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 8, 2018 | Antique Book Reports
Charles Ardai’s imprint Hard Case Crime has unearthed an overlooked 1974 novel by Donald E. Westlake, and it is a can’t-put-down, hilarious page-turner. The book apparently came and went with little fanfare in the mid-70’s, had a hardcover edition...
by Dale Dalenberg | Mar 13, 2018 | Antique Book Reports
Siodmak (1902-2000) already had 18 published novels under his belt in Germany before emigrating to the U.S., fleeing the anti-Semitism of pre-war Germany. His older brother, Robert, became a recognized name in the world of film noir. Kurt (now Curt, in the...
by Dale Dalenberg | Feb 10, 2018 | Antique Book Reports
Modern police procedurals are generally found on television shows of the C.S.I. variety. Actors who are too “hot” to really be cops and detectives stand around making quantum leaps of deductive reasoning in a few lines of dialogue, arriving at conclusions...
by Dale Dalenberg | Dec 27, 2017 | Antique Book Reports
Now that we are going on 18 years into the 21st Century, the music of the 20th Century seems almost classic, encompassing a spectrum from Late Romanticism to Modernism to “Post-modernism” to the latest avant garde. To make sense of it all, and to be prepared to...
by Dale Dalenberg | Nov 14, 2017 | Antique Book Reports
Winsor McCay is a giant among early comic strip artists, famous for the epic scenery of Little Nemo in Slumberland, and famous as an early animator on Gertie the Dinosaur and The Sinking of the Lusitania. A kind of a trial run for Nemo was McCay’s 1904-1911 strip...
