarring quaintness of outmoded science. With the exception that one of these stories suggests that surgical modifications have become hereditary, there's nothing dated about the science ...

Way Station

57 reviews
Clifford D. Simak

Old Earth Books, 2004

Delicate telling of a sci-fi story that ages very well
Station Keeper Enoch Wallace has a secret. His neighbors suspect, his mailman won't tell, and the CIA watches. It starts off with Enoch's age...124. But he doesn't look a day over 30. Then there is the strange house he "lives" in. The paint doesn't peel, the windows don't get dirty, and the doors won't open. And in the family plot? His mother and father, and... someone, or something, ...

Chronicles of the Lensmen (The Lensmen Series, Volume 2)

4 reviews
Edward E. (Doc) Smith

Old Earth Books, 1998

Lensmen Series, vol 1 & 2
This series and Alfred Bester's "The Stars My Destination" empassioned my desire for the stars and science fiction. Star Trek and Star Wars would not be the stories they are or have the impact they do without the forward thinking of EE Doc Smith and Bester. These stories enthralled me as a youth and still capture my imagination 30+ years later. Volume 1 and 2 are "must haves" for any serious ...

Gray Lensman (The Lensman Series, Book 4)

11 reviews
Edward E. Smith

Old Earth Books, 1998

Read this second!
I (and many others) believe the best place to start with Doc Smith's "Lensman" series is Galactic Patrol; and as I've said why, at length, in my review of that opus, I won't repeat it here. "Gray Lensman" begins where "Patrol" left off, and never flags, from the start to the finish. Smith at this point is a massively improved writer from the author of the earlier Skylark series, and much ...

The Separation

11 reviews
Christopher Priest

Old Earth Books, 2005

Christopher Priest is BACK!!!
I discovered Christopher Priest in a used bookstore in the form of a slim paperback novel entitled The Glamour. Since then, having read most of his work, the only two books by Christopher Priest I did not thoroughly enjoy were The Prestige and Extremes. Because those two novels are the immediate predecessors of Separation, it was with some trepidation that I undertook to read this book, whereof ...

First Lensman (The Lensman Series, Book 2)

33 reviews
Edward E. Smith

Old Earth Books, 1997

When we were young and space was new
When we were young and space was new and unfettered by knowledge of dark matter or scientific belief, tear drop shaped space ships made for a vacuum that doesn't need streamlining and death rays that defy all science became part of our active imaginations. With new reincarnations of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon continuing I read this 1980's 15th reprinting of the second in the Lensmen ...

Childrenof the Lens (The Lensman Series, Book 6)

13 reviews
Edward E. Smith

Old Earth Books, 1998

This is the best there is
I have read this series at least 4 times. If you like SCIFI, you will cherish these books and buy the whole collection (as I did).

Sinai Tapestry

7 reviews
Edward Whittemore

Old Earth Books, 2002

An old favorite and an enthralling reading experience
Edward Whittemore wrote five novels between the years 1974 and 1987. His most important work is the Jerusalem Quartet of which Sinai Tapestry is the first volume. I first read this novel in 1979 or thereabouts and was instantly infatuated by the setting of the novels, the eccentric characters and the unusual writing style of the author. The four books which make up the Quartet treat the reader to ...

Jericho Mosaic (The Jerusalem Quartet, Volume 4)

4 reviews
Edward Whittemore

Old Earth Books, 2002

One of the best novels of our time
This is one of the best novels you've never heard of. Why Whittemore is a forgotten writer whose books have gone out of print is a mystery to me. "Jericho Mosaic" is a spy story of sorts set in the historical context of Israel and its neighbors from World War II to the early 1980s. The principal character is the Runner, an Israeli who becomes a deep-cover spy living in Syria and living the ...

Second Stage Lensmen (The Lensman Series, Book 5)

9 reviews
Edward E. Smith

Old Earth Books

Read this third!
I (and many others) believe the best place to start with Doc Smith's "Lensman" series is Galactic Patrol; and as I've said why, at length, in my review of that opus, I won't repeat it here. Furthermore, if you've already read "Patrol" and Gray Lensman with enjoyment, you'll hardly need my urging to continue. This is nonetheless probably the weakest of the four main Lensman novels, mainly ...

Nile Shadows

4 reviews
Edward Whittemore

Old Earth Books, 2002

floating down a literary river
Since there were no reviews of this book on Amazon, I decided to give it a try. Having read his debut novel and the first three of the Quartet, this book is a bit slower in terms of action but I found it to be the most cerebral of his books so far. Whittemore is a modern master of storytelling, but his strength is dialogue. The conversations that take place here are beautifully written, ...

Davy

10 reviews
Edgar Pangborn

Old Earth Books, 2004

40 YEARS ON...
I first read this remarkable novel when I was 14 - about the age Davy was at the start of the book. It was 1964, and I was heavily into science fiction - it offered a loner full of teenage angst an escape from the everyday world. I made some amazing literary discoveries - most of them accidental, but some of the works I flipped over back then still ring true today. DAVY is one of those works. ...

Quin's Shanghai Circus

6 reviews
Edward Whittemore

Old Earth Books, 2002

A tour de force!
*Quin's Shanghai Circus* may well be the best espionage novel of the 20th Century, as good as anything Graham Greene, John Le Carre or Somerset Maugham have written. It's a deep, dark, and magical read that does what Kafka tells us books should do: it takes an axe to the frozen sea inside us. And it's all true. Every word of it. Whittemore rules...

Being Gardner Dozois

1 review
Michael Swanwick; Gardner Dozois

Old Earth Books, 2001

Requires more than a passing acquaintance with Dozois's work
Towards the end of this book, Gardner Dozois says, "I figure there's about five people in the world who are going to want to read this book. Maybe that's overestimating it." To some extent Dozois is correct: this book is not for everyone. In fact, this book will be next to useless to anyone who has not read most of Dozois's short fiction, collections of which are increasingly hard to find. For ...

Jerusalem Poker

8 reviews
Edward Whittemore

Old Earth Books, 2002

One of the best fiction writers of our time.
If you like to read good, no, Great writing, you owe it to yourself to read Whittemore. Get all five of his novels and I assure you that you will not be left wanting.(Except for more.) Unfortunately, we have been robbed by death of this giant of literature. Few can match the epic humanity and scope of Edward Whittemores' characters, places and dreams. He is sorely missed even though relatively ...

All-American Alien Boy: The United States As Science Fiction, Science Fiction As a Journey : A Collection
Allen M. Steele

Old Earth Books, 1996

Triplanetary: A Tale of Cosmic Adventure (Lensman Series, Book 1)

54 reviews
Edward E. Smith

Old Earth Books, 1997

"Galactic Patrol" is THE classic 1950's space epic
The Lensmen series comprises the following books: 1 - Triplanetary 2 - First Lensman 3 - Galactic Patrol 4 - Gray Lensman 5 - Second-Stage Lensman 6 - Children of the Lens Without exaggeration, the "Galactic Patrol" series is one of the greatest classic space epics ever written, it's one of the greatest archetypes of the genre as a whole, and virtually all of the modern masters ...

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