Star Wars
20th Century-Fox Film Corp.
1979
In honor Star Wars Day, here are a couple of picture books. (One with an ACTUAL RECORD!) As a fan of the original trilogy, I do reject the second book, since Jar Jar Binks is the worst (and then I quit paying attention to the rest of the series.)
Break out your light sabers and become one with the force,
Mary
The Duplicated Man
Blish and Lowndes
1976 (original copyright 1959)
I picked this up as a used book because I thought the cover looked cool. (I am a sucker for interesting cover art.) I get a kick out of how science fiction from the old days, “predict” futures and technology.
Taurus Four Vale 1970 I am always attracted to cover art and this one grabbed my attention right away. I am not sure, but this cover qualifies as weird enough. In this story, a sociologist is stranded on a planet
World Swappers Brunner 1959 Who wouldn’t want to pick up and read this book with Frederik Pohl’s lukewarm endorsement on the cover? I cracked up at the marketing genius who thought this kind of statement would make a great book
Galactic Aliens Frank 1979 Submitter: A student brought the following book to our attention for review and weeding…because he wanted it. Why is this book awful? Well, it is a book that claims to be the most important book since
Alien Pets Little, ed. 1998 This is an anthology of some decent science fiction/fantasy authors. Not necessarily a weeder at all, but this poor volume had some serious water damage on the inside. Sci-fi and fantasy is usually a good
Hong on the Range Wu 1989 Submitter: We came across this 1989 copyright doozie awhile ago while we were doing our first major weed. It has been stored in our favorite weed collection for a few years now. It features
The Boy with Dinosaur Hands: Nine Tales of the Real and Unreal Carusone 1998 Submitter: There are so many things going on with this book…a kid with dinosaur hands, horrible writing, crazy chapter titles, and the illustrations! The worst part
