Genre: Horror Publisher: Serpent’s Tail Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Kane Have you read this book? ‘Ian McEwan used to mine a similar seam. Fowler does it better.’ – Arena ‘Ghoulishly irresistible.’ – The Times ‘The stories are just the right shade of black to have considerable …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Viking Published: 1991 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul S. Jenkins Have you read this book? This is a frame story; journalist Connor Gilmartin, having been unceremoniously murdered by his wife’s lover, sits incorporeal next to his murderer at the Toronto Film Festival, watching from the afterlife …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Ballantine Published: 1996 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul S. Jenkins Have you read this book? For those of us who consider Arthur C. Clarke to be the quintessential science fiction writer, any work of SF written by the man himself – without collaboration – is …
Genre: Fantasy Anthology Publisher: Double Dragon E-Books Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Fraser Ronald Have you read this book? This is the second e-book I’ve reviewed by Patrick Welch, the first having been the Thirteenth Magician. The quality of writing I noted in that book is also present …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Harcourt Published: 1994 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Richard R. Horton Have you read this book? Jonathan Lethem is a rather new writer whose stories have been appearing in Asimov’s, Pulphouse and elsewhere over the past few years. His short fiction has shown outstanding range, and …
Genre: Modern/Urban Fantasy Publisher: Grove/Atlantic Published: 1997 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul S. Jenkins Have you read this book? This is a maddening book — sharply written, of course, as one would expect from Will Self — but maddening nonetheless, in more ways than one. For a start we’re …
Genre: Science Fiction Anthology Publisher: Barricade Books Published: 1997 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? The cover offers Analog Science Fiction’s praise; “Buy it. Buy it in such quantities that the editors and publisher will bring us more.” Here’s a qualified, “Well, yes, …
Genre: Mixed Genre Anthology Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates Published: 1975 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul S. Jenkins Have you read this book? Maybe I’m not a sophisticated reader. I enjoy books that operate on several levels, and in my opinion that’s what can make a novel great — something …
Genre: Alternate History Publisher: Warner Books Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Fraser Ronald Have you read this book? The world of Lion’s Blood by Steven Barnes is a slightly tweaked version of our own. In this alternate history, Egypt and Abyssinia are the great powers of the world, …
Genre: Dark Fantasy Publisher: Eraserhead Press Published: 2001 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Kane Have you read this book? Do not adjust your mind.On second thoughts, scratch that. Maybe you should. Eraserhead Press, known for their strange taste in fiction, have at long last taken on board a purveyor …
Genre: Mixed Genre Anthology Publisher: Golden Gryphon Press Published: 1998 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Richard R. Horton Have you read this book? Sometimes I toy with the question What academic discipline provides the best grounding for an SF writer? The conventional answers might be Physics, or Astronomy, or even …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates Published: 1999 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Aaron M. Renn Have you read this book? This is a hardcover I bought on a lark because I was feeling prosperous after a big run-up in my stocks. Well, now my net worth is about half …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Harper Collins Published: 1997 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul S. Jenkins Have you read this book? Voyage is the story of a mission that never was. In this long and meticulously researched novel, Baxter speculates that if John F. Kennedy had survived the assassination attempt …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: DAW Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Aaron M. Renn Have you read this book? This trilogy works well as an omnibus novel. The three books tell a single tale with really no logical break between them, something I imagine annoyed people at the time. …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Ballantine Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Aaron M. Renn Have you read this book? Those of you who read my review will recall that I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked May’s light adventure Perseus Spur. Well now she’s back with a …
Genre: YA Science Fiction Publisher: Baen Published: 1963 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Aaron M. Renn Have you read this book? I guess it is a sort of crime against humanity to speak ill of Heinlein, but in the case of Podkayne of Mars, I can’t resist. The old master …
Genre: YA Fantasy Publisher: Harcourt Published: 1959 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Richard R. Horton Have you read this book? A rising tide lifts all boats, they say. The rising tide caused by the phenomenal success of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books has indeed lifted the boats of many …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates Published: 1996 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Richard R. Horton Have you read this book? A cheap answer to the question “When did I know I would like Corrupting Dr. Nice?” would be to say “When I saw the name John Kessel on …
Genre: Science Fiction Anthology Publisher: Golden Gryphon Press Published: 1997 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Richard R. Horton Have you read this book? Reading a collection of James Patrick Kelly’s stories, I am struck most forcefully by his range. The stories in Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories include …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Morrow, William & Co Published: 1998 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Richard R. Horton Have you read this book? I’ve been a fan of Jablokov’s ever since reading his first short stories in Asimov’s. I really liked his first novel, Carve the Sky, which was “baroque” …
