The SFcrowsnest archive
Novels, books and ebooks.
Mark Evanier’s Comics Buyer’s Guide columns from 1995-2000, illustrated by Sergio Aragonés: bootleg Groo kits, the Comics Code, Superman’s trophy room and some…
Eleven 1950s Robert Sheckley stories, from a Venusian gold rush to group minds, a chess-fought space war and immortality drugs, that still read…
Geoff Willmetts reviews Jacques Vallée and Paola Leopizzi Harris’ investigation into the alleged 1945 Trinity UFO crash, an incident said to predate Roswell…
Don’t start here, but don’t read the other twenty-five books first. While Last Of The First is Book 26 of the Saga Of…
‘Mimeograph’ by Eira A Ekre is a standalone Science Fiction novella. It does not fit neatly into any single sub-genre, but is a…
The idea of time travel has been around for a very long time. Many readers will be familiar with H.G. Wells’ ‘The Time…
One of the dilemmas any author faces is how long a work should be. Some mentors will tell them to write the story…
Octavia Butler wrote five Patternist novels. The earlier books explore the long history that eventually leads to the Patternist society, including the life…
‘Scion’ by James Islington is standalone Science Fiction thriller. Azure is an enhanced human with revs, cogs and somatics, one of the very…
This seventh volume of Forbidden Science covers Jacques Vallée’s life from 11 January 2020 to 24 October 2025. He says it will be…
The Infinite State by Richard Swan is the first novel in the Decurion Saga. This is a dystopian space opera about the impact…
In his introduction to Starshadows, editor Terry Carr describes his working relationship with author Pamela Sargent. He rejected her first four stories but…
