Autor: Jörg Schäfer

Buch-Review: Zeit der Vögel von James Blish

What nonsense! Science Fiction is about ideas but the ideas here are far-fetched and underdeveloped. None of the events is explained in any believable fashion. The effort of giving depth…

Buch-Review: Das Herz ist ein einsamer Jäger von Carson McCullers

I can see why this novel got such an outstanding reception. It broached the important issue of racial discrimination at a time long before it got common sense that Blacks…

Buch-Review: Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins von Milan Kundera

One of the few books that I chose to read a second time. And I don't regret it. If at all, it's gotten better with reading it again. Mostly because…

Buch-Review: Der Fangschuß von Marguerite Yourcenar

I wasn't really prepared for Coup de Grâce. At its surface, it's a long monologue of Erick de Lhomond, looking back at an obscure place and time in history, the…

Buch-Review: Der Verfolger von Julio Cortázar

The Pursuer is a short sketch about a musician on the verge between genius and insanity. It's only thinly disguised that it's about Charlie Parker and his drug-fueled decline and…

Buch-Review: Under the Volcano von Malcolm Lowry

It's been a long time since I last abandoned a book. But I couldn't get any enjoyment out of this one and in the week I occupied myself with this…

Buch-Review: Diese Einsamkeit ohne Überfluß von Sigrid Damm

Ich habe dieses Buch 2007 von einem Grabbeltisch im damals noch existierenden Frankfurter Laden von Zweitausendeins erworben und angefangen zu lesen. Auf halber Strecke bin ich damals stehengeblieben. Nicht, weil…

Buch-Review: Geheimagentin der Erde von John Brunner

A solid mix of fantasy and SF. Could have been an episode of Star Trek with humanity monitoring backward settlements on remote planets without intruding. It's not that those settlements…

Buch-Review: Das große Geheimnis von René Barjavel

The S in SF stands at least as much for social as for science when it comes to this book. There's a science part in that a scientist discovers an…

Buch-Review: Slan von A.E. van Vogt

The premise of genetically mutated humans is interesting and disturbing at the same time. Also, the setup with a human dictator ruling the Earth is critical, being written in 1940.…