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Poul Anderson is a seriously under-rated sf writer. If you want aliens, spaceships, intergalactic adventures, then he’s your man. He wrote a great deal of fantasy (including a pretty decent Conan the Rebel story in 1980), having been born in 1926 just as the Golden Age of pulp magazines began to influence a generations of school kids. He wrote dozens …
Gaiman’s American Gods is a modern wonder of the world. Somehow it manages to straddle the chaos of the everyday, with the power and mystery of the ancients, stirring the gods of America’s various constituent populations, with the all-powerful, glittering, idols of today. A modern moral story it’s a beast of a ride, and one of my absolute favourite books. …
Originally published on the lip of the 1960s Heinlein’s most popular book exists at that dangerous point in history where the patrician attitudes of the ’50s status quo collided with the rebellious freedoms of the ’60s. Mike is the lone survivor of a human colony on Mars. Raised by Martians he returns to earth ignorant of human ways, brings free …
The end of the Roman Empire plunged its territories into ignorance and chaos. Time was left to its own devices as the people struggled to survive, and science was regarded with suspicion. Another fascinating tale of Time from These Fantastic Worlds.