Just Who Was Roger Zelazny?

When I reviewed Doorways in the Sand I assumed its author, Roger Zelazny, was better known than might be the case. If you want to know more about this highly respected and influential writer, the Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction entry is here. Meeting Roger Zelazny One year I was working on a friends bookstand at a...

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Just Who Was John Wyndham?

I've done a few posts on Day of the Triffids and while I hope most science fiction fans have some idea of John Wyndham and his works, perhaps I am making the same assumption I did about Nigel Kneale. In case you do want to know more about John Wyndham, here's a great reference from The...

Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny review

As part of my tour of 1970s science fiction, I've been catching up with some favourite titles and some I missed at the time, despite the relative paucity of new titles being released compared to today. Roger Zelazny's Doorways in the Sand is one of the latter. Quick review: I didn't like it. Long review... Doorways...

The Mermaids in God’s Eye

There is a moment in the film Mermaids when Cher's character slaps her daughter (played by Winona Ryder) in the middle of an argument. The shock of the blow causes both of them to pause, and there is a splendid moment when they realise that they are arguing hammer and tongs not because they are...

Vortex Books

If you lived in Brighton in the 1970s and 80s and were into sci-fi then there was only one place to hang out - Vortex Books not far from Preston Circus. This was a shop that sold both comics and books and only sci-fi/fantasy. This was in the days before CDs / VHS /DVDs so...