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Reading on the Rails
Classic Science-Fiction and Fantasy Reviews
© 2019 James LaFond
APR/27/19
As I travel around this anti-literate nation by train, am challenged in bringing enough hardcopy reading material and have decided to use paperbacks of the type used to buy twice a week in junior high school and high school back in the 1970s. The titles below are headed into the sunrise with:
-War of the Gods, Poul Anderson, 1997, Tor, NY, 304 pages
-Wild Seed, Octavia E. Butler, 1980, SFBC 50th anniversary edition, NY, 245 pages,
-John Carter and the Giant of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1940, Del Rey, NY, 78 pages, $1.95 [As John Carter of Mars #11 with Skeleton Men of Jupiter]
-Skeleton Men of Jupiter, Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1942, Del Rey, NY, 86 pages
-Pirates of Venus, Edgar rice Burroughs, 1932, NEL, NY, 159 pages, 45pence
-Why Call them Back from Heaven?, Clifford Simak, 1967, Pan, London, 191 pages, 60pence
-Sleep Walker’s World, Gordon R. Dickson, 1971, Daw, NY, 158 pages, $1.25
-The Door Into Summer, Robert A. Heinlein, 1957, Signet, NY, 159 pages, 75cents
-David Star, Space Ranger, Isaac Asimov writing as Paul French, 1952, Signet, NY, 144 pages, 1971 edition priced at 75cents
-Damnation Alley, Roger Zelazny, 1969, Berkley, NY, 157 pages, $1.25
-Space Viking, H. Beam Piper, 1963, Ace, NY, 243 pages
-The Book of Merlyn, T.H. White, 1977 [originally published in 1939 and 1958], Berkley, NY, 193 pages
-The Torrents of Spring, Ernest Hemingway, 1954, 103 pages
If you have any opinions on these works, send them via the comment section below and I will append them to my review.
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Ruben Chandler     Apr 28, 2019

A. Bertram Chandler wrote some wack scifi. Arthur C. Clark, Frederik Pohl, LIn Carter, L. Sprague de Camp, J.G. Ballard, Sax Roehmer, Jules Verne, ad infinitum
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