Reviews for Science of Human Nutrition, Vol. 9 - Judith E. Brown - Paperback

The average rating for Science of Human Nutrition, Vol. 9 - Judith E. Brown - Paperback based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-05-05 00:00:00 Gregory Fretz Oy, very much a mixed bag of novellas here. I dispute the validity of "classic" in the title. Short reviews of each story below: --The Shadow out of Time by HP Lovecraft: 4 stars, typical Lovecraft in that the buildup is the best part, but overall quite good. --A Matter of Form by Horace L. Gold: 2 stars, never did solve the problems it creates, everything just magically resolves at the end. Rampant abuse of adverbs. --Jane Brown's Body by Cornell Woolrich: 3,5 stars. Intriguing, fairly well written, but certainly not overly concerned with realism. --Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, Jr.: 5 stars. Supremely excellent scifi/horror, masterfully created atmosphere. By far the best of the bunch. --Sidewise in Time by Murray Leinster: 2.5 stars, interesting premise but ultimately anticlimatic with extremely annoying, flat characters. --Alas, All Thinking by Harry Bates: 1 star. What the heck?? I don't even know where to start. Frame narrative is totally unnecessary and boring, main character is a psychopath, somehow everyone in the story thinks murder is funny. Author also wrote the short story upon which the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still was based. --Seeker of Tomorrow by Eric Frank Russell and Leslie T. Johnson: 2 stars. Again with the useless frame narrative. Such a forgetable time travel story that I've already forgotten it. --Dawn of Flame by Stanley G. Weinbaum: 3.5 stars. This one has a lot of potential, and I feel like a novel series could be set in this universe easily. The characters seemed much more interesting in this, but I admit it could be because so many of the ones in the stories that came before were atrociously dull. --Divide and Rule by L. Sprague de Camp: 2 stars. Interesting premise, but the second half of the story was just unremittingly dumb. --Wolves of Darkness by Jack Williamson: 2 stars. Mediocre werewolf story that felt like it stole heavily from Lovecraft.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-09-06 00:00:00 Dennis Mcewan P'raps esp. for Leinster's alt-history, called 'seminal' by some, Sidewise in Time.