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Food of the Gods
H. G. Wells
1900 · 300 pages · 3 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positive
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that was first published in 1904. Wells called it "a fantasia on the change of scale in human affairs. . . . I had hit upon [the idea] while working out the possibilities of the near future in a book of speculations called Anticipations (1901)". The novel, which has had various B-movie adaptations, is about a group of scientists that invents food that accelerates the growth of children and turns them into giants when they become adults.
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The boat of a million years
Poul Anderson
1989 · 530 pages · 4 reviews
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Others have written SF on the theme of immortality, but in The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anderson made it his own. Early in human history, certain individuals were born who live on, unaging, undying, through the centuries and millenia. We follow them through over 2000 years, up to our time and beyond-to the promise of utopia, and to the challenge of the stars. A milestone in modern science fiction, a New York Times Notable Book on its first publication in 1989, this is one of a great writer's finest works.
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New dreams this morning
James Blish
1966 · 190 pages · 1 review
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Cover art by Richard Powers. This anthology contains: A Master of Babylon by Edgar Pangborn; A Man of Talent by Robert Silverberg; With These Hands by C. M. Kornbluth; The Country of the Kind by Damon Knight; Portrait of the Artist by Harry Harrison; Dreaming is a Private Thing by Isaac Asimov; and A Work of Art; and The Dark Night of the Soul by James Blish.
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Memoirs of a Spacewoman
Naomi Mitchison
1962 · 160 pages · 2 reviews
Others: Positive
Naomi Mitchison, daughter of a distinguished scientist, sister of geneticist J B S Haldane, was always interested in the sciences, especially genetics. Her novels did not tend to demonstrate this, and she did not publish a Science Fiction novel until almost forty years into her fiction-writing career. This novel works effectively for readers who usually eschew the genre and prefer more traditional narratives. Explorers like Mary are an elite class who consider curiosity to be Terrans' supreme gift, and in the novel she more than once takes risks that may destroy her life. Her voice, as she records her adventures and experiments, is individual, attractive and memorable.
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The beast that shouted love at the heart of the world
Harlan Ellison
1969 · 245 pages · 1 review
Others: Positive
It is wholly inaccurate to categorize what Harlan Ellison writes as "science fiction" even as it is pejorative to call the stories of Edgar Allan Poe "detective fiction" or the novels of A. B. Guthrie "westerns". Poe wrote Poe-stories, Guthrie told Guthrie-stories, and Harlan Ellison's visions are peculiarly his own. "Fantasies" might be closer, yet no fantasist working today manages to trap the mist of fantasy in the Klein Bottle of contemporary events as well as the author of these fifteen strange and strangely-disturbing stories. A summary of the wonders in this largest single collection of Mr. Ellison's recent work reads like the itinerary for a trip down a bottomless rabbit hole. • The Beast That Shouted Love At The Heart Of The World won Mr. Ellison his fourth Hugo award at the 1969 World Science Fiction Convention. It is a circular story that begins with a psychopathic killer and ends on the hushed shores of a thought, in the shadow of a sigh. • Try A Dull Knife explores the parameters of the terrifying paranoid delusion of a man whose vampirish friends feed on his slow charisma leak. • Santa Claus vs. S.P.I.D.E.R. includes such mind-boggling scenes as the shootout that takes place in the men's room of the Camarillo State Mental Institution between a James Bond Kris Kringle and Ronald Reagan in the form of a 7-headed hydra. • The Place With No Name advances the dizzying theory that Christ and Prometheus were homosexual alien lovers. • And a major new novella written especially for this volume with the deceptively gentle title A Boy And His Dog.
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The Genocides
Thomas M. Disch
1967 · 167 pages · 5 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positive
This spectacular novel established Thomas M. Disch as a major new force in science fiction. First published in 1965, it was immediately labeled a masterpiece reminiscent of the works of J.G. Ballard and H.G. Wells In this harrowing novel, the world's cities have been reduced to cinder and ash and alien plants have overtaken the earth. The plants, able to grow the size of maples in only a month and eventually reach six hundred feet, have commandeered the world's soil and are sucking even the Great Lakes dry. In northern Minnesota, Anderson, an aging farmer armed with a Bible in one hand and a gun in the other, desperately leads the reduced citizenry of a small town in a daily struggle for meager existence. Throw into this fray Jeremiah Orville, a marauding outsider bent on a bizarre and private revenge, and the fight to live becomes a daunting task.
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