Roger McBride Allen
"The Depths of Time" (nv) (Time series # 1) © 2000, Bantam Spectra --/ fourth place time sf novel --/ wonder award "A Hole in the Sun" © 1987, Analog --novelette : 1988 Locus /14 --/ fourth place space sf novella --/ wonder award --/ adventure award --/ rare find "The Ring of Charon" (nv) (Hunted Earth series # 1) © 1990, Tor Books --sf novel : 1991 Locus /10 --/ third place space sf novel --/ idea award --/ wonder award --/ adventure award --/ awesome scale "The Shattered Sphere" (nv) (Hunted Earth: Ring of Charon # 2) © Tor Books, 1994 --1995 -The Shattered Sphere Nebula Award nom. --/ third place space sf novel --/ idea award: wormhole entity etc --/ wonder award --/ awesome scale --/ adventure award --/ shock value ---------------------------------------------- Winged Mysteries—The Soviet Shuttles © Far Frontiers, Dec 1986 --/ cool article --/ rare find This is the most entertaining and interesting account of America's groping in the dark about the current (in 1986) Soviet space shuttle technology (as Roger McBride Allen points out "They steal nothing but the best technology") Well, the shuttles are no longer a mystery, of course, and we know how the whole shuttle era ended (see the detailed account in this DRB article: Rare Photos of the Russian "Buran" Space Program) - but this is very rare, paranoid take on the subject, and thoroughly enjoyable. ---------------------------------------------- "Young As You Feel" © Far Frontiers, Dec 1986 --/ cool "mad scientist" sf story --/ wonder award --/ rare find The hilarious opening of that extremely rare story had me laughing, as it describes a two-year old kid "attacking" the parents in the most innocent way - the mess, the bother, the overall so-familiar situation... What develops next, is one of the more entertaining "mad scientist" plots in recent SF. Mind you, they don't write like that any more - this would be perfectly at home in the 1940s Astounding or "Thrilling Wonder" pulp: a youthfulness plague and "responsibility" cure. Good stuff, enjoyable. ---------------------------------------------- |
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