Pluto is a Planet! : Science Fiction/Fantasy Book reviews.
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 8: "The Black Destroyer" by A. E. Van Vogt
13 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"The Black Destroyer" by A. E. Van Vogt. First published 1939 in Amazing Science Fiction magazine.
Episode 7: "Mortal Gods" by Orson Scott Card
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this review of "Mortal Gods", I try and figure out how to reconcile myself to the fact that Orson Scott Card is a great writer of science fiction, ...
Episode 6: "Shambleau" by C. L. Moore
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Shambleau" by C. L. Moore. First published in 1933.
Review of Anne Mccaffrey's The Ship Who Sang"
03 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I am reviewing one of my favorite science fiction short stories, "The Ship Who Sang", written by Anne Mccaffrey and first published in...
The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
E. M. Forster wrote The Machine Stops in 1909, and in a crazy bit of synchronic prescience, he created a world that is scarily like what our lives are...
Ep. 3: Reviewing "Contagion" by Katherine Maclean and "The First Man In The World" by Misha Burnett
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode reviews two science fiction short stories that were published sixty six years apart, yet both delve into the idea of how places, or plane...
Reviews "The Sentimentalists" by Murray Leinster and "A Dead Djinn in Cairo" by P. Djeli Clark
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode my reviews of the Classic scifi "The Sentimentalists" and modern scifi "A Dead Djinn in Cairo" shed a light on how depictions of women...
Episode1: Reviews of "Only a Mother" by Judith Merrill and "Dogs of War" by Adrian Tchaikovsky
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
My review of two science fiction stories from 1948 and 2017 that strangely focus on the same subject: The consequences of war.
Pluto is a Planet Introduction
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Just me explaining what books I will be reviewing and why.