Reviews 2000

2000
Dark Matter: a Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora ed Sheree R Thomas
Title:
Boston Herald January 2000

Child of the River by Paul McAuley
Ancient of Days by Paul McAuley
Shrine of Stars by Paul McAuley
Title:
SFW 7 January 2000

Science Fiction of the 20th Century by Frank M Robinson
Title:
SFW 24 January 2000
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Spaceman by Robert Olen Butler
Title:
Boston Herald ?? 2000

Wilson by David Mamet
Title:
Independent ??? 2000

Perpetuity Blues by Neal Barrett Jr
Title:
SFW February 2000
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Title:
SFW March 2000
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Return by Buzz Aldrin and John Barnes
Title:
Boston Herald ??? 2000

Galveston by Sean Stewart
Title:
SFW 25 April 2000
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Perdido Street Station by China Mi‚ville
Title:
SFW May 2000
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Ash by Mary Gentle
Title:
SFW June 2000
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

King of the City by Michael Moorcock
Title:
The New York Review of Science Fiction July 2000
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Slow Lightning by Jack McDevitt
Title:
Nova Express
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Probability Moon by Nancy Kress
Title:
SFW July 2000

Daemonomania by John Crowley
Title:
Washington Post 8 August 2000
Snake’s-hands: a Chapbook about the Fiction of John Crowley (Sirius Fiction, 2001 chap)

In Green’s Jungles by Gene Wolfe
Title:
SFW August 2000
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Telling by Ursula K Le Guin
Title:
SFW September 2000
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Blue Kansas Sky by Michael Bishop
Title:
The New York Review of Science Fiction #14—
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Thirteen Phantasms by James P Blaylock
Title:
SFW October 2000
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Super-Cannes by J G Ballard
The Truth by Terry Pratchett
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Title: “The Gaze Against God”
Interzone #160? (December? 2000)
Title: “Finsterer Stoff”
Alien Contact #40 (12 Jahrgang 2001)
translation of the Philip Pullman portion of the Interzone column
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Selected Stories by Theodore Sturgeon
Title:
Salonmagazine ???
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Wizard’s Isle by Jack Williamson
Title:
Matrix posted circa early 2001
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Declare by Tim Powers
Title:
SFW November 2000
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

In the Stone House by Barry N Malzberg
Title:
SFW December 2000
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Zeitgeist by Bruce Sterling
Beluthahatchie and Other Stories by Andy Duncan
Wild Angel by Pat Murphy
Title: “Travels in time to a strange and mysterious planet–Earth”
Washington Post 24 December 2000
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

2001: a Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke
Title: “What We Did Instead . . .”
Independent December 2000

Lemady: Episodes of a Writer’s Life by Keith Roberts
Title:
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts

Look to Windward by Iain M Banks
Title:
SFW January 2001

Reviews 2001

2001
Return to the Whorl by Gene Wolfe
Title:
SFW January 2001
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Ship of Fools by Richard Russo
Title:
SFW February 2001
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Pickup Artist by Terry Bisson
Title: “The Taste of the World”
SFW March 2001
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Hammerfall by C J Cherryh
Title:
SFW April 2001
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)
The Cherryh Odyssey (no place:Borgo Press, 2004) ed Edward Carmien
revision of Scores version, plus addendum on

Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds
Title:
SFW May 2001
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Howard Chronicles by Robert E Howard
Title:
SFW June 2001
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Immodest Proposals by William Tenn
Title:
SFW July 2001
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
Title:
SFW August 2001
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Nekropolis by Maureen F McHugh
Title:
SFW September 2001
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Other Wind by Ursula K Le Guin
Strange Trades by Paul Di Filippo
The Best-Known Man in the World by Daniel Pearlman
Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell by Pat Murphy
Title: “Strange seas and shores, fabulist adventues and postmodern brain twisters”
The Washington Post 28 October 2001
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub
Title: “It is a Joy to Read”
SFW October 2001
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Counting Coup by Jack Dann
Title:
SFW November 2001
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick
Title:
The Infinite Matrix, end of 2001
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Redshift ed Al Sarrantonio
Title:
SFW December 2001
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Nekropolis by Maureen F McHugh
Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
Title: “Mean Steam Ahead, and Others”
Interzone December 2001
revised versions of reviews which originally appeared in SFW

Reviews 2002

2002
Vitals by Greg Bear
Title:
SFW January 2002
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

A Winter Haunting by Dan Simmons
Title:
SFW February 2002
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
Title: “The Years of Rice and a Grain of Salt”
SFW February 2002
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Birthday of the World by Ursula K Le Guin
Title:
SFW March 2002
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Nebula Awards Showcase 2002 ed Kim Stanley Robinson
Title:
SFW April 2002
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Impossible Bird by Patrick O’Leary
Title:
The New York Review of Science Fiction #164, April 2002
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Better to Have Loved by Judith Merril
Title: “A Seethe of Stuff”
SFW May 2002
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Invasion of the Sea by Jules Verne
Title:
The New York Review of Science Fiction mid-year 2002

Worlds That Weren’t ed Anonymous
Title: “Happy Hours in Escape World”
SFW June 2002
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Story of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Title: “Exposed like Theseus”
SFW July 2002
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Mount by Carol Emshwiller
Report to the Men’s Club by Carol Emshwiller
Title: “Urgent Things (the Only Way to Say Them)”
SFW #277, 12 August 2002

Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Title: “The Anxiety of the Meme”
SFW #281, 9 September 2002
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Separation by Christopher Priest
Title: “Trying to find The Separation in this World”
SFW, 6 October 2002
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Light by M John Harrison
Title:
Foundation
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Hard SF Renaissance ed David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
Title: “Beating Holes to Pulp”
SFW, 4 November 2002
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Haunted Air: a Repairman Jack Novel by F Paul Wilson
Title: “Book of the Mouth”
SFW, 2 December 2002
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Summerland by Michael Chabon
Title: “ A Strike for Heaven”
SFW, 30 December 2002
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Reviews 2003

2003
Falling Out of Cars by Jeff Noon
Title: none
New York Review of Science Fiction #173, January 2003
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

The Braided World by Kay Kenyon
Title: “Kings and Clucks”
SFW #301, 27 January 2003

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
Title: “The Case of the World”
SFW #305, February 2003
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)
Title: “Die Welt unter der Lupe”
Alien Contact Jahrbuch 2004 (Berlin:Shayol, 2005)
Translated by Hannes Riffel

Evolution by Stephen Baxter
Cybele, With Bluebonnets by Charles L Harness
Jubilee by Jack Dann
Title: “Science Fiction & Fantasy”
The Washington Post, 23 February 2003

Louisiana Breakdown by Lucius Shepard
Title: “Grail Brokedown”
SFW #309, March 2003
Scores (Harold Wood, Essex:Beccon, 2003)

Forever by Pete Hamill
Title: none
New York Review of Science Fiction #175, March 2003

Memory by Linda Nagata
Title:
New York Review of Science Fiction #177, May 2003

The Light Ages by Ian R MacLeod
Title:
The Infinite Matrix, circa June 2003
New York Review of Science Fiction #   , circa December 2003

Ring by Koji Suzuki
Title:
SFW #   , April 2003

The City Trilogy by Chang Hsi-Kuo
Title:
SFW # , May 2003

Ilium by Dan Simmons
Title:
SFW #   , June 2003

Polystom by Adam Roberts
Title:
NYRSF #178, June 2003

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Title: “Croaked”
SFW #  , July 2003

Singularity Sky by Charles Stross
Title:
SFW #  , August 2003

Loose Canon by Charles Platt
Title:
NYRSF #181, September 2003

Budayeen Nights by George Alec Effinger
Title: “Memorial Fix”
SFW #  , September 2003

Hybrids by Robert J Sawyer
Callahan’s Con by Spider Robinson
Spirits on the Wire by Charles de Lint
Blind Lake by Robert Charles Wilson
Title:
Toronto Globe and Mail, November 2003

Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
Title: “The Unbearable Lightness of Been”
SFW #   , October 2003

A Star Above It by Chad Oliver
Far From This Earth by Chad Oliver
Title: “Trout Fishing in America”
SFW #  , November 2003

1610: a Sundial in a Grave by Mary Gentle
Title: “Fludd Time”
SFW #  , 1 December 2003

Changing Planes by Ursula K Le Guin
Cigar-Box Faust by Michael Swanwick
Title: “Their Eyes, their Glittering Eyes”
The Infinite Matrix, December 2003

For Us, the Living by Robert A Heinlein
Title: “Road RAH”
SFW #   , 29 December 2003

Reviews 2004

2004
White Devils by Paul McAuley
Title: “The Abyss of Consequence”
SFW #   , 26 January 2004

The War of our Year by Steph Swainston
Title:
SFW #

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Title:
SFW #

Beyond Infinity by Gregory Benford
Title: “Wings of Stone”
SFW #365, 19 April 2004

The Zenith Angle by Bruce Sterling
Title:
SFW (May 2004)

The Twentieth Century by Albert Robida
Title:
SFW (Jun 2004)

The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson
Title:
New York Review of Science Fiction #191 (July 2004)

One King, One Soldier by Alexander A Irvine
Title:
SFW (July 2004)

Breathmoss and Other Exhalations by Ian R MacLeod
Title: “The Illusion of Journey”
SFW 381? (mid August 2004)

Jonathan Strange and Dr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Title:
SFW 385? (September 2004)
New York Review of Science Fiction (October 2004)
revised

The System of the World by Neal Stephenson
Title: “Pride”
SFW 389? (October 2004)

The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe
Title:
New York Review of Science Fiction (November 2004)

Trujillo by Lucius Shepard
Title: “The Thunder of the Disappeared”
SFW 393? (November 2004)

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Title:
SFW 397? (November 2004)

The Final Solution: a Story in Detection by Michael Chabon
Title:
New York Review of Science Fiction (January 2005?)

Between Worlds edited by Robert Silverberg
Title: “A Taste of Honey”
SFW 401? (December 2004)