Reviews 1991

1991
Tehanu by Ursula K Le Guin
Title: “Deconstructing Paradise”
TLS 28 December 1990/3 January 1991

The Difference Engine by William Gibson and BruceSterling
The Werewolves of London by Brian Stableford
Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee by Brian Aldiss
Title: “Vive?”
Interzone #43 January 1991
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

The Brains of Rats by Michael Blumlein
Needing Ghosts by Ramsey Campbell
Black Cocktail by Jonathan Carroll
Title: “End Gait”
Interzone #44 February 1991
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Science Fiction Writers of America Handbook: the Professional Writer’s Guide to Writing Professionally by Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith
Title:
NYRSF early 1991

The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper by Paul West
Title: “In the Service of Empire”
Washington Post 1991

Hemingway’s Suitcase by MacDonald Harris
The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman
Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
Kalimantan by Lucius Shepard
Title: “Sounding Hollow”
Interzone #45 March 1991
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick
Title: none
The New York Review of Science Fiction # 1991
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

The Miracle Game by Josef Skvorecky
Title: “Easter Funny”
The Nation 25 March 1991

From Sea to Shining Sea by A Bertram Chandler
The King of the Hill and Other Stories by Paul J McAuley
Cold Fire by Dean R Koontz
The Flies of Memory by Ian Watson
Title: “The Captain Habit”
Interzone #46 April 1991
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Young Bleys by Gordon R Dickson
The State of the Art by Iain M Banks
Griffin’s Egg by Michael Swanwick
Title: “Use of Cormorants”
Interzone #47 June 1991
Aboriginal Science Fiction July-August 1991
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

The Hereafter Gang by Neal Barrett Jr
The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid by Rebecca Ore
The Exile Kiss by George Alec Effinger
The Paper Grail by James P Blaylock
Title: “And Death Shall Have no Dominion
Washington Post 30 June 1991
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

The World Beyond the Hill by Alexei and Cory Panshin
Title:
The New York Review of Science Fiction #35 July 1991
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Children of the Wind by Kate Wilhelm
Death Qualified: a Mystery of Chaos by Kate Wilhelm
Title: “Chaos Seen”
Interzone #48 July 1991
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

The World Beyond the Hill by Alexei and Cory Panshin
Eternal Light by Paul J McAuley
Wilderness by Dennis Danvers
Sexual Chemistry by Brian Stableford
Title: “No Wonder”
Interzone #49 August 1991
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)
NB: secondary review of the Panshins; see above for main review

The Cult of Loving Kindness by Paul Park
Title:
The New York Review of Science Fiction #36 August 1991
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

The M.D. by Thomas M Disch
Title: “A Faust-Class Physician”
Los Angeles Times 14 July 1991
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

The Face of the Waters by Robert Silverberg
Raft by Stephen Baxter
Dreamside by Graham Joyce
Title: “Grail Plate Sieve”
Million September-October 1991
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Clarke County, Space by Allen Steele
The Ring of Charon by Roger MacBride Allen
Carve the Sky by Alexander Jablokov
Title:
Foundation 53, Autumn 1991
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

H G Wells’s The Invisible Man
TLS October 1991
theatre review

Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
Title: “House of Card”
Interzone #51 October 1991
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

The Angel of Pain by Brian Stableford
Red Orc’s Rage by Philip Jos‚ Farmer
Immigrant and Other Stories by Clifford D Simak
Bodily Functions by Brian Aldiss
Title: “Templars”
Interzone #52 November 1991
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler
Title:
The New York Review of Science Fiction #40 December 1991
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Jago by Kim Newman
Flying Dutch by Tom Holt
Title: “ A Punner at the Well”
Interzone #53 December 1991
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

The Garden of Rama by Arthur C Clarke
Title: “Spring in Old Age”
Observer 15 December 1991

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Title: “Endangered Species”
Washington Post 29 December 1991

Reviews 1992

1992
The Fetch by Robert Holdstock
Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow
Mischief Malicious by R A Lafferty
Letters Home by Gene Wolfe
Title: “Gods and Sods”
Interzone #55 January 1992
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Beauty by Sheri S Tepper
Title:
The New York Review of Science Fiction #41 January 1992
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

FutureSpeak by Robert Rogow
Night of the Cooters by Howard Waldrop
White Queen by Gwyneth Jones
Title: “Spend the Giant Pizza”
Interzone #56 February 1992

A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
The Man-Kzin Wars, Volume Four (ed Larry Niven?)
Title: “A Welcome from the Zones of Thought”
Interzone #58 April 1992
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

He, She and It by Marge Piercy
Title:
The New York Review of Science Fiction #43, March 1992
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Universe 2 ed Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber
Title:
The New York Review of Science Fiction #43, March 1992

The Investigation by Stanislaw Lem
Title: “A detective dconstructs”
TLS 3 April 1992

Hearts, Hands and Voices by Ian McDonald
Sideshow by Sherri S Tepper
Dark Dance by Tanith Lee
Title: “The Whips of Disenchantment and the Death of Ire and Bats”
Interzone May 1992
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
Faustine by Emma Tennant
Fatherland by Robert Harris
The White Book by Piero Scanziani
Title: “Come, Adam, This Time the Berries are Sweet”
Interzone June 1992
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy by David Ketterer
Title:
The New York Review of Science Fiction, circa June 1992

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Count Geiger’s Blues by Michael Bishop
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Outnumbering the Dead by Frederik Pohl
Title:
The Washington Post 28 June 1992

The Steel Beach by John Varley
Title: “On the Steel Beach”
Omni July 1992
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

After Silence by Jonathan Carroll
Cold as Ice by Charles Sheffield
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn
Star Wars: Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn
Title: “Makers’ Dice”
Interzone July 1992
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Underworld by Peter Conrad
Title: “Valley of the Shadow”
The Washington Post 16 July 1992

Jerusalem Commands by Michael Moorcock
Title: “Closing times”
New Statesman 24 July 1992

Dark Sky Legion by William Barton
Wolf Flow by K W Jeter
The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral by Robert Westall
Title: “The Puppet Dark”
Interzone August 1992
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Cutting Stone by Janet Burroway
Title: “Arizona epiphanies”
TLS 14 August 1992

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection ed Gardner Dozois
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection ed Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Title: “State of the Art”
The Washington Post 30 August 1992

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Beachhead by Jack Williamson
Title: “Mars Joins the Human Race”
Interzone #63 (September 1992)
Title: “Mars se joint … la race humaine”
Science-Fiction & Fantasy #104 (Octobre 1993)
reprint of Interzone column in French, trans Marc Lemosquet; special Mars issue of the magazine
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Vice by Edna Buchanan
Title:
TLS 18 September 1992

Lost Futures by Lisa Tuttle
Memories of the Body by Lisa Tuttle
Aestival Tide by Elizabeth Hand
Meeting in Infinity by John Kessel
Title: “Beaks and Saws”
Interzone October 1992
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Anvil of Stars by Greg Bear
Title:
The New York Review of Science Fiction #50, October 1992
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Why Do Birds by Damon Knight
Call to the Edge by Sean McMullen
Speaking in Tongues by Ian Mcdonald
Title: “Thin Ice, Sun Burns”
Interzone December 1992
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Reviews 1993

1993
The Gap into Power: A Dark and Hungry God Arises by Stephen R Donaldson
Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
Title: “Teething the Gap”
Interzone January 1993
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Inside the Funhouse: 17 SF Stories about SF ed Mike Resnick
Title:
The New York Review of Science Fiction 1993

The Harvest by Robert Charles Wilson
Angels and Insects by A S Byatt
Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett
Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
The Profession of Science Fiction ed Maxim Jakubowski and Edward James
Title: “Exogamy Dentata”
Interzone February 1993
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
Name of the Beast by Daniel Easterman
Portent by James Herbert
The Thief of Always by Clive Barker
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
Title: “Bat the Snatcher and the Porcine Undeads”
Interzone March 1993
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Red Dust by Paul J McAuley
Slightly Off Center by Neal Barrett Jr
Beautiful Soup by Harvey Jacobs
Title: “Icon Speedway”
Interzone # April 1993
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

A Sudden Wild Magic by Diana Wynne Jones
Overtime by Tom Holt
Warpath by Tony Daniel
Personal Darkness by Tanith Lee
Title: “Four Ways to Breathe”
Interzone 71 May 1993
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

False Gods by Louis Auchincloss
Rainbow Man by M J Engh
Merlin and the Last Trump by Collin Webber
Deus X by Norman Spinrad
Young Wolfe by Gene Wolfe
Title: “Dusting Off the Props”
Interzone June 1993
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories ed Tom Shippey
The New York Review of Science Fiction 58 (June 1993)

The Gripping Hand by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
High Steel by Jack C Haldeman II and Jack Dann
Here Comes the Sun by Tom Holt
Against a Dark Background by Iain M Banks
Title: “Terminal Rocks”
Interzone July 1993
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Harvest of Stars by Poul Anderson
Glory by Alfred Coppel
Glory Season by David Brin
Aztec Century by Christopher Evans
Title: “Glory Bee”
Interzone # (August 1993)
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Kaeti on Tour by Keith Roberts
Title: none
The New York Review of Science Fiction 59 (July 1993)
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Variorum Text by H G Wells, ed Robert M Philmus
Sandman, Sleep by Herbert Lieberman
The Golden by Lucius Shepard
Title: “Island Rubrics”
Interzone # (September 1993)
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The House of Doctor Dee by Peter Ackroyd
Title: “Conjurors of Clerkenwell”
New Statesman (3 September 1993)
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
Title: none
The New York Review of Science Fiction <<1993>>
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Hollowing by Robert Holdstock
The Aliens of Earth by Nancy Kress
Title: “Canon at the End of Time”
Interzone 78, September 1993
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Styles of Creation ed George Slusser and Eric S Rabkin
Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative ed
George Slusser and Tom Shippey
Terminal Identity by Scott Bukatman
Title: “The Echo-Chamber of Genre”
TLS 1 October 1993
much cut

The Sea’s Furthest End by Damien Broderick
Title:
Foundation ?? (November 1993)

Coelestis by Paul Park
Virtual Light by William Gibson
Lucky’s Harvest by Ian Watson
Title: “Things Suffered and Things Seen”
Interzone # (November 1993)
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Reviews 1994

1994
The Iron Dragon’s Daughter by Michael Swanwick
Title:
Science Fiction Eye after January 1994
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The First Church of the New Millennium by Bryan Appleyard
Title: “Dead stones”
New Statesman 18 February 1994

Moving Mars by Greg Bear
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
Popes and Phantoms by John Whitbourn
Title: “Iris Hog, Hidden King, Poop”
Interzone # January 1994
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Innkeeper’s Song by Peter S Beagle
The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories ed Tom Shippey
Anti-Ice by Stephen Baxter
The First Church of the New Millennium by Bryan Appleyard
Title: “Knots”
Interzone # February 1994
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

X, Y by Michael Blumlein
Title: none
The New York Review of Science Fiction #67 March 1994
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

A Tupolev Too Far by Brian Aldiss
Hot Sky at Midnight by Robert Silverberg
Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone by Ian Mcdonald
Yellow Matter by William Barton
Title: “Spunk”
Interzone # March 1994
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

A Celebration of Writing by Michael Dirda et al
The Eternal Guardian by Ronald Anthony Cross
Robin Hood by John Matthews
Omni: Best SF Three ed Ellen Datlow
Title: “The Dang Wildwood”
Interzone # April 1994
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Norton Book of Science Fiction ed Ursula K Le Guin
Title:
TLS 11 March 1994
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Iron Dragon’s Daughter by Michael Swanwick
Title:
Science Fiction Eye 1994
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Quorum by Kim Newman
Wildlife by James Patrick Kelly
Title: “Quorums”
Interzone # May 1994
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Trouble and her Friends by Melissa Scott
Title:
The New York Review of Science Fiction #71, July 1994

Pasquale’s Angel by Paul J McAuley
Unconquered Countries: Four Novellas by Geoff Ryman
Grailblazers by Tom Holt
Faust Among Equals by Tom Holt
Title: “Feeling Safe to Look”
Interzone # July 1994
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Feersum Endjinn by Iain M Banks
Permutation City by Greg Egan
Nobody’s Son by Sean Stewart
Title: “Unhampered”
Interzone # August 1994
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Somewhere East of Life by Brian W Aldiss
Title: “Final Warning”
New Statesman 14 August 1994
Look at the Evidence (Brooklyn:Serconia, 1996)

Milton in America by Peter Ackroyd
Title:
Independent September 1996
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Worldwar: In the Balance by Harry Turtledove
Beyond the Veil of Stars by Robert Reed
The Flight of Michael McBride by Midori Snyder
Title: “No Cigar”
Interzone # October 1994
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Monster Show: a Cultural History of Horror by David J Skal
The Ghosts of Sleath by James Herbert
Title: “Primal Scream”
The New Statesman November 1994

Heavy Weather by Bruce Sterling
Title:
Science Fiction Eye after November 1994

Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand
Voices in the Light by Sean McMullen
Title: “Locomotor Orrery”
Interzone #90 December 1994
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Ultimate Island by Nicholas Ruddick
Title:
Foundation December 1994/early 1995