by Dale Dalenberg | Jul 7, 2018 | Dalenberg Library Gallery
News travels slowly to Kansas. The Dalenberg Library just got word of the passing June 27 of the enfant terrible of science fiction, Harlan Ellison (5/27/34-6/27/18.) It is difficult to envision Ellison as an 84 year-old. He was somehow frozen in our mind as...
by Dale Dalenberg | Jul 5, 2018 | Antique Book Reports
Jack Vance (1916-2013) burst on the scene with some finely crafted miniature fantasies about the dying Earth in 1950, then had a couple Hugo Awards in the early ‘60s, but mostly labored away, largely unnoticed, in the pages of the science fiction digests and...
by Dale Dalenberg | Jun 10, 2018 | Dalenberg Library Gallery
Here is a real treasure from the vinyl collection. The first two Fantasy Records releases were 1950 recordings by The Dave Brubeck Trio. Here is the Fantasy compilation reissue from those sessions in 1956, pressed on red vinyl. Brubeck’s piano style is...
by Dale Dalenberg | Jun 8, 2018 | Antique Book Reports
Brilliant Chinese “hard” science fiction from Cixin Liu (aka Liu Cixin, if you are Chinese). The book is many things. It plays an unpredictable switch on first contact stories, because the scientists who make first contact are disaffected with their own...
by Dale Dalenberg | Apr 25, 2018 | Dalenberg Library Gallery
After Traffic in Souls made the “100 Years, 100 Films” list as our entry for 1913, it seemed fitting to dig this treasure out of the stacks. Clearly the topic of “white slavery” was much in the news shortly before Word War I. Purporting to be...
