Fiction


Listed alphabetically by author's last name, below please find links to the fictional work reviewed to date on this blog. (You may click on Rating System for more info on the stars--err, asterisks...)

A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L   M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   X   Y   Z

A
Abbott, Edwin
Flatland (1884) ****½

Abercrombie, Joe
First Law [trilogy review] (2006-2008) **

Abnett, Dan
Horus Rising (2006) ****
Prospero Burns (2011) ***
Know No Fear (2012) ***½

Abraham, Daniel
Long Price quartet
    A Shadow in Summer (2006) ***½
    A Betrayal in Winter (2007) ***
    An Autumn War (2008) **½
    The Price of Spring (2009) ***
Hunter's Run (w/ Gardner Dozois & George R.R. Martin) (2007) ***½
The Dagger & the Coin quintet
    The Dragon's Path (2011) ***
    The King's Blood (2012) ***½
    The Tyrant's Law (2013) ***½
    The Widow's House (2014) ***½
    The Spider's War (2015) ***½
Age of Ash (2022) ***

Adams, Douglas
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) ****

Adams, Richard
Watership Down (1972) ****

Ahmed, Saladin

Aldiss, Brian
Non-Stop (1958) ***½
Hothouse (1962) ***
Starswarm [collection] (1964) ***½
"The Saliva Tree" [novella] (1966) ****
Report on Probability A (1968) ****½ 
The Moment of Eclipse [collection] (1970) ***½
The Malacia Tapestry (1976) ****
Brothers of the Head (1977) ****
Helliconia 
    Helliconia Spring (1983) ***½
    Helliconia Summer (1984) ****
    Helliconia Winter (1986) ****½
The Secret of this Book [collection] (1995) ****½
Super-State (2002) ****

As editor:
The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus [anthology] (1961-1964) ***½
Space Opera (1974) ***½

Allan, Nina
"Spin" [novella] (2013) ****
The Race (2014) ****½

Anderson, Poul
The Broken Sword (1954) ****
The High Crusade (1960) *½
Tau Zero (1970) **½
"The Queen of Air and Darkness" [novella] (1971) ***
"The Saturn Game" [novella] (1981) ***½ 

Asher, Neal

Spatterjay series
    The Skinner (2002) **½
    The Voyage of the Sable Keech (2006) **½
Prador Moon (2006) **½

Ashley, Mike (ed.)

Asimov, Isaac
Foundation (1951) ***
The Caves of Steel (1953) **½
The End of Eternity (1955) ***½

Atwood, Margaret
The Handmaid's Tale (1985) *****
Oryx and Crake
    Oryx and Crake (2003) **** 
    The Year of the Flood (2009) ****
    MaddAddam (2013) ****
The Penelopiad (2005) ****½
The Testaments (2019) ****½

B
Bacigalupi, Paolo
Pump Six and Other Stories [collection] (2008) *** 
The Windup Girl (2010) ***½
"The Alchemist" [novella] (2011) ***
Ship Breaker (2011) ***½
The Drowned Cities (2012) ***½
The Water Knife (2015) ***

Baker, Kage
"The Empress of Mars" [novella] (2003) *** 

Bakker, R. Scott
The Prince of Nothing series
    The Darkness that Comes Before (2003) ***½
    The Warrior Prophet (2005) ***½ 
    The Thousandfold Thought (2006) ***½ 
The Aspect-Emperor series
    The Judging Eye (2009) ***½
    The White Luck Warrior (2011) ***½
    The Great Ordeal (2016) ***½ 
    The Unholy Consult (2017) ****

Ballard, J.G.

The Drowned World (1962) ***½
The Drought (aka The Burning World) (1964) ***½
The Terminal Beach [collection] (1964) ****
The Crystal World (1966) ****½
The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) ***** 
Vermilion Sands [collection] (1971) ****
High-Rise (1975) ****½
Hello, America (1981) ***½

Ballingrud, Nathan
North American Lake Monsters [aka Monsterland] [collection] (2013) ****½
Wounds [collection] (2019) ****
The Strange (2023) ****½

Bancroft, Josiah
Senlin Ascends (2011) ****
Arm of the Sphinx (2016) ****
The Hod King (2019) ****

Banks, Iain M.
The Wasp Factory (1984) ***
Culture series
    Consider Phlebas (1987) ***
    The Player of Games (1988) ****
    Use of Weapons (1990) ****
    The State of the Art [collection] (1991) **
    Excession (1996) ****½
    Inversions (1998) ****
    Look to Windward (2000) ****
    Matter (2008) ****
    Surface Detail (2010) **½
    The Hydrogen Sonata (2012) **** 
Feersum Endjinn (1994) ***½
The Algebraist (2004) **½ 

Barker, R. J.
Age of Assassins (2017) ***½
The Bone Ships (2019) ***

Barnes, Adrian
Nod (2014) ****

Barry, Max
Lexicon (2013) **½

Baxter, Stephen 
Raft (1991) ***½

Bear, Elizabeth
Undertow (2007) ***
Range of Ghosts (2012) ***

Bear, Greg
"Hardfought" [novella] (1983) ****
Blood Music (1988) **½
Tangents (1989) **½
Moving Mars (1994) ***
Hull Zero Three (2010) ****

Beaulieu, Bradley

Beauman, Ned

Boxer, Beetle (2010) ****
Glow (2014) **
Venomous Lumpsucker (2022) ***½ 

Beckett, Chris
Eden series
    Dark Eden (2012) ****½
    Mother of Eden (2015) ***½
    Daughter of Eden (2016) ****
Marcher (2014) ***½

Bell, Matt
Appleseed (2022) ***

Benford, Gregory
Timescape (1980) ***½ 

Bennett, Robert Jackson
The Company Man (2011) ***½
City of Stairs (2014) ***
Vigilance [novella] (2019) ****½ 

Bester, Alfred
The Demolished Man (1951) ***½

Beukes, Lauren

Moxyland (2008) ****
Zoo City (2010) ***½
The Shining Girls (2013) ****
Broken Monsters (2014) ****½
Slipping [collection] (2016) ***½
Afterland (2020) ****½
Bridge (2023) ***½

Bishop, K.J.
The Etched City (2000) ***½

Bishop, Michael
"The White Otters of Childhood" [novella] (1973) ****
And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees (alt. title Beneath the Shattered Moons) (1976) ***½
"The Samurai in the Willows" [novella] (1976) ****
Transfigurations (1979) ****
    ("Death and Designation Among the Asadi" [novella] (1973) *****)
Unicorn Mountain (1988) ****
"Cri de Coeur" [novella] (1994) ***½
Brittle Innings (1994) ****

Bisson, Terry
Talking Man (1986) ****½
Fire on the Mountain (1988) ***½ 
Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories [collection] (1993) ****
The Left Left Behind Plus... [collection] (2009) ****

Blaylock, James P.
Langdon St. Ives series
    The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives [omnibus] (2008) ***½
        Homunculus (1986) ***½
        Lord Kelvin's Machine (1992) ***½
    The Further Adventures of Langdon St. Ives [omnibus] (2016) ***½ 
The Last Coin (1988) ****
The Paper Grail (1991) ****
All the Bells on Earth (1995) ***½
Thirteen Phantasms [collection] (2000) ****

Blish, James

Cities in Flight sequence 
    They Shall Have Stars (1956) ***½
    A Life for the Stars (1962) ***
A Case of Conscience (1958) **½ 

Borges, Jorge Luis
Labyrinths [collection] (1962) ****½

Bova, Ben
Titan (2006) **

As editor:
The Best of Analog [anthology] (1978) ****

Brackett, Leigh
Sea Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories [collection] (1942-1963) **½ 
    ("Black Amazon of Mars" [novella] (1951) ***)
The Sword of Rhiannon (1953) **½
The Long Tomorrow (1955) ****½

Bradbury, Ray
The Martian Chronicles [collection] (1950) *****
The Illustrated Man [collection] (1951) ***½
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) ****
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) ****

Bradley, James
Clade (2015) ***½

Brin, David
Startide Rising (1983) ***½
The Postman (1985) **½

Brooks-Dalton, Lily
Good Morning, Midnight (2016) ****
The Light Pirate (2022) *** 

Brunner, John
The Squares of the City (1965) ***½ 
Stand on Zanzibar (1968) *****
The Jagged Orbit (1969) *****
The Traveler in Black [collection] (1971) ***
The Shockwave Rider (1975) ****½

Buckell, Tobias
"The Executioness" [novella] (2011) *½

Budrys, Algis
Who? (1958) ****½
The Falling Torch (1959) ***½
The Unexpected Dimension [collection] (1960) ****
Rogue Moon (1960) **** 
"The Silent Eyes of Time" [novella] (1975) ****
Hard Landing (1993) ***
 
Bulgakov, Mikhail 

Burgess, Anthony
A Clockwork Orange (1962) ****

Burroughs, Edgar Rice 
Barsoom
    A Princess of Mars (1912) **
    The Gods of Mars (1914) **
    The Warlord of Mars (1919) **

Butler, Octavia
Kindred (1979) ****

C
Cadigan, Pat
Mindplayers (1987) ****½
Fools (1992) *****

Cady, Jack
"The Night We Buried Road Dog" [novella] (1993) ****½

Caless, Kit (ed.)
An Unreliable Guide to London [anthology, ed. with Gary Budden] (2016) ****

Call, Justin Travis
Master of Sorrows (2019) ***

Calvino, Italo
Invisible Cities (1982) *****

Camus, Albert
The Stranger (1942) *****
 
Card, Orson Scott
Ender's Game (1985) ***½
Speaker for the Dead (1986) **½

Cargill, Robert
Sea of Rust (2017) **

Carey, Jacqueline
Kushiel's Dart (2001) ***½

Carroll, Jonathan
"Uh-Oh City" [novella] (1992) **** 

Carter, Angela
The Magic Toyshop (1967) ****½ 

Cervantes, Miguel de 
Don Quixote (1605 Vol.I, 1615 - Vol.II) *****

Chabon, Michael

Charnock, Anne
A Calculated Life (2013) ****
Bridge 108 (2020) ***½
    "The Enclave" [novella] (2017) ***½

Chen, Qiufan
Waste Tide (2013) ***

Chen, Yu (as editor)

Cherryh, C.J.
Downbelow Station (1981) ***½
Port Eternity (1982) ***
Foreigner series
    Foreigner (1994) ***½
    Invader (1995) ****
    Inheritor (1996) ***
    Precursor (1999) ***½
    Defender (2001) ***½ 
    Explorer (2003) ***½
    Destroyer (2005) ***½
    Pretender (2006) ***
    Deliverer (2007) ***½
    Conspirator (2008) ***½
    Deceiver (2010) ***½
    Betrayer (2011) ****
    Intruder (2012) ****
    Protector (2013) ***½
    Peacemaker (2014) ***½
    Tracker (2015) ***½
    Visitor (2016) ****
    Convergence (2017) ***½
    Emergence (2018) ***
    Resurgence (2020) ***
    Divergence (2020) ***½ 

Chiang, Ted
Stories of Your Life and Others [collection] (2002) ****½
     ("Story of Your Life" [novella] (1998) ****½)  
     ("Seventy-Two Letters" [novella] (2000) ****½)
     ("Liking What You See: A Documentary" [novella] (2002) ****½)
Exhalation: Stories [collection] (2019) ****
     ("The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" [novelette] (2007) ****)
     ("The Lifecycle of Software Objects" [novella] (2010) ****)
     ("The Truth of Fact, Truth of Feeling" [novelette] (2013) ***½)

Christopher, John
The Death of Grass (1956) ***
½

Chronster, Kay
Desert Creatures (2023) ****

Chwedyk, Richard
Bronte's Egg [novella] (2002) ***½

Clarke, Arthur C.
The Best of Arthur C. Clarke: 1937-1971 [collection] (1937-1971) **½
    ("A Meeting with Medusa" [novella] (1972) ***)
The Sands of Mars (1951) **
Childhood's End (1953) ****
Earthlight (1955) ***
The City & the Stars (1956) ****
A Fall of Moondust (1961) ***
Rendezvous with Rama (1972) ****½

Clarke, Neil (as editor)
Upgraded [anthology] (2014) *** 
The Final Frontier [anthology] (2018) ***½ 

Clarke, Susanna
Piranesi (2020) *****

Claypool, Les
South of the Pumphouse (2006) ***

Clement, Hal
Mission of Gravity (1954) **½

Clough, Brenda W.
"May Be Some Time" [novella] (2001) **

Compton, D. G.
Nomansland (1993) **½

Coney, Michael
Hello Summer, Goodbye (1975) ****

Cook, Glen
The Black Company (1984) **½

Corey, James S.A. (pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck)
Leviathan Wakes (2011) ***½
Caliban's War (2012) ***½
Abaddon's Gate (2013) ****
Cibola Burn (2014) ***½
Nemesis Games (2015) **½
Babylon's Ashes (2016) ***
Persepolis Rising (2017) ***½
Tiamat's Wrath (2019) ***
Leviathan Falls (2021) ***½
Memory's Legion (2022) ***

Counter, Ben
Galaxy in Flames [Warhammer] (2006) ***½  

Cowper, Richard
"The Custodians" [novelette] (1976) ****
The Road to Corlay (1978) ***½
    ("The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" [novella] (1976) ****)

Crowley, John
The Deep (1975) **** 
Totalitopia [collection] (2017) ****
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr (2017) ****½ 

Cussler, Clive
Lost City (2004) * 

D

Day, Julie C.
Uncommon Miracles [collection] (2018) ****

Delany, Samuel R.
The Fall of the Towers (1963-1965) ***
Babel-17 (1966) ***½

Delillo, Don
The Body Artist [novella] (2001) ***½
Zero K (2016) ****
½

Dembski-Bowden, Aaron
The First Heretic (2010) ***½
Betrayer (2013) ***½
Talon of Horus (2014) **

Denton, Bradley
"Sergeant Chip" [novella] (2004) ***

Di Filippo, Paul
The Steampunk Trilogy [collection] (1995) ****
Ribofunk [collection] (1996) ***
Fractal Paisleys (1997) ***½
Lost Pages [collection] (1998) ****
"A Year in the Linear City" [novella] (2002) ****
Fuzzy Dice (2003) ****
Cosmocopia (2008) ****½
Roadside Bodhisattva (2010) ***½
The New Cyberiad [novelette] (2015) ****½
Infinite Fantastika [collection] (2018) ***½
The Summer Thieves (2021) *** 
 
Dick, Philip K.
Time Out of Joint (1956) ***½ 
Martian Time-slip (1964) ****
Ubik (1969) ****
A Scanner Darkly (1977) ****½
VALIS (1981) ****
Minority Report [collection] (2002) ***½

Disch, Thomas
Camp Concentration (1968) ****½
334 [collection] (1972) ****
½
On Wings of Song (1979) ****½
"The Brave Little Toaster" [novella] (1980) ***½

Djuna
Counterweight (2023) ***

Doctorow, Cory
Little Brother (2008) *½

Donaldson, Stephen R.
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series
    Lord Foul's Bane (1977) ***
    The Illearth War (1977) ***
    The Power that Preserves (1977) ***
The Gap Cycle

Dozois, Gardner
The Visible Man [collection] (1977) ****½ 
Hunter's Run (w/ Daniel Abraham & George R.R. Martin) (2007) ***½

As editor:
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance [anthology ed. with George R.R. Martin] (2009) **½
Old Venus [anthology ed. with George R.R. Martin] (2015) **½
The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction [anthology] (2019) ***½

Dukaj, Jacek
The Old Axolotl (2015) ***½

Duncan, Andy
"The Executioner's Guild" [novella] (1999) ****
"Fortitude" [novella] (1999) ****
The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories [collection] (2012) ****
     "The Chief Designer" [novella] (2001) ****
An Agent of Utopia [collection] (2018) ****½

Dunn, Christian (as editor)
Age of Darkness [anthology] (2011) ***
The Primarchs [anthology] (2012) **

Durham, David Anthony
The Other Lands (2009) ***
The Sacred Band (2011) ***

Durrani, Haris A. 
Technologies of the Self (2016) **** 

E
Eddison, E.R.
The Worm Ouroboros (1922) ***½

Effinger, George Alec
When Gravity Fails (1987) ***

Egan, Greg
Permutation City (1994) ****
Distress (1995) ***½
Dark Integers and Other Stories [collection] (2007) ***
     ("Oceanic" [novella] (1998) ****)
"Oracle" [novella] (2000) ****
The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred [novella] (2016) ***

Egan, Jennifer
A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) ***½

Elliot, Kate

Erikson, Steven
Malazan Book of the Fallen [series review] (1999-2010) ***½

Evans, Christopher
Aztec Century (1993) ****

F
Farmer, Nancy
The Sea of Trolls (2005) ****

Farmer, Philip Jose
"Riders of the Purple Wage" [novella] (1967) *****

Ferman Edward L. (as editor)

Flynn, Michael
"Eifelheim" [novella] (1986) *

Foster, Emily
"The Drowning Eyes" [novella] (2016) **

Ford, Jeffrey
The Well-Built City trilogy
    The Physiognomy (1997) ***½
    Memoranda (1999) ****
    The Beyond (2001) ***
The Empire of Ice Cream: Stories [collection] (2006) ****
    ("Empire of Ice Cream" [novelette] (2003) ****)
The Shadow Year (2008) ****
The Drowned Life [collection] (2008) ****½
Crackpot Palace: Stories [collection] (2012) ****
A Natural History of Hell [collection] (2016) ***½
The Twilight Pariah [novella] (2017) **½
Ahab's Return (2018) ****
Out of Body [novella] (2020) ***
Big Dark Hole: Stories [collection] (2021) ****

Ford, R.S. 
Engines of Empire (2022) **½

Friedman, Celia

Friend, Oscar J. (as editor)
Race to the Stars [anthology] (1958) (ed. with Leo Margulies) **

G
Gaiman, Neil
American Gods (2001) **½
"Coraline" [novella] (2002) ****
Anansi Boys (2005) ****
The Graveyard Book (2008) ***½ 
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2014) ****
Norse Mythology (2018) ***

As editor with Al Sarrantonio:
Stories: All New Tales (2010) ***½

Galouye, Daniel
Dark Universe (1961) ***½  
Simulacron-3 (1964) ****

Gemmell, David 
Legend (1989) **½
Dark Moon (1996) *½ 

Gentle, Mary

Rats and Gargoyles (1999) **½
Ash: A Secret History (2000) *****

Gerrold, David

Ghosh, Amitav
The Circle of Reason (1986) ****½
The Calcutta Chromosome (1996) ****

Gibson, Gary
Stealing Light (2007) ***

Gibson, William
Burning Chrome [collection] (1977-1985) ****
Sprawl series
    Neuromancer (1984) ****
    Count Zero (1987) ****½
    Mona Lisa Overdrive (1989) ****
The Difference Engine (with Bruce Sterling) (1990) ****
Bridge series
    Virtual Light (1994) ****
    Idoru (1997) ****½
    All Tomorrow's Parties (2000) ****
Blue Ant series
    Pattern Recognition (2003) ****
    Spook Country (2007) ****½
    Zero History (2010) ****
The Peripheral (2014) ***½
The Agency (2020) ***½

Gilman, Carolyn Ives
Dark Orbit (2015) ****

Goulding, Laurie (as editor)
Mark of Calth [anthology] (2013) ***

Greenberg, Martin (as editor)
Sci-Fi Private Eye [anthology] (1997) **½

Greene, Graham
The Quiet American (1955) ****½
The Honorary Consul (1973) ****
Monsignor Quixote (1979) ****½

Gregory, Daryl
Afterparty (2014) **

Griffith, Nicola
Slow River (1995) ****
Spear [novella] (2022) *** 

Grimwood, Jon Courtenay (aka Jack Grimwood)

neoAddix (1997) **
½
redRobe (2000) ***½
Arabesk trilogy 
    Pashazade (2001) ***½
    Effendi (2002) ***½
    Felaheen (2003) ***½
Stamping Butterflies (2004) ****½
9Tail Fox (2005) ****
End of the World Blues (2006) ****½
Assassini trilogy
    The Fallen Blade (2011) *** 
    The Outcast Blade (2012) ***
    The Exiled Blade (2013) ***
Tom Fox novels
    Moskva (2016) ****
    Nightfall Berlin (2018) ****
Island Reich (2021) ***

H

Haddon, Mark

Haig, Matt
The Humans (2013) ****
The Midnight Library (2020) ****½
 
Haldeman, Joe
The Forever War (1976) ****
"The Hemingway Hoax" [novella] (1990) ***½ 
Forever Peace (1997) ***½
Forever Free (1999) **½

Haley, Guy
Pharos (2015) ***

Hamid, Mohsin
Exit West (2017) ****½ 

Hamilton, Edmond
City at World's End (1951) **½

Hamilton, Peter F.
The Dreaming Void (2007) **

Hand, Elizabeth
Last Summer at Mars Hill [collection] (1997) ****
    ("Last Summer at Mars Hill" [novella] (1994) ****)
Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories [collection] (2006) ****½
    ("Cleopatra Brimstone" [novella] (2001) ***½)
    ("Least Trumps" [novella] (2002) ****½)
Illyria (2007) ****
Cass Neary series
    Generation Loss (2007) ****
    Available Dark (2012) ****
Radiant Days (2012) ****
Errantry: Strange Stories [collection] (2012) **** 
    ("The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" [novella] (2010) ****½) 
Wylding Hall (2015) ****
Curious Toys (2019) ***½

Harkaway, Nick
The Gone-Away World (2009) ***
Angelmaker (2012) ***½
Tigerman (2014) ****
Gnomon (2017) ****
½
Titanium Noir (2023) ***½ 

Harness, Charles L.
The Rose [collection] (1966) ***½
"The Alchemist" [novella] (1967) ***
"Summer Solstice" [novella] (1984) ***

Harrison, Harry
Deathworld (1960) **½
Eden trilogy
    West of Eden (1984) ***½ 
    Winter in Eden (1986) ***½
    Return to Eden (1988) ****
The Hammer and the Cross (w / John Holm) (1993) ***  

Harrison, M. John
Viriconium
    The Pastel City (1971) ****½
    A Storm of Wings (1980) *****
    Viriconium Nights [collection] (1985) ****½
The Centauri Device (1975) ****½
Kefahuchi Tract
    Light (2002) *****
    Nova Swing (2006) ****½
    Empty Space (2012) *****

Hart, Rob
The Warehouse (2019) ****½  

Heinlein, Robert
Double Star (1956) ***½
Starship Troopers (1959) ***½

Helgadottir, Margret
The Stars Seem So Far Away (2015) ***

Heller, Peter
The Dog Stars (2012) ***
The River (2019) ***

Herbert, Frank
Dune (1965) ****
Dune Messiah (1970) **
Children of Dune (1976) **½
God Emperor of Dune (1981) ***½
Heretics of Dune (1984) **½

Herrera, Yuri
Ten Planets: Stories [collection] (2023) **

Hill, Joe
20th Century Ghosts [collection] (2005) ***½
Strange Weather [collection] (2017) ****
Full Throttle [collection] (2019) ***½

Hill, Matt
Graft (2016) ***½

Hill, Susan
The Woman in Black (1983) ***

Hilton, James
Lost Horizon (1933) ****

Hobb, Robin
The Farseer [trilogy review] (1995-1997) ***½

Hocking, Ian
Deja Vu (2014) ***

Hodder, Mark

Hodgson, William Hope

Holborn, Stark
Ten Low (2021) **½

Holdstock, Robert
Mythago Wood (1984) ****

Horton, Rich (ed.)
The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2014 Edition [anthology] (2014) ***½

Houellebecq, Michel
The Map & the Territory (2010) ***

Howard, Robert E.
Conan the Warrior [collection] (1935) ½

Hughart, Barry
Bridge of Birds (1984) ****
The Story of the Stone (1988) ****

Hurley, Kameron
God's War (2011) **
The Mirror Empire (2014) **½

Hutchinson, Dave
Fragmented Europe series
    Europe in Autumn (2014) ****
    Europe at Midnight (2015) ***½
    Europe in Winter (2016) ***½
Sleeps with Angels [collection] (2015) ***½

Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World (1932) ****½ 

I 

Ings, Simon
Hotwire (1995) ***
Wolves (2014) ****½
The Smoke (2021) ****

Ishiguro, Kazuo
Never Let Me Go (2005) ****
The Buried Giant (2015) *****
Klara and the Sun (2021) ****½

J
Jacques, Brian
Redwall (1986) ****

Jemisin, N.K.

Jeter, K.W.
The Bounty Hunter Wars [trilogy] (1998) **½

Jiang, Rong
Wolf Totem (2004) ****½

Jimenez, Simon
The Vanished Birds (2020) ***½

Jin, Yong
Legend of Condor Heroes (1957)
    A Hero Born  ****
    A Bond Undone ***½

Johnson, Kij
At the Mouth of the River of Bees [collection] (2012) ****
    ("The Man Who Bridged the Mist" [novella] (2011) ***½)
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe (2016) ****

Jones, Diana Wynne
Howl's Moving Castle (1986) *****

Jones, Gwyneth
"Proof of Concept" [novella] (2017) **

Joyce, Graham
The Silent Land (2010) ****
Some Kind of Fairy Tale (2012) ****
 
K
Kavan, Anna
Ice (1967) *****

Kay, Guy Gavriel
The Summer Tree (1986) *** 
Tigana (1990) ***½
A Song for Arbonne (1992) **
Sarantine Mosaic
    Sailing to Sarantium (1998) ***½
    Lord of Emperors (2000) ***½
Ysabel (2007) ***
Under Heaven (2011) ***½
River of Stars (2013) ****

Kearney, Paul
Monarchies of God series
    Hawkwood's Voyage (1995) ***½
    The Heretic Kings (1996) ***½
    The Iron Wars (1999) ***½
    The Second Empire (2000) ***½
    Ships from the West (2002) ***½
Macht series
    The Ten Thousand (2008) ***½
    Corvus (2010) *** 
    Kings of Morning (2011) ***
The Wolf in the Attic (2016) ***

Kehlmann, Daniel
Tyll: A Novel (2017) ****½

Kelly, James Patrick
Look into the Sun (1989) ***½
Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories [collection] (1997) ****
    "Mr. Boy" [novella] (1990) **** 
    ("The Wreck of the Godspeed" [novella] (2004) ****)
    ("Men Are Trouble" [novelette] (2004) ****)
    ("Burn" [novella] (2005) ****)
"The Last Judgment" [novella] (2012) ****

As editor with John Kessel:

Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology [anthology] (2006) ****
Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology [anthology] (2007) ****

Kessel, John
"Another Orphan" [novella] (1982) ****½

As editor with James Patrick Kelly:

Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology [anthology] (2006) ****
Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology [anthology] (2007) ****

Kiernan, Caitlin R.
The Red Tree (2009) ****
The Drowning Girl (2012) *****
Agents of Dreamland (2017) ***½

King, Stephen
The Eyes of the Dragon (1987) ***
Billy Summers (2021) ****

Kling, Marc-Uwe
Qualityland (2020) **** 

Kloos, Marko
Terms of Enlistment (2013) **

Kornbluth, C. M.
The Space Merchants (with Frederik Pohl) (1952) **** 
The Marching Morons & Other Famous Science Fiction Stories [collection] (1959) ***½

Kornher-Stace, Nicole
Firebreak (2021) ***
Flight & Anchor (2023) *½

Kosmatka, Ted

The Games (2012) ***
The Flicker Men (2015) ***½

Krabbe, Tim
The Rider (1979) ****½

Kress, Nancy
"Beggars in Spain" [novella] (1991) ***½

Kroese, Robert
The Big Sheep (2016) **

Krook, Joshua
Black Friday 2050 (2022) ** 

Kushner, Ellen
Swordspoint (1987) ***½

Kyme, Nick
Vulkan Lives (2013) ***
Deathfire (2015) ***½ 

L

Lanchester, John
The Wall (2019) ****

Landis, Geoffrey A.
"Elemental" [novella] (1984) *
"Ecopoiesis" [novella] (1997) *½ 
"The Sultan of the Clouds" [novella] (2010) ***

Lang, Andrew (as editor)

Langmead, Oliver
Dark Star (2015) ****
Metronome (2017) ***
½
Birds of Paradise (2021) ****

Lansdale, Joe R.
Savage Season (1990) *** 
The Bottoms (2000) ****
A Fine Dark Line (2002) ***
The Thicket (2013) ****
Paradise Sky (2015) ****

Lawrence, Mark
The Prince of Thorns (2011) **

le Carre, John
 
Le Guin, Ursula
Planet of Exile (1966) ***½
Earthsea Cycle
    A Wizard of Earthsea (1969) ****½
    The Tombs of Atuan (1971) ****
    The Farthest Shore (1973) ****½
    Tehanu (1990) ****
    Tales from Earthsea [collection] (2001) ***½
    The Other Wind (2001) **** 
The Lathe of Heaven (1971) ****
The Dispossessed (1974) *****
The Eye of the Heron (1978) ***½
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea [collection] (1994) ***
Four Ways to Forgiveness [collection] (1995) ***½
The Telling (2000) ***½

Le Tellier, Herve
The Anomaly (2022) ****

Leckie, Ann

Lee, Fonda
Jade City (2017) ***

Lee, Tanith
Night's Master (1978) ****½
The Book of the Damned (1988) ***** 
"All the Birds of Hell" [novelette] (1998) ****½ 

Lee, Yoon Ha
Ninefox Gambit (2016) ***½
Phoenix Extravagant (2020) **½   

Leiber, Fritz
The First Book of Lankhmar [collection] (1939-1968) **
Conjure Wife (1943) ***½
Gather, Darkness! (1950) ***½
The Big Time (1958) ****½
"The Night of Long Knives" [novella] (1960) ***½
The Mind Spider and Other Stories [collection] (1961) ***
Ship of Shadows [collection] (1979) ****
    ("Ship of Shadows" [novella] (1969) ****)

Lem, Stanislaw
The Investigation (1959) ****½
Solaris (1961) *****
The Invincible (1964) ****
The Cyberiad (1967) *****
His Master's Voice (1968) ****½
The Futurological Congress (1971) ****½
Peace on Earth (1995) ***½

Lerman, Eleanor
Radiomen (2015) ****½
Stargazer's Embassy (2017) ****

Lethem, Jonathan
Amnesia Moon (1995) ****
Motherless Brooklyn (1999) ****½
The Fortress of Solitude (2003) *****
Men and Cartoons [collection] (2004) ***½
Lucky Alan and Other Stories [collection] (2015) ****
The Arrest (2020) ***½  

Lindsay, David
A Voyage to Arcturus (1920) ****½ 

Link, Kelly
"Magic for Beginners" [novella] (2005) ***½

Liu, Cixin
The Three-Body Problem (2014) ****½

Liu, Ken
The Grace of Kings (2015) ****
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories [collection] (2016) *** 
    "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary" [novella] (2011) **** 

As editor:
Invisible Planets [anthology] (2016) ****
Broken Stars [anthology] (2019) ***½

Loeff, David

Longyear, Barry
"Enemy Mine" [novella] (1979) ***½

Lovecraft, H.P.

Lowry, Lois
The Giver (1993) **½

Luo Guangshou & Shi Nai'an
Outlaws of the Marsh (13th century) *****
Romance of the Three Kingdoms (14th century) *****

Lusk, Sean

Lynch, Scott 

M
Macleod, Ian R.
The Great Wheel (1997) ***½ 
Aether stories 
    The Light Ages (2003) ****½
    The House of Storms (2005) ****
    "The Master Miller's Tale" [novella] (2007) ****½
Breathmoss and Other Exhalations [collection] (2004) ****
    ( The Summer Isles" [novella] (1998) ****)
    ("New Light on the Drake Equation" [novella] (2001) ****½)
    ("Breathmoss" [novella] (2002) ***½)
The Summer Isles (2005) *****
Song of Time (2008) ****
Wake Up and Dream (2011) ***½
Everywhere [collection] (2019) ****½
Nowhere [collection] (2019) ****½ 
 
Macleod, Ken
Fall Revolution series
    The Star Fraction (1995) **** 
    The Stone Canal (1996) ****
    The Cassini Division (1998) ***½
    The Sky Road (1999) ****
Cosmonaut Keep (2000) **½
Newton's Wake (2004) ***½
Learning the World (2005) *** 
The Night Sessions (2008) ***½
The Restoration Game (2010) ***½
Intrusion (2012) ****
Descent (2014) ***½
Dissidence (2016) ***
Lightspeed Trilogy
    Beyond the Hallowed Sky (2021) ***
    Beyond the Reach of Earth (2023) *** 

Malzberg, Barry
Beyond Apollo (1973) ****½
Galaxies (1975) *****

Mamatas, Nick
The People's Republic of Everything [collection] (2018) ***½

Margulies, Leo (ed.)
Race to the Stars [anthology] (1958) (ed. with Oscar J. Friend) **

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Martel, Yann 
Life of Pi (2001) ****

Martin, George R.R. 

Dying of the Light (1977) ***
Nightflyers [collection] (1985) ***½
    "A Song for Lya" [novella] (1974) ****½
    "Nightflyers" [novella] (1980) ***
Windhaven (1918) (w/ Lisa Tuttle) ***
½
Sandkings [collection] (1981) **½
Fevre Dream (1982) ***
Armageddon Rag (1983) ***
A Song of Ice and Fire series
    A Game of Thrones (1996) ****
    A Clash of Kings (1998) ****
    A Storm of Swords (2000) ****
    A Feast of Crows (2005) ***½
    A Dance with Dragons (2011) ***½
Hunter's Run (w/ Gardner Dozois & Daniel Abraham) (2007) ***½
Fire and Blood (2018) ***½

As editor:
Old Venus [anthology ed. with Gardner Dozois] (2015) **½

Marusek, David
Getting to Know You [collection] (2007) ****
    "The Wedding Album" [novella] (1999) ****
Upon this Rock series
    First Contact (2017) ***½
    Glassing the Orgachine (2019) ***½
    Consider Pipnonia (2021) ***½

Masson, David L.
The Caltraps of Time [collection] (1968) ***

Matheson, Richard
I Am Legend (1954) ***
The Shrinking Man (1956) ***½

McAuley, Paul
Eternal Light (1991) ***
The Secret of Life (2001) ***
"The Choice" [novelette] (2011) ***½ 

McCaffrey, Anne
Dragonflight (1968) ** 

McCarthy, Cormac
Child of God (1973) ****
Blood Meridian (1985) *****
Border trilogy
    The Crossing (1994) ****
    Cities of the Plain (1998) ***½
No Country for Old Men (2005) ****½
The Road (2006) *****

McCarthy, Tom
Remainder (2005) ****½
Satin Island (2015) ****½

McDevitt, Jack
Ancient Shores (1996) ***½
Chindi (2002) **½ 

McDonald, Ed
Raven's Mark
    Blackwing (2017) ***½
    Ravencry (2018) ***½
    Crowfall (2019) ***
Redwinter Chronicles
    Daughter of Redwinter (2022) ***

McDonald, Ian
Desolation Road (1988) ****
Empire Dreams [collection] (1988) ****
Out on Blue Six (1989) ***
Chaga series
    "Tendeleo's Story" [novella] (2000) ***½ 
Ares Express (2001) ***½
River of Gods (2004) ****½
Brasyl (2007) ****
"The Tear" [novella] (2008) ***½
Cyberabad Days [collection] (2009) ****
The Dervish House (2010) ***½
Everness series (YA)
    Planesrunner (2012) ***½
    Be My Enemy (2013) ***½
    Empress of the Sun (2014) ***½ 
Luna series
    Luna: New Moon (2015) ***½ 
    Luna: Wolf Moon (2017) ***½
    Luna: Moon Rising (2019) ***½
    "The Menace from Farside" [novella] (2019) ***
Time Was [novella] (2018) ****
Hopeland (2023) ***½ 

McHugh, Maureen
China Mountain Zhang (1992) ****½
"Protection" [novella] (1992) ****
Mothers & Other Monsters [collection] (2005) ****
    ("The Cost to Be Wise" [novella] (1996) ***½)
After the Apocalypse [collection] (2011) **** 

McIntyre, Vonda 
Dreamsnake (1978) ***½ 
Fireflood and Other Stories [collection] (1979) ****
    ("Aztecs" [novella] (1977) ***½)
Superluminal (1983) **½

McKillip, Patricia

McKinney, Chris
Midnight, Water City (2021) **½   

McMaster Bujold, Lois
"The Mountains of Mourning" [novella] (1989) **½
Barrayar (1991) **½
The Curse of Chalion  (2001) ***½
Paladin of Souls (2003) ***

McNeill, Graham
False Gods (2006) ***½
Fulgrim (2007) ***½
A Thousand Sons (2010) ****
Angel Exterminatus (2012) ***½
Vengeful Spirit (2014) ***

Meginnis, Mike
Drowning Practice (2022) ****½

Michel, Lincoln

Mieville, China
Bas-Lag series
    Perdido Street Station (2000) ***½
    The Scar (2002) ***½
    Iron Council (2004) **
Looking for Jake and Other Stories [collection] (2005) ***
The City & the City (2009) ****½
Kraken (2010) ***½
Three Moments of an Explosion (2015) ****
This Census-Taker (2016) ****½
Last Days of New Paris (2016) ****½

Miller, Walter M. 
Dark Benediction [collection] (1980) ***

Miller, Sam J.
Blackfish City (2018) ***

Millhauser, Stephen

Mirrlees, Hope
Lud-in-the-Mist (1926) ****½

Mitchell, David
Ghostwritten (1999) ***½
Cloud Atlas (2004) ****½
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010) ****
The Bone Clocks (2014) *****
Slade House (2015) ***
Utopia Avenue (2020) ****

Moles, David
"Finisterra" [novelette] (2007) **

Moon, Elizabeth
The Speed of Dark (2002) ****

Moorcock, Michael 
Elric cycle
    The Stealer of Souls (1963) ***
    Stormbringer (1965) ***
"Behold the Man" [novella] (1966) ****½
The History of the Runestaff [series] (1967-1969) **½
Nomad of the Time Streams trilogy
    The Warlord of the Air (1971) ***½
    The Land Leviathan (1974) ***½
    The Steel Tsar (1981) ***½

Moore, Alan
Illuminations; Stories [collection] (2022) ****
    "What We Can Know about Thunderman" [novel] (2022) ****

Moore, Ward
Bring the Jubilee (1953) ****

Morden, Simon
Equations of Life (2011) ***

Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Signal to Noise (2015) **½

Morgan, Richard

Takeshi Kovacs
    Altered Carbon (2001) ***
    Broken Angels (2003) **
Market Forces (2004) ***½

Morrow, James
Towing Jehovah (1994) ***½
Galapagos Regained (2015) ****½
The Asylum of Dr. Caligari (2017) ***½ 

Murakami, Haruki
Norwegian Wood (1987) ***½
First Person Singular [collection] (2021) ****

Murphy, Pat
"Bones" [novella] (1990) ***½

Musson, Dalan

N
Nagamatsu, Sequoia

Nagata, Linda

Nayler, Ray
The Mountain and the Sea (2022) ***½

Newman, Peter
The Vagrant (2015) ***

Nicholas, J.T.
Re-Coil (2020) ***
  
Niven, Larry
Ringworld (1970) ***
"A.R.M." [novella] (1975) **½

Noon, Jeff
Vurt (1993) ****

North, Claire
84k (2018) **½ 

Norton, Andre
Plague Ship (1956) **½
"Voodoo Planet" [novelette] (1959) **
Witch World (1963) **½ 

Nowlan, Philip Francis
"Armageddon 2419 A.D." [novella] (1928) *

O
Ogawa, Yoko
The Memory Police (1994) ****

Okorafor, Nnedi
Lagoon (2014) ***
Remote Control [novella] (2021) ***

Ose Utomi, Moses
The Lies of the Ajungo [novella] (2023) ***

Oram, Stephen 
Biohacked & Begging [collection] 2019 **½

Orwell, George
Nineteen Eighty-four (1949) ***** 

P

Palmer, Ada

Palmer, Dexter
Version Control (2016) ****½
 
Park, Paul

Parks, Richard

Parker, K.J.
Devices and Desires (2005) **½
"Let Maps to Others" [novella] (2012) ***½
 
Peake, Mervyn
Titus Groan (1946) *****
Gormenghast (1951) *****
Titus Alone (1959) *****

Peynado, Brenda
The Rock Eaters: Stories [collection] (2021) ***½
 
Pohl, Frederick
The Space Merchants (with C. M. Kornbluth) (1952) ****
Man Plus (1976) ****
Gateway
    Gateway (1977) ****½
Starburst (1982) **
"Outnumbering the Dead" [novella] (1990) ***½

Polansky, Daniel
"The Builders" [novella] (2016) *½ 
"The Seventh Perfection" [novella] (2020) ***½

Powers, Richard
Bewilderment (2021) ***½

Powers, Tim
The Anubis Gates (1984) ****
Last Call (1992) ****
Declare (2000) ***½
The Bible Repairman and Other Stories [collection] (2011) ***½
"Down and Out in Purgatory" [novella] (2016) ***½ 

Pratchett, Terry
The Carpet People (1971) **½
Discworld
    The Colour of Magic (1983) ***½
    The Light Fantastic (1986) ***½
    Equal Rites (1987) ****
    Mort (1987) ***½
    Pyramids (1989) ***½
    Guards! Guards! (1989) ***½
    Moving Pictures (1990) ****
    Witches Abroad (1991) ***½
    Eric (1991) ***½
    Lords and Ladies (1992) ***½
    Men at Arms (1993) ***
    Soul Music (1994) ****
    Interesting Times (1994) ***
    Hogfather (1996) ****
    Feet of Clay (1996) ****
    Jingo (1997) ****
    The Fifth Elephant (1999) ***
    Thief of Time (2001) ****
    The Last Hero (2001) ****
        Tiffany Aching series
            The Wee Free Men (2003) ***½
            A Hat Full of Sky (2004) ****
            Wintersmith (2006) ***½
            I Shall Wear Midnight (2010) ***½
            The Shepherd's Crown (2015) ***½
    Night Watch (2002) ****
    Thud! (2005) ***½
    Making Money (2007) ****
Nation (2008) ***½
A Stroke of the Pen [collection] (2023) **½

Priest, Cherie
Boneshaker (2009) ***½

Priest, Christopher
Indoctrinaire (1970) ***½
Inverted World (1973) ****
The Space Machine (1976) ***½ 
A Dream of Wessex (1977) ***½
An Infinite Summer [collection] (1979) ****
The Affirmation (1981) *****
The Glamour (1984) *****
The Prestige (1995) *****
The Extremes (1998) ****
The Dream Archipelago [collection] (1999) ****
The Separation (2010) *****
The Gradual (2016) ****½
The Evidence (2016) ****

As editor:
Anticipations [anthology] (1978) ****

Proulx, Annie
The Shipping News (1993) *****
Barkskins (2016) ****½

Pulley, Natasha
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (2015) **½ 

Pullman, Philip

His Dark Materials...
    Northern Lights (UK) / The Golden Compass (US) (1995) ****
    The Subtle Knife (1997) ***½
    The Amber Spyglass (2000) ***½
The Book of Dust
    La Belle Sauvage (2017) ***½
    The Secret Commonwealth (2019) ****

Pynchon, Thomas
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) ****½

Q
R
Rajaniemi, Hannu
Collected Fiction [collection] (2015) ***

Reed, Robert
"Marrow" [novella] (1997)**
"A Billion Eves" [novella] (2006) *** 

Rees, Gareth E.
The Stone Tide (2018) ****

Reeve, Philip
Railhead (2015) ***½

Reiss, Alter
Sunset Mantle (2015) *

Resnick, Mike
"Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" [novella] (1994) ***½

Reynolds, Alastair

Revelation Space universe
    Revelation Space (2000) **
    Chasm City (2001) **
    "Turquoise Days" [novella] (2002) *½
    The Prefect (2007) *** 
Century Rain (2004) *½
Pushing Ice (2005) *½
Galactic North [collection] (2006) ** 
"Troika" [novella] (2010) ***

Roberts, Adam
Salt (2000) ****½
Stone (2002) ***½
Polystom (2002) ***½
Adam Robots [collection] (2003) ***½ 
Gradisil (2007) ****
New Model Army (2010) ****½
"Anticopernicus" [novelette] (2011) ***½
Jack Glass (2013) ***
Saint Rebor [collection] (2015) *** 
The Thing Itself (2015) ***½
The Real-Town Murders (2017) ***
Haven (2018) **½
Purgatory Mount (2021) ***½
The This (2022) ****½

Roberts, Keith
Pavane (1968) *****
Machines & Men [collection] (1973) ***½
The Grain Kings [collection] (1976) ****
Kiteworld (1985) ****½ 
Grainne (1987) ***** 

Robinson, Jeanne & Spider
"Stardance" [novella] (1979) *** 

Robinson, Kim Stanley

Orange County series
    The Wild Shore (1984) ****
    The Gold Coast (1988) ****
    Pacific Edge (1990) ****
"The Blind Geometer" [novella] (1986) ***½
"Escape from Kathmandu" [novella] (1986) **½ 
Mars series
    Red Mars (1992) ****
    Green Mars (1994) ****½
    Blue Mars (1996) ****½
    The Martians [collection] (1999) ***
Science in the Capital series
    Forty Signs of Rain (2004) ***½
    Fifty Degrees Below (2005) ***½
    Sixty Days and Counting (2007) ***½
Galileo's Dream (2009) ****
2312 (2013) ***
Shaman (2013) ****
Aurora (2015 ****½
New York 2140 (2017) ****
Red Moon (2018) ***

Rooney, Sally
Normal People (2018) ***½   

Rosencrans, William
The Epiphanist (2012) ****½

Roshwald, Mordecai
Level 7 (1959) ***½

Rountree, Josh
The Legend of Charlie Fish (2023) ***

Rucker, Rudy
Spacetime Donuts (1981) ***½
The Sex Sphere (1983) **** 
Ware series
    Software (1982) ****
    Wetware (1988) ***½ 
    Freeware (1998) ***½ 
    Realware (2000) ***½
The Secret of Life (1985) ***
The Million Mile Road Trip (2019) ***½ 

Ruckley, Brian
The Godless World [trilogy review] (2006-2009) ****
    Winterbirth (2006) ****
    Bloodheir (2008) ****
    Fall of Thanes (2009) ****
The Edinburgh Dead (2011) ***½
The Free (2014) ***

Ruocchio, Christopher
Empire of Silence (2018) ***
Howling Dark (2019) ***½
The Lesser Devil (2020) ***
Demon in White (2020) ***½
Tales of the Sun Eater Vol. 1 [collection] (2021) **½
Ashes of Man (2022) *** 

Rusch, Kristine Kathryn
"The Gallery of His Dreams" [novella] (1991) ****
"Recovering Apollo 8" [novella] (2007) ***

Rushdie, Salman
Midnight's Children (1980) ****½

Russ, Joanna

Picnic on Paradise (1968) ***½
"Souls" [novella] (1983) ***½

Russell, Craig
Black Bottle Man (2010) ***

Russell, Eric Frank
"...And Then There Were None" [novella] (1951) ***½
The Mindwarpers (1965) ***

Ryan, Anthony
Many Are the Dead (2018) **½ 

S
Saadawi, Ahmed
Frankenstein in Baghdad (2014) ****½ 

St. John Mandel, Emily
Station Eleven (2014) ****½
The Glass Hotel (2020) ***½

Sales, Ian
"Adrift on the Sea of Rains" [novella] (2012) ***½
"Then Will the Great Ocean Wash Deep Above" [novella] (2013) ****

Samatar, Sofia
A Stranger in Olondria (2014) ****

Sanderson, Brandon
The Hero of Ages (2008) *½
The Way of Kings (2016) **½  

Sandison, George (as editor)
2084: The Anthology (2017) ****

Sapkowski, Andrzej
The Last Wish [collection] (1993) **½
The Blood of Elves (1994) ***
The Time of Contempt (1995) ***
The Lady of the Lake (1999) ***  

Sawyer, Robert J.
Hominids (2002) *½
"Identity Theft" [novella] (2005) **

Scalzi, John
Old Man's War (2006) **½
The Last Colony (2007) **½
"The God Engines" [novella] (2009) **½

Schenk, Hilbert
"The Battle for the Abaco Reefs" [novella] (1979) **½

Schmitz, James
A Tale of Two Clocks (aka Legacy) (1962) **

Schafer, William (as editor)
The Best of Subterranean (2017) ***½

Sedia, Ekaterina

Sharpson, Neil

Shaw, Bob
The Ragged Astronauts (1986) ***½

Shaw, Larry T. (as editor)
Great Science Fiction Adventures [anthology] (1963) **

Sheckley, Robert
Untouched by Human Hands [collection] (1954) ****
Immortality, Inc. (1959) **** 
Hunter/Victim series
    The Tenth Victim (1965) ***½
    Victim Prime (1987) ***
Dimension of Miracles (1968) ****½
Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? [collection] (1972) ****
Crompton Divided (1978) ***½
The Robot Who Looked Like Me [collection] (1978) ****

Shelley, Mary
Frankenstein (1818) *****

Shepard, Lucius
The Dragon Griaule [collection] (1984-2012) ****½
The Jaguar Hunter [collection]  (1987) ****
    ("R&R" [novella] (1983) ****)
    ("The Traveler's Tale" [novella] (1984) ***½)
"Shades" [novelette] (1987) ****
The Golden (1993) ***
    ("Barnacle Bill the Spacer" [novella] (1992) **½)
Eternity and Other Stories [collection] (2005) ****
"Stars Seen through Stone" [novella] (2007) ***½

Shiner, Lewis
Frontera (1984) ****
Slam (1990) **½  
Glimpses (1993) **** 
Heroes and Villains [collection] (2017) ***

Shippey, Tom (as editor)

Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Shute, Nevil
On the Beach (1957) ****

Silverberg, Robert
"Hawksbill Station" [novella] (1967) ****½
Downward to the Earth (1970) ****
Tower of Glass (1970) ***½
A Time of Changes (1971) ***½
Nightwings (1972) ****½
Dying Inside (1972) ***½
The Second Trip (1972) **
The Book of Skulls (1972) ****
"Born with the Dead" [novella] (1974) ***½
Majipoor series
    Lord Valentine's Castle (1980) ****
    Majipoor Chronicles [collection] (1982) ****
    Valentine Pontifex (1983) ***
"Sailing to Byzantium" [novella] (1985) ****

Simak, Clifford
City (1952) ***
Way Station (1963) ***½
Why Call Them Back from Heaven? (1967) **½ 
"The Thing in the Stone" [novella] (1970) ****
"Auk House" [novella] (1977) **

Simmons, Dan 
Song of Kali (1985) ****
Hyperion Cantos
    Hyperion (1989) ****
    The Fall of Hyperion (1990) ****
    Endymion (1996) ***½
    The Rise of Endymion (1997) ***½
Prayers to Broken Stones [collection] (1991) ***
Hollow Man (1992) **
Lovedeath [collection] (1993) ****
The Crook Factory (1999) ***½
Hardcase (2001) **½
Worlds Enough & Time [collection] (2002) ***
Ilium/Olympos duology
    Ilium (2003) ***
    Olympos (2005) **½
The Terror (2007) ****
Drood (2009) ****
Black Hills (2010) ***½
Flashback (2011) **½
The Fifth Heart (2015) ***½

Sladek, John
Tik-tok (1983) ****½

Slonczewski, Joan
A Door into Ocean (1986) ***½

Smith, Andrew
Grasshopper Jungle (2015) ***½  

Smith, Cordwainer
The Rediscovery of Man [collection] (1950-1966) *****

Smith, L. Neil
Taflak Lysandra (1988) *

Smith Spark, Anna
The Court of Broken Knives (2017) **

Smythe, James
The Explorer (2012) ****

Sola, Irene

Spinrad, Norman
The Iron Dream (1972) ****
"Riding the Torch" [novella] (1974) ****½
"Journals of the Plague Years" [novella] (1988) ****
The People's Police (2017) ***½ 

Stableford, Brian

Halcyon Drift (1972) **½
Man in a Cage (1975) *****
"Le Fleurs du Mal" [novella] (1994) ****
"Mortimer Gray's History of Death" [novella] (1995) ****½

Stapledon, Olaf
Odd John (1935) ****½
Star Maker (1937) ***** 
Sirius (1944) ****½

Staveley, Brian
The Emperor's Blades (2014) **½ 

Steele, Allen
"The Death of Captain Future" [novella] (1996) ***½
Coyote series
    Coyote (2002) ***
    Coyote Rising (2004) ***½
    Coyote Frontier (2005) ***
    Spindrift (2007) ***
    Galaxy Blues (2009) **½
    Coyote Horizon & Coyote Destiny (2009 & 2010) ***½
    Hex (2011) **

Steinbeck, John
In Dubious Battle (1936) ****

Stephenson, Neal 
Snow Crash (1992) ***
The Diamond Age (1996) ***
Cryptonomicon (1999) ****½
Baroque Cycle
    Quicksilver (2003) ****
    The Confusion (2004) ****
    The System of the World (2004) ****
Anathem (2008) ****½
Reamde (2011) **½
Seveneves (2015) ***
Termination Shock (2021) ****

Sterling, Bruce
Involution Ocean (1977) **½
The Artificial Kid (1980) ***½ 
Schismatrix (1985) ****
Islands in the Net (1988) ****
Crystal Express [collection] (1989) ***
The Difference Engine (with William Gibson) (1990) ****
Heavy Weather (1994) ***½
Holy Fire (1996) ****½
Distraction (1998) ***** 
A Good Old-fashioned Future [collection] (1999) ***½
"Kiosk" [novelette] (2007) ***½ 
The Caryatids (2009) ****
Pirate Utopia (2016) ****½
Robot Artists & Black Swans [collection] (2021) **** 

As editor:
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology [anthology] (1986) **** 

Stevenson, Robert Louis
Kidnapped (1886) ***½

Stewart, Andrew Kelly

Stewart, George
Earth Abides (1949) **½

Stewart, Sean
Passion Play (1992) ****
Nobody's Son (1994) ***½
Resurrection Man (1995) ****

Stoker, Bram
Dracula (1897) ***½

Strahan, Jonathan (as editor)
Eclipse series
    Eclipse One [anthology] (2007) ***½ 
    Eclipse Two [anthology] (2008) ***
    Eclipse Three [anthology] (2009) ***
    Eclipse Four [anthology] (2011) ***
The Starry Rift (2008) ***
Godlike Machines [anthology] (2010) ***
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year series
Infinity series
    Engineering Infinity [anthology] (2010) ***½
    Edge of Infinity [anthology] (2012) ***
    Reach for Infinity [anthology] (2014) ***½
    Meeting Infinity [anthology] (2015) ***½
    Bridging Infinity [anthology] (2016) ***
    Infinity's End [anthology] (2018) **½
Drowned Worlds [anthology] (2016) **½
Made to Order: Robots & Revolution [anthology] (2020) ***
Communications Breakdown [anthology] (2023) **½

Stross, Charles
Toast [collection] (2002) ***
"The Concrete Jungle" [novella] (2004) *½ 
Accelerando (2005) ***½
Glasshouse (2006) ***
Halting State (2007) ***
Wireless [collection] (2009) ***½
    ("Missile Gap" [novella] (2005) **½) 
    ("Palimpsest" [novella] (2009) ****½)

Strugatsky, Arkady & Boris
Roadside Picnic (1971) *****

Sturgeon, Theodore

The Dreaming Jewels (1950) ****
More Than Human (1953) ***½
The Cosmic Rape (aka The Marry Medusa) (1958) ****½
A Touch of Strange [collection] (1958) ****
Venus Plus X (1960) *****
Some of Your Blood (1961) ****
Starshine [collection] (1966) **

Sullivan, Michael J.

Suzuki, Izumi
Terminal Boredom: Stories [collection] *****

Swallow, James
Fear to Tread (2012) ***

Swan, Erin

Swanwick, Michael

Vacuum Flowers (1987) ***
"Griffin's Egg" [novella] (1991) ***
Stations of the Tide (1991) ****
Babel series
     The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993) ****½
     The Dragons of Babel (2008) ****½
          ("Lord Weary's Empire" [novella] (2006) ****)
     The Iron Dragon's Mother (2019) ****½
Jack Faust (1997) ****
Tales of Old Earth [collection) (2000) ***½
Not So Much, Said the Cat [collection] (2016) ***½  

Swirsky, Rachel

T

Tartt, Donna
The Goldfinch (2013) ***½

Theroux, Marcel
Far North (2009) ***
Strange Bodies (2013) ****
½

Theroux, Paul
The Mosquito Coast (1981) *****
Kowloon Tong (1997) ****

Thompson, Tade
Making Wolf (2015) **

Thorpe, Gav
Angels of Caliban (2016) ***

Tidbeck, Karin
Jagannath (2012) ***½
Amatka (2017) **
 
Tidhar, Lavie
"Gorel and the Pot-Bellied God" [novella] (2011) **½
Osama (2012) ****½
A Man Lies Dreaming (2014) ***
Central Station (2016) ***

Tiptree Jr., James 
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever [collection] (1990) ****
    ("The Girl Who Was Plugged In" [novella] (1973) ****½)
    ("Houston, Houston, Do You Read" [novella] (1976) ****½)
"The Only Neat Thing to Do" [novella] (1985) ***½
 
Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Hobbit (1937) ****½
The Silmarillion (1977) *****
Unfinished Tales [collection] (1980) ***½

Tucker, Wilson
Time:X [collection] (1954) ***½
The Year of the Quiet Sun (1970) **½ 

U

Underwood, Michael R.
"Genrenauts: The Shootout Solution" [novella] (2015) **½

Unknown
Valente, Catherynne M.
"Silently and Very Fast" [novella] (2012) ****½
Six-Gun Snow White [novella] (2013) ****½
Radiance (2015) ****½
The Refrigerator Monologues [collection] (2017) ****½
Space Opera (2018) **** 
The Future Is Blue [collection] (2018) ****
The Past Is Red (2021) **½ 

van Gelder, Gordon (as editor)
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 2 [anthology] (2014) ****

van Vogt, A. E.
The Best of A.E. van Vogt [collection] (1940-1968) **½
The World of Null-A (1948) ***½
 
Vance, Jack
The World-Thinker and Other Stories [collection] (1945-1966) **½
The Golden Girl and Other Stories [collection] (1945-1972) **½
The Potter of Firsk and Other Stories [collection] (1946-1962) **
Son of the Tree and Other Stories [collection] (1946-1967) **½
    "Son of the Tree" [novella] (1950) **
Tales of the Dying Earth (1950-1984) ****½
    The Dying Earth [collection] (1950) ***½
    The Eyes of the Overworld (1966) ****½
    Cugel's Saga (1983) *****
    Rhialto the Marvellous (1984) ****½
The Moon Moth and Other Stories [collection] (1951-1973) ***
The Houses of Iszm and Other Stories [collection] (1954-1967) **½
     ("The Houses of Iszm" [novella] (1953) **)
Big Planet (1957) ***
"The Miracle Workers" [novella] (1957) ***
"The Dragon Masters" [novella] (1963) ***½
The Demon Princes [series] (1964-1981) ***½
    The Star King (1964) ***
    The Killing Machine (1964) **
    The Palace of Love (1967) **½
    The Face (1979) ***
    The Book of Dreams (1981) ***½
Space Opera (1965) ***½
The Blue World (1966) ****
"The Last Castle" [novella] (1966) ****
Planet of Adventure [series review] (1968-1970) ****
Emphyrio (1968) ***½ 
Galactic Effectuator (1973-1974) **½
Durdane Chronicles [series review] (1973-1975) ***½
Alastor [trilogy review) (1973-1981) ***½
Maske: Thaery (1976) ***½
Lyonesse [trilogy review] (1983-1989) ***½
The Cadwal Chronicles [trilogy review] (1987-1992) ***½
Night Lamp (1996) ***½
Ports of Call & Lurulu [duology review] (1998 & 2004) ***½

VanderMeer, Jeff
Veniss Underground (2003) ****
Ambergris series
    City of Saints and Madmen (2004) *****
    Shriek: An Afterword (2006) *****
    Finch (2009) ****
Wonderbook [Non-fiction] (2013)
Area X: Southern Reach trilogy
    Annihilation (2014) *****
    Authority (2014) ***** 
    Acceptance (2014) ****½ 
Borne (2017) ***

As editor with Ann VanderMeer:
Steampunk [anthology] (2008) ****

Varley, John

The Ophiuchi Hotline (1977) ***½
Millennium (1982) ***
"Blue Champagne" [novella] (1981) ***½
Steel Beach (1992) ***½
The John Varley Reader [collection] (2004) ***
    "The Persistence of Vision" [novella] (1978) ***½
    "Press Enter_" [novella] (1984) ***½

Verne, Jules

Villoso, K.S.
The Wolf of Oren-Yaro (2017) **  

Vinge, Joan D.
"Fireship" [novella] (1979) ***
The Snow Queen (1980) **½

Vinge, Vernor
"Fast Times at Fairmont High" [novella] (2001) **
"The Cookie Monster" [novella] (2003) *

Vonnegut, Kurt 
The Sirens of Titan (1959) *****
Cat's Cradle (1963) ****½ 
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) ****

W
Wallace, Kali
Dead Space (2021) ***½

Wang, Regina Kanyu (as editor)

Warren, Rosalie
Lena's Nest (2015) **

Warhammer universe
Space Marine by Ian Watson (1993) ***
Horus Heresy
    Horus Rising by Dan Abnett (2006) ****
    False Gods by Graham McNeill (2006) ***½
    Galaxy in Flames by Ben Counter (2006) ***½
    The Flight of the Eisenstein by James Swallow (2007) ***
    Fulgrim by Graham McNeill (2007) ***½
    A Thousand Sons by Graham McNeill (2010) ****
    The First Heretic by Aaron Dembski-Bowden (2010) ***½
    Prospero Burns by Dan Abnett (2011) ***½
    Age of Darkness ed. by Christian Dunn [anthology] (2011) ***
    Know No Fear by Dan Abnett (2012) ***½
    Angel Exterminatus by Graham McNeill (2012) ***½
    The Primarchs ed. by Christian Dunn [anthology] (2012) **
    Fear to Tread by James Swallow (2012) ***
    Mark of Calth ed. by Laurie Goulding [anthology] (2013) ***
    Betrayer by Aaron Dembski-Bowden (2013) ***½
    Vulkan Lives by Nick Kyme (2013) ***
    The Unremembered Empire by Dan Abnett (2013) ***½
    Vengeful Spirit by Graham McNeill (2014) ***
    Deathfire by Nick Kyme (2015) ***½
    Pharos by Guy Haley (2015) ***
    Angels of Caliban by Gav Thorpe (2016) ***
    The Master of Mankind by Aaron Dembski_Bowden (2016) ***
Talon of Horus by Aaron Dembski-Bowden (2014) ***

Watson, Ian
The Embedding (1973) ****½
The Jonah Kit (1975) ***½
Miracle Visitors (1978) ****
Space Marine [Warhammer] (1993) ***

Watts, Peter
Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes [collection] (2001) ***½
Blindsight series
    Blindsight (2006) ****
    Echopraxia (2014) *** 
Beyond the Rift [collection] (2013) **** 
The Freeze-Frame Revolution (2018) ***½

Weisman, Jacob (as editor)
Invaders: 22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature [collection] (2016) ****

Wells, H. G.
The Time Machine (1895) ****
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896) ****½
The Invisible Man (1897) ****

Wendig, Chuck
"Interlude: Swallow" [novella] (2015) **

Whates, Ian
Pelquin's Comet (2015) **½

As editor:
Solaris Rising series
    Solaris Rising [anthology] (2011) ***
    Solaris Rising 1.5 [anthology] (2012) **
    Solaris Rising 2 [anthology] (2013) *** 
    Solaris Rising 3 [anthology] (2014) ***
Paradox: Stories Inspired by the Fermi Paradox [anthology] (2014) ***½
Total Conflict [anthology] (2015) ***

Edited with Tom Hunter:
2001: An Odyssey in Words [anthology] (2018) ****

Whitehead, Colson
The Underground Railroad (2016) **½ 

Whiteley, Aliya
The Beauty (2014) ****
The Arrival of Missives (2016) *** 

Wilde, Oscar

Wilhelm, Kate
"The Gorgon Field" [novella] (1985) **

Williams, Katie
Tell the Machine Goodnight (2018) ****½

Williams, Sean
Saturn Returns (2007) ***
"Cenotaxis" [novella] (2007) ***½

Williams, Walter Jon
Hardwired (1986) ***½
"Surfacing" [novella] (1988) ****
The Praxis (1990) **½

Williamson, Neil
Secret Language [collection] (2016) ***½
Queen of the Clouds (2022) ***½

Willis, Connie
Doomsday Book (1992) **½
"The Winds of Marble Arch" [novella] (2000) **

Wilson, Kai Ashante
Sorcerer of the Wildeeps (2015) ****

Wilson, Robert Charles

Darwinia (1998) **
The Chronoliths (2001) ****
Spin (2005) ***
"The Cartesian Theater" [novelette] (2006) ****
Julian Comstock (2009) ***
The Affinities (2015) **** 
Last Year (2016) **½

Wolfe, Gene
"The Death of Doctor Island" [novella] (1973) ****½
Solar Cycle
    The Book of the New Sun  [series review] (1981-1984) ****½
    The Urth of the New Sun (1987) ***½
    The Book of the Long Sun [series review] (1993-1996) ****½
    The Book of the Short Sun [series review] (1999-2001) ****½
Soldier/Latro series
    Soldier of the Mist (1986) *****
    Soldier of Arete (1989) ****½
    Soldier of Sidon (2006) ****½
The Wizard Knight (2004) *****
Pirate Freedom (2007) ****

Wooding, Chris
Retribution Falls (2010) **½
The Ember Blade (2018) ***

Worrell, Dwain
Androne (2022) **½  

Wu, Cheng'en
Journey to the West (1550) *****

Wyndham, John

Wyss, Johann David

X
Y
Yuknavitch, Lidia
The Book of Joan (2017) ****
 
Z
Zahn, Timothy
"Cascade Point" [novella] (1983) ***
The Thrawn Trilogy [series review] (1991-1993) ***
Hand of Thrawn [duology review] (1997-1998) **½
Thrawn (2017) **½ 

Zamyatin, Yevgeni
We (1921) ****½

Zebrowski, George

Brute Orbits (1998) ***½ 
In the Distance, and Ahead in Time [collection] (2002) ***½ 

Zelazny, Roger
This Immortal (1966) ***½
"He Who Shapes" [novella] (1966) ****
Lord of Light (1967) ****
Damnation Alley (1969) ***
Jack of Shadows (1971) ***  
To Die in Italbar (1973) **½
"Home Is the Hangman" [novella] (1975) ****
Eye of Cat (1982) ****
Frost & Fire [collection] (1989) ***



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