SF Book Reviews Index

A complete archive of all the speculative fiction I’ve reviewed since early 2009—science fiction, horror, fantasy, post-apocalypses, dystopias and utopias, alternate histories, you name it. Organized by author, then by year.

To date, I have reviewed [212] speculative fiction novels and anthologies.

Anthologies/Various Authors

• An Exaltation of Stars (1973), ed. Terry Carr
• Universe 3 (1973), ed. Terry Carr
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 5: 1943 (1981), ed. Asimov and Greenberg
• The Feminine Future (2015), ed. Mike Ashley
• Dark Screams: Volume 5 (2015), ed. Freeman and Chizmar
• The Monstrous (2015), ed. Ellen Datlow
• Invaders (2016), ed. Jacob Weisman
• Nightmares (2016), ed. Ellen Datlow
• Five Stories High (2016), ed. Jonathan Oliver
• Nightmare’s Realm (2016), ed. S.T. Joshi
• New Voices of Fantasy (2017), ed. Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman
• Halloween Carnival (2017), ed. Brian James Freeman
• Dark Screams: Volume 8 (2017), ed. Freeman and Chizmar
• Dark Screams: Volume 9 (2017), ed. Freeman and Chizmar

Abe, Kōbō

• Inter Ice Age 4 – Kōbō Abe (1958)

Aldiss, Brian

• Non-Stop (1958)
• Hothouse (1962)
• Greybeard (1964)
• The Dark Light Years (1964)
• Cryptozoic! (1967)

Allan, Nina

• The Harlequin (2015, novella)

Anderson, Poul

• The Broken Sword (1954)
• The Enemy Stars (1958)
• Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961)

Anthony, Piers

• Steppe (1976)

Ball, Brian

• Singularity Station (1973)

Barjavel, René

• The Ice People (1968)

Barker, Clive

• The Books of Blood, Vol. 1 (1984)
• Infernal Parade (2017)

Barrett, Neal, Jr.

• Through Darkest America (1987)

Barron, Laird

• X’s For Eyes (2015, novella)

Bechdolt, Jack

• The Torch (1920)

Bear, Greg

• Blood Music (1985)

Bester, Alfred

• The Demolished Man (1953)

Beukes, Lauren

• Zoo City (2010)
• Broken Monsters (2014)
• Slipping (2016, collection)

Bierce, Ambrose

• The Moonlit Road and other Ghost and Horror Stories (2015)

Blish, James

• A Case of Conscience (1958)
• Midsummer Century (1972)

Brackett, Leigh

• The Sword of Rhiannon (1953)
• The Long Tomorrow (1955)
• The Secret of Sinharat (1962)
• Alpha Centauri – Or Die! (1963)
• The Ginger Star (1974) (Skaith 1)
• The Hounds of Skaith (1974) (Skaith 2)
• The Reavers of Skaith (1976) (Skaith 3)

Bradbury, Ray

• The October Country (1955)
• Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)

Brown, Fredric

• The Lights in the Sky are Stars (1953)

Brunner, John

• The Atlantic Abomination (1960)
• The Super Barbarians (1962)
• Catch a Falling Star (1968)

Budrys, Algis

• Rogue Moon (1960)

Burroughs, Edgar Rice

• A Princess of Mars (1912) (Barsoom 1)
• The Gods of Mars (1913) (Barsoom 2)
• The Warlord of Mars (1914) (Barsoom 3)

Butler, Octavia

• Kindred (1979)
• Parable of the Sower (1993) (Earthseed 1)

Charnas, Suzy McKee

• Walk to the End of the World (1974) (Holdfast 1)

Cherryh, Carolyn Janice

• Faded Sun: Kesrith (1978) (Faded Sun 1)
• Faded Sun: Shon’jir (1978) (Faded Sun 2)
• Faded Sun: Kutath (1979) (Faded Sun 3)
• Downbelow Station (1981)
• Merchanter’s Luck (1982)
• Forty Thousand in Gehenna (1983)

Clarke, Arthur C.

• The City and The Stars (1956)

Clingerman, Mildred

• A Cupful of Space (1961, anthology)

Compton, D.G.

• Farewell, Earth’s Bliss (1966)
• The Silent Multitude (1967)
• The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe (1974)

Cook, Glen

• Sweet Silver Blues (1987) (Garrett, P.I. 1)
• Bitter Gold Hearts (1988) (Garrett, P.I. 2)

de Camp, L. Sprague

• Rogue Queen (1951)

del Rey, Lester

• Nerves (1956)
• Day of the Giants (1959)

Delany, Samuel R.

• The Einstein Intersection (1967)

Dick, Philip K.

• Ubik (1969)
• Radio Free Albemuth (1985)
• The Early Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick (2013, anthology)

Dickson, Gordon R.

• Hour of the Horde (1970)

Egbert, H.M. (alias of Victor Rousseau Emanuel)

• The Sea Demons (1916)

Elison, Meg

• The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (2016) (The Road to Nowhere 1)
• The Book of Etta (2017) (The Road to Nowhere 2)

Farmer, Philip José

• To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971) (Riverworld 1)
• The Fabulous Riverboat (1971) (Riverworld 2)
• The Dark Design (1977) (Riverworld 3)

Farris, John

• All Heads Turn When The Hunt Goes By (1977)

Foster, Alan Dean

• Icerigger (1974) (Icerigger Trilogy 1)

Galouye, Daniel F.

• Dark Universe (1961)

Gibson, William

• Neuromancer (1984) (Sprawl Trilogy 1)
• Burning Chrome (1986, collection)

Grant, Mira

• Rolling in the Deep (2015, novella)
• Final Girls (2017, novella)

Gregory, Stephen

• The Cormorant (1986)

Hand, Elizabeth

• Wylding Hall (2015, novella)

Harrison, M. John

• The Pastel City (1971) (Viriconium 1)

Heinlein, Robert

• The Door Into Summer (1956)

Herbert, Frank

• Destination: Void (1978 revised edition)

Howard, Robert E.

• Almuric (1939)

Hutchinson, Dave

• Europe in Autumn (2014) (Fractured Europe 1)
• Europe at Midnight (2015) (Fractured Europe 2)
• Europe in Winter (2016) (Fractured Europe 3)

Kerr, Katharine

• Polar City Blues (1990)

Kiernan, Caitlín R.

• Agents of Dreamland (2017, novella)
• Dear Sweet Filthy World (2017, collection)
• The Dinosaur Tourist (2018, collection)

Kornbluth, Cyril M.

• Not This August (1955)

Kuttner, Henry

• The Time Axis (1948)

Lansdale, Joe R.

• Dead in the West (2005)
• The Shadows, Kith and Kin (2007)
• Hell’s Bounty (2016)

Laumer, Keith

• Dinosaur Beach (1971)

LaValle, Victor

• The Ballad of Black Tom (2016, novella)

Leiber, Fritz

• Conjure Wife (1943)
• The Big Time (1958)
• Our Lady of Darkness (1978)

Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

• Carmilla (1872, novella)
• Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories (2015)

LeGuin, Ursula K.

• Rocannon’s World (1966)
• The Lathe of Heaven (1971)
• The Word for World is Forest (1972)

Lem, Stanisław

• Solaris (1961)

London, Jack

• Before Adam (1906-07)
• The Iron Heel (1908)
• The Scarlet Plague (1912)

Malzberg, Barry

• In The Enclosure (1973)

Mandel, Emily St. John

• Station Eleven (2014)

Martin, George R.R.

• Sandkings (1981, anthology)

Matheson, Richard

• I Am Legend (1954)

McCaffrey, Anne

• The Ship Who Sang (1961-69, anthology)

McCammon, Robert

• I Travel by Night (2013, novella) (Trevor Lawson 1)
• Last Train from Perdition (2016, novella) (Trevor Lawson 2)

Merril, Judith

• Shadow on the Hearth (1950)

Merrit, Abraham

• Ship of Ishtar (1924)

Miéville, China

• Embassytown (2011)
• Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)
• This Census-Taker (2016, novella)

Moore, Catherine l.

• Northwest of Earth (1933-57, anthology)
• Judgment Night (1952, anthology)
• Doomsday Morning (1957)

Moore, Ward

• Greener Than You Think (1947)
• Bring the Jubilee (1953)
• Lot and Lot’s Daughter (1953-54, novellas)

Norton, Andre

• Sea Siege (1957)
• Star Gate (1958)
• No Night Without Stars (1975)

Piserchia, Doris

• Mister Justice (1973)

Pohl, Frederik

• The Reefs of Space (1964) with Jack Williamson (Reefs of Space 1)
• Starchild (1965) with Jack Williamson (Reefs of Space 2)
• Rogue Star (1969) with Jack Williamson (Reefs of Space 3)
• Gateway (1977) (Heechee Saga 1)
• Jem (1979)

Powers, Tim

• Down and Out in Purgatory (2016, novella)

Priest, Cherie

• Those Who Went Remain There Still (2008, novella)
• Dreadnought (2010) (Clockwork Century 3)

Priest, Christopher

• Inverted World (1974)

Resnick, Mike

• The Buntline Special (2010)

Roberts, Keith

• Pavane (1968)

Russ, Joanna

• The Female Man (1975)

Schow, David J.

• DJSturbia (2016)

Sheckley, Robert

• The Status Civilization (1960)
• Notions: Unlimited (1960, anthology)
• Dimension of Miracles (1968)

Sheldon, Lee

• Doomed Planet (1967)

Silverberg, Robert

• Lest We Forget Thee, Earth (1958)
• Stepsons of Terra (1958)
• Starhaven (1959)
• The Planet Killers (1959)
• The Plot Against Earth (1959)
• The Seed of Earth (1962)
• The Silent Invaders (1963)
• One of Our Asteroids is Missing (1964)
• Hawksbill Station (1967, novella)
• Downward to the Earth (1970)
• Tower of Glass (1970)
• A Time of Changes (1971)
• Sailing to Byzantium (1985, novella)
• Hunt the Space-Witch! (2011, anthology)

Simak, Clifford

• City (1952)
• Why Call Them Back From Heaven? (1967)
• I Am Crying All Inside – The Complete Short Fiction, v1 (2015)
• Grotto of the Dancng Deer – The Complete Short Fiction, v4 (2016)

Spinrad, Norman

• The Iron Dream (1972)

Sterling, Bruce

• Schismatrix Plus (1996)

Stirling, Stephen Michael

• The Sky People (2006)
• In The Courts of the Crimson Kings (2008)

Stoker, Abraham

• Dracula (1897)

Straub, Peter

• Interior Darkness (2016)

Strugatsky, Arkady & Boris

• Roadside Picnic (1972)

Sturgeon, Theodore

• The Cosmic Rape (1958)

Tem, Steve Rasnic

• Ubo (2017)

Temple, William F.

• Four-Sided Triangle (1949)
• Battle on Venus (1963)

Tepper, Sheri S.

• Grass (1989)

Thompson, Tade

• Rosewater (2016)

Tidhar, Lavie

• Gorel and the Pot-Bellied God (2011) (Guns & Sorcery 1)
• Central Station (2016)
• Unholy Land (2018)

Tucker, Wilson

• The Long Loud Silence (1952)

Valente, Catherynne M.

• Six-Gun Snow White (2013, novella)
• Speak Easy (2015, novella)

van Vogt, Alfred Elton

• The Voyage of the Space Beagle (1950)

Vance, Jack

• The Five Gold Bands (1950)
• The Dragon Masters (1963)
• The Last Castle (1966)

Wellman, Manly Wade

• Who Fears the Devil? (1963, anthology)

White, Edward Lucas

• The Stuff of Dreams (2013, anthology)

Wilhelm, Kate

• Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (1976)

Williamson, Jack

• The Legion of Time (1938)
• The Reefs of Space (1964) with Frederik Pohl (Reefs of Space 1)
• Starchild (1965) with Frederik Pohl (Reefs of Space 2)
• Rogue Star (1969) with Frederik Pohl (Reefs of Space 3)

Wylie, Philip

• The Smuggled Atom Bomb (1951)
• Tomorrow! (1954)

Wyndham, John

• The Midwich Cuckoos (1957)

Zettel, Sarah

• Reclamation (1996)