The Wrong End of Time

Author	Matt Ruff
ISBN	0062292080

The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy

Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose...

Author	Robert A. Heinlein
ISBN	0441788386

Apparently a classic of the sci-fi cannon, I'd never heard of this book until it came up on a book club here. It took me a long time to read only because of lack of time, and a rather annoying trait the author has that I'll go into later.

This is one of those books that tells us more about the period it...

Author

E.M. Forster

The Machine Stops is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928.

After being voted one of the best novellas...

Author	Alan Dean Foster
ISBN	0345343638

High-energy action and adventure in the form of a boy and his dragon meets his biggest nemesis yet. A young girl.

I mean, it's not all as bad as that, of course, and Flinx has had plenty of girls after him but he's never been in quite the right frame of mind since he was being chased by assassins, trying...

Author	Alan Dean Foster
ISBN	0345310217

It caused instant addiction, followed by an excruciating slow death, and there was no known antidote.It was a killer!Supposedly the drug had been totally eradicated from the humanx galaxy years before. At least that's what everyone thought. But somehow, mysteriously, that dreadful substance was...

Author

Algis Budrys

DAMMIT FELLOW SF FANS...how does Algis Budrys fly so silently under your radar?

The more sublimely penetrating stories I read by this quiet magician, the greater my bowel irritation that he isn't given his propers as a maestro of thoughtful, intelligent SF like this:

 
This...

Author	Philip José Farmer
ISBN	0425052982

Contents:

· Preface · pr
· My Sister’s Brother [“Open to Me, My Sister”] · na F&SF May ’60
· Skinburn · ss F&SF Oct ’72
· The Alley Man · na F&SF Jun ’59
· Father’s in the Basement · ss Orbit 11, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam’s, 1972
·...