Tag: science-fiction
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The Greatest Science Fiction Novel Ever (Part 3)
This entry features a couple of “heavy hitters” in the science fiction world: Robert Heinlein and Frank Herbert, so it’s a bit longer than the others so far. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein I suppose I should start by explaining why this isn’t Starship Troopers. Two reasons: first, I tried to…
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The Greatest Science Fiction Novel Ever (Part 2)
My first post in this series generated a satisfying amount of comments and response, so I’m pushing ahead. Here are the next two entries. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess Anthony Burgess was a literary and intellectual giant, the author of novels, screenplays, reviews, essays, poems, translations, opera librettos, and music. He won the Nobel…
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The Greatest Science Fiction Novel Ever (Part 1)
If you ask someone to name the greatest Fantasy novel, you’ve got a very good chance of hearing them say, “The Lord of the Rings, of course.” It’s a pretty safe bet. The Lord of the Rings was named the Greatest Novel of the 20th century — overall, no genre specified — in a British…
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Retro-Review: Hellstrom’s Hive
Hellstrom’s Hive is a novel by Frank Herbert, better known as the creator of Dune. He wrote it in 1972, inspired by a somewhat obscure film by David Wolper called The Hellstrom Chronicle. I haven’t seen the movie, but I gather it’s an odd combination of a nature documentary about bugs, coupled with some alarmist narration by the fictional…
