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...)
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
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
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, Richard
Watership
Down (1972) ****
Ahmed, Saladin
Throne
of the Crescent Moon (2012) **½
Aldiss, Brian
Non-Stop
(1958) ***½
Hothouse
(1962) ***
The
Moment of Eclipse [collection] (1970) ***½
The Malacia Tapestry (1976) ****
Brothers of the Head (1977) ****
The Malacia Tapestry (1976) ****
Brothers of the Head (1977) ****
Helliconia
Helliconia
Summer (1984) ****
Helliconia
Winter (1986) ****½
The
Secret of this Book [collection] (1995) ****½
Super-State
(2002) ****
As editor:
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
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) ****
Oryx and Crake
Oryx and Crake (2003) ****
The Year of the Flood (2009) ****
MaddAddam (2013) ****
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
Crystal World (1966) ****½
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) ****
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
Look
to Windward (2000) ****
Matter
(2008) ****
Against
a Dark Background (1993) **
Feersum
Endjinn (1994) ***½
The Bone Ships (2019) ***
Barnes, Adrian
Nod (2014) ****
Barry, Max
Lexicon (2013) **½
Baxter, Stephen
Barnes, Adrian
Nod (2014) ****
Barry, Max
Lexicon (2013) **½
Baxter, Stephen
Raft
(1991) ***½
Bear, Elizabeth
Bear, Greg
"Hardfought"
[novella] (1983) ****
Blood
Music (1988) ***
Beaulieu, Bradley
Twelve
Kings of Sharakhai (2015) *½
The
Teleportation Accident (2012) ****
Glow
(2014) ***
Beckett, Chris
Eden series
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
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
Zoo
City (2010) ***½
The Shining Girls (2013) ****
Broken Monsters (2014) ****½
Slipping [collection] (2016) ***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
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) *****)
Unicorn
Mountain (1988) ****
"Cri
de Coeur" [novella] (1994) ***½
Bisson, Terry
Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories [collection] (1993) ****
Bisson, Terry
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 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) ****
All the Bells on Earth (1995) ***½
Thirteen Phantasms [collection] (2000) ****
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) ****
Brin, David
Startide
Rising (1983) ***½
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
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) *****
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
Carey, Jacqueline
Kushiel's
Dart (2001) ***½
Carroll, Jonathan
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) ***
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) ****
Bridge 108 (2020) ***½
Cherryh, C.J.
Downbelow
Station (1981) ***½
Port
Eternity (1982) ***
Foreigner series
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) ****
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) ****
Peacemaker (2014) ***½
Tracker (2015) ***½
Visitor (2016) ****
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)
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)
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) **
("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)
Clarke, Susanna
Jonathan
Strange & Mr. Norrell (2004) ****½
Piranesi (2020) *****
Clough, Brenda W.
"May
Be Some Time" [novella] (2001) **
Compton, D. G.
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
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
Totalitopia [collection] (2017) ****
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr (2017) ****½
Cussler, Clive
Lost
City (2004) *
Delany, Samuel R.
The
Fall of the Towers (1963-1965) ***
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) ****
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) ****
Now
Wait for Last Year (1966) **½
Do
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
****
Ubik
(1969) ****
Flow
My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974) *½
Minority Report [collection] (2002) ***½
Disch, Thomas
"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
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
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
The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories (2012) ****
"The Chief Designer" [novella] (2001) ****
An Agent of Utopia [collection] (2018) ****½
Durham, David Anthony
Acacia:
The War with the Mein (2007) ***½
The
Other Lands (2009) ***
Eddison, E.R.
The
Worm Ouroboros (1922) ***½
Effinger, George Alec
When
Gravity Fails (1987) ***
Egan, Greg
Distress
(1995) ***½
Dark
Integers and Other Stories [collection] (2007) ***
("Oceanic"
[novella] (1998) ****)
Egan, Jennifer
"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) ****
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)
Flynn, Michael
Ford, Jeffrey
The Well-Built City trilogy
The
Physiognomy (1997) ***½
Memoranda
(1999) ****
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) ****
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) **
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) ****
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
Dark
Moon (1996) *½
Ash:
A Secret History (2000) *****
Gerrold, David
The
Man Who Folded Himself (1973) *****
Ghosh, Amitav
The
Circle of Reason (1986) ****½
Gibson, William
Burning
Chrome [collection] (1977-1985) ****
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
Blue Ant series
Pattern Recognition (2003) ****
Spook Country (2007) ****½
Zero History (2010) ****
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) ****
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) ****
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) ***
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) *****
Haldeman, Joe
The
Forever War (1976) ****
"The
Hemingway Hoax" [novella] (1990) ***½
Forever
Peace (1997) ***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) ****
Saffron
and Brimstone: Strange Stories [collection] (2006) ****½
("Cleopatra
Brimstone" [novella] (2001) ***½)
("Least
Trumps" [novella] (2002) ****½)
Illyria (2007) ****
Cass Neary series
Available Dark (2012) ****
Radiant
Days (2012) ****
Errantry:
Strange Stories [collection] (2012) ****
("The
Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" [novella] (2010) ****½)
Harkaway, Nick
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
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) *****
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 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, Joe
20th Century Ghosts [collection] (2005) ***½
Strange Weather [collection] (2017) ****
Full Throttle [collection] (2019) ***½
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) ***
Houellebecq, Michel
The Map & the Territory (2010) ***
Howard, Robert E.
Conan
the Warrior [collection] (1935) ½
Hughart, Barry
Hurley, Kameron
God's
War (2011) **
The
Mirror Empire (2014) **½
Hutchinson, Dave
Fragmented Europe series
Europe
in Autumn (2014) ****
Sleeps
with Angels [collection] (2015) ***½
Huxley, Aldous
Brave
New World (1932) ****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
Johnson, Kij
At
the Mouth of the River of Bees [collection] (2012) ****
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) ****
Jones, Gwyneth
"Proof of Concept" [novella] (2017) **
Joyce, Graham
The Silent Land (2010) ****
Some Kind of Fairy Tale (2012) ****
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) ***
Children
of Earth and Sky (2016) ***
Kearney, Paul
Monarchies of God series
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) ****
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) ****
Rewired:
The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology [anthology] (2007) ****
Kessel, John
"Another
Orphan" [novella] (1982) ****½
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) *****
Kiernan, Caitlin R.
The Red Tree (2009) ****
The Drowning Girl (2012) *****
Graveyard Shift and Other Stories [audio] (1994) ***
Billy Summers (2021) ****
Kling, Marc-Uwe
Kornbluth, C. M.
The
Space Merchants (with Frederik Pohl) (1952) ****
The Marching Morons & Other Famous Science Fiction Stories [collection] (1959) ***½
The Marching Morons & Other Famous Science Fiction Stories [collection] (1959) ***½
Kornher-Stace, Nicole
Firebreak (2021) ***
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
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) ****
Metronome (2017) ***½
Lansdale, Joe R.
Savage Season (1990) ***
The Bottoms (2000) ****
A Fine Dark Line (2002) ****
The Thicket (2013) ****
le Carre, John
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) ****
Le Guin, Ursula
Planet
of Exile (1966) ***½
Earthsea Cycle
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
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea [collection] (1994) ***
Four
Ways to Forgiveness [collection] (1995) ***½
Le Tellier, Herve
The Anomaly (2022) ****
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
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) ****)
Lem, Stanislaw
The
Investigation (1959) ****½
Solaris
(1961) *****
The
Invincible (1964) ****
The
Cyberiad (1967) *****
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 Fortress of Solitude (2003) *****
Men and Cartoons [collection] (2004) ***½
Lucky Alan and Other Stories [collection] (2015) ****
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
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
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)
Macleod, Ken
Fall Revolution series
The
Star Fraction (1995) ****
The
Stone Canal (1996) ****
The
Cassini Division (1998) ***½
The
Sky Road (1999) ****
Learning
the World (2005) ***
The
Execution Channel (2007) ****
The
Night Sessions (2008) ***½
Beyond the Hallowed Sky (2021) ***
Malzberg, Barry
Beyond
Apollo (1973) ****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
Storm of Swords (2000) ****
A
Feast of Crows (2005) ***
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
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 Incarnation of Making (2021) ***½
McDevitt, Jack
Ancient
Shores (1996) ***½
Raven's Mark
Crowfall (2019) ***
Redwinter Chronicles
McDonald, Ian
Desolation
Road (1988) ****
Empire Dreams [collection] (1988) ****
Out
on Blue Six (1989) ***
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
"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
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
McHugh, Maureen
China
Mountain Zhang (1992) ****½
"Protection"
[novella] (1992) ****
Mothers & Other Monsters [collection] (2005) ****
("The Cost to Be Wise" [novella] (1996) ***½)
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)
McKillip, Patricia
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974) ****½
McKinney, Chris
McMaster Bujold, Lois
"The
Mountains of Mourning" [novella] (1989) **½
Barrayar
(1991) **½
Michel, Lincoln
The Body Scout ***½
Mieville, China
Bas-Lag series
Perdido
Street Station
(2000) ***½
Looking
for Jake and Other Stories [collection] (2005) ***
The
City & the City (2009) ****½
Miller, Walter M.
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) ***
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) ***
Moore, Ward
Bring the Jubilee (1953) ****
Morden, Simon
Equations of Life (2011) ***
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Signal
to Noise (2015) **½
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) ****
Murakami, Haruki
Norwegian
Wood (1987) ***½
First Person Singular [collection] (2021) ****
Murphy, Pat
"Bones"
[novella] (1990) ***½
Nagata, Linda
Nicholas, J.T.
Re-Coil (2020) ***
Niven, Larry
Ringworld (1970) ***
"A.R.M."
[novella] (1975) **½
Noon, Jeff
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014) ***
Norton, Andre
Plague
Ship (1956) **½
Nowlan, Philip Francis
"Armageddon
2419 A.D." [novella] (1928) *
Ogawa, Yoko
The Memory Police (1994) ****
Okorafor, Nnedi
Lagoon
(2014) ****½
Orwell, George
Nineteen
Eighty-four (1949) *****
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
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980) ***
Starburst
(1982) **
"Outnumbering
the Dead" [novella] (1990) ***½
Polansky, Daniel
"The
Builders" [novella] (2016) *½
Powers, Richard
Bewilderment (2021) ***½
Powers, Tim
The
Drawing of the Dark (1979) **
The
Anubis Gates (1984) ****
Dinner
at Deviant's Palace (1985) ***
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
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
Priest, Cherie
Boneshaker
(2009) ***½
Priest, Christopher
Indoctrinaire
(1970) ***½
Inverted
World (1973) ****
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 Dream Archipelago [collection] (1999) ****
The Separation (2010) *****
The Gradual (2016) ****½
The Evidence (2016) ****
As editor:
The Shipping News (1993) *****
Barkskins (2016) ****½
Pulley, Natasha
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (2015) **½
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
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) *
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
Pushing
Ice (2005) *½
Roberts, Adam
Salt
(2000) ****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
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
Shaman
(2013) ****
Rooney, Sally
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
Rucker, Rudy
Spacetime Donuts (1981) ***½
The Sex Sphere (1983) ****
Ware series
Software (1982) ****
Wetware (1988) ***½
Freeware (1998) ***½
Realware (2000) ***½
The
Godless World [trilogy review] (2006-2009) ****
Winterbirth (2006) ****
Bloodheir (2008) ****
Fall of Thanes (2009) ****
The Edinburgh Dead (2011) ***½
The Lesser Devil (2020) ***
Tales of the Sun Eater Vol. 1 [collection] (2021) **½
Kingdoms of Death (2022) ***
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn
"The
Gallery of His Dreams" [novella] (1991) ****
"Recovering
Apollo 8" [novella] (2007) ***
Rushdie, Salman
Midnight's
Children (1980) ****½
Russell, Eric Frank
Ryan, Anthony
Saadawi, Ahmed
St. John Mandel, Emily
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) ****
Samatar, Sofia
A Stranger in Olondria (2014) ****
Sanderson, Brandon
Mistborn:
The Final Empire (2006) **½
The
Well of Ascension (2007) *
Sapkowski, Andrzej
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
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
Victim Prime (1987) ***
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)
Barnacle
Bill the Spacer and Other Stories [collection] (1997) ***½
("Barnacle
Bill the Spacer" [novella] (1992) **½)
Eternity and Other Stories [collection] (2005) ****
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) ***
Shiner, Lewis
Frontera (1984) ****
Slam (1990) **½
Glimpses (1993) ****
Heroes and Villains [collection] (2017) ***
Shippey, Tom (as editor)
Sienkiewicz, Henryk
The
Teutonic Knights (1900) ***
Shute, Nevil
On the Beach (1957) ****
Silverberg, Robert
"Hawksbill
Station" [novella] (1967) ****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) ***
"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
Ilium/Olympos duology
Ilium (2003) ***
Olympos (2005) **½
Flashback
(2011) **½
The Fifth Heart (2015) ***½
Sladek, John
Tik-tok
(1983) ****½
Slonczewski, Joan
Smith, Cordwainer
The
Rediscovery of Man [collection] (1950-1966) *****
Smith, L. Neil
Smythe, James
The
Explorer (2012) ****
Spinrad, Norman
The
Iron Dream (1972) ****
"Riding
the Torch" [novella] (1974) ****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
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
Termination Shock (2021) ****
Sterling, Bruce
Involution Ocean (1977) **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
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. 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
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) *****
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] *****
"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) ****
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) *****
Kowloon Tong (1997) ****
Under the Wave at Waimea (2021) ****
Tidhar, Lavie
"Gorel
and the Pot-Bellied
God" [novella] (2011) **½
Osama
(2012) ****½
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
Unknown
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) ****
Radiance (2015) ****½
The Refrigerator Monologues [collection] (2017) ****½
Space Opera (2018) ****
The Future Is Blue [collection] (2018) ****
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
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
Lyonesse
[trilogy review] (1983-1989) ***½
The
Cadwal Chronicles [trilogy review] (1987-1992) ***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) ***
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) ****
"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) ****
Wallace, Kali
Dead Space (2021) ***½
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) ****
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) ***
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
Total Conflict [anthology] (2015) ***
Edited with Tom Hunter:
2001: An Odyssey in Words [anthology] (2018) ****
Whitehead, Colson
The Underground Railroad (2016) **½
Whiteley, Aliya
Wilde, Oscar
The
Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) ****½
Wilhelm, Kate
Where
Late the Sweet Birds Sang (1976) ***
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
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, Kai Ashante
Sorcerer of the Wildeeps (2015) ****
The
Chronoliths (2001) ****
Spin
(2005) ***
"The
Cartesian Theater" [novelette] (2006) ****
Julian Comstock (2009) ***
Wolfe, Gene
The
Fifth Head of Cerberus (1972) ****½
"The
Death of Doctor Island" [novella] (1973) ****½
Solar Cycle
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
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
Zahn, Timothy
"Cascade
Point" [novella] (1983) ***
The
Thrawn Trilogy [series review] (1991-1993) ***
Zamyatin, Yevgeni
We
(1921) ****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) ***
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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