Raritania

Picking up the first volume in Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider series, I was unsurprised to see that he took many of his cues from classic...

New York: Baen, 1986, pp. 407. It seems that once again I am reviewing a novelist who was once a Big Name but has since slipped into obscu...

For at least a decade now the bestseller lists have seemed to be ever more dominated by works of young adult fiction. Accordingly to the dat...

H.B. Lyle recently penned an interesting article on the scarcity of working-class protagonists in spy fiction --about which he is, of course...

Ordinarily discussion of the publishing industry does not even acknowledge the existence of the frustrated writer thwarted in their first pu...

I don't think I've watched the Fusion TV Channel before this past week--but while scanning the TV schedule I did recently notice the...

London: Cassell, 1966, pp. 186. As I have remarked here before, William Haggard's novels rarely get mentioned today --but when referen...

It is very clear that we have not entered a post-scarcity age with regard to the more material essentials of life--energy, food, housing. We...

New York: M.S. Mill & Company and William Morrow & Co., 1960, pp. 241. Paul Stanton's Village of Stars is interesting as an e...

Arthur David Beaty flew with the Royal Air Force in World War II and then after the war became a pilot with the British Overseas Airway Corp...

The Mack "the Executioner" Bolan novels that began with 1969's War Against the Mafia are regularly credited with founding the...

Certainly one of the more frustrating words for those trying to work out what the words we hear every minute of every day actually mean is ...

While researching the history of genre science fiction I found that its historians manage to produce a relatively coherent picture of it thr...

The performance of XXX: The Return of Xander Cage at the box office is a familiar story now--a film not very warmly received in the U.S. di...

David E. Sanger wrote in the New York Times in 1986 that the American electronics industry . . . has virtually lost the entire memory mark...