Help me choose a couple of my next books: Which Dune sequels and which Gene Wolfe book to buy? [more inside]
posted on Sep 28, 2008 - 26 answers

I'm looking for a series of hardback science fiction anthologies I dimly remember from childhood (sometime in the mid 80s). I think it had a one word title with a number, and the series went up to at least number five. I remember two stories in particular... [more inside]
posted on Jan 13, 2008 - 11 answers

I am looking for books similar in style with Christopher Priest's "The Prestige". What i want is complex stories, epistolary in structure where the plot has to be puzzeled together by the reader.
posted on Mar 22, 2007 - 26 answers

Help find a SF book that my friend can't quite recall, but remembers themes of? [more inside]
posted on Sep 1, 2006 - 7 answers

A set of questions related to this review in today's New York Times--it's the inaugural review of a new science-fiction column. [more inside]
posted on Mar 5, 2006 - 52 answers

Which Dune novel or novels by Frank Herbert or his successors refers to mentats as cultivating "the naive mind"? The only place I can find it is in the Wikipedia article on mentats (endlessly cloned around the Web).
posted on Oct 27, 2005 - 8 answers

The "Red Dwarf" sci-fi comedy series. If I had to choose between just the books, or just the DVDs, which one should I go with?
posted on Sep 12, 2004 - 21 answers

Who can recommend some good time travel fiction? (Yes, I'm a geek)
posted on Jun 10, 2004 - 46 answers