Fiction


Listed alphabetically by author's last name, below please find links to the fictional work reviewed to date on this blog. (You may click on Rating System for more info on the stars--err, asterisks...)

A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L   M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   X   Y   Z

A
Abbott, Edwin
Flatland (1884) ****½

Abercrombie, Joe
First Law [trilogy review] (2006-2008) **

Abnett, Dan
Horus Rising (2006) ****

Abraham, Daniel
Long Price quartet
    A Shadow in Summer (2006) ***½
    A Betrayal in Winter (2007) ***
    An Autumn War (2008) **½
    The Price of Spring (2009) ***
Hunter's Run (w/ Gardner Dozois & George R.R. Martin) (2007) ***½
The Dagger & the Coin quintet
    The Dragon's Path (2011) ***
    The King's Blood (2012) ***½
    The Tyrant's Law (2013) ***½
    The Widow's House (2014) ***½
    The Spider's War (2015) ***½
Age of Ash (2022) ***

 Adams, Douglas
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) ****

Adams, Richard
Watership Down (1972) ****

Ahmed, Saladin
Throne of the Crescent Moon (2012) **½

Aldiss, Brian
Non-Stop (1958) ***½
Hothouse (1962) ***
Starswarm [collection] (1964) ***½
"The Saliva Tree" [novella] (1966) ****
Report on Probability A (1968) ****½ 
The Moment of Eclipse [collection] (1970) ***½
The Malacia Tapestry (1976) ****
Brothers of the Head (1977) ****
Helliconia 
    Helliconia Spring (1983) ***½
    Helliconia Summer (1984) ****
    Helliconia Winter (1986) ****½
The Secret of this Book [collection] (1995) ****½
Super-State (2002) ****

As editor:
The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus [anthology] (1961-1964) ***½
Space Opera (1974) ***½

Allan, Nina
"Spin" [novella] (2013) ****
The Race (2014) ****½

Anderson, Poul
The Broken Sword (1954) ****
The High Crusade (1960) *½
Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961) ***
Tau Zero (1970) **½
"The Queen of Air and Darkness" [novella] (1971) ***
"The Saturn Game" [novella] (1981) ***½ 

Asher, Neal
Spatterjay series
    The Skinner (2002) **½
    The Voyage of the Sable Keech (2006) **½
Prador Moon (2006) **½
The Shadow of the Scorpion (2008) **

Ashley, Mike (ed.)
The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers [anthology] (2015) ****

Asimov, Isaac
Foundation (1951) ***
The Caves of Steel (1953) **½
The End of Eternity (1955) ***½
The Gods Themselves (1972) ***

Atwood, Margaret
The Handmaid's Tale (1985) *****
Oryx and Crake
    Oryx and Crake (2003) **** 
    The Year of the Flood (2009) ****
    MaddAddam (2013) ****
The Penelopiad (2005) ****½
The Testaments (2019) ****½

B
Bacigalupi, Paolo
Pump Six and Other Stories [collection] (2008) *** 
The Windup Girl (2010) ***½
"The Alchemist" [novella] (2011) ***
Ship Breaker (2011) ***½
The Drowned Cities (2012) ***½
The Water Knife (2015) ***

Baker, Kage
"The Empress of Mars" [novella] (2003) *** 

Bakker, R. Scott
The Prince of Nothing series
    The Darkness that Comes Before (2003) ***½
    The Warrior Prophet (2005) ***½ 
    The Thousandfold Thought (2006) ***½ 
The Aspect-Emperor series
    The Judging Eye (2009) ***½
    The White Luck Warrior (2011) ***½
    The Great Ordeal (2016) ***½ 
    The Unholy Consult (2017) ****

Ballard, J.G.
The Drowned World (1962) ***½
The Drought (aka The Burning World) (1964) ***½
The Terminal Beach [collection] (1964) ****
The Crystal World (1966) ****½
The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) ***** 
Vermilion Sands [collection] (1971) ****
High-Rise (1975) ****½
The Unlimited Dream Company (1979) ****
Hello, America (1981) ***½

Bancroft, Josiah
Senlin Ascends (2011) ****
Arm of the Sphinx (2016) ****
The Hod King (2019) ****
The Fall of Babel (2021) ***

Banks, Iain M.
The Wasp Factory (1984) ***
Culture series
    Consider Phlebas (1987) ***
    The Player of Games (1988) ****
    Use of Weapons (1990) ****
    The State of the Art [collection] (1991) **
    Excession (1996) ****½
    Inversions (1998) ****
    Look to Windward (2000) ****
    Matter (2008) ****
    Surface Detail (2010) **½
    The Hydrogen Sonata (2012) **** 
Against a Dark Background (1993) **
Feersum Endjinn (1994) ***½
The Algebraist (2004) **½ 

Barker, R. J.
Age of Assassins (2017) ***½
The Bone Ships (2019) ***

Barnes, Adrian
Nod (2014) ****

Barry, Max
Lexicon (2013) **½

Baxter, Stephen 
Raft (1991) ***½

Bear, Elizabeth
Undertow (2007) ***
Range of Ghosts (2012) ***

Bear, Greg
"Hardfought" [novella] (1983) ****
Blood Music (1988) **½
Tangents (1989) **½
Moving Mars (1994) ***
Hull Zero Three (2010) ****

Beaulieu, Bradley
Twelve Kings of Sharakhai (2015) *½

Beauman, Ned
Boxer, Beetle (2010) ****
The Teleportation Accident (2012) ****
Glow (2014) **
Venomous Lumpsucker (2022) ***½ 

Beckett, Chris
Eden series
    Dark Eden (2012) ****½
    Mother of Eden (2015) ***½
    Daughter of Eden (2016) ****
Marcher (2014) ***½

Bell, Matt
Appleseed (2022) ***

Benford, Gregory
Timescape (1980) ***½ 

Bennett, Robert Jackson
The Company Man (2011) ***½
City of Stairs (2014) ***
Vigilance [novella] (2019) ****½ 

Bester, Alfred
The Demolished Man (1951) ***½
The Stars My Destination (1956) ***½

Beukes, Lauren
Moxyland (2008) ****
Zoo City (2010) ***½
The Shining Girls (2013) ****
Broken Monsters (2014) ****½
Slipping [collection] (2016) ***½
Afterland (2020) ****½

Bishop, K.J.
The Etched City (2000) ***½

Bishop, Michael
"The White Otters of Childhood" [novella] (1973) ****
And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees (alt. title Beneath the Shattered Moons) (1976) ***½
"The Samurai in the Willows" [novella] (1976) ****
Transfigurations (1979) ****
    ("Death and Designation Among the Asadi" [novella] (1973) *****)
No Enemy but Time (1981) ****½
Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas (1987) ****
Unicorn Mountain (1988) ****
"Cri de Coeur" [novella] (1994) ***½

Bisson, Terry
Talking Man (1986) ****½ 
Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories [collection] (1993) ****
The Left Left Behind Plus... [collection] (2009) ****

Blaylock, James P.
Langdon St. Ives series
    The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives [omnibus] (2008) ***½
        Homunculus (1986) ***½
        Lord Kelvin's Machine (1992) ***½
    The Further Adventures of Langdon St. Ives [omnibus] (2016) ***½ 
The Last Coin (1988) ****
The Paper Grail (1991) ****
All the Bells on Earth (1995) ***½
Thirteen Phantasms [collection] (2000) ****

Blish, James
Cities in Flight sequence 
    They Shall Have Stars (1956) ***½
    A Life for the Stars (1962) ***
A Case of Conscience (1958) **½ 

Borges, Jorge Luis
Labyrinths [collection] (1962) ****½

Bova, Ben
Titan (2006) **

As editor:
The Best of Analog [anthology] (1978) ****

Brackett, Leigh
Sea Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories [collection] (1942-1963) **½ 
    ("Black Amazon of Mars" [novella] (1951) ***)
The Sword of Rhiannon (1953) **½
The Long Tomorrow (1955) ****½

Bradbury, Ray
The Martian Chronicles [collection] (1950) *****
The Illustrated Man [collection] (1951) ***½
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) ****
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) ****

Bradley, James
Clade (2015) ***½

Brin, David
Startide Rising (1983) ***½
The Postman (1985) **½

Brooks-Dalton, Lily
Good Morning, Midnight (2016) ****
The Light Pirate (2022) *** 

Brunner, John
The Squares of the City (1965) ***½ 
Stand on Zanzibar (1968) *****
The Jagged Orbit (1969) *****
The Traveler in Black [collection] (1971) ***
The Shockwave Rider (1975) ****½

Buckell, Tobias
"The Executioness" [novella] (2011) *½

Budrys, Algis
Who? (1958) ****½
The Falling Torch (1959) ***½
The Unexpected Dimension [collection] (1960) ****
Rogue Moon (1960) **** 
"The Silent Eyes of Time" [novella] (1975) ****
Hard Landing (1993) ***
 
Bulgakov, Mikhail 
The Master and Margarita (1940) *****

Burgess, Anthony
A Clockwork Orange (1962) ****

Burroughs, Edgar Rice 
Barsoom
    A Princess of Mars (1912) **
    The Gods of Mars (1914) **
    The Warlord of Mars (1919) **
Tarzan of the Apes (1913) **

Butler, Octavia
Kindred (1979) ****

C
Cadigan, Pat
Mindplayers (1987) ****½
Fools (1992) *****

Cady, Jack
"The Night We Buried Road Dog" [novella] (1993) ****½

Caless, Kit (ed.)
An Unreliable Guide to London [anthology, ed. with Gary Budden] (2016) ****

Call, Justin Travis
Master of Sorrows (2019) ***

Calvino, Italo
Invisible Cities (1982) *****

Camus, Albert
The Stranger (1942) *****
 
Card, Orson Scott
Ender's Game (1985) ***½
Speaker for the Dead (1986) **½

Cargill, Robert
Sea of Rust (2017) ***½

Carey, Jacqueline
Kushiel's Dart (2001) ***½

Carroll, Jonathan
"Uh-Oh City" [novella] (1992) **** 

Carter, Angela
The Magic Toyshop (1967) ****½ 

Cervantes, Miguel de 
Don Quixote (1605 Vol.I, 1615 - Vol.II) *****

Chabon, Michael
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel (2000) *****
Gentlemen of the Road (2007) ***
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2008) ****
Moonglow (2016) ****

As editor:
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasure of Thrilling Tales (2002) ***
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Astonishing Stories (2004) ***

Charnock, Anne
A Calculated Life (2013) ****
Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind (2015) ****½
Dreams Before the Start of Time (2017) ****
Bridge 108 (2020) ***½
    "The Enclave" [novella] (2017) ***½

 Chen, Qiufan
Waste Tide (2013) ***

Chen, Yu (as editor)
The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories [anthology] (2022) ***

Cherryh, C.J.
Downbelow Station (1981) ***½
Port Eternity (1982) ***
Foreigner series
    Foreigner (1994) ***½
    Invader (1995) ****
    Inheritor (1996) ***
    Precursor (1999) ***½
    Defender (2001) ***½ 
    Explorer (2003) ***½
    Destroyer (2005) ***½
    Pretender (2006) ***
    Deliverer (2007) ***½
    Conspirator (2008) ***½
    Deceiver (2010) ***½
    Betrayer (2011) ****
    Intruder (2012) ****
    Protector (2013) ***½
    Peacemaker (2014) ***½
    Tracker (2015) ***½
    Visitor (2016) ****
    Convergence (2017) ***½
    Emergence (2018) ***
    Resurgence (2020) ***
    Divergence (2020) ***½ 

Chiang, Ted
Stories of Your Life and Others [collection] (2002) ****½
     ("Story of Your Life" [novella] (1998) ****½)  
     ("Seventy-Two Letters" [novella] (2000) ****½)
     ("Liking What You See: A Documentary" [novella] (2002) ****½)
Exhalation: Stories [collection] (2019) ****
     ("The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" [novelette] (2007) ****)
     ("The Lifecycle of Software Objects" [novella] (2010) ****)
     ("The Truth of Fact, Truth of Feeling" [novelette] (2013) ***½)

Christopher, John
The Death of Grass (1956) ***½

Chronster, Kay
Desert Creatures (2023) ****

Chwedyk, Richard
Bronte's Egg [novella] (2002) ***½

Clarke, Arthur C.
The Best of Arthur C. Clarke: 1937-1971 [collection] (1937-1971) **½
    ("A Meeting with Medusa" [novella] (1972) ***)
The Sands of Mars (1951) **
Childhood's End (1953) ****
Earthlight (1955) ***
The City & the Stars (1956) ****
A Fall of Moondust (1961) ***
Rendezvous with Rama (1972) ****½
The Fountains of Paradise (1979) ***½

Clarke, Neil (as editor)
Upgraded [anthology] (2014) *** 
The Final Frontier [anthology] (2018) ***½ 

Clarke, Susanna
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (2004) ****½
Piranesi (2020) *****

Claypool, Les
South of the Pumphouse (2006) ***

Clough, Brenda W.
"May Be Some Time" [novella] (2001) **

Compton, D. G.
Nomansland (1993) **½

Coney, Michael
Hello Summer, Goodbye (1975) ****

Cook, Glen
The Black Company (1984) **½

 Corey, James S.A. (pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck)
Leviathan Wakes (2011) ***½
Caliban's War (2012) ***½
Abaddon's Gate (2013) ****
Cibola Burn (2014) ***½
Nemesis Games (2015) **½
Babylon's Ashes (2016) ***
Persepolis Rising (2017) ***½
Tiamat's Wrath (2019) ***
Leviathan Falls (2021) ***½
Memory's Legion (2022) ***  

Cowper, Richard
"The Custodians" [novelette] (1976) ****
The Road to Corlay (1978) ***½
    ("The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" [novella] (1976) ****)

Crowley, John
The Deep (1975) **** 
Totalitopia [collection] (2017) ****
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr (2017) ****½ 

Cussler, Clive
Lost City (2004) * 

D
Day, Julie C.
Uncommon Miracles [collection] (2018) ****

Delany, Samuel R.
The Fall of the Towers (1963-1965) ***
Babel-17 (1966) ***½

Delillo, Don
The Body Artist [novella] (2001) ***½
Zero K (2016) ****½

Denton, Bradley
"Sergeant Chip" [novella] (2004) ***

Di Filippo, Paul
The Steampunk Trilogy [collection] (1995) ****
Ribofunk [collection] (1996) ***
Fractal Paisleys (1997) ***½
Lost Pages [collection] (1998) ****
"A Year in the Linear City" [novella] (2002) ****
Fuzzy Dice (2003) ****
Cosmocopia (2008) ****½
Roadside Bodhisattva (2010) ***½
The New Cyberiad [novelette] (2015) ****½
Infinite Fantastika [collection] (2018) ***½
The Summer Thieves (2021) *** 
 
Dick, Philip K.
The Man in the High Castle (1962) ****½
Martian Time-slip (1964) ****
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) ****
Dr. Bloodmoney: Or How We Got Along After the Bomb (1965) ***
Now Wait for Last Year (1966) **½
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) **** 
Ubik (1969) ****
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974) *½
A Scanner Darkly (1977) ****½
VALIS (1981) ****
Minority Report [collection] (2002) ***½

Disch, Thomas
Camp Concentration (1968) ****½
334 [collection] (1972) ****½
On Wings of Song (1979) ****½
"The Brave Little Toaster" [novella] (1980) ***½

Doctorow, Cory
Little Brother (2008) *½
"There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow/Now Is the Best Time of Your Life" [novella] (2010) * 

Donaldson, Stephen R.
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series
    Lord Foul's Bane (1977) ***
    The Illearth War (1977) ***
    The Power that Preserves (1977) ***
The Gap Cycle
    Gap into Conflict: The Real Story (1991) *** 

Dozois, Gardner
The Visible Man [collection] (1977) ****½ 
Hunter's Run (w/ Daniel Abraham & George R.R. Martin) (2007) ***½

As editor:
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction [anthology] (2005) ***½
The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels [anthology] (2009) ***½ 
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance [anthology ed. with George R.R. Martin] (2009) **½
Old Venus [anthology ed. with George R.R. Martin] (2015) **½
The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction [anthology] (2019) ***½

Duncan, Andy
"The Executioner's Guild" [novella] (1999) ****
"Fortitude" [novella] (1999) ****
The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories [collection] (2012) ****
     "The Chief Designer" [novella] (2001) ****
An Agent of Utopia [collection] (2018) ****½

Dukaj, Jacek
The Old Axolotl (2015) ***½

Durham, David Anthony
Acacia: The War with the Mein (2007) ***½
The Other Lands (2009) ***
The Sacred Band (2011) ***

Durrani, Haris A. 
Technologies of the Self (2016) **** 

E
Eddison, E.R.
The Worm Ouroboros (1922) ***½

Effinger, George Alec
When Gravity Fails (1987) ***

Egan, Greg
Permutation City (1994) ****
Distress (1995) ***½
Dark Integers and Other Stories [collection] (2007) ***
     ("Oceanic" [novella] (1998) ****)
"Oracle" [novella] (2000) ****
The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred [novella] (2016) ***

Egan, Jennifer
A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) ***½

Elliot, Kate
"Riding the Shore of the River of Death" [novelette] (2009) *½

Ellison, Harlan
Paingod and Other Delusions [collection] (1965) ***½
    ("'Repent Harlequin!", Said the Ticktockman" [novelette] (1967) ****)
Voice from the Edge Vol. 1: I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream [collection] (2002) ****
Voice from the Edge Vol. 2: Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral [collection] (2001) ****
Voice from the Edge Vol. 4: Deathbird and Other Stories [collection] (2011) ****

Erikson, Steven
Malazan Book of the Fallen [series review] (1999-2010) ***½

F
Farmer, Nancy
The Sea of Trolls (2005) ****

Farmer, Philip Jose
"Riders of the Purple Wage" [novella] (1967) *****
To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971) **½

Ferman Edward L. (as editor)
The Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 40th Anniversary Edition (1989) ****

Flynn, Michael
"Eifelheim" [novella] (1986) *

Foster, Emily
"The Drowning Eyes" [novella] (2016) **

Ford, Jeffrey
The Well-Built City trilogy
    The Physiognomy (1997) ***½
    Memoranda (1999) ****
    The Beyond (2001) ****
The Cosmology of the Wider World (2005) ****
The Empire of Ice Cream: Stories [collection] (2006) ****
    ("Empire of Ice Cream" [novelette] (2003) ****)
The Shadow Year (2008) ****
The Drowned Life [collection] (2008) ****½
 Crackpot Palace: Stories [collection] (2012) ****
A Natural History of Hell [collection] (2016) ***½
The Twilight Pariah [novella] (2017) **½
Ahab's Return (2018) ****
Out of Body [novella] (2020) ***
Big Dark Hole: Stories [collection] (2021) ****

Ford, R.S. 
Engines of Empire (2022) **½

Friedman, Celia
Black Sun Rising (1991) *

Friend, Oscar J. (as editor)
Race to the Stars [anthology] (1958) (ed. with Leo Margulies) **

G
Gaiman, Neil
American Gods (2001) **½
"Coraline" [novella] (2002) ****
Anansi Boys (2005) ****
The Graveyard Book (2008) ***½ 
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2014) ****
Norse Mythology (2018) ***

As editor with Al Sarrantonio:
Stories: All New Tales (2010) ***½

Galouye, Daniel
Dark Universe (1961) ***½  
Simulacron-3 (1964) ****

Gemmell, David 
Legend (1989) **½
Knights of Dark Renown (1989) **
Lion of Macedon & Dark Prince (1990-1991) ***
Dark Moon (1996) *½ 

Gentle, Mary
Rats and Gargoyles (1999) **½
Ash: A Secret History (2000) *****

Gerrold, David
The Man Who Folded Himself (1973) *****

Ghosh, Amitav
The Circle of Reason (1986) ****½
The Calcutta Chromosome (1996) ****

 Gibson, Gary
Stealing Light (2007) ***

Gibson, William
Burning Chrome [collection] (1977-1985) ****
Sprawl series
    Neuromancer (1984) ****
    Count Zero (1987) ****½
    Mona Lisa Overdrive (1989) ****
The Difference Engine (with Bruce Sterling) (1990) ****
Bridge series
    Virtual Light (1994) ****
    Idoru (1997) ****½
    All Tomorrow's Parties (2000) ****
Blue Ant series
    Pattern Recognition (2003) ****
    Spook Country (2007) ****½
    Zero History (2010) ****
The Peripheral (2014) ***½
The Agency (2020) ***½

Gilman, Carolyn Ives
Dark Orbit (2015) ****

Greenberg, Martin (as editor)
Sci-Fi Private Eye [anthology] (1997) **½

Greene, Graham
The Power and the Glory (1940) ****
The Quiet American (1955) ****½
The Honorary Consul (1973) ****
Monsignor Quixote (1979) ****½

Gregory, Daryl
We Are All Completely Fine (2014) ***
Afterparty (2014) ***½

Griffith, Nicola
Slow River (1995) ****
Spear [novella] (2022) *** 

Grimwood, Jon Courtenay (aka Jack Grimwood)
neoAddix (1997) **½
redRobe (2000) ***½
Arabesk trilogy 
    Pashazade (2001) ***½
    Effendi (2002) ***½
    Felaheen (2003) ***½
Stamping Butterflies (2004) ****½
9Tail Fox (2005) ****
End of the World Blues (2006) ****½
Assassini trilogy
    The Fallen Blade (2011) *** 
    The Outcast Blade (2012) ***
    The Exiled Blade (2013) ***
Tom Fox novels
    Moskva (2016) ****
    Nightfall Berlin (2018) ****
Island Reich (2021) ***

H
Haddon, Mark
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) *****

Haig, Matt
The Humans (2013) ****
The Midnight Library (2020) ****½
 
Haldeman, Joe
The Forever War (1976) ****
"The Hemingway Hoax" [novella] (1990) ***½ 
Forever Peace (1997) ***½
Forever Free (1999) **½

Hamid, Mohsin
Exit West (2017) ****½ 

Hamilton, Edmond
City at World's End (1951) **½

Hamilton, Peter F.
The Dreaming Void (2007) **

Hand, Elizabeth
Last Summer at Mars Hill [collection] (1997) ****
    ("Last Summer at Mars Hill" [novella] (1994) ****)
Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories [collection] (2006) ****½
    ("Cleopatra Brimstone" [novella] (2001) ***½)
    ("Least Trumps" [novella] (2002) ****½)
Illyria (2007) ****
Cass Neary series
    Generation Loss (2007) ****
    Available Dark (2012) ****
Radiant Days (2012) ****
Errantry: Strange Stories [collection] (2012) **** 
    ("The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" [novella] (2010) ****½) 
Wylding Hall (2015) ****
Curious Toys (2019) ***½

Harkaway, Nick
The Gone-Away World (2009) ***
Angelmaker (2012) ***½
Tigerman (2014) ****
Gnomon (2017) ****½ 

Harness, Charles L.
The Rose [collection] (1966) ***½
"The Alchemist" [novella] (1967) ***
"Summer Solstice" [novella] (1984) ***

Harrison, Harry
Deathworld (1960) **½
The Stainless Steel Rat (1960) **½
Eden trilogy
    West of Eden (1984) ***½ 
    Winter in Eden (1986) ***½
    Return to Eden (1988) ****
The Hammer and the Cross (w / John Holm) (1993) ***  

Harrison, M. John
Viriconium
    The Pastel City (1971) ****½
    A Storm of Wings (1980) *****
    In Viriconium (UK) / The Floating Gods (US) (1982) *****
    Viriconium Nights [collection] (1985) ****½
The Centauri Device (1975) ****½
The Machine in Shaft Ten and Other Stories [collection] (1975) ****
Kefahuchi Tract
    Light (2002) *****
    Nova Swing (2006) ****½
    Empty Space (2012) *****
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise (2020) ****½

Hart, Rob
The Warehouse (2019) ****½  

Heinlein, Robert
Starship Troopers (1959) ***½
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) **
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1967) **** 

Helgadottir, Margret
The Stars Seem So Far Away (2015) ***

Heller, Peter
The Dog Stars (2012) ***
The River (2019) ***

Herbert, Frank
Dune (1965) ****
Dune Messiah (1970) **
Children of Dune (1976) **½
God Emperor of Dune (1981) ***½
Heretics of Dune (1984) **½

Hill, Joe
20th Century Ghosts [collection] (2005) ***½
Strange Weather [collection] (2017) ****
Full Throttle [collection] (2019) ***½

Hill, Matt
Graft (2016) ***½
Hill, Susan
The Woman in Black (1983) ***

Hilton, James
Lost Horizon (1933) ****

Hobb, Robin
The Farseer [trilogy review] (1995-1997) ***½

Hocking, Ian
Deja Vu (2014) ***

Hodder, Mark
The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack (2010) ***

Hodgson, William Hope
The House on the Borderland (1908) ***

Holdstock, Robert
Mythago Wood (1984) ****

Horton, Rich (ed.)
The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2014 Edition [anthology] (2014) ***½

Houellebecq, Michel
The Map & the Territory (2010) ***

Howard, Robert E.
Conan the Warrior [collection] (1935) ½

Hughart, Barry
Bridge of Birds (1984) ****
The Story of the Stone (1988) ****
Eight Skilled Gentlemen (1991) ***½

Hurley, Kameron
God's War (2011) **
The Mirror Empire (2014) **½

Hutchinson, Dave
Fragmented Europe series
    Europe in Autumn (2014) ****
    Europe at Midnight (2015) ***½
    Europe in Winter (2016) ***½
Sleeps with Angels [collection] (2015) ***½

Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World (1932) ****½ 

I 
Ings, Simon
Wolves (2014) ****½
The Smoke (2021) ****

 Ishiguro, Kazuo
Never Let Me Go (2005) ****
The Buried Giant (2015) *****
Klara and the Sun (2021) ****½

J
Jacques, Brian
Redwall (1986) ****

Jemisin, N.K.
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010) ***

Jeter, K.W.
The Bounty Hunter Wars [trilogy] (1998) **½

Jiang, Rong
Wolf Totem (2004) ****½

Jimenez, Simon
The Vanished Birds (2020) ***½

Jin, Yong
Legend of Condor Heroes (1957)
    A Hero Born  ****
    A Bond Undone ***½

Johnson, Kij
At the Mouth of the River of Bees [collection] (2012) ****
    ("The Man Who Bridged the Mist" [novella] (2011) ***½)
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe (2016) ****

Jones, Diana Wynne
Howl's Moving Castle (1986) *****

Jones, Gwyneth
"Proof of Concept" [novella] (2017) **

Joyce, Graham
The Silent Land (2010) ****
Some Kind of Fairy Tale (2012) ****
The Year of the Ladybird (UK) / The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit (US) (2013) ***
 
K
Kavan, Ann
Ice (1967) *****

Kay, Guy Gavriel
The Summer Tree (1986) *** 
Tigana (1990) ***½
A Song for Arbonne (1992) **
The Lions of Al-Rassan (1995) ****
Sarantine Mosaic
    Sailing to Sarantium (1998) ***½
    Lord of Emperors (2000) ***½
The Last Light of the Sun (2004) ****
Ysabel (2007) ***
Under Heaven (2011) ***½
River of Stars (2013) ****
Children of Earth and Sky (2016) ***
All the Seas of the World (2022) **½  

Kearney, Paul
Monarchies of God series
    Hawkwood's Voyage (1995) ***½
    The Heretic Kings (1996) ***½
    The Iron Wars (1999) ***½
    The Second Empire (2000) ***½
    Ships from the West (2002) ***½
Macht series
    The Ten Thousand (2008) ***½
    Corvus (2010) *** 
    Kings of Morning (2011) ***
The Wolf in the Attic (2016) ***

Kehlmann, Daniel
Tyll: A Novel (2017) ****½

Kelly, James Patrick
Look into the Sun (1989) ***½
Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories [collection] (1997) ****
    "Mr. Boy" [novella] (1990) **** 
The Wreck of the Godspeed and Other Stories [collection] (2008) ****
    ("The Wreck of the Godspeed" [novella] (2004) ****)
    ("Men Are Trouble" [novelette] (2004) ****)
    ("Burn" [novella] (2005) ****)
"The Last Judgment" [novella] (2012) ****
King of the Dog, Queen of the Cats [novella] (2020) ****

As editor with John Kessel:
Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology [anthology] (2006) ****
Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology [anthology] (2007) ****

Kessel, John
"Another Orphan" [novella] (1982) ****½
Good News from Outer Space (1989) ****½
The Moon and the Other (2017) **** 

As editor with James Patrick Kelly:
Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology [anthology] (2006) ****
Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology [anthology] (2007) ****

Kiernan, Caitlin R.
The Red Tree (2009) ****
The Drowning Girl (2012) *****
Agents of Dreamland (2017) ***½

King, Stephen
The Eyes of the Dragon (1987) ***
Graveyard Shift and Other Stories [audio] (1994) ***
Billy Summers (2021) ****

Kling, Marc-Uwe
Qualityland (2020) **** 

Kloos, Marko
Terms of Enlistment (2013) **

Kornbluth, C. M.
The Space Merchants (with Frederik Pohl) (1952) **** 
The Marching Morons & Other Famous Science Fiction Stories [collection] (1959) ***½

Kornher-Stace, Nicole
Firebreak (2021) ***
Flight & Anchor (2023) *½

Kosmatka, Ted
The Games (2012) ***
The Flicker Men (2015) ***½

 Krabbe, Tim
The Rider (1979) ****½

Kress, Nancy
"Beggars in Spain" [novella] (1991) ***½

Kroese, Robert
The Big Sheep (2016) **

Krook, Joshua
Black Friday 2050 (2022) ** 

Kushner, Ellen
Swordspoint (1987) ***½

L
Lanchester, John
The Wall (2019) ****

Landis, Geoffrey A.
"Elemental" [novella] (1984) *
"Ecopoiesis" [novella] (1997) *½ 
"The Sultan of the Clouds" [novella] (2010) ***

Lang, Andrew (as editor)
Tales from the Arabian Nights (1898) *****

Langmead, Oliver
Dark Star (2015) ****
Metronome (2017) ***½
Birds of Paradise (2021) ****

Lansdale, Joe R.
Savage Season (1990) *** 
The Bottoms (2000) ****
A Fine Dark Line (2002) ***
Deadman's Road **½
The Thicket (2013) ****
Paradise Sky (2015) **** 

Lawrence, Mark
The Prince of Thorns (2011) **

le Carre, John
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) **** 
 
Le Guin, Ursula
Planet of Exile (1966) ***½
Earthsea Cycle
    A Wizard of Earthsea (1969) ****½
    The Tombs of Atuan (1971) ****
    The Farthest Shore (1973) ****½
    Tehanu (1990) ****
    Tales from Earthsea [collection] (2001) ***½
    The Other Wind (2001) **** 
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) *****
The Lathe of Heaven (1971) ****
The Dispossessed (1974) *****
The Word for World is Forest (1976) ***½
The Eye of the Heron (1978) ***½
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea [collection] (1994) ***
Four Ways to Forgiveness [collection] (1995) ***½
The Telling (2000) ***½

Le Tellier, Herve
The Anomaly (2022) ****

Leckie, Ann
Ancillary Justice (2013) **

Lee, Fonda
Jade City (2017) ***

Lee, Tanith
Night's Master (1978) ****½
The Book of the Damned (1988) ***** 
"All the Birds of Hell" [novelette] (1998) ****½ 

Lee, Yoon Ha
Ninefox Gambit (2016) ***½
Phoenix Extravagant (2020) **½   

Leiber, Fritz
The First Book of Lankhmar [collection] (1939-1968) **
Conjure Wife (1943) ***½
Gather, Darkness! (1950) ***½
The Green Millennium (1953) ***
The Big Time (1958) ****½
"The Night of Long Knives" [novella] (1960) ***½
The Mind Spider and Other Stories [collection] (1961) ***
Ship of Shadows [collection] (1979) ****
    ("Ship of Shadows" [novella] (1969) ****)
A Specter Is Haunting Texas (1968) ***½
Our Lady of Darkness (1977) ****

Lem, Stanislaw
The Investigation (1959) ****½
Solaris (1961) *****
The Invincible (1964) ****
The Cyberiad (1967) *****
The Futurological Congress (1971) ****½
Peace on Earth (1995) ***½

Lerman, Eleanor
Radiomen (2015) ****½
Stargazer's Embassy (2017) ****

Lethem, Jonathan
Gun, with Occasional Music (1994) ***½
Amnesia Moon (1995) ****
Motherless Brooklyn (1999) ****½
The Fortress of Solitude (2003) *****
Men and Cartoons [collection] (2004) ***½
Lucky Alan and Other Stories [collection] (2015) ****
The Arrest (2020) ***½  

Lindsay, David
A Voyage to Arcturus (1920) ****½ 

Link, Kelly
"Magic for Beginners" [novella] (2005) ***½

Liu, Cixin
The Three-Body Problem (2014) ****½

Liu, Ken
The Grace of Kings (2015) ****
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories [collection] (2016) *** 
    "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary" [novella] (2011) **** 

As editor:
Invisible Planets [anthology] (2016) ****
Broken Stars [anthology] (2019) ***½

Loeff, David
1,001 Lightyears Entertainment (2014) *** 

Longyear, Barry
"Enemy Mine" [novella] (1979) ***½

Lovecraft, H.P.
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror  [collection] (1930s) **

Lowry, Lois
The Giver (1993) **½

Luo Guangshou & Shi Nai'an
Outlaws of the Marsh (13th century) *****
Romance of the Three Kingdoms (14th century) *****

Lusk, Sean
The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley (2022) ***

Lynch, Scott 
The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006) **
Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007) *½

M
Macleod, Ian R.
The Great Wheel (1997) ***½ 
Aether stories 
    The Light Ages (2003) ****½
    The House of Storms (2005) ****
    "The Master Miller's Tale" [novella] (2007) ****½
Breathmoss and Other Exhalations [collection] (2004) ****
    ( The Summer Isles" [novella] (1998) ****)
    ("New Light on the Drake Equation" [novella] (2001) ****½)
    ("Breathmoss" [novella] (2002) ***½)
The Summer Isles (2005) *****
Song of Time (2008) **** 
 
Macleod, Ken
Fall Revolution series
    The Star Fraction (1995) **** 
    The Stone Canal (1996) ****
    The Cassini Division (1998) ***½
    The Sky Road (1999) ****
Cosmonaut Keep (2000) **½
Newton's Wake (2004) ***½
Learning the World (2005) *** 
The Execution Channel (2007) ****
The Night Sessions (2008) ***½
The Restoration Game (2010) ***½
Intrusion (2012) ****
Descent (2014) ***½
Dissidence (2016) ***
Beyond the Hallowed Sky (2021) *** 

Malzberg, Barry
Beyond Apollo (1973) ****½
Galaxies (1975) *****

Mamatas, Nick
The People's Republic of Everything [collection] (2018) ***½

Margulies, Leo (ed.)
Race to the Stars [anthology] (1958) (ed. with Oscar J. Friend) **

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) *****

Martel, Yann 
Life of Pi (2001) ****

Martin, George R.R. 
Dying of the Light (1977) ***
Nightflyers [collection] (1985) ***½
    "A Song for Lya" [novella] (1974) ****½
    "Nightflyers" [novella] (1980) ***
Windhaven (1918) (w/ Lisa Tuttle) ***½
Fevre Dream (1982) ***
A Song of Ice and Fire series
    A Game of Thrones (1996) ****
    A Clash of Kings (1998) ****
    A Storm of Swords (2000) ****
    A Feast of Crows (2005) ***½
    A Dance with Dragons (2011) ***½
Fire and Blood (2018) ***½
Hunter's Run (w/ Gardner Dozois & Daniel Abraham) ***½

As editor:
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance [anthology] (2009) **½
Old Venus [anthology ed. with Gardner Dozois] (2015) **½

Marusek, David
"The Wedding Album" [novella] (1999) ****
Upon this Rock: First Contact Book 1 (2017) ***½

Masson, David L.
The Caltraps of Time [collection] (1968) ***

Matheson, Richard
I Am Legend (1954) ***
The Shrinking Man (1956) ***½

McAuley, Paul
Eternal Light (1991) ***
The Secret of Life (2001) ***
"The Choice" [novelette] (2011) ***½ 

McCaffrey, Anne
Dragonflight (1968) ** 

McCarthy, Cormac
Child of God (1973) ****
Blood Meridian (1985) *****
Border trilogy
    The Crossing (1994) ****
    Cities of the Plain (1998) ***½
No Country for Old Men (2005) ****½
The Road (2006) *****

McCarthy, Tom
Remainder (2005) ****½
Satin Island (2015) ****½
The Incarnation of Making (2021) ***½

McDevitt, Jack
Ancient Shores (1996) ***½
Chindi (2002) **½ 

McDonald, Ed
Raven's Mark
    Blackwing (2017) ***½
    Ravencry (2018) ***½
    Crowfall (2019) ***
Redwinter Chronicles
    Daughter of Redwinter (2022) ***

McDonald, Ian
Desolation Road (1988) ****
Empire Dreams [collection] (1988) ****
Out on Blue Six (1989) ***
Hearts, Hands, and Voices (UK) / The Broken Land (US) (1992) ***½
Chaga series
    Chaga (UK) / Evolution's Shore (US) (1992) **½
    "Tendeleo's Story" [novella] (2000) ***½ 
Necroville (UK) / Terminal Cafe (US) (1994) ****½
Ares Express (2001) ***½
River of Gods (2004) ****½
Brasyl (2007) ****
"The Tear" [novella] (2008) ***½
Cyberabad Days [collection] (2009) ****
The Dervish House (2010) ***½
Everness series (YA)
    Planesrunner (2012) ***½
    Be My Enemy (2013) ***½
    Empress of the Sun (2014) ***½ 
Luna series
    Luna: New Moon (2015) ***½ 
    Luna: Wolf Moon (2017) ***½
    Luna: Moon Rising (2019) ***½
    "The Menace from Farside" [novella] (2019) ***
Time Was [novella] (2018) ****
Hopeland (2023) ***½ 

McHugh, Maureen
China Mountain Zhang (1992) ****½
"Protection" [novella] (1992) ****
Mothers & Other Monsters [collection] (2005) ****
    ("The Cost to Be Wise" [novella] (1996) ***½)
After the Apocalypse [collection] (2011) **** 

McIntyre, Vonda 
Dreamsnake (1978) ***½ 
Fireflood and Other Stories [collection] (1979) ****
    ("Aztecs" [novella] (1977) ***½)
Superluminal (1983) **½

McKillip, Patricia
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974) ****½ 

McKinney, Chris
Midnight, Water City (2021) **½   

McMaster Bujold, Lois
"The Mountains of Mourning" [novella] (1989) **½
Barrayar (1991) **½
The Curse of Chalion  (2001) ***½
Paladin of Souls (2003) ***

Meginnis, Mike
Drowning Practice (2022) ****½

Michel, Lincoln
The Body Scout ***½

Mieville, China
Bas-Lag series
    Perdido Street Station (2000) ***½
    The Scar (2002) ***½
    Iron Council (2004) **
Looking for Jake and Other Stories [collection] (2005) ***
The City & the City (2009) ****½
Kraken (2010) ***½
Three Moments of an Explosion (2015) ****
This Census-Taker (2016) ****½
Last Days of New Paris (2016) ****½

Miller, Walter M. 
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) ****

 Miller, Sam J.
Blackfish City (2018) ***

Millhauser, Stephen
The Knife Thrower and Other Stories (1998) ****

Mirrlees, Hope
Lud-in-the-Mist (1926) ****½

Mitchell, David
Ghostwritten (1999) ***½
Cloud Atlas (2004) ****½
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010) ****
The Bone Clocks (2014) *****
Slade House (2015) ***
Utopia Avenue (2020) ****

Moles, David
"Finisterra" [novelette] (2007) **

Moon, Elizabeth
The Speed of Dark (2002) ****

Moorcock, Michael 
Elric cycle
    The Stealer of Souls (1963) ***
    Stormbringer (1965) ***
"Behold the Man" [novella] (1966) ****½
The History of the Runestaff [series] (1967-1969) **½
Nomad of the Time Streams trilogy
    The Warlord of the Air (1971) ***½
    The Land Leviathan (1974) ***½
    The Steel Tsar (1981) ***½

Moore, Alan
Illuminations; Stories [collection] (2022) ****
    "What We Can Know about Thunderman" [novel] (2022) ****

Moore, Ward
Bring the Jubilee (1953) ****

Morden, Simon
Equations of Life (2011) ***

Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Signal to Noise (2015) **½

Morgan, Richard
Takeshi Kovacs
    Altered Carbon (2001) ***
    Broken Angels (2003) **
Market Forces (2004) ***½
Black Man (UK) / Thirteen (US) (2007) **

Morrow, James
This Is the Way the World Ends (1986) ****
The Madonna and the Starship (2014) ****
Galapagos Regained (2015) ****½
The Asylum of Dr. Caligari (2017) ***½ 

Murakami, Haruki
Norwegian Wood (1987) ***½
First Person Singular [collection] (2021) ****

Murphy, Pat
"Bones" [novella] (1990) ***½

N
Nagamatsu, Sequoia
How High We Go in the Dark (2022) ****

Nagata, Linda
The Red: First Light (2013) **½

Nayler, Ray
The Mountain and the Sea (2022) ***½

 Newman, Peter
The Vagrant (2015) ***

Nicholas, J.T.
Re-Coil (2020) ***
  
Niven, Larry
Ringworld (1970) ***
"A.R.M." [novella] (1975) **½

Noon, Jeff
Vurt (1993) ****

 North, Claire
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014) ***
84k (2018) **½ 

Norton, Andre
Plague Ship (1956) **½
"Voodoo Planet" [novelette] (1959) **
Witch World (1963) **½ 

Nowlan, Philip Francis
"Armageddon 2419 A.D." [novella] (1928) *

O
Ogawa, Yoko
The Memory Police (1994) ****

Okorafor, Nnedi
Lagoon (2014) ****½
Remote Control [novella] (2021) ***

 Oram, Stephen 
Biohacked & Begging [collection] 2019 **½

Orwell, George
Nineteen Eighty-four (1949) ***** 

P

Palmer, Ada
Too Like the Lightning (2016) ***½

Palmer, Dexter
Version Control (2016) ****½
 
Park, Paul
All Those Vanished Engines (2014) ****

Parks, Richard
Yamada Monogatari: To Break the Demon Gate (2014) ***

Parker, K.J.
Devices and Desires (2005) **½
"A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong" [novella] (2011) ****
"Let Maps to Others" [novella] (2012) ***½
 
Peake, Mervyn
Titus Groan (1946) *****
Gormenghast (1951) *****
Titus Alone (1959) *****

Peynado, Brenda
The Rock Eaters: Stories [collection] (2021) ***½
 
Pohl, Frederick
The Space Merchants (with C. M. Kornbluth) (1952) ****
Man Plus (1976) ****
Gateway
    Gateway (1977) ****½
    Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980) ***
Starburst (1982) **
"Outnumbering the Dead" [novella] (1990) ***½

Polansky, Daniel
"The Builders" [novella] (2016) *½ 
"The Seventh Perfection" [novella] (2020) ***½

Powers, Richard
Bewilderment (2021) ***½

Powers, Tim
The Drawing of the Dark (1979) **
The Anubis Gates (1984) ****
Dinner at Deviant's Palace (1985) ***
On Stranger Tides (1987) ***
The Stress of Her Regard (1989) ***½
Last Call (1992) ****
Declare (2000) ***½
The Bible Repairman and Other Stories [collection] (2011) ***½
"Down and Out in Purgatory" [novella] (2016) ***½ 

Pratchett, Terry
Discworld
    The Colour of Magic (1983) ***½
    The Light Fantastic (1986) ***½
    Equal Rites (1987) ****
    Mort (1987) ***½
    Pyramids (1989) ***½
    Guards! Guards! (1989) ***½
    Moving Pictures (1990) ****
    Witches Abroad (1991) ***½
    Eric (1991) ***½
    Lords and Ladies (1992) ***½
    Men at Arms (1993) ***
    Soul Music (1994) ****
    Interesting Times (1994) ***
    Hogfather (1996) ****
    Feet of Clay (1996) ****
    Jingo (1997) ****
    The Fifth Elephant (1999) ***
    The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (2001) ****
    Thief of Time (2001) ****
    The Last Hero (2001) ****
        Tiffany Aching series
            The Wee Free Men (2003) ***½
            A Hat Full of Sky (2004) ****
            Wintersmith (2006) ***½
            I Shall Wear Midnight (2010) ***½
            The Shepherd's Crown (2015) ***½
    Night Watch (2002) ****
    Thud! (2005) ***½
    Making Money (2007) ****
Nation (2008) ***½

Priest, Cherie
Boneshaker (2009) ***½

Priest, Christopher
Indoctrinaire (1970) ***½
Inverted World (1973) ****
The Space Machine (1976) ***½ 
A Dream of Wessex (1977) ***½
An Infinite Summer [collection] (1979) ****
The Affirmation (1981) *****
The Glamour (1984) *****
The Prestige (1995) *****
The Extremes (1998) ****
The Dream Archipelago [collection] (1999) ****
The Separation (2010) *****
The Gradual (2016) ****½
The Evidence (2016) ****

As editor:
Anticipations [anthology] (1978) ****

Proulx, Annie
The Shipping News (1993) *****
Barkskins (2016) ****½

Pulley, Natasha
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (2015) **½ 

Pullman, Philip
His Dark Materials...
    Northern Lights (UK) / The Golden Compass (US) (1995) ****
    The Subtle Knife (1997) ***½
    The Amber Spyglass (2000) ***½
The Book of Dust
    La Belle Sauvage (2017) ***½
    The Secret Commonwealth (2019) ****

Pynchon, Thomas
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) ****½

Q
R
Rajaniemi, Hannu
Collected Fiction [collection] (2015) ***

Reed, Robert
"Marrow" [novella] (1997)**
"A Billion Eves" [novella] (2006) *** 

Rees, Gareth E.
The Stone Tide (2018) ****

Reeve, Philip
Railhead (2015) ***½

Reiss, Alter
Sunset Mantle (2015) *

Resnick, Mike
"Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" [novella] (1994) ***½

Reynolds, Alastair
Revelation Space universe
    Revelation Space (2000) **
    Chasm City (2001) **
    "Turquoise Days" [novella] (2002) *½
    The Prefect (2007) *** 
Century Rain (2004) *½
Pushing Ice (2005) *½
Galactic North [collection] (2006) ** 
"Troika" [novella] (2010) ***

Roberts, Adam
Salt (2000) ****½
Stone (2002) ***½
Polystom (2002) ***½
Adam Robots [collection] (2003) ***½ 
Gradisil (2007) ****
New Model Army (2010) ****½
"Anticopernicus" [novelette] (2011) ***½
Jack Glass (2013) ***
Twenty Trillion Leagues under the Sea (2014) ***½
Saint Rebor [collection] (2015) *** 
The Thing Itself (2015) ***½
The Real-Town Murders (2017) ***
Haven (2018) **½
Purgatory Mount (2021) ***½
The This (2022) ****½

Roberts, Keith
Pavane (1968) *****
Machines & Men [collection] (1973) ***½
The Grain Kings [collection] (1976) ****
Kiteworld (1985) ****½ 
Grainne (1987) ***** 

Robinson, Jeanne & Spider
"Stardance" [novella] (1979) *** 

Robinson, Kim Stanley
Orange County series
    The Wild Shore (1984) ****
    The Gold Coast (1988) ****
    Pacific Edge (1990) ****
"The Blind Geometer" [novella] (1986) ***½
"Escape from Kathmandu" [novella] (1986) **½ 
Mars series
    Red Mars (1992) ****
    Green Mars (1994) ****½
    Blue Mars (1996) ****½
    The Martians [collection] (1999) ***
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002) ****
Science in the Capital series
    Forty Signs of Rain (2004) ***½
    Fifty Degrees Below (2005) ***½
    Sixty Days and Counting (2007) ***½
Galileo's Dream (2009) ****
2312 (2013) ***
Shaman (2013) ****
Aurora (2015 ****½
New York 2140 (2017) ****
Red Moon (2018) ***

Rooney, Sally
Normal People (2018) ***½   

Rosencrans, William
The Epiphanist (2012) ****½
Freaksome Tales: Ten Hitherto Uncollected Stories of V.V. Swigferd Gloume [collection] (2013) ***½

Rucker, Rudy
Spacetime Donuts (1981) ***½
The Sex Sphere (1983) **** 
Ware series
    Software (1982) ****
    Wetware (1988) ***½ 
    Freeware (1998) ***½ 
    Realware (2000) ***½
The Secret of Life (1985) ***
The Million Mile Road Trip (2019) ***½ 

Ruckley, Brian
The Godless World [trilogy review] (2006-2009) ****
    Winterbirth (2006) ****
    Bloodheir (2008) ****
    Fall of Thanes (2009) ****
The Edinburgh Dead (2011) ***½
The Free (2014) ***

Ruocchio, Christopher
Empire of Silence (2018) ***
Howling Dark (2019) ***½
The Lesser Devil (2020) ***
Demon in White (2020) ***½
Tales of the Sun Eater Vol. 1 [collection] (2021) **½
Kingdoms of Death (2022) ***
Ashes of Man (2022) *** 

Rusch, Kristine Kathryn
"The Gallery of His Dreams" [novella] (1991) ****
"Recovering Apollo 8" [novella] (2007) ***

Rushdie, Salman
Midnight's Children (1980) ****½

Russ, Joanna
Picnic on Paradise (1968) ***½
"Souls" [novella] (1983) ***½

Russell, Craig
Black Bottle Man (2010) ***

Russell, Eric Frank
"...And Then There Were None" [novella] (1951) ***½
The Mindwarpers (1965) ***

Ryan, Anthony
Many Are the Dead (2018) **½ 

S
Saadawi, Ahmed
Frankenstein in Baghdad (2014) ****½ 

St. John Mandel, Emily
Station Eleven (2014) ****½
The Glass Hotel (2020) ***½

Sales, Ian
"Adrift on the Sea of Rains" [novella] (2012) ***½
"The Eye with Which the Universe Beholds Itself" [novella] (2013) ***½
"Then Will the Great Ocean Wash Deep Above" [novella] (2013) ****

Samatar, Sofia
A Stranger in Olondria (2014) ****

Sanderson, Brandon
Mistborn: The Final Empire (2006) **½
The Well of Ascension (2007) *
The Hero of Ages (2008) *½  

Sandison, George (as editor)
2084: The Anthology (2017) ****

Sapkowski, Andrzej
The Last Wish [collection] (1993) **½
The Blood of Elves (1994) ***
The Time of Contempt (1995) ***
The Baptism of Fire (1996) **½
The Tower of Swallows (1997) ***½
The Lady of the Lake (1999) ***  

Sawyer, Robert J.
Hominids (2002) *½
"Identity Theft" [novella] (2005) **

Scalzi, John
Old Man's War (2006) **½
The Last Colony (2007) **½
"The God Engines" [novella] (2009) **½

Schenk, Hilbert
"The Battle for the Abaco Reefs" [novella] (1979) **½

Schmitz, James
A Tale of Two Clocks (aka Legacy) (1962) **

Schafer, William (as editor)
The Best of Subterranean (2017) ***½

Sedia, Ekaterina
The Alchemy of Stone (2008) ***

Sharpson, Neil
When the Sparrow Falls (2021) ***½

Shaw, Larry T. (as editor)
Great Science Fiction Adventures [anthology] (1963) **

Sheckley, Robert
Untouched by Human Hands [collection] (1954) ****
Immortality, Inc. (1959) **** 
The Status Civilization (1960) ***½
Hunter/Victim series
    The Tenth Victim (1965) ***½
    Victim Prime (1987) ***
Dimension of Miracles (1968) ****½
Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? [collection] (1972) ****
Crompton Divided (1978) ***½
The Robot Who Looked Like Me [collection] (1978) ****

Shelley, Mary
Frankenstein (1818) *****

Shepard, Lucius
The Dragon Griaule [collection] (1984-2012) ****½
The Jaguar Hunter [collection]  (1987) ****
    ("R&R" [novella] (1983) ****)
    ("The Traveler's Tale" [novella] (1984) ***½)
"Shades" [novelette] (1987) ****
The Golden (1993) ***
Barnacle Bill the Spacer and Other Stories [collection] (1997) ***½
    ("Barnacle Bill the Spacer" [novella] (1992) **½)
Eternity and Other Stories [collection] (2005) ****
"Stars Seen through Stone" [novella] (2007) ***½

Shiner, Lewis
Frontera (1984) ****
Slam (1990) **½  
Glimpses (1993) **** 
Heroes and Villains [collection] (2017) ***

Shippey, Tom (as editor)
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories [anthology] (1992) ***½ 

Sienkiewicz, Henryk
The Teutonic Knights (1900) ***

Shute, Nevil
On the Beach (1957) ****

Silverberg, Robert
"Hawksbill Station" [novella] (1967) ****½
Downward to the Earth (1970) ****
Tower of Glass (1970) ***½
A Time of Changes (1971) ***½
Nightwings (1972) ****½
Dying Inside (1972) ***½
The Second Trip (1972) **
The Book of Skulls (1972) ****
"Born with the Dead" [novella] (1974) ***½
Majipoor series
    Lord Valentine's Castle (1980) ****
    Majipoor Chronicles [collection] (1982) ****
    Valentine Pontifex (1983) ***
"Sailing to Byzantium" [novella] (1985) ****

Simak, Clifford
City (1952) ***
Way Station (1963) ***½
Why Call Them Back from Heaven? (1967) **½ 
"The Thing in the Stone" [novella] (1970) ****
"Auk House" [novella] (1977) **

Simmons, Dan 
Song of Kali (1985) ****
Hyperion Cantos
    Hyperion (1989) ****
    The Fall of Hyperion (1990) ****
    Endymion (1996) ***½
    The Rise of Endymion (1997) ***½
Prayers to Broken Stones [collection] (1991) ***
Hollow Man (1992) **
The Crook Factory (1999) ***½
Hardcase (2001) **½
Worlds Enough & Time [collection] (2002) ***
Ilium/Olympos duology
    Ilium (2003) ***
    Olympos (2005) **½
The Terror (2007) ****
Black Hills (2010) ***½
Flashback (2011) **½
The Fifth Heart (2015) ***½

Sladek, John
Tik-tok (1983) ****½

Slonczewski, Joan
A Door into Ocean (1986) ***½

Smith, Andrew
Grasshopper Jungle (2015) ***½  

Smith, Cordwainer
The Rediscovery of Man [collection] (1950-1966) *****

Smith, L. Neil
Taflak Lysandra (1988) *

 Smith Spark, Anna
The Court of Broken Knives (2017) **

Smythe, James
The Explorer (2012) ****

Spinrad, Norman
The Iron Dream (1972) ****
"Riding the Torch" [novella] (1974) ****½
"Journals of the Plague Years" [novella] (1988) ****
The People's Police (2017) ***½ 

Stableford, Brian
Halcyon Drift (1972) **½
Man in a Cage (1975) *****
"Le Fleurs du Mal" [novella] (1994) ****
"Mortimer Gray's History of Death" [novella] (1995) ****½

Stapledon, Olaf
Odd John (1935) ****½
Star Maker (1937) ***** 
Sirius (1944) ****½

Staveley, Brian
The Emperor's Blades (2014) **½ 

Steele, Allen
"The Death of Captain Future" [novella] (1996) ***½
Coyote series
    Coyote (2002) ***
    Coyote Rising (2004) ***½
    Coyote Frontier (2005) ***
    Spindrift (2007) ***
    Galaxy Blues (2009) **½
    Coyote Horizon & Coyote Destiny (2009 & 2010) ***½
    Hex (2011) **

Steinbeck, John
The Pastures of Heaven (1932) ****
In Dubious Battle (1936) ****

Stephenson, Neal 
Snow Crash (1992) ***
The Diamond Age (1996) ***
Cryptonomicon (1999) ****½
Baroque Cycle
    Quicksilver (2003) ****
    The Confusion (2004) ****
    The System of the World (2004) ****
Anathem (2008) ****½
Reamde (2011) **½
Seveneves (2015) ***
Termination Shock (2021) ****

Sterling, Bruce
Involution Ocean (1977) **½
The Artificial Kid (1980) ***½ 
Schismatrix (1985) ****
Islands in the Net (1988) ****
Crystal Express [collection] (1989) ***
The Difference Engine (with William Gibson) (1990) ****
Heavy Weather (1994) ***½
Holy Fire (1996) ****½
Distraction (1998) ***** 
A Good Old-fashioned Future [collection] (1999) ***½
"Kiosk" [novelette] (2007) ***½ 
The Caryatids (2009) ****
Pirate Utopia (2016) ****½
Robot Artists & Black Swans [collection] (2021) **** 

As editor:
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology [anthology] (1986) **** 

Stevenson, Robert Loui
Kidnapped (1886) ***½
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1887) *****

Stewart, Andrew Kelly
We Shall Sing a Song into the Deep (2021) ***

Stewart, George
Earth Abides (1949) **½

Stewart, Sean
Passion Play (1992) ****
Nobody's Son (1994) ***½
Resurrection Man (1995) ****

Strahan, Jonathan (as editor)
Eclipse series
    Eclipse One [anthology] (2007) ***½ 
    Eclipse Two [anthology] (2008) ***
    Eclipse Three [anthology] (2009) ***
    Eclipse Four [anthology] (2011) ***
The Starry Rift (2008) ***
Godlike Machines [anthology] (2010) ***
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year series
    The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Vol. 1 [anthology] (2007) ***½
    The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Vol. 2 [anthology] (2008) ***½
    The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Vol. 3 [anthology] (2009) ***½
    The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Vol. 4 [anthology] (2010) ***½
    The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Vol. 5 [anthology] (2011) ***
    The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Vol. 6 [anthology] (2012) ***½
    The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Vol. 7 [anthology] (2013) ***½
    The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Vol. 8 [anthology] (2014) ***½
    The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Vol. 9 [anthology] (2015) ***
    The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Vol. 10 [anthology] (2016) ***½
Infinity series
    Engineering Infinity [anthology] (2010) ***½
    Edge of Infinity [anthology] (2012) ***
    Reach for Infinity [anthology] (2014) ***½
    Meeting Infinity [anthology] (2015) ***½
    Bridging Infinity [anthology] (2016) ***
    Infinity's End [anthology] (2018) **½
Drowned Worlds [anthology] (2016) **½
Made to Order: Robots & Revolution [anthology] (2020) ***
Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene [anthology] (2022) ***½

Stross, Charles
Toast [collection] (2002) ***
"The Concrete Jungle" [novella] (2004) *½ 
Accelerando (2005) ***½
Glasshouse (2006) ***
Halting State (2007) ***
Wireless [collection] (2009) ***½
    ("Missile Gap" [novella] (2005) **½) 
    ("Palimpsest" [novella] (2009) ****½)

Strugatsky, Arkady & Boris
Roadside Picnic (1971) *****

Sturgeon, Theodore
The Dreaming Jewels (1950) ****
More Than Human (1953) ***½
The Cosmic Rape (aka The Marry Medusa) (1958) ****½
A Touch of Strange [collection] (1958) ****
Venus Plus X (1960) *****
Some of Your Blood (1961) ****
Starshine [collection] (1966) **

Sullivan, Michael J.
The Crown Conspiracy (2008) *½

Suzuki, Izumi
Terminal Boredom: Stories [collection] *****

Swanwick, Michael
Vacuum Flowers (1987) ***
"Griffin's Egg" [novella] (1991) ***
Stations of the Tide (1991) ****
Babel series
     The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993) ****½
     The Dragons of Babel (2008) ****½
          ("Lord Weary's Empire" [novella] (2006) ****)
     The Iron Dragon's Mother (2019) ****½
Jack Faust (1997) ****
Tales of Old Earth [collection) (2000) ***½
Not So Much, Said the Cat [collection] (2016) ***½  

Swirsky, Rachel
"The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window" [novella] (2010) ****½  

T
Tartt, Donna
The Goldfinch (2013) ***½

Theroux, Marcel
Far North (2009) ***
Strange Bodies (2013) ****½
The Sorcerer of Pyongyang (2022) ****

Theroux, Paul
The Mosquito Coast (1981) *****
Kowloon Tong (1997) ****
Under the Wave at Waimea (2021) ****

Thompson, Tade
Making Wolf (2015) ***

Tidbeck, Karin
Jagannath (2012) ***½
Amatka (2017) **
 
Tidhar, Lavie
"Gorel and the Pot-Bellied God" [novella] (2011) **½
Osama (2012) ****½
A Man Lies Dreaming (2014) ***
Central Station (2016) ***

Tiptree Jr., James 
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever [collection] (1990) ****
    ("The Girl Who Was Plugged In" [novella] (1973) ****½)
    ("Houston, Houston, Do You Read" [novella] (1976) ****½)
"The Only Neat Thing to Do" [novella] (1985) ***½
 
Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Hobbit (1937) ****½
The Lord of the Rings (1954) ****
The Silmarillion (1977) *****
Unfinished Tales [collection] (1980) ***½

Tucker, Wilson
Time:X [collection] (1954) ***½
The Year of the Quiet Sun (1970) **½ 

U
Underwood, Michael R.
"Genrenauts: The Shootout Solution" [novella] (2015) **½

Unknown
Hollywood Fantasies: Ten Surreal Visions of Tinsel Town (1997) ***
More of the Best of Science Fiction & Fantasy (1995) *** 

V
Valente, Catherynne M.
"Silently and Very Fast" [novella] (2012) ****½
Six-Gun Snow White [novella] (2013) ****½
Radiance (2015) ****½
The Refrigerator Monologues [collection] (2017) ****½
Space Opera (2018) **** 
The Future Is Blue [collection] (2018) ****
The Past Is Red (2021) **½ 

van Gelder, Gordon (as editor)
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary [anthology] (2009) ***½
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine: 60th Anniversary [anthology] (2009) ****
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 2 [anthology] (2014) ****

van Vogt, A. E.
The Best of A.E. van Vogt [collection] (1940-1968) **½
The World of Null-A (1948) ***½
 
Vance, Jack
The World-Thinker and Other Stories [collection] (1945-1966) **½
The Golden Girl and Other Stories [collection] (1945-1972) **½
The Potter of Firsk and Other Stories [collection] (1946-1962) **
Son of the Tree and Other Stories [collection] (1946-1967) **½
    "Son of the Tree" [novella] (1950) **
Tales of the Dying Earth (1950-1984) ****½
    The Dying Earth [collection] (1950) ***½
    The Eyes of the Overworld (1966) ****½
    Cugel's Saga (1983) *****
    Rhialto the Marvellous (1984) ****½
The Moon Moth and Other Stories [collection] (1951-1973) ***
The Houses of Iszm and Other Stories [collection] (1954-1967) **½
     ("The Houses of Iszm" [novella] (1953) **)
Big Planet (1957) ***
The Languages of Pao (1957) ***
"The Miracle Workers" [novella] (1957) ***
"The Dragon Masters" [novella] (1963) ***½
The Demon Princes [series] (1964-1981) ***½
    The Star King (1964) ***
    The Killing Machine (1964) **
    The Palace of Love (1967) **½
    The Face (1979) ***
    The Book of Dreams (1981) ***½
Space Opera (1965) ***½
The Blue World (1966) ****
"The Last Castle" [novella] (1966) ****
Planet of Adventure [series review] (1968-1970) ****
Emphyrio (1968) ***½ 
Galactic Effectuator (1973-1974) **½
Durdane Chronicles [series review] (1973-1975) ***½
Alastor [trilogy review) (1973-1981) ***½
Maske: Thaery (1976) ***½
The Domains of Koryphon [variant title: The Gray Prince] (1976) ***½
Lyonesse [trilogy review] (1983-1989) ***½
The Cadwal Chronicles [trilogy review] (1987-1992) ***½
Night Lamp (1996) ***½
Ports of Call & Lurulu [duology review] (1998 & 2004) ***½

VanderMeer, Jeff
Veniss Underground (2003) ****
Ambergris series
    City of Saints and Madmen (2004) *****
    Shriek: An Afterword (2006) *****
    Finch (2009) ****
Wonderbook [Non-fiction] (2013)
Area X: Southern Reach trilogy
    Annihilation (2014) *****
    Authority (2014) ***** 
    Acceptance (2014) ****½ 
Borne (2017) ***
Hummingbird Salamander (2021) *** 

As editor with Ann VanderMeer:
Steampunk [anthology] (2008) ****

Varley, John
The Ophiuchi Hotline (1977) ***½
Millennium (1982) ***
"Blue Champagne" [novella] (1981) ***½
Steel Beach (1992) ***½
The John Varley Reader [collection] (2004) ***
    "The Persistence of Vision" [novella] (1978) ***½
    "Press Enter_" [novella] (1984) ***½

Verne, Jules
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) ***½
20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1869) ****
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) ***½

Villoso, K.S.
The Wolf of Oren-Yaro (2017) **  

Vinge, Joan D.
"Fireship" [novella] (1979) ***
The Snow Queen (1980) **½

Vinge, Vernor
A Fire upon the Deep (1992) *½
"Fast Times at Fairmont High" [novella] (2001) **
"The Cookie Monster" [novella] (2003) *

Vonnegut, Kurt 
The Sirens of Titan (1959) *****
Cat's Cradle (1963) ****½ 
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) ****

W
Wallace, Kali
Dead Space (2021) ***½

Wang, Regina Kanyu (as editor)
The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories [anthology] (2022) ***

Warren, Rosalie
Lena's Nest (2015) **

Watson, Ian
The Embedding (1973) ****½
The Jonah Kit (1975) ***½
Miracle Visitors (1978) ****

Watts, Peter
Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes [collection] (2001) ***½
Blindsight series
    Blindsight (2006) ****
    Echopraxia (2014) *** 
Beyond the Rift [collection] (2013) **** 
The Freeze-Frame Revolution (2018) ***½

Weisman, Jacob (as editor)
Invaders: 22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature [collection] (2016) ****

Wells, H. G.
The Time Machine (1895) ****
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896) ****½
The Invisible Man (1897) ****
The War of the Worlds (1898) ****

Wendig, Chuck
"Interlude: Swallow" [novella] (2015) **

Whates, Ian
Pelquin's Comet (2015) **½

As editor:
Solaris Rising series
    Solaris Rising [anthology] (2011) ***
    Solaris Rising 1.5 [anthology] (2012) **
    Solaris Rising 2 [anthology] (2013) *** 
    Solaris Rising 3 [anthology] (2014) ***
Paradox: Stories Inspired by the Fermi Paradox [anthology] (2014) ***½
Total Conflict [anthology] (2015) ***

Edited with Tom Hunter:
2001: An Odyssey in Words [anthology] (2018) ****

Whitehead, Colson
The Underground Railroad (2016) **½ 

Whiteley, Aliya
The Beauty (2014) ****
The Arrival of Missives (2016) *** 

Wilde, Oscar
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) ****½

Wilhelm, Kate
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (1976) ***
"The Gorgon Field" [novella] (1985) **

Williams, Katie
Tell the Machine Goodnight (2018) ****½

Williams, Sean
Saturn Returns (2007) ***
"Cenotaxis" [novella] (2007) ***½

Williams, Walter Jon
Hardwired (1986) ***½
"Surfacing" [novella] (1988) ****
The Praxis (1990) **½

Williamson, Neil
Secret Language [collection] (2016) ***½
Queen of the Clouds (2022) ***½

Willis, Connie
Doomsday Book (1992) **½
"The Winds of Marble Arch" [novella] (2000) **

Wilson, Kai Ashante
Sorcerer of the Wildeeps (2015) ****

Wilson, Robert Charles
Darwinia (1998) **
The Chronoliths (2001) ****
Spin (2005) ***
"The Cartesian Theater" [novelette] (2006) ****
Julian Comstock (2009) ***
The Affinities (2015) **** 
Last Year (2016) **½

Wolfe, Gene
The Fifth Head of Cerberus (1972) ****½
"The Death of Doctor Island" [novella] (1973) ****½
Solar Cycle
    The Book of the New Sun  [series review] (1981-1984) ****½
    The Urth of the New Sun (1987) ***½
    The Book of the Long Sun [series review] (1993-1996) ****½
    The Book of the Short Sun [series review] (1999-2001) ****½
Soldier/Latro series
    Soldier of the Mist (1986) *****
    Soldier of Arete (1989) ****½
    Soldier of Sidon (2006) ****½
The Wizard Knight (2004) *****
Pirate Freedom (2007) ****

Wooding, Chris
Retribution Falls (2010) **½
The Ember Blade (2018) ***  

Wu, Cheng'en
Journey to the West (1550) *****

Wyndham, John
The Day of the Triffids (1951) **½

Wyss, Johann David
The Swiss Family Robinson (1812) ***½

X
Y
Yuknavitch, Lidia
The Book of Joan (2017) ****
 
Z
Zahn, Timothy
"Cascade Point" [novella] (1983) ***
The Thrawn Trilogy [series review] (1991-1993) ***
Hand of Thrawn [duology review] (1997-1998) **½
Thrawn (2017) **½ 

Zamyatin, Yevgeni
We (1921) ****½

Zebrowski, George
Brute Orbits (1998) ***½ 
In the Distance, and Ahead in Time [collection] (2002) ***½ 

Zelazny, Roger
This Immortal (1966) ***½
"He Who Shapes" [novella] (1966) ****
Lord of Light (1967) ****
Creatures of Light and Darkness (1969) **½ 
Damnation Alley (1969) ***
Jack of Shadows (1971) ***  
To Die in Italbar (1973) **½
The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth [collection] (1974) **½
"Home Is the Hangman" [novella] (1975) ****
Eye of Cat (1982) ****
Frost & Fire [collection] (1989) ***



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