I think the only meaningful ratings on GR are *, **, and *****. Those are pretty clear: “I disliked it”, “it was okay”, and “it was amazing”. *** and **** exist in that intermediate stage between “meh” (**) and “wow” (*****). “I liked it” and “I really liked it”. WTF? How exactly do I differentia...
This whole collection felt as if it was almost there. Almost moving; almost memorable; almost making me think and rethink.I almost really liked it.But I'm absolutely looking forward to the next one. Because the direction has been up and up.My impressions as I read:~ Recently, in one of my Bulgari...
It is a marvel to behold, how Sturgeon the apprentice burst into the master Sturgeon. Bang at the start of the book too: smiling at you along with Robin English from "Maturity."(However, this may be an exaggeration. Sturgeon did rewrite the second half of "Maturity" several years later, to make i...
In the 1978 horror movie "Martin," writer/director George A. Romero presented us with a young man who enjoys killing people and drinking their blood, but who may or may not be a so-called "vampire"; the film is wonderfully ambiguous all the way down the line on that score. Seventeen years before ...
A good collection of short stories by Theodore Sturgeon, the real-life prototype for Vonnegut's Kilgore Trout. I have never discovered what Sturgeon thought about the joke. He seems to have been a nice guy, so maybe he took it in good part.The story I liked best was the first one, "Bright Segment...
Note: Contrary to popular perception, this novel is NOT about a group of space-faring bankers that recklessly squander their resources and then cabal with the shadowy interstellar governing overlords to rape the cosmic taxpayers of their hard-earned wealth. That kind of story would just be too fa...
