Tag: sci-fi

  • Old Man’s War

    Blurbs mean a lot to me.  I put a great deal of trust in them, and time and again blurbs have proven an excellent curator of books.  But blurbs are used and abused—like everything else. Old Man’s War has a blurb on its front cover that states the following— “…Scalzi’s astonishingly proficient first novel reads…

  • Some sci-fi, a review

    The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Edition, October 1979 by Edward L. Ferman My rating: 2 of 5 stars Last week I watched an episode of a show called Mythic Quest. But alas, it was a flashback episode and essentially a one-off. The episode centered around three characters working at a sci-fi…