“If I look at a falling leaf in a certain way it seems to stand still.” This is the ultimate Zeno’s Paradox stasis of time story as created in a lagoon and “this once barren island, a left-over of nature seven miles from the north-east coast of Puerto Rico.” And Johnson – once an errand […]

LINKS ARE TO THE REVIEWS THAT ARE SHOWN IN COMMENT STREAMS FIRST LINK: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2016/07/19/the-big-book-of-science-fiction/ THE STAR (1897) by H. G. Wells SULTANA’S DREAM (1905) by Rokheya Shekhawat Hossain THE TRIUMPH OF MECHANICS (1907) by Karl Hans Strobl THE NEW OVERWORLD (1911) by Paul Scheerbart ELEMENTS OF PATAPHYSICS by Alfred Jarry MECHANOPOLIS by Miguel de Unamuno […]

Nearly seventy years between above photos of the reviewer! *** The links shown below are to the comment streams… FIRST LINK: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/04/28/that-glimpse-of-truth/ THE BOOK OF JONAH THE DECEITFUL MARRIAGE: Miguel de Cervantes THE CHILDREN OF HAMELN: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm THE TELL-TALE HEART by Edgar Allan Poe THE NOSE by Nikolai Gogol THE SIGNAL-MAN: Charles Dickens […]

Links to the the comment streams… FIRST LINK: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/04/12/penguin-books-of-british-short-stories/ RUDYARD KIPLING: The Man Who Would be King P. G. WODEHOUSE: Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court THE WITHERED ARM by Thomas Hardy ‘MALACHI’ WHITAKER: Courage W. S. GILBERT: An Elixir of Love JACK COMMON: Nineteen OLIVE SCHREINER: The Buddhist Priest’s Wife THE DANCING-MISTRESS by Elizabeth Bowen SECOND […]

J. G. BALLARD: The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D “Later her portraits, carved in the whirlwind, were to weep their storm-rain upon the corpses of their sculptors.” Fiction is like cloud sculpting, clouds as words, words as clouds, and we see the faces, the interactions, the cripples and the beautiful ones, the gliders of plot between, […]