With rape victims, the Kadir-Buxton Method should be done only twice, so that most of the trauma of the rape is taken... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (War Arrow) http://factionparadox.yuku.com/sreply/7003 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:18:57 GMT http://factionparadox.yuku.com/reply/7002/t/Crappy-70s-paperbacks--airbrushed-spaceships--cover-reviews.html#reply-7002 Adam Kadir-Buxton ]]> feeds@yuku.com (doloras) http://factionparadox.yuku.com/sreply/7002 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:05:41 GMT http://factionparadox.yuku.com/reply/7001/t/Crappy-70s-paperbacks--airbrushed-spaceships--cover-reviews.html#reply-7001

"[Something Wicked this Way Comes] looks like one of the most unintentionally funny books I've seen for a long time..."

"This is probably the worst book I have ever read other than those magazines you find in the dentists and other such locations."

"Cuger Brant combines the scientific genius of Adam Kadir-Buxton... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (War Arrow) http://factionparadox.yuku.com/sreply/7001 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:27:50 GMT http://factionparadox.yuku.com/reply/7000/t/Crappy-70s-paperbacks--airbrushed-spaceships--cover-reviews.html#reply-7000 this oeuvre, let alone review it. ]]> feeds@yuku.com (doloras) http://factionparadox.yuku.com/sreply/7000 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:21:20 GMT http://factionparadox.yuku.com/reply/6973/t/Crappy-70s-paperbacks--airbrushed-spaceships--cover-reviews.html#reply-6973

Brian Aldiss The Canopy of Time (1959)

I imagine most people have shouted at the TV screen at some point, and plenty will have shouted at their reading matter for similar reasons.Anyway, I guess I didn't learn my lesson,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (War Arrow) http://factionparadox.yuku.com/sreply/6973 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:48:55 GMT http://factionparadox.yuku.com/reply/6969/t/Crappy-70s-paperbacks--airbrushed-spaceships--cover-reviews.html#reply-6969

Brian Aldiss Space, Time & Nathaniel (1957)

A strangely patchy collection of the man's absolute earliest short stories and a good illustration of both his strengths and weaknesses. His strengths are (as is hopefully obvious) the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (War Arrow) http://factionparadox.yuku.com/sreply/6969 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:49:06 GMT http://factionparadox.yuku.com/reply/6966/t/Crappy-70s-paperbacks--airbrushed-spaceships--cover-reviews.html#reply-6966

George Mann (ed.) The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Volume Two (Solaris,2008)

Another slightly mixed bag but with enough flavour to justify wading through the less enticing offerings (Karl Schroeder, Brenda... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (War Arrow) http://factionparadox.yuku.com/sreply/6966 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:59:52 GMT http://factionparadox.yuku.com/reply/6959/t/Crappy-70s-paperbacks--airbrushed-spaceships--cover-reviews.html#reply-6959
I've heard of Twilight mainly because my superior half really liked the film. I've not seen it and I'm told it's a bit of a chick flick, but as I don't mind the odd chick flick anyway (excepting anything with Hugh sodding Grant and Memoirs of a Geisha because it was too long and I stopped caring after the first four hours) I'm prepared to expect it could... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (War Arrow) http://factionparadox.yuku.com/sreply/6959 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:30:36 GMT http://factionparadox.yuku.com/reply/6958/t/Crappy-70s-paperbacks--airbrushed-spaceships--cover-reviews.html#reply-6958 New Moon - ok
Eclipse - reasonable
Breaking Dawn - ok, not bad, oh dear...

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Vernor Vinge The Peace War (1984)

Only seem to have heard of this guy very recently, but weirdly in terms of praise that beg the question hey, where were you? Everyone else loves the dude! A recent browsing of one of those... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (War Arrow) http://factionparadox.yuku.com/sreply/6956 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:22:34 GMT http://factionparadox.yuku.com/reply/6948/t/Crappy-70s-paperbacks--airbrushed-spaceships--cover-reviews.html#reply-6948

William Gibson Burning Chrome (1986)

The godfather (or something) of cyberpunk who famously wrote his predictions of cyberspace on an old typewriter and, upon finally acquiring a computer, had to get the delivery... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (War Arrow) http://factionparadox.yuku.com/sreply/6948 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:10:18 GMT http://factionparadox.yuku.com/reply/6944/t/Crappy-70s-paperbacks--airbrushed-spaceships--cover-reviews.html#reply-6944

Richard Matheson I Am Legend (1954)

Not something I had ever had a burning desire to read and to be honest, I only picked it up because it was there in the shop, it was cheap, and I'd... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (War Arrow) http://factionparadox.yuku.com/sreply/6944 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:52:44 GMT http://factionparadox.yuku.com/reply/6943/t/Crappy-70s-paperbacks--airbrushed-spaceships--cover-reviews.html#reply-6943

Sam Moskowitz (Ed.) Microcosmic God (1975)

A slim collection of stories taken from Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction, the much thicker 1965 anthology... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (War Arrow) http://factionparadox.yuku.com/sreply/6943 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:42:25 GMT http://factionparadox.yuku.com/topic/1004/t/Crappy-70s-paperbacks--airbrushed-spaceships--cover-reviews.html feeds@yuku.com (War Arrow) http://factionparadox.yuku.com/topic/1004 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:18:16 GMT