Tag: Science fiction books

  • REVIEW: The Three Electroknights by Stanislaw Lem

    We are onto Penguin Modern Classic numero 9 and I give you The Three Electroknights by science fiction/ fantasy writer Stanislaw Lem. Now I know I have mentioned this before but the font on the front of this collection of 50 classics is so hideous I can barely look at it. The merging of the…

  • REVIEW: The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

    I was a big fan of science fiction in my younger days but I haven’t read so much of it recently so I decided to pick up this old favourite by John Wyndham. Wyndham wrote, among other things, The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos, which have both been turned into films ,…

  • REVIEW: The Breakthrough

    Number three in my box of Penguin Modern Classics is Daphne Du Maurier’s The Breakthrough. Now this is a good one – despite the fact the font on the front cover still makes me want to throw them all in the bin (you might get a bit of this raving each time I review one…