Speculiction...: 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

Abbott, Edwin

Flatland (1884) ****½

Abercrombie, Joe

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

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

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) ***

"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

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) ****

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) ***

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) ***

Beckett, Chris

Eden series

Dark Eden (2012) ****½

Mother of Eden (2015) ***½
Daughter of Eden (2016) ****

Marcher (2014) ***½

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
Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories [collection] (1993) ****

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) ****

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) ****

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) ****

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) ****
"The Enclave" [novella] (2017) ***½

Chen, Qiufan
Waste Tide (2013) ***

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

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

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

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
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

"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 (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) ****

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

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) ****

Friedman, Celia

Black Sun Rising (1991) *

Friend, Oscar J. (as editor)

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

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) ****

Gregory, Daryl

We Are All Completely Fine (2014) ***

Afterparty (2014) ***½

Griffith, Nicola

Slow River (1995) ****

Grimwood, Jon Courtenay (aka Jack Grimwood)
neoAddix (1997) ***

Arabesk trilogy

Pashazade (2001) ***½

Effendi (2002) ***½

Felaheen (2003) ***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) ****

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

Ishiguro, Kazuo
Never Let Me Go (2005) ****
The Buried Giant (2015) *****

Klara and the Sun (2021) ****½

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 Gavrie

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) ***

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) ****

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) *****

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) ***

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) **

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

Lansdale, Joe R.
Savage Season (1990) ***
The Bottoms (2000) ****

A Fine Dark Line (2002) ****

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

Leckie, Ann

Ancillary Justice (2013) **

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, Eleano

Radiomen (2015) ****½
Stargazer's Embassy (2017) ****

Lethem, Jonathan

Gun, with Occasional Music (1994) ***½

Amnesia Moon (1995) ****

Mo therless 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) *****

Lynch, Scott

The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006) **

Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007) *½

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) ***

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) ***½

A Clash of Kings (1998) ***

A Storm of Swords (2000) ***½

A Feast of Crows (2005) **½

A Dance with Dragons (2011) **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
Blackwing (2017) ***½
Ravencry (2018) ***½
Crowfall (2019) ***

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) ****

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)

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) ***

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, 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 Wor ld 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

Nagata, Linda

The Red: First Light (2013) **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) *

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, 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

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 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
Thud! (2005) ***½

Making Money (2007) ****
Nation (2008) ***½

Priest, Cherie

Boneshaker (2009) ***½

Priest, Christopher

Indoctrinaire (1970) ***½

Inverted World (1973) ****

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

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) ****

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

Roberts, Keith

Pavane (1968) *****
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) ***

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) ****

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

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) ***

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) ***
Time of Contempt (1995) ***

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

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

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) ***

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

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) ***

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) ****

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) ***

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

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

Theroux, Paul

The Mosquito Coast (1981) *****

Under the Wave at Waimea (2021) ****

Thompson, Tade
Making Wolf (2015) ***

Tidbeck, Karin

Jagannath (2012) ***½

Amatka (2017) **

Tidhar, Lavie

"Gorel and the Pot-Bell ied 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 review] (1964-1981) ***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

"The Persistence of Vision" [novella] (1978) ***½

"Blue Champagne" [novella] (1981) ***½

Millennium (1982) ***

"Press Enter_" [novella] (1984) ***½

Steel Beach (1992) ***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) ****

Warren, Rosalie

Lena's Nest (2015) **

Watson, Ian

The Embedding (1973) ****½

Miracle Visitors (1987) ****

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