Victor Frankenstein

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Book Review: Kiki's Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (243) • United Kingdom 15 Nov

A quick review for a quick read. I'm a bit of a fan of the animated films of Hayao Miyazaki and his famous Studio Ghibli. It was a bit over 20 years ago that I first saw "Kiki's Delivery Service". I loved it, like all of...

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I Did Not Expect A Giant Bull

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (243) • United Kingdom 10 Nov

Me and my best friend and confidante went down to Birmingham yesterday. Usually I drive, but BFAC has got it into her head that she doesn't like driving long distances anymore - I mean, it's only a couple of hours drive,...

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Science Fiction Book Review: Catseye by Andre Norton

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (243) • United Kingdom 8 Nov

I've just finished reading this science fiction novel by an author who I've been getting in to lately. I don't see vintage science fiction books in charity shops very often, but I was lucky enough to find this one in an Oxfam...

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Book Review: Alias The Saint by Leslie Charteris

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (243) • United Kingdom 25 Oct

In my quest to read all the Saint books in order, I've come to the sixth volume - “Alias The Saint.” This book is a collection of three short stories, originally published in magazines before being collected together in 1931....

Shots fired in the vicinity of Donald Trump

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (243) • United Kingdom 15 Sep

The news has just come through that shots were fired at a golf club where Donald Trump was playing golf. According to the BBC, agents saw someone pointing a rifle at the golf course and fired on the suspect, who then dropped the...

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Science Fiction Book Review: Slan by A. E. Van Vogt

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (243) • United Kingdom 15 Sep

AE Van Vogt was one of those authors who most science fiction fans have at least heard of, but I haven't read much of his work, except for his famous "Weapon Shop" stories many years ago. I sometimes buy job lots of vintage books...

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Science Fiction Book Review: The Furies by Keith Roberts

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (243) • United Kingdom 26 Aug

I've just finished reading a pretty good alien invasion/post-apocalyptic novel. "The Furies" was the first novel by Keith Roberts, a British writer who wen on to have a pretty good reputation. I think this is the first of his...

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The Victor Legris Mysteries - A short book review

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (243) • United Kingdom 14 Aug

I don't normally read book series one right after the other, but I had the first three books in this series and after I'd finished the first, I decided to carry on and read the next two. This is a series of period detective...

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Donald Trump - Coward of the county?

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (243) • United Kingdom 26 Jul

He's been trying to wriggle out of it since Biden stepped down, but now Donald Trump has officially admitted that he won't face Kamala Harris in the televised debate that was scheduled for September. I'm not aware of any other...

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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (243) • United Kingdom 27 May

I've never missed an opportunity to watch a Planet of the Apes movie at the cinema since I was a kid in the 70s. And I've enjoyed the current series of Apes movies so far, so I wasn't going to miss the chance to see the latest...

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The Outcasts of Heaven Belt by Joan D. Vinge - Science Fiction Book Review

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (243) • United Kingdom 18 May

I've just finished reading this 1978 science fiction novel by an author that I'm not otherwise familiar with. I don't think I've read anything by Joan D. Vinge before. Based on this book though, I'd definitely give any of her...

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Book Review: Featuring The Saint by Leslie Charteris

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (243) • United Kingdom 5 May

I've been reading the adventures of Leslie Charteris' famous adventure character Simon Templar, aka “The Saint” in order of book publication. It's been a while since the last one, because I save money by buying books in job lots...

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Science Fiction Book Review: Ace Double F-117: The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Rendezvous on a Lost World by A Bertram Chandler

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (243) • United Kingdom 14 Apr

I'm still going through my large collection of Ace Doubles, the long-running series of science fiction paperbacks that was published from the early 50s to the early 70s. Each volume consisted of two books printed back to back –...

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Civil War - Worth watching?

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (243) • United Kingdom 10 Apr

I've seen advertising for a new movie that's coming out soon - "Civil War", set in a nightmarish near future America. I've been thinking of seeing it. Has anyone else seen it yet, and if so do you think it's worth the price of a...

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Science Fiction Review - "If This Goes On-" by Robert Heinlein

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (243) • United Kingdom 17 Feb

Anyone reads a fair amount of science fiction has at least heard of Robert Heinlein, one of the top SF authors of the 20th Century. This is a quick review of "If This Goes On-", his first published novel-lenghth story. It was...

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Science Fiction Book Review: Assignment Luther by Lan Wright

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (243) • United Kingdom 27 Jan

I've just finished reading another of these vintage science fiction books that I get in job lots. A bit of a quick read, it's by an author who I don't recall encountering before - Lan Wright. A bit of online research reveals...

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Science Fiction Book Review: The Autobiography of James T Kirk

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (243) • United Kingdom 14 Jan

A picked this up in a charity shop recently, and I decided it would make a decent bit of light reading to start the new year with. "Edited" by David A Goodman, this paperback book purports to be written by Captain Kirk after his...

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When The Kissing Had To Stop by Constantine Fitz Gibbon - Near Future Thriller Review

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (243) • United Kingdom 9 Dec 23

I'm British, and I'm old enough to remember the Cold War - or maybe we should now be calling it Cold War 1, in light of current events. I was a young man when the Berlin Wall was knocked down. When I was a teenager, some people...

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Foundation by Isaac Asimov - Science Fiction Book Review

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (243) • United Kingdom 21 Nov 23

Here I am, not far off middle age (OK, I'm in my late 50s), a life-long science fiction fan, and can you believe I've only just got round to reading Foundation? It's one of the traditional SF standards, it's like a fan of...

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Science Fiction Book Review: Ace Double D-69: Beyond Earth's Gates by Lewis Padgett and C.L. Moore, and Daybreak 2250 A.D. By Andre Norton

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (243) • United Kingdom 4 Nov 23

I'm still going through my large collection of Ace Science Fiction Doubles, that well-remembered series of paperback books that were published from the early 50s to the early 70s. For me, it's a classic era of SF, when books were...

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