Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates Published: 1996 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Richard R. Horton Have you read this book? It’s long been true that a lot of the best SF comes from British or UK-based writers. Nowadays, frustratingly for those of us in the US, a lot …
Genre: Mixed Genre Anthology Publisher: Arkham House Published: 1996 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Richard R. Horton Have you read this book? Ian MacLeod seemed to emerge into the SF field almost fully-formed, as it were, with the publication in the Fall 1990 Weird Tales of his second story, “1/72 …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: NAL Published: 1949 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Kane Have you read this book? ‘The most powerful and terrifying novel I have read in years.’ — Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Undoubtedly for many of you this book will bring back bad memories. Of dreary English lessons, …
Genre: YA Fantasy Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux Published: 1969 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Richard R. Horton Have you read this book? George MacDonald’s name has come up on our YA SF&F thread before. (This refers to Melisa Michaels’ forum at the late, lamented, online bookstore Book Stacks.) He …
Genre: Science Fiction Anthology Publisher: White Wolf Published: 1997 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Richard R. Horton Have you read this book? New Worlds is almost legendary among SF magazines/anthologies by now: its history stretches back to 1946, when it began as a fairly conventional SF magazine edited by Ted …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Ace Published: 1965 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Aaron M. Renn Have you read this book? My computer crashed, keeping me away from my precious hacking and in a strange way sucking out my life force. I have been singularly unmotivated to do anything, including read …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Viking Published: 1937 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul S. Jenkins Have you read this book? Star Maker is a novel that defines ‘sense of wonder.’ From a hill near his safe suburban semi, a man travels the length and breadth of all eternity, exploring an …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Ballantine Published: 1977 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul S. Jenkins Have you read this book? Here’s a simple story: a man wins a lottery and uses the proceeds to go to ‘Gateway’ — a kind of hyperspace jump-point — to take his chance at discovering …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Warner Books Published: 1999 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul S. Jenkins Have you read this book? Teresa Simons is a 43-year-old FBI agent who has lost her husband (also FBI) in a Texas shooting. She has come to England on vacation, but also to investigate …
Genre: Science Fiction Anthology Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Aaron M. Renn Have you read this book? This is a solid collection of Gene Wolfe short stories. They are a diverse lot, having only excellence in common. I’ll admit that I’m really not a …
Genre: Apocalyptic Publisher: Bantam Published: 1959 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul S. Jenkins Have you read this book? I approached Canticle with trepidation; the Catholic Church is, in my opinion, an unlikely subject for science fiction. But the novel is often cited as a classic, and I was eager …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: William Morrow and Co. Published: 1998 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul S. Jenkins Have you read this book? Paul J. McAuley, an up-and-coming British SF writer, is a name to watch. He’s had a number of excellent short stories in Interzone and elsewhere. Child of …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: William Morrow and Co. Published: 1999 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul S. Jenkins Have you read this book? Confluence is not a planet. Though it hangs in space like a planet, it oscillates rather than rotates, so that the sun rises in its sky, then …
Genre: Mixed Genre Anthology Publisher: Bantam Published: 1971 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Eugene Wiley Have you read this book? Garage sale season is almost ready to start up again and don’t kid yourself — we all know that’s a great place to find overlooked and nearly forgotten Spec Fiction! …
Genre: Horror Publisher: Zumaya Publications Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Jack Crane Have you read this book? Christopher Stires’ new (and first) novel, The Inheritance offers another riff on the old Pandora’s box routine without much innovation regarding theme, characterization, or plot development. It’s a simple and very …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates Published: 1998 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul S. Jenkins Have you read this book? Moh Kohn is a mercenary with an intelligent gun. Janis Taine is a biologist researching memory drugs. When Kohn goes to Taine’s laboratory after a raid, the drugs …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Ace Published: 1969 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul S. Jenkins Have you read this book? Suppose, in the far future, an isolated planet somewhere in the distant reaches of the galaxy has been colonised by humans and then left alone. That relatively small pocket of …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Dedalus Limited Published: 1997 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul S. Jenkins Have you read this book? Seeing the title, Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh, the reader might get the idea that Robert Irwin’s novella contained an above-average amount of sex. The reader would be correct. Set in …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Warner Books Published: 1993 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul S. Jenkins Have you read this book? Before you ask, let me say that Ben Elton’s Gridlock definitely comes under the heading of speculative fiction. Though in essence it is a politico-industrial satire set mostly in …
Genre: Mixed Genre Anthology Publisher: Prime Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Kane Have you read this book? After a spell in cyberspace, Redsine returns to a print format with issue seven – although you may be forgiven for not recognizing it at first. You see, it’s not …
