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Ryan Comments: Hey, Poul, I bet you can’t write a SciFi novel that references Shakespeare and contains D’Artagnan, the Ring Cycle, steam-powered locomotives, Classical Greek architecture, and bearded monks!

Published 1975

(Average: 4.80 out of 10)

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Ryan’s Art Direction: “The story is called, ‘Rocket Jockey’, so draw some spaceships orbiting Jupiter along with a trash-compactor-carrying milkman wielding a plumber’s tool.”

Published 1982

(Average: 8.00 out of 10)

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Ryan Comments: Defeated in single combat by a guy wearing a loincloth, set ablaze and hurled onto the waiting weapons of his own men – he was probably not impressing the babe in the bikini.

Published 1975

(Average: 9.00 out of 10)

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Ryan Comments: Is the first of the stories about restraining a gigantic alien and performing multiple amputations, in space?

Published 1987

(Average: 7.60 out of 10)

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Arthur Dent Comments: Armageddon Outta Here

Published 1989

(Average: 6.20 out of 10)

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Mungo Park Comments: Disraeli Gears

Published 1960

(Average: 8.33 out of 10)

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Ryan Comments: I don’t think that the blurb writer understands how time works. And the illustrator has some interesting ideas about what occurs underwater.

Tag Wizard: And that brings Ryan Week to an end here at GSS. Thanks for the mother lode of covers.

Published 1975

(Average: 7.00 out of 10)

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Bibliomancer Comments: Painted by Unhuman Hands.

Published 1960

(Average: 7.60 out of 10)

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Chauncy comments: “Thrilling non-stop sci-fi action!” — Field and Stream

Published 1980

(Average: 5.25 out of 10)

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Wendy Comments Oh crap. The candle factory is burning down.

Published 1990

(Average: 7.60 out of 10)

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