Victor Frankenstein

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Book Review: Featuring The Saint by Leslie Charteris

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (202) • United Kingdom 5 May

I've been reading the adventures of Leslie Charteris' famous adventure character Simon Templar, aka “The Saint” in order of book publication. It's been a while since the last one, because I save money by buying books in job lots...

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Science Fiction Book Review: Ace Double F-117: The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Rendezvous on a Lost World by A Bertram Chandler

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (202) • United Kingdom 14 Apr

I'm still going through my large collection of Ace Doubles, the long-running series of science fiction paperbacks that was published from the early 50s to the early 70s. Each volume consisted of two books printed back to back –...

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Civil War - Worth watching?

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (202) • United Kingdom 10 Apr

I've seen advertising for a new movie that's coming out soon - "Civil War", set in a nightmarish near future America. I've been thinking of seeing it. Has anyone else seen it yet, and if so do you think it's worth the price of a...

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Science Fiction Review - "If This Goes On-" by Robert Heinlein

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (202) • United Kingdom 17 Feb

Anyone reads a fair amount of science fiction has at least heard of Robert Heinlein, one of the top SF authors of the 20th Century. This is a quick review of "If This Goes On-", his first published novel-lenghth story. It was...

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Science Fiction Book Review: Assignment Luther by Lan Wright

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (202) • United Kingdom 27 Jan

I've just finished reading another of these vintage science fiction books that I get in job lots. A bit of a quick read, it's by an author who I don't recall encountering before - Lan Wright. A bit of online research reveals...

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Science Fiction Book Review: The Autobiography of James T Kirk

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (202) • United Kingdom 14 Jan

A picked this up in a charity shop recently, and I decided it would make a decent bit of light reading to start the new year with. "Edited" by David A Goodman, this paperback book purports to be written by Captain Kirk after his...

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When The Kissing Had To Stop by Constantine Fitz Gibbon - Near Future Thriller Review

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (202) • United Kingdom 9 Dec

I'm British, and I'm old enough to remember the Cold War - or maybe we should now be calling it Cold War 1, in light of current events. I was a young man when the Berlin Wall was knocked down. When I was a teenager, some people...

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Foundation by Isaac Asimov - Science Fiction Book Review

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (202) • United Kingdom 21 Nov

Here I am, not far off middle age (OK, I'm in my late 50s), a life-long science fiction fan, and can you believe I've only just got round to reading Foundation? It's one of the traditional SF standards, it's like a fan of...

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Science Fiction Book Review: Ace Double D-69: Beyond Earth's Gates by Lewis Padgett and C.L. Moore, and Daybreak 2250 A.D. By Andre Norton

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (202) • United Kingdom 4 Nov

I'm still going through my large collection of Ace Science Fiction Doubles, that well-remembered series of paperback books that were published from the early 50s to the early 70s. For me, it's a classic era of SF, when books were...

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Why do my cat neighbours sniff my car?

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (202) • United Kingdom 18 Sep

Cats exhibit some really strange behaviour at times. I've mentioned in a previous post that there's a cat that lives up the road from me who sometimes likes to come into my house, and even sleep here overnight. I don't mind,...

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True Crime Book Review: Sex on the Moon by Ben Mezrich

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (202) • United Kingdom 17 Sep

I picked this book up from the charity shelf of a nearby supermarket when I was doing my grocery shop, and having just now finished reading the book, I'm glad I didn't pay full price for it. I don't tend to read true crime...

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Book Review: Anyone Can Do It by Duncan Bannatyne

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (202) • United Kingdom 2 Sep

Being a person of great ambition but modest achievements, I sometimes like to read biographies and autobiographies of people who've achieved a much higher level of success than me. I read them for inspiration and to try to...

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Science Fiction Book Review: Anthem by Ayn Rand

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (202) • United Kingdom 30 Jul

Some readers may already be familiar with Ayn Rand, but for those who aren't, she was a Russian of Jewish descent but athiestic outlook who emigrated to America after the Bolshevik revolution and eventually became a full-time...

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Science Fiction Book Review: The Man Who Awoke by Laurence Manning

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (202) • United Kingdom 22 Jul

I bought a job lot of vintage science fiction books recently, which included this one. When I buy job lots of books, some I read and keep and others I sell on. I wasn't familiar with this book, or the author, so I thought I'd...

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Cats are strange creatures

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (202) • United Kingdom 16 Jul

She came in about teatime and settled down in front of my bedroom window for a nice long sleep. That bit's understandable, I like a nice nap myself. But it's now a quarter to midnight, and a few minutes ago it started raining...

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Book Review: Thin Air by William Marshall – A Yellowthread Street Story

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (202) • United Kingdom 9 Jul

I've been reading William Marshall's Yellowthread Street novels on and off for decades, but for some reason it's always a few years between reading each book. This is a series of mystery novels set in Hong Kong, in the days when...

Science Fiction Book Review: The Watch Below by James White

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (202) • United Kingdom 26 Jun

There's a really good second-hand bookshop in my city, a family business that's been operating since the 70s. Almost every time I go in there, I make a purchase. It has a particularly well-stocked science fiction section, with a...

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Book Review: Running Scared by Phil Campbell with Brian Reynolds

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (202) • United Kingdom 11 Jun

This is a non-fiction book I've just finished reading, being the memoirs of two guys who - fresh out of school - joined the famous Hammer Studios as office boys. Brian Reynolds started there first, in 1967, and was joined a...

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Book Review: The Avenging Saint by Leslie Charteris

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (202) • United Kingdom 21 May

I've just finished the fourth book in the adventures of Simon Templar - “The Avenging Saint”. First published with the title “Knight Templar” in 1930, this is a direct sequel to “The Saint Closes the Case”, which I read and...

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Book Review: The Saint Closes the Case by Leslie Charteris

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (202) • United Kingdom 9 Apr 23

In my ongoing quest to read all the adventures of Simon Templar in order, I've just finished the third book in the saga. “The Saint Closes the Case” was originally titled “The Last Hero”, which I think is a better title. First...

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