Olaf Stapledon’s Star Maker is an odd book, essentially an extended info-dump or fictional anthropology text, but a perfect example of why #VintageSciFiMonth is a fun exercise… kaedrin.com/weblog/2024/...
Vintage Science Fiction Month: Star Maker - Kaedrin Weblog
A review of Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon for Vintage Sci-Fi Month, with thoughts on its novel ideas and surprisingly spiritual nature...
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February 14, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Olaf Stapledon’s Star Maker is an odd book, essentially an extended info-dump or fictional anthropology text, but a perfect example of why #VintageSciFiMonth is a fun exercise… kaedrin.com/weblog/2024/...
Some SF that’s been accumulating on the Book Queue of late (including one all important vintage SF novel for #VintageSciFiMonth) kaedrin.com/weblog/2023/...
The Book Queue - Kaedrin Weblog
A look at the science fiction (and SF-adjacent) novels on my book queue, with novels from John Scalzi, Martha Wells, and moar...
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December 22, 2023 at 10:04 PM
Some SF that’s been accumulating on the Book Queue of late (including one all important vintage SF novel for #VintageSciFiMonth) kaedrin.com/weblog/2023/...
I believe that January is #VintageSciFiMonth Those of you looking for reading recommendations might find the book I co-edited a couple of years ago a useful guide, DANGEROUS VISIONS & NEW WORLDS: RADICAL SCIENCE FICTION 1950-1985. It's out via PM Press
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January 11, 2024 at 12:18 AM
I believe that January is #VintageSciFiMonth Those of you looking for reading recommendations might find the book I co-edited a couple of years ago a useful guide, DANGEROUS VISIONS & NEW WORLDS: RADICAL SCIENCE FICTION 1950-1985. It's out via PM Press
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Ok, blsky folks what am I reading for #vintagescifimonth? #classicscifi #scifi
I got zero responses on the other joint.
I got zero responses on the other joint.
January 8, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Ok, blsky folks what am I reading for #vintagescifimonth? #classicscifi #scifi
I got zero responses on the other joint.
I got zero responses on the other joint.
I got my copy of Craig Yoe's SPACE WESTERN COMICS collection when it dropped in November. I am *finally* posting my review:
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#comics #western #vintagescifimonth #Booksky
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#comics #western #vintagescifimonth #Booksky
Space Western Comics: A Review
It’s tempting to look at pop culture trends in the 1950s and ‘60s in broad strokes, shaped by after-the-fact simplifications like Toy Story 2. In that film, classic cowboy Westerns were put out to …
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January 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I got my copy of Craig Yoe's SPACE WESTERN COMICS collection when it dropped in November. I am *finally* posting my review:
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#comics #western #vintagescifimonth #Booksky
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#comics #western #vintagescifimonth #Booksky
It's #VintageSciFiMonth so I've reviewed One Billion Years to the End of the World by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky annabookbel.net/one-billion-...
One Billion Years to the End of the World by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
Translated by Antonina W. Bouis I managed to fit in a post for #VintageSciFiMonth this January in my third encounter with the Strugatsky brothers, after the completely lovable and madcap Monday sta…
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January 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM
It's #VintageSciFiMonth so I've reviewed One Billion Years to the End of the World by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky annabookbel.net/one-billion-...
2024 brings us the 12th year of VintageSciFiMonth as @redhead5318.bsky.social started this fun not a challenge just enjoy some Vintage SciFi month back in 2012!
January 1, 2024 at 3:09 PM
2024 brings us the 12th year of VintageSciFiMonth as @redhead5318.bsky.social started this fun not a challenge just enjoy some Vintage SciFi month back in 2012!
Welcome to VintageSciFiMonth which takes place every January with the goal of reading/watching/listening to SciFi published prior to your year of birth, or if that is too restrictive you can use 1979 as a starting year. Please enjoy some Vintage SciFi & tell us about it!💫🚀
January 1, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Welcome to VintageSciFiMonth which takes place every January with the goal of reading/watching/listening to SciFi published prior to your year of birth, or if that is too restrictive you can use 1979 as a starting year. Please enjoy some Vintage SciFi & tell us about it!💫🚀
#VintageSciFiMonth
#Book #review: Out of the Silent Planet by #CSLewis #ccbookreviews wordsandpeace.com/2026/01/31/b...
MY VERDICT:
Lewis’s elegant, poetic prose and linguistic worldbuilding hooked me immediately. A unique first-contact story, packed with Christian themes.
#Book #review: Out of the Silent Planet by #CSLewis #ccbookreviews wordsandpeace.com/2026/01/31/b...
MY VERDICT:
Lewis’s elegant, poetic prose and linguistic worldbuilding hooked me immediately. A unique first-contact story, packed with Christian themes.
Book review: Out of the Silent Planet
MY VERDICT: Lewis’s elegant, poetic prose and linguistic worldbuilding hooked me immediately. A unique first-contact story, packed with Christian themes.
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January 31, 2026 at 2:29 PM
#VintageSciFiMonth
#Book #review: Out of the Silent Planet by #CSLewis #ccbookreviews wordsandpeace.com/2026/01/31/b...
MY VERDICT:
Lewis’s elegant, poetic prose and linguistic worldbuilding hooked me immediately. A unique first-contact story, packed with Christian themes.
#Book #review: Out of the Silent Planet by #CSLewis #ccbookreviews wordsandpeace.com/2026/01/31/b...
MY VERDICT:
Lewis’s elegant, poetic prose and linguistic worldbuilding hooked me immediately. A unique first-contact story, packed with Christian themes.
Friday #bookhooks
#firstlineFriday
#bookbeginnings
#Friday56
This Perfect Day, by #IraLevin #VintageScifiMonth #sciencefiction #scifi
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#firstlineFriday
#bookbeginnings
#Friday56
This Perfect Day, by #IraLevin #VintageScifiMonth #sciencefiction #scifi
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Friday Book Hooks #5
The Friday Book Hooks #5 Meme inspired by Adele Bound in Books #bookhooks #firstlineFriday #bookbeginnings #Friday56 📚 📚 📚 Another vintage scifi for my Book Hooks #5: This Perfect Day, by Ira Levi…
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January 30, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Friday #bookhooks
#firstlineFriday
#bookbeginnings
#Friday56
This Perfect Day, by #IraLevin #VintageScifiMonth #sciencefiction #scifi
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#firstlineFriday
#bookbeginnings
#Friday56
This Perfect Day, by #IraLevin #VintageScifiMonth #sciencefiction #scifi
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#vintageScifiMonth #Book #review: This Perfect Day #sciencefiction #scifi by #IraLevin wordsandpeace.com/2026/01/26/b...
Book review: This Perfect Day
MY VERDICT: An impressive and chilling 1970 dystopia that feels like it was written for today. Clever, prescient, it makes you question everything about freedom versus control.
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January 26, 2026 at 4:54 PM
#vintageScifiMonth #Book #review: This Perfect Day #sciencefiction #scifi by #IraLevin wordsandpeace.com/2026/01/26/b...
#bookhooks
#firstlineFriday
#bookbeginnings
#Friday56
#vintagescifimonth
Alpha Centauri or Die, #scifi by #Leighbrackett
VERDICT:
What we mean by intelligence and should be ready to confront if we price freedom. The freedom to be humans and not parts of a machine.
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#firstlineFriday
#bookbeginnings
#Friday56
#vintagescifimonth
Alpha Centauri or Die, #scifi by #Leighbrackett
VERDICT:
What we mean by intelligence and should be ready to confront if we price freedom. The freedom to be humans and not parts of a machine.
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Friday Book Hooks #4
The Friday Book Hooks #4 Meme inspired by Adele Bound in Books #bookhooks #firstlineFriday #bookbeginnings #Friday56 📚 📚 📚 A vintage scifi for my Book Hooks #4: Alpha Centauri or Die, by Leigh Bra…
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January 16, 2026 at 1:40 PM
#bookhooks
#firstlineFriday
#bookbeginnings
#Friday56
#vintagescifimonth
Alpha Centauri or Die, #scifi by #Leighbrackett
VERDICT:
What we mean by intelligence and should be ready to confront if we price freedom. The freedom to be humans and not parts of a machine.
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#firstlineFriday
#bookbeginnings
#Friday56
#vintagescifimonth
Alpha Centauri or Die, #scifi by #Leighbrackett
VERDICT:
What we mean by intelligence and should be ready to confront if we price freedom. The freedom to be humans and not parts of a machine.
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#VintageSciFiMonth Check here my #book #review of
Alpha Centauri or Die, by #LeighBrackett (1963) #scifi #sciencefiction wordsandpeace.com/2026/01/11/s...
Alpha Centauri or Die, by #LeighBrackett (1963) #scifi #sciencefiction wordsandpeace.com/2026/01/11/s...
Sunday Post #154: back to normal life
The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have receive…
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January 13, 2026 at 3:37 AM
#VintageSciFiMonth Check here my #book #review of
Alpha Centauri or Die, by #LeighBrackett (1963) #scifi #sciencefiction wordsandpeace.com/2026/01/11/s...
Alpha Centauri or Die, by #LeighBrackett (1963) #scifi #sciencefiction wordsandpeace.com/2026/01/11/s...
#VintageSciFiMonth My short #book #review of The Day of the Triffids, by #JohnWyndham #booksky
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January 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
#VintageSciFiMonth My short #book #review of The Day of the Triffids, by #JohnWyndham #booksky
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I’m taking advantage of #VintageSciFiMonth to review a book I reread last autumn: John Wyndham’s Trouble With Lichen
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Vintage SF Month: Trouble with Lichen
When two brilliant scientists separately discover the effect of a rare lichen, Francis is paralysed by uncertainty while Diana architects an ambitious plan to protect women’s rights. Wyndham …
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January 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I’m taking advantage of #VintageSciFiMonth to review a book I reread last autumn: John Wyndham’s Trouble With Lichen
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For #VintageSciFiMonth I read The Death of Grass, John Christopher’s bleak 50s apocalypse novel with very little faith in humanity
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Vintage SF Month: The Death of Grass
John Christopher’s classic 1956 apocalypse The Death of Grass considers the impact of a deadly virus affecting first rice, then cereals, ending our ability to feed ourselves on a global scale…
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January 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
For #VintageSciFiMonth I read The Death of Grass, John Christopher’s bleak 50s apocalypse novel with very little faith in humanity
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Happy Sunday Womble! I’m aiming to finish Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver today to close out my winter spooky season, before I pivot to a suitable #VintageSciFiMonth read
January 5, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Happy Sunday Womble! I’m aiming to finish Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver today to close out my winter spooky season, before I pivot to a suitable #VintageSciFiMonth read
I second #VintageSciFiMonth let’s make it a thing! Is that January, a calendar month?or an arbitrary month starting now?
There’s so much good stuff out there. I’ll have to think what I want to post about.
There’s so much good stuff out there. I’ll have to think what I want to post about.
January 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I second #VintageSciFiMonth let’s make it a thing! Is that January, a calendar month?or an arbitrary month starting now?
There’s so much good stuff out there. I’ll have to think what I want to post about.
There’s so much good stuff out there. I’ll have to think what I want to post about.
Swordsmen from the Stars by Poul Anderson. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (DMR Books, 2020) Cover art by Allen Anderson. Reprints three sword & planet stories from 1951. “Witch of the Demon Seas,” “The Virgin of Valkarion,” and “Swordsman of Lost Terra”
#VintageSciFiMonth
#VintageSciFiMonth
January 31, 2024 at 10:34 PM
Swordsmen from the Stars by Poul Anderson. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (DMR Books, 2020) Cover art by Allen Anderson. Reprints three sword & planet stories from 1951. “Witch of the Demon Seas,” “The Virgin of Valkarion,” and “Swordsman of Lost Terra”
#VintageSciFiMonth
#VintageSciFiMonth
Agent of the Terran Empire by Poul Anderson. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cover art by Michael Whelan. Ace Books,1980. Reprints four Dominic Flandry stories stories from the 1950s plus an essay about the series.
#VintageSciFiMonth
#VintageSciFiMonth
January 22, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Agent of the Terran Empire by Poul Anderson. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cover art by Michael Whelan. Ace Books,1980. Reprints four Dominic Flandry stories stories from the 1950s plus an essay about the series.
#VintageSciFiMonth
#VintageSciFiMonth
Tiger by the Tail by Poul Anderson. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Planet Stories, Jan 1951.
Agent of the Terran Empire, 1980. 1st appearance of Capt Flandry of the Imperial Naval Intelligence Corps: The Long Night, civil war, a space battle, and a sword fight. Yojimbo in space w/some tragic love.
#VintageSciFiMonth
Agent of the Terran Empire, 1980. 1st appearance of Capt Flandry of the Imperial Naval Intelligence Corps: The Long Night, civil war, a space battle, and a sword fight. Yojimbo in space w/some tragic love.
#VintageSciFiMonth
January 18, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Tiger by the Tail by Poul Anderson. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Planet Stories, Jan 1951.
Agent of the Terran Empire, 1980. 1st appearance of Capt Flandry of the Imperial Naval Intelligence Corps: The Long Night, civil war, a space battle, and a sword fight. Yojimbo in space w/some tragic love.
#VintageSciFiMonth
Agent of the Terran Empire, 1980. 1st appearance of Capt Flandry of the Imperial Naval Intelligence Corps: The Long Night, civil war, a space battle, and a sword fight. Yojimbo in space w/some tragic love.
#VintageSciFiMonth
A review of 'The Blazing World' by Margaret Cavendish (1666).
#VintageSciFiMonth #SpeccyFicChal #Booksky
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#VintageSciFiMonth #SpeccyFicChal #Booksky
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Interpret as you please: #VintageSciFiMonth
From Athanasius Kircher’s Mundus Subterraneanus (1665). The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish. Penguin Archive, 2025 (1666). What, said the Empress, can any mortal be a creator? Yes, answer…
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January 15, 2026 at 8:42 AM
A review of 'The Blazing World' by Margaret Cavendish (1666).
#VintageSciFiMonth #SpeccyFicChal #Booksky
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#VintageSciFiMonth #SpeccyFicChal #Booksky
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My review of 'Hard to Be a God' by the brothers #Strugatsky for #VintageSciFiMonth: this year is the century of Arkady's birth.
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Do Not Enter: #VintageSciFiMonth
Detail from the Hell panel of Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’. Hard to Be a God by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Translated by Olena Bormashenko (2014)…
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January 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
My review of 'Hard to Be a God' by the brothers #Strugatsky for #VintageSciFiMonth: this year is the century of Arkady's birth.
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A review of The Day of the Triffids by #JohnWyndham for #VintageSciFiMonth.
Also the fourth title in my Year of Reading Randomly with books only from my TBR pile. wp.me/s2oNj1-triffid
Also the fourth title in my Year of Reading Randomly with books only from my TBR pile. wp.me/s2oNj1-triffid
Biological meddlings
Image created using https://wepik.com/ai-generate The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. Penguin, 1999 (1951). '... their true origin still remains obscure. My own belief, for what it is worth, is t...
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January 21, 2024 at 10:20 AM
A review of The Day of the Triffids by #JohnWyndham for #VintageSciFiMonth.
Also the fourth title in my Year of Reading Randomly with books only from my TBR pile. wp.me/s2oNj1-triffid
Also the fourth title in my Year of Reading Randomly with books only from my TBR pile. wp.me/s2oNj1-triffid
Don't forget January is #VintageSciFiMonth, and I'm open to book recommendations. 🤓
January 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Don't forget January is #VintageSciFiMonth, and I'm open to book recommendations. 🤓