Check Sometimes feel that good SF is a thing of the past
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Lifelong Science Fiction Fan:  Check
Sometimes feel that good SF is a thing of the past:  Check
Worship Sara King:  Check, (grovel bow and scrape)
Seriously, her characters infect your mind.  I've read the first 2 Zero books, soon to start the 3rd. I will read every other scrap of her writing I can find. Thank you, I envy your talent and covet your work.
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Fresh change from the ordinary urban-category fare.  However, the New-Jack residue is heavy and recognizable, so it's a little dated.  That's not always bad, as it made me reminisce on the early 90s, but others may find it played-out.  If you're just trying 2 get any Jazzhole album, though, try ...and the feeling goes round or Blackburst first.
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Enjoyed walking down memory lane - one of the good ones from that era.
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As a big fan of short fiction from 18th and early 19th century, accomplished homage literature like this is a pleasure to find.  I love to read the greetings and phrases that, while still familiar, are waxing archaic.  Verbica seems to have put his time in as a student of Doyle from the easy reference to specific furniture and clothing styles, means of conveyance and other prosaic details of life from a bygone time.  The way Holmes lights his pipe, addresses Watson and uses the irregulars all make the pages I'm turning feel  like weathered rag fibre, rather than bright common pulp.

Nostalgia aside (even though nostalgia is the biggest reason I picked up the book) the writing is excellent.  The stories originate with Verbica, but would have been worthy of treatment by Doyle, if only he had thought of them first!
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Ted Andrews makes visiting past lifetimes so easy.  When I visited the past, I felt as if I were reliving my past experiences.  One must try it to believe it!
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Very well written.  Makes me feel like I am there. I have always loved good
stories especially about days gone by and that they are true is amazing!
We can learn much about ourselves in reviewing the history of the past.
Great job!
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Awesome Throwback, it's good to reflect on the past from time to time
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This read gave me a feel of how it was back then and a greater appreciation for what people had to live through.
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I am catching up on the generations of SF writers I missed between 20 and ... well much later.  I've been angling off the names occasionally offered up by other writers I am enjoying, which is how I got to Varley.  He has many good stories to tell, some of them told with great style.  Even without his intriguing autobio bits he offers as the cookie topping to his mind bending meals (desserts?), I would have the sense of his roots in the short rise of creative energy in San Francisco (also SF) in the 60's. It seems to have become fuel for his own initial rise from the mumbling gray background, the mystery that seeks expression through us if we are willing to allow it. Glad to meet you, John Varley.
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I'm a gay man in my late 50's; have never been to SF.  FSB gives a good depiction of the "gay scene" in SF in the 70's and 80's.  Really enjoyed it.
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I have enjoyed this kind of knowing or feeling how things really are.  Very good read of which I would highly recommend.
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Liked the feel for the times.  And The amazingly advanced culture compared to those around at the time,  one wonders how that happened
1978110
Honestly this collection brought me back to the late 70s and makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over which surprises me because I grew up musically in the 80s with many of these songs still being played but fast fading to the New Wave. Listening to these songs makes me feel like most of the New Wave had hardly anything at all on the music of the 70s. To quote Ambrosia, thats how much I feel! Great collection of hits and love songs from this era.
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great story that really gives you a feel for what happened during this time that i grew up in, bring back the good ol days !
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Nostalgia is an important factor when trying to assess past pleasures. Looking back at reprints of stories I devoured during my young comic reading days, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, I can recognize their many shortcomings but in a forgiving manner. The Doom Patrol arrived just as that portion of my life was closing, and I don't believe I ever read their adventures at the time -- the group first appeared in My Greatest Adventure, which by the early 60s I was no longer reading, and by the time the title was changed to reflect the foursome's popularity, my mind was elsewhere. And so, reading these stories now, for the first time, my views are not colored by sepia-toned memories of a romantically-imagined past. And so, to stop making a short story long, on one level I'm not impressed. Oh, I will quickly grant that the DP was definitely outside the box for DC of that era: Superheroes who didn't always get along, who resented their gifts of power, and whose personal lives intruded on their exploits. One can argue whether Arnold Drake deserves as much credit as the gang at Marvel for creating that kind of ethos in superhero fiction, but the fact is that, in the end, Marvel just did it better, period. (And in the spirit of full disclosure, at the time I was much more of a DC person than a Marvel devotee.) The plots are simplistic and at times inconsistent, even for the times, and the moments of angst become repetitious and stagnant as time goes on. The less said about corny dialogue, the better. The best feature of these tales is Bruno Premiani's expressive artwork, at times reminiscent of the work of many others while retaining its own distinctive flavor. While not that good in absolute terms, Doom Patrol is still in its way invigorating within the context of Silver Age DC hero-dom -- discontented misfits battling a weird set of surreal enemies -- and in that sense worth at least one look, if not perhaps a second.
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It lightened my soul of past regrets by showing the past is past and we only need to concerned for today.  Every day be the best person you can be.  Bring joy and laughter to others each day.
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Sometimes fact and fiction can get blurred.  Is it not true that a dream is a wish the heart makes. This book makes you feel that good will always prevail and magic is as real as evil, just less obvious. A good read that leaves you with a good feeling.