Reviews 1995

1995
The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye by A S Byatt
Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett
Arthur Machen & Montgomery Evans ed Sue and Donald M Hassler
Title: “Popocatapetl [Urinating Dog]”
Interzone 92 1995
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Love & Sleep by John Crowley
Title:
The New York Review of Science Fiction February 1995
Snake’s-hands: a Chapbook about the Fiction of John Crowley (Sirius Fiction, 2001 chap)

Niven, Pournelle, Barnes, Gingrich
Title: “God Inhales”
Interzone 94 1995
fake review for Charles Platt’s special issue
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Wurd by Chris Wilson
Title: “Speech Axe”
New Statesman 29 August 1995

Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem
Resurrection Man by Sean Stewart
Title: “The Recursion Rink”
Interzone 100 July or later 1995
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Animal Planet by Scott Bradfield
At the Caligula Hotel by Brian W Aldiss
With All of Love by James Blish
Title: “A Double Crow”
Interzone 101 August or later 1995
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Reviews 1996

1996
Fremder by Russell Hoban
Title:
New Statesman March 1996
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
Title:
New Statesman June 1996
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Idoru by William Gibson
The Ringworld Throne by Larry Niven
The Cockatrice Boys by Joan Aiken
Title:
The Washington Post October 1996
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
Title:
Mail on Sunday November 1996

Sole Survivor by Dean Koontz
Title:
Mail on Sunday December 1996

Reviews 1997

1997
Exodus from the Long Sun
Title: “The Promised Land, Light-Years Away”
The Washington Post (13 January 1997)

Exodus from the Long Sun
Title:
Title in Scores:”Moses Supposes”
The New York Review of Science Fiction after January 1997
much expanded version of WP review
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Otherland by Tad Williams
Title: “A Tad Phatic”
Interzone February or later 1997
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

God’s Fire by Patricia Anthony
Title:
SFW March 1997
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

3001: the Final Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke
The Mail on Sunday March 1997

Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis
Title:
SFW April 1997
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Eternity Road by Jack McDevitt
Title:
SFW May 1997
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Destiny’s Road by Larry Niven
Title:
SFW June 1997
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Signs of Life by M John Harrison
Title:
Independent June 1997
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Jack Faust by Michael Swanwick
A Geography of Unknown Lands by Michael Swanwick
Title:
SFW July 1997
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Shaw and Science Fiction ed Milton T Wolf
Science Fiction Studies #25 (1997)

The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons
Title:
SFW August 1997
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Briar Rose by Robert Coover
Freedom and Necessity by Steven Brust and Emma Bull
Title: “Commentary”
Locus #440 September 1997

Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson
Title:
Mail on Sunday September 1997

Expendable by James Allen Gardner
Title:
SFW September 1997

[memorial paragraphs on George Hay and Judith Merril]
Donnerjack by Roger Zelazny and Jane Lindskold
Jingo by Terry Pratchett
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Centuries by A A Attanasio
Title: “Been Bondage”
Interzone 126 October 1997 or later
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Dark Tower: Wizard and Glass
Title:
Mail on Sunday October 1997

The Calcutta Chronosome by Amitav Ghosh
Title:
SFW October 1997
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
Driving Blind by Ray Bradbury
Giant Bones by Peter S Beagle
Gate of Ivory, Gate of Thorn by Robert Holdstock
Title:
Washington Post October 1997
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Title:
Mail on Sunday November 1997

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Title:
SFW November 1997
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz
Title:
Mail on Sunday December 1997

The Gift by Patrick O’Leary
The Matter of the Heart by Nicholas Royle
Earthling by Tony Daniels
Title: “A Tale, a Rail, a Pogo”
Interzone 128 December 1997 or later
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Reviews 1998

1998
Cosm by Gregory Benford
Title:
SFW January 1998
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
Title:
SFW February 1998
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Moonfall by Jack McDevitt
Title:
SFW #65 (1998)
“Excessive Candour #”
Title: “Ein katastrophaler Triumph”
Alien Contact #37 (March 2000)
trans of SFW review
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Smithsonian Institution by Gore Vidal
Title:
SFW March 1998
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Mr Rinyo-Clacton’s Offer by Russell Hoban
Title:
Independent March 1998

The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod
Title:
Mail on Sunday April 1998

Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem
Title:
SFW April 1998
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Shaw and Science Fiction ed Milton T Wolf
Title: “Back to the Drawing Board”
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (vol 25) 1997
this issue not pub until 1998

Inversions by Iain M Banks
Title: “Intergalactic Travel Broadens the Mind”
Mail on Sunday May 1998

Weird Women, Wired Women by Kit Reed
Title:
SFW May 1998
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Dance of the Voodoo Handbag by Robert Rankin
Title:
Mail on Sunday June 1998

Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson
Title:
SFW June 1998
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Galilee by Clive Barker
Title:
Globe and Mail May 1998
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Six Moon Dance by Sherri S Tepper
Title:
SFW July 1998
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Silent by Jack Dann
Title:
New York Reivew of Science Fiction 119 (July 1998)

Eon by Greg Bear
Title:
Mail on Sunday July 1998
short review of re-release

Black Glass by Karen Joy Fowler
Title:
SFW August 1998
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Extremes by Christopher Priest
Title:
Independent August 1998
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

A Song of Stone by Iain Banks
Title:
The Washington Post August 1998
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Dreams our Stuff is Made Of by Thomas M Disch
Title:
SFW September 1998
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Golden Globe by John Varley
Title:
SFW October 1998
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Trajectories by Julian Rathbone
Title:
Independent October 1998

Pixel Juice by Jeff Noon
Title:
Mail on Sunday October 1998

Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
Title:
Mail on Sunday early November 1998

The Good Old Stuff ed Gardner Dozois
Title:
SFW November 1998
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Nimisha’s Ship by Anne McCaffrey
Title:
Mail on Sunday November 1998

The Twinkling of an Eye by Brian W Aldiss
Title:
SFW December 1998
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Science-Fiction: the Gernsback Years by E F Bleiler
Moonseed by Stephen Baxter
Distraction by Bruce Sterling
Title:
The Washington Post December 1998
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The MUP Encyclopaedia of Australian Science Ficton & Fantasy ed Paul Collins
Title:
Nova Express December 1998 (or early 1999)

Reviews 1999

1999
The Good New Stuff ed Gardner Dozois
Title:
SFW January 1999
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Dragons of Springplace by Robert Reed
Title:
SFW February 1999
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Lord Prestimion by Robert Silverberg
Title:
Mail on Sunday February 1999

A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
Title:
SFW March 1999
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Plato Papers by Peter Ackroyd
Title:
The Independent (March 1999)
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Dictionary of Science Fiction Places by Brian Stableford
Title:
SFW April 1999
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
The Smithsonian Institution by Gore Vidal
Title: “Who Was that Masked Writer?”
Interzone 142 April 1999
revised versions of SFW reviews

Nebula Winners 33 ed Connie Willis
Title:
The New York Review of Science Fiction April or May 1999

Darwin’s Radio by Greg Bear
Title:
SFW May 1999
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

When We Were Real by William Barton
Title:
SFW June 1999
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Rift by Walter Jon Williams
Title:
SFW July 1999
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card
Title:
SFW August 1999
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Title:
The New York Review of Science Fiction after August 1999
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Half Life by Hal Clement
Title:
SFW September 1999
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

All Tomorrow’s Parties by William Gibson
Title:
SFW October 1999

On Blue’s Waters by Gene Wolfe
Title:
SFW October/November 1999
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Timeline by Michael Crichton
Boston Herald November 1999

There and Back Again by Pat Murphy
Title:
SFW November 1999
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Dune: House Atreides by Brian Herbert and Kevin JAnderson
Boston Herald November/December 1999

False Memory by Dean Koontz
Title:
Boston Herald December 1999