bibliography

1985
Age of Wonders by David Hartwell
Microworlds by Stanislaw Lem
The Novels of Philip K Dick by Kim Stanley Robinson
Starboard Wine by Samuel R Delany
Title: Science Fiction
Washington Post ?? 1985

In the Drift by Michael Swanwick
Title:
Foundation 33 Spring 1985
Strokes (Seattle:Serconia, 1988)

J G Ballard: a Primary and Secondary Bibliography
Title: none
Foundation #33 (Spring 1985)

Blue Pastoral by Gilbert Sorrentino
Title:
TLS ?? 1985

Amalgamemnon by Christine Brooke-Rose
Title:
Washington Post circa March 1985

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
The Man from Marseilles by J P Smith
Annie Magdalene by Barbara Hanrahan
A City Solitary by Nicolas Freeling
Title:
The New Statesman ??? 1985

The Stories of Raymond Carver by Raymond Carver
Fires by Raymond Carver
Title:
TLS ??? 1985

Robots and Empire by Isaac Asimov
Eon by Greg Bear
The Memory of Whiteness by Kim Stanley Robinson
Ancient of Days by Michael Bishop
Title: Science Fiction
Washington Post ??? 1985

Victory Over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist
Suspects by David Thomson
Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson
No Word of Love by A L Barker
Title:
The New Statesman ?? 1985

Stone Virgin by Barry Unsworth
The Face of the Waters by Simon Raven
Polaris and Other Stories by Fay Weldon
The Old Forest by Peter Taylor
Title:
The New Statesman ?? 1985

These Golden Days by John Braine
A Storm from Paradise by Stuart Hood
Lying in State by Julian Rathbone
A Soldier’s Legacy by Heinrich Boll
Title:
The New Statesman ?? 1985

Face by Cecile Pineda
Title:
TLS ?? 1985

The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium by Harry Mathews
Title:
TLS circa October 1985

Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
Winterking by Paul Hazel
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert A Heinlein
Free Live Free by Gene Wolfe
Title: Science Fiction
Washington Post 24 November 1985
Strokes (Seattle:Serconia, 1988)
Wolfe review only

Joe the Engineer by Chuck Wachtel
Title:
TLS ?? 1985

In Milton Lumky Territory by Philip K Dick
Title:
TLS ?? 1985

1986
The Last Election by Pete Davies
Stroke Counterstroke by William Camp
Paradise by Hugh Fleetwood
Floral Street by Simon Burt
Title:
The New Statesman ?? 1986

Nowhere by Thomas Berger
Title: “An alternative America”
TLS 21 February 1986

Gestures by H S Bhabra
August in July by Carlo Gebler
The Nuclear Age by Tim O’Brien
Broderie Anglaise by Violet Trefusis
Queer by William Burroughs
Title:
The New Statesman ?? 1986

O-Zone by Paul Theroux
Title:
The Mew Statesman May 1986

The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert A Heinlein
Icehenge by Kim Stanley Robinson
Cobwebwalking by Sara Banerji
The Limits of Vision by Robert Irwin
Title:
Interzone 16, Summer 1986

The Ragged Astronauts by Bob Shaw
Master of Paxwax by Phillip Mann
Xorander by Christine Brooke-Rose
Title:
Interzone 17, Autumn 1986

Queenmagic, Kingmagic by Ian Watson
King Death’s Garden by Ann Halam
The Lordly Ones by Keith Roberts
The Forever Man by Gordon R Dickson
Title:
Interzone 18, Winter 1986/1987

Godbody by Theodore Sturgeon
Beyond the Safe Zone by Robert Silverberg
Tales of the Quintana Roo by James Tiptree Jr
Huysman’s Pets by Kate Wilhelm
Title: Science Fiction
Washington Post ?? 1986

Count Zero by William Gibson
Title: none
Foundation #36 Summer 1986
Strokes (Seattle:Serconia, 1988)

Green Eyes by Lucius Shepard
Title: “Dying and undying”
TLS 20 June 1986
Strokes (Seattle:Serconia, 1988)

Blood Music by Greg Bear
Title: “No son rises”
TLS 11 July 1986

Mutants by Peter Van Greenaway
Title: “Mice like men”
TLS 5 September 1986

Welcome, Chaos by Kate Wilhelm
Title: “Survival with a catch”
TLS 3 October 1986

Staring at the Sun by Julian Barnes
Title: none
Foundation #37 (Autumn 1986)

Trillion Year Spree by Brian W Aldiss with David Wingrove
Science Fiction: Ten Explorations by C N Manlove
Title: “Genre-mending”
TLS 31 October 1986

The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium by Harry Mathews
Title: “To the letter”
TLS 7 November 1986

Escape Plans by Gwyneth Jones
Title: “A myth of origins”
TLS 28 November 1986

1987
The Burning Women of Far Cry by Rick DeMarinis
Under the Wheat by Rick DeMarinis
Title: “The Return of a Writer”
The Washington Post 11 January 1987

Close Encounters with the Deity by Michael Bishop
The Hercules Text by Jack McDevitt
Title:
Interzone 19, Spring 1987

Goodman 2020 by Fred Pfeil
Title: none
Foundation #38 (Winter 1986/1987)

Tom O’Bedlam by Robert Silverberg
Title: “Unto this Dust”
TLS 2 January 1987

Humpty Dumpty in Oakland by Philip K Dick
Title: “Small People”
TLS 6 February 1987

The Little People by MacDonald Harris
Title: “Selling the genius loci”
TLS 17 April 1987

The Silver Citadel by Anthony Horowitz
Title: “Intergalactic interludes”
TLS 17 April 1987

Victim Prime by Robert Sheckley
Spider World: the Tower by Colin Wilson
Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
Evil Water by Ian Watson
The Coming of the Quantum Cats by Frederik Pohl
This is the Way the World Ends by James Morrow
Title: “Galactic survival kits”
The Observer 26 April 1987

Twentieth-Century Science Fiction Writers ed Curtis C Smith
Title: none
Foundation #39 (Spring 1987)

Aegypt by John Crowley
Title: “This Way to the Meaning of the Cosmos”
New York Times 3 May 1987
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)
Snake’s-hands: a Chapbook about the Fiction of John Crowley (Sirius Fiction, 2001 chap)

Kayo by James McConkey
Title:
Los Angeles Times 17 May 1987
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Herself in Love by Marianne Wiggins
Title: “At the other end of travel”
TLS 22 May 1987

The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English ed Margaret Atwood and Robert Weaver
Title: “Embracing the wilderness”
TLS 12 June 1987
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks
Shades of Darkness by Richard Cowper
The Journal of Nicholas the American by Leigh Kennedy
Title:
Interzone 20, Summer 1987
Title: “Marching Initials”
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Other Edens ed Robert Holdstock and Christopher Evans
Title: none
Foundation #40 (Summer 1987)
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Glowstone by Macdonald Harris
Title: “Light in the Dark”
The Washington Post 5 July 1987
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

A Goose on Your Grave by Joan Aiken
Title: “Minor melodrama”
TLS 10 July 1987

Imaginary Lands ed Robin McKinley
Title: Ready-made runes
TLS 7 August 1987
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

A Night at the Movies by Robert Coover
Cold Spring Harbor by Richard Yates
Title: “The Last Picture-shows”
TLS 14 August 1987
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Grainne by Keith Roberts
Gabriel by Lisa Tuttle
A Spaceship Built of Stone by Lisa Tuttle
Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks
Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem
The Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes
The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Title: “Planet Urth”
The Observer 23 August 1987

Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain by Isaac Asimov
Wyrms by Orson Scott Card
Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
Title: “Journey to the Center of the Brain”
The Washington Post 30 August 1987
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Texasville by Larry McMurtry
Title: “Ghosts at the feast”
TLS 11 September 1987

The Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes
Title:
Interzone 21, Autumn 1987
Title: “Big Brothers Watch Avalon”
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings by Iain Sinclair
Title: “Ripper yarn”
TLS 30 October 1987
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

The Arabian Nightmare by Robert Irwin
Title: “Labyrinth of City and Soul”
The Washington Post 10 November 1987
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick
Title: “Reviewing from the edge”
TLS 13 November 1987

A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynne Jones
Title: “Approaching unstable eras”
TLS 20 November 1987
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

The Daymaker by Ann Halam
Sepulchre by James Herbert
Artificial Things by Karen Joy Fowler
Title:
Interzone 22, Winter 1987
Title: “Plug Your Ears, It’s Paxwax!”
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)
a portmanteau, incorporating earlier reviews

The Forge of God by Greg Bear
Title: “An exhilarating end of the world”
New Scientist 26 November 1987
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Tool of the Trade by Joe Haldeman
Tuf Voyaging by George R R Martin
Serpent’s Egg by R A Lafferty
The Delta by Colin Wilson
Weaveworld by Clive Barker
Title: “The SF silly season”
The Observer 27 December 1987

The Hour of the Thin Ox by Colin Greenland
Title: “Heart of chaos”
TLS 25 December 1987
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

1988
The Hidden Side of the Moon by Joanna Russ
Title: “The Little Dirty Girl and her Sisters”
The New York Times 31 January 1988
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Raven’s Wing by Joyce Carol Oates
You Must Remember This by Joyce Carol Oates
Title: “Collisions but no marriages”
TLS 19 February 1988

The Wild Shore by Kim Stanley Robinson
Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
Title:
Washington Post 24 February 1988
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Spiral Winds by Garry Kilworth
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes by Patricia Highsmith
Title: none in mag;”Mimesis Chills Out” in book
Interzone #23 (Spring 1988)
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

The Gold Coast by Kim Stanley Robinson
Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card
Narabedla Ltd by Frederik Pohl
An Alien Light by Nancy Kress
Title: “California Dreams and Nightmares”
Washington Post 28 February 1988
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers
Title: “Photo-finish”
TLS 11/17 March 1988

Great Sky River by Gregory Benford
Title: “Across the sea of suns”
New Statesman 31 March 1988
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Araminta Station by Jack Vance
Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith
A Man Rides Through by Steven Donaldson
Great Sky River by Gregory Benford
Cloudrock by Garry Kilworth
The Wooden Spaceships by Bob Shaw
Title:
The Observer 10 April 1988

Tidings by William Wharton
Title: “Preventing heat loss”
TLS 8/14 April 1988
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
Title: “Enlightening the neon soul”
TLS 29 April/5 May 1988

Blue Fruit by Adam Lively
Mindplayers by Pat Cadigan
Putting Out by Neil Ferguson
Title: none in mag; ”A Protocol of Candour, With Victims” in book
Interzone #24 (Summer 1988)
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Elephant and Other Stories by Raymond Carver
Rock Springs by Richard Ford
The Stories of Tobias Wolff by Tobias Wolff
Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme
Title: “Reports from the regions”
TLS 13/19 May 1988

Ironweed dir Hector Babenco
Title: “The rituals of redemption”
TLS 27 May/2 June 1988

Quinn’s Book by William Kennedy
Title: “A touch of the healer”
TLS 17/23 June 1988

Being Invisible by Thomas Berger
Title: “Invisibility revisited”
TLS 22/28 July 1988

Whistlejacket by John Hawkes
Title: “The Strange Ride of John Hawkes”
Washington Post 24 July 1988

The Wooden Spaceships by Bob Shaw
Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
Vacuum Flowers by Michael Swanwick
The Sykaos Papers by E P Thompson
Title: “Trinities”
Interzone #25 September/October 1988
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

The Poet at the Piano by Michiko Kakutani
Diminishing Fictions by Bruce Bawer
A Certain Climate by Paul Horgan
(Woman) Writer by Joyce Carol Oates
Title: “Assaying the Essayists”
Washington Post 31 July 1988

World’s End by T Coraghessan Boyle
Title: “Van Warts and all”
TLS 26 August/1 September 1988

The Past is Another Country by Peter Wludyka
Title: “Revenge of the Evil Empire”
Washington Post 20 September 1988
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Capote: a Biography by Gerald Clarke
Title: “Too Hard and Much Too Long”
The Listener 1 September 1988

The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies
Title: “Forging a life”
TLS 23/29 September 1988

Metrophage by Richard Kadrey
Title: “The dance of data”
TLS 21/27 October 1988

Tracks by Louise Erdrich
Title: “Janus-faced fables”
TLS 28 October/3 November 1988
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

A Pack of Lies by Geraldine McCaughrean
Title: “Telling the tale”
TLS 25 November/1 December 1988
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

The Player of Games by Iain M Banks
Cradle by Arthur C Clarke and Gentry Lee
Wetware by Rudy Rucker
The Scalehunter’s Beautiful Daughter by Lucius Shepard
Title: “Gargleblasting” in mag (not my choice); ”Space Aria Caught in Larynx, Thousands Flee” in book
Interzone November/December 1988
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Representative Men by John Clellon Holmes
Go by John Clellon Holmes
Love in the Days of Rage by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Not Fade Away by Jim Dodge
Title: “Blowing hot and cool”
TLS 25 November/1 December 1988

Eternity by Greg Bear
Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson
Terraplane by Jack Womack
Title: “From Eon to Eternity”
Washington Post 27 November 1988
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

The Empire of Fear by Brian Stableford
The Fire Worm by Ian Watson
Four Hundred Billion Stars by Paul J McAuley
Cradle by Arthur C Clarke and Gentry Lee
Unquenchable Fire by Rachel Pollack
The Player of Games by Iain M Banks
Title: “Space operas with a gear loose”
Observer 18 December 1988

Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff
Title: “Magical History Tour 101″
Washington Post 21 November 1988
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

1989
Kairos by Gwyneth Jones
Title: “Rewiring the world”
TLS 6/12 January 1989

Anatomy of Wonder ed Neil Barron
Title: none
Foundation #44 (Winter 1988/1989)

Unquenchable Fire by Rachel Pollack
Title: none
Foundation #44 (Winter 1988/1989)

Neverness by David Zindell
Rumours of Spring by Richard Grant
Title: “Romancing the Stilts”
Interzone #27 January/February 1989
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

The Illustrator by James Robison
Title: “Hot Ash”
TLS 17/23 February 1989

Four Hundred Billion Stars by Paul J McAuley
The Hidden Ones by Gwyneth Jones
Who’s Afraid of Beowulf? by Tom Holt
Lincoln’s Dreams by Connie Willis
Title: “A Worm in the Opera”
Interzone #28 March/April 1989
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Blackbird, Bye Bye by Anne Leaton
Title: “Messages Received”
TLS 24 February/2 March 1989

Hospital of the Transfiguration by Stanislaw Lem
Title: “Experimental torture”
TLS 3/9 March 1989

Stark by Ben Elton
Title:
The Listener 9 March 1989
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Dalva by Jim Harrison
Title: “Elegiac heirs”
TLS 24/30 March 1989

Traveller by Richard Adams
Lavondyss by Robert Holdstock
Forgotten Life by Brian W Aldiss
Mother London by Michael Moorcock
Title: “Instruments of Love”
Interzone #29 May-June 1989
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Eva by Peter Dickinson
Title: “Ape and Essence”
Washington Post 9 April 1989
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Rubicon Beach by Steve Erickson
Ronda Gorge and Other Precipices by Aidan Higgins
Title: “Travelling Hopefully”
The Listener 13 April 1989

Prisoner’s Dilemma by Richard Powers
Title: “Hobson’s last tape”
TLS 21/27 April 1989

The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction by James Gunn
Title: “Fictional facts”
TLS 21/27 April 1989

This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff
The Stolen Light by Ved Mehta
Title: “States of exile”
TLS 12/18 May 1989

The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury
Beyond Lies the Wub and Second Variety by Philip K Dick
Women as Demons by Tanith Lee
Bugs by John Sladek
Eternity by Greg Bear
Terraplane by Jack Womack
Title: “The fault-lines of America”
Observer 14 May 1989

The Folk of the Fringe by Orson Scott Card
Light Raid by Connie Willis and Cynthia Felice
Look into the Sun by James Patrick Kelly
The Third Eagle by R A MacAvoy
Sugar Rain by Paul Park
Title: “After our World Was Over”
Washington Post 28 May 1989
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

The Risk Pool by Richard Russo
Title: “Talk of the town”
TLS 9/15 June 1989

Warhol by Victor Bockris
Famous for 15 Minutes by Ultra Violet
Warhol: a Personal Photographic Memoir by C Makos
The Andy Warhol Diaries ed Pat Hackett
Andy Warhol ed Kynaston McShine
Title: “The Art of Elusion”
The Listener 29 June 1989

There Are Doors by Gene Wolfe
Down River by Stephen Gallagher
Transformations by Ann Halam (Gwyneth Jones)
Heatseaker by John Shirley
Bugs by John Sladek
Title: New Found Lands
Interzone #30 July/August 1989
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Out on the Marsh by David Updike
The Bride of Ambrose by Castle Freeman
Trespassing by Valerie Miner
All You Can Eat by Robin Hemley
We Find Ourselves in Moontown by Jay Gummerman
The Lover of Horses by Tess Gallagher
Title: “Survivors’ stories”
TLS 21/27 July 1989

The Rainbow Stories by William T Vollmann
Title: “Skinheads, Punks and Dropouts”
The Washington Post 30 July 1989

The Houseguest by Thomas Berger
Title: “Outside the social syntax”
TLS 4/10 August 1989

The Dragonbane Chair by Tad Williams
The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker
A Child Across the Sky by Jonathan Carroll
Father to the Man by John Gribbin
Them Bones by Howard Waldrop
Strange Things in Closeup by Howard Waldrop
A Romance of the Equator by Brian Aldiss
Title:
The Observer 1989

Tours of the Black Clock by Steve Erickson
The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury
A Dozen Tough Jobs by Howard Waldrop
Title: “Century Migraine”
Interzone #31 (September/October 1989)
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Summer People by Marge Piercy
Title: “The Enemy Within”
The Listener 17 August 1989

An Invisible Spectator: a Biography of Paul Bowles by Christopher Sawyer-Lau‡anno
Title: “Odd Flashes of Ankle”
The Listener 24 August 1989

The Scapeweed Goat by Frank Schaefer
Spirit of the Hills by Dan O’Brien
Title: “Redeeming the Wilderness”
TLS 1/7 September 1989

Skeleton-in-Waiting by Peter Dickinson
Title: “The Dream Cage”
The Listener 21 September 1989
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Twistor by John Cramer
The Night Mayor by Kim Newman
Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll
Sleeping in Flame by Jonathan Carroll
A Child Across the Sky by Jonathan Carroll
Title: “Razor Dancing”
Interzone #32 (November/December 1989)
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

The Message to the Planet by Iris Murdoch
Title: “The Ghost Sonata”
The Listener 5 October 1989
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

The Maypole by Geraldine McCaughrean
Title:
The Listener November? 1989

The Fool’s Progress by Edward Abbey
Title: “Diatribes in defeat”
TLS 20/26 October 1989

On the River Styx by Peter Matthiessen
Title: “We Are for the Dark”
The Listener 19 October 1989

Franky Furbo by William Wharton
Title: “The Little Foxes”
The Washington Post 22 October 1989
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Goatsong by Tom Holt
Title: “As Merry as a Greek”
The Listener 23 November 1989

Living on Water by Matt Cohen
Title: “Helpless, helpless”
TLS 1/7 December 1989

No Resting Place by William Humphrey
Title: “Mooning over genocide”
TLS 1/7 December 1989

Peacock Pie by Walter de la Mare
Title: “Light Verse and Dark”
The Washington Post 5 November 1989
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

The Broken Bubble by Philip K Dick
Title: “Sounding the depths”
TLS 8/14 December 1989
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

A Careless Widow & Other Stories by V S Pritchett
Title: “Burning with Life”
The Listener 14 December 1989

Casablanca by Michael Moorcock
A Romance of the Equator by Brian Aldiss
The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker
A Child Across the Sky by Jonathan Carroll
Nemesis by Isaac Asimov
Them Bones by Howard Waldrop
Title: “Welcome to the festive feast”
The Observer 17 December 1989

Michael Bishop: a Working Bibliography by Gordon R Benson
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Reference by Keith R Justice
Dune Master: A Frank Herbert Bibliography by Daniel Levack
Poul Anderson: a Working Bibliography and
C L Moore and Henry Kuttner: a Working Bibliography and
Frederik Pohl: a Working Bibliography and
Bob Shaw: a Working Bibliography, by Phil Stephensen-Payne and Gordon R Benson
Title:
Foundation end 1989

Dexterity by Douglas Bauer
Title: “River, run”
TLS 29 December 1989/4 January 1990