Science Fiction

Dr Scofflaw

Dr Scofflaw

Bruce Ediger

Binary Star #3, Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1979. ISBN: 0-440-10526-9

Featuring two great novellas in a single volume:

  • Dr. Scofflaw, by Ron Goulart
  • Outerworld, by Isidore Haiblum

I only read Dr. Scofflaw, apparently in 1979, and again 45 years later, in 2024.

Revelation Space

Revelation Space

Bruce Ediger

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds, 2000, ISBN 978-0-316-46244-0, Orbit Books print edition 2020.

Marooned on Mars

Marooned on Mars

Bruce Ediger

I recently read this book because I vaguely recalled reading it as a youngster. For the first third of the book, my recollection seemed correct, but then the book diverged from what I remembered. Maybe I didn’t read it back in the late 60s after all.

Von Braun's Space Station

Von Braun's Space Station

Bruce Ediger

Space flight historian Michael J. Neufeld wrote an article about Wernher von Braun’s advocacy of space stations, Wernher von Braun’s Ultimate Weapon, in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2007.

An expanded version of that article appeared as ‘‘Space superiority’’: Wernher von Braun’s campaign for a nuclear-armed space station, 1946–1956 in a journal, Space Policy, 22 (2006) 52-62