Click here for an index of my non-fiction or art book reviews only, and here for an index of my longer fiction reviews of a more scholarly & philosophical nature.

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Joe Abercrombie

• The Blade Itself (2007)
• Before They Are Hanged (2008)

Daniel Abraham

• A Shadow In Summer (2006)
• A Betrayal In Winter (2007)
• An Autumn War (2008)
• The Price Of Spring (2009)
• The Dragon’s Path (2011)

David Adger

• Language Unlimited (2019)

Saladin Ahmed

• Throne Of The Crescent Moon (2012)

Brian W. Aldiss

• Non-Stop (1958)  (also published as Starship)

Poul Anderson

• Tau Zero (1970)

Isaac Asimov

• Caves Of Steel (1954)
• The End Of Eternity (1955)
• The Gods Themselves (1972)
• Prelude To Foundation (1988)
• Forward The Foundation (1993)

Margaret Atwood

• The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)

B

Paolo Bacigalupi

• The Windup Girl (2009)
• The Water Knife (2015)

R. Scott Bakker

• The Darkness That Comes Before (2003)
• The Warrior Prophet (2005)

J.G. Ballard

• The Four-Dimensional Nightmare (1963)

Josiah Bancroft

• Senlin Ascends (2013, 2017)

Iain M. Banks

• Inversions (1998)
• The Algebraist (2004)
• Transition (2009)
• Surface Detail (2011)

Stephen Baxter

• The Medusa Chronicles (2016)  (with Alastair Reynolds)

Elizabeth Bear

• Range Of Ghosts (2012)
• Shattered Pillars (2013)
• Steles Of The Sky (2014)

Greg Bear

• Eon (1985)

Bradley P. Beaulieu

• Twelve Kings In Sharakhai (2015)

Robert Jackson Bennett

• City of Stairs (2014)

Jean-Marie Henri Berckmans

• Geschiedenis van de Revolutie – Brief aan een meisje uit Hoboken (1977 / 1994)
• Taxi Naar De Boerhaavestraat (1995)
• Slecht nieuws voor Doctor Paf de Pierennaaier, Pandemonium in de Grauwzone (1998)

Alfred Bester

• The Demolished Man (1953)
• The Stars My Destination (1956)  (also published as Tiger! Tiger!)

Jonathan Bikker & Gregor J.M. Weber

• Rembrandt: The Late Works (2014)

Michael Bishop

• A Funeral For The Eyes Of Fire (1980)  (also published as Eyes Of Fire)

Ray Bradbury

• Fahrenheit 451 (1954)

John Brunner

• Stand On Zanzibar (1968)

Octavia E. Butler

• Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995)

C

Chris Ceustermans

• Schrijven in de Grauwzone: J.M.H. Berckmans, de biografie (2018)

Ted Chiang

• Exhalation (2008)
• Stories Of Your Life And Others (2010)

Noam Chomsky

• What Kind Of Creatures Are We? (2016)

Arthur C. Clarke

• Childhood’s End (1953)
• Rendezvous With Rama (1973)

Susanna Clarke

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (2004)
• The Ladies Of Grace Adieu And Other Stories (2006)
• Piranesi (2020)

C.S.E. Cooney

• The Bone Swans Of Amandale (2015)
• Bone Swans: stories (2015)
• Desdemona And The Deep (2019)

James S.A. Corey

• Leviathan Wakes (2011)

Blake Crouch

• Dark Matter (2016)
• Recursion (2019)

D

Kenneth L. Davis

• The Emotional Foundations Of Personality: A Neurobiological And Evolutionary Approach (2018) (with Jaak Panksepp)

Aliette de Bodard

• The House Of Shattered Wings (2015)

Samuel L. Delany

• Babel-17 (1966)

Don DeLillo

• White Noise (1985)
• Zero K (2016)

Philip K. Dick

• Ubik (1969)
• Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (1975)

Seth Dickinson

• The Traitor Baru Cormorant (2015)

Nico Dockx

• Nico Dockx Talks With Dennis Tyfus – I Know This Sounds Quite Ridiculous, But I Just Follow The Line (2018)  (with Dennis Tyfus)

E

Greg Egan

• Quarantine (1992)
• Schild’s Ladder (2002)

Steven Erikson

• Gardens Of The Moon (1999)
• Deadhouse Gates (2000)

Andreas Eschbach

• The Hair-Carpet Weavers (1995)  (also published as The Carpet Makers)

F

Jeffrey Ford

• The Physiognomy (1997)

G

Neil Gaiman

• American Gods (2001)

Nicole Galland

• The Rise And Fall Of D.O.D.O. (2017)  (with Neal Stephenson)

Lisa-Ann Gershwin

• Jellyfish: A Natural History (2016)

William Gibson

• Neuromancer (1984)
• Burning Chrome And Other Stories (1986)
• Virtual Light (1993)
• Pattern Recognition (2003)

Carolyn Ives Gilman

• Dark Orbit (2015)

Michael Govan & Christine Y. Kim

• James Turrell: A Retrospective (2013)

H

Joe Haldeman

• The Forever War (1974)

Peter F. Hamilton

• The Reality Dysfunction (1996)

Wayne G. Hammond

• The Lord Of The Rings: A Reader’s Companion (2005)  (with Christina Scull)

Helene Hanff

• 84, Charing Cross Road (1970)

M. John Harrison

• Light (2002)
• Nova Swing (2006)
• You Should Come With Me Now (2017)
• The Sunken Land Begins To Rise Again (2020)

Robert A. Heinlein

• Starship Troopers (1959)
• The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress (1966)

Ernest Hemingway

• The Old Man And The Sea (1952)

Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

• Hunters Of Dune (2006)
• Sandworms Of Dune (2007)

Frank Herbert

• Dune (1965)
• Destination: Void (1965)
• The Santaroga Barrier (1968)
• Dune Messiah (1969)
• Whipping Star (1970)
• Soul Catcher (1972)
• Children Of Dune (1976)
• The Dosadi Experiment (1977)
• God Emperor Of Dune (1981)

Werner Herzog

• Of Walking In Ice, Munich – Paris 11/23 to 12/14, 1974 (1978)

Cecelia Holland

• Dragon Heart (2015)

Hans Werner Holzwarth

• Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Art of Storytelling (2020)

Leen Huet

• Pieter Bruegel: De Biografie (2016)

Dave Hutchinson

• Europe In Autumn (2014)
• Europe At Midnight (2015)
• Acadie (2017)

I

Kazuo Ishiguro

• The Buried Giant (2015)

Emmi Itäranta

• Memory Of Water (2012, transl. 2014)

J

Nora K. Jemisin

• The Fifth Season (2015)

K

Anna Kavan

• Ice (1967)

Guy Gavriel Kay

• The Summer Tree (1984)
• The Wandering Fire (1986)
• The Darkest Road (1986)

L

David F. Lancy

• The Anthropology Of Childhood (2014)

Ann Leckie

• Ancillary Justice (2013)
• Ancillary Sword (2014)
• Ancillary Mercy (2015)
• Provenance (2017)

Yoon Ha Lee

• Ninefox Gambit (2016)
• Raven Stratagem (2017)

Ursula K. Le Guin

• A Wizard Of Earthsea (1968)
• The Left Hand Of Darkness (1969)
• The Tombs Of Atuan (1971)
• The Lathe Of Heaven (1971)
• The Farthest Shore (1973)
• The Dispossessed (1974)
• Tehanu (1990)

Stanisław Lem

• Solaris (1961)

Cixin Liu

• The Three-Body Problem (2007)
• The Dark Forest (2008)
• Death’s End (2010)
• The Wandering Earth (2013)

Ken Liu

• The Grace Of Kings (2015)
• The Paper Menagerie And Other Stories (2016)

Christopher Lloyd

• Picasso And The Art Of Drawing (2018)

M

Helen Macdonald

• H Is For Hawk (2014)

Hilary Mantel

• Wolf Hall (2009)
• Bring Up The Bodies (2012)

Volker Manuth

• Rembrandt. The Self-Portraits (2019)  (with Marieke de Winkel)

Barry N. Malzberg

• Beyond Apollo (1972)

Arkady Martine

• A Memory Called Empire (2019)

Ian McDonald

• River Of Gods (2004)
• Luna: New Moon (2015)
• Luna: Wolf Moon (2017)

Richard McGuire

• Here (2014)

Christof Metzger

• Albrecht Dürer (2019)

Rainer Metzger

• Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (1989) (edited by Ingo F. Walther)

Walter M. Miller Jr.

• A Canticle For Leibowitz (1959)

China Miéville

• The City & The City (2009)
• Embassytown (2011)

David Mitchell

• Black Swan Green (2006)
• The Bone Clocks (2014)

Naomi Mitchison

• Memoirs Of A Spacewoman (1962)

Richard K. Morgan

• Altered Carbon (2002)

Museum Frieder Burda

• James Turrell: Extraordinary Ideas – Realized (2018)

N

Vladimir Nabokov

• Pale Fire (1962)

Sylvain Neuvel

• Sleeping Giants (2016)

Larry Niven

• Ringworld (1970)

Naomi Novik

• Uprooted (2015)

O

Nnedi Okorafor

• The Book Of Phoenix (2015)

Brian Olewnick

• Keith Rowe: The Room Extended (2018)

P

Dexter Palmer

• Version Control (2016)
• Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen (2019)

Jaak Panksepp

• The Emotional Foundations Of Personality: A Neurobiological And Evolutionary Approach (2018) (with Kenneth L. Davis)

Frederik Pohl

• Gateway (1977)

Christopher Priest

• The Inverted World (1974)
• An Infinite Summer (1979)

R

Matthew Revert

• Human Trees (2017)

Alastair Reynolds

• Redemption Ark (2002)
• Absolution Gap (2003)
• Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (2003)
• Century Rain (2004)
• Pushing Ice (2005)
• House Of Suns (2008)
• Terminal World (2010)
• Slow Bullets (2015)
• The Medusa Chronicles (2016)  (with Stephen Baxter)

Kim Stanley Robinson

• The Wild Shore (1984)
• Icehenge (1984)
• The Memory Of Whiteness (1985)
• A Short, Sharp Shock (1990)
• 2312 (2012)
• Shaman (2013)
• Aurora (2015)
• Green Earth (2015)  (the revised Science In The Capital trilogy)
• New York 2140 (2017)
• The Ministry For The Future (2020)

Alex Rosenberg

• Darwinian Reductionism, Or, How To Stop Worrying And Love Molecular Biology (2006)
• How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories (2018)

Patrick Rothfuss

• The Slow Regard Of Silent Things (2014)

Joanna Russ

• We Are About To… (1975)

S

Brandon Sanderson

• The Way Of Kings (2010)
• Words Of Radiance (2014)

Carter Scholz

• Radiance (2002)
• Gypsy – Plus… (2015)

Christina Scull

• The Lord Of The Rings: A Reader’s Companion (2005)  (with Wayne G. Hammond)

Manfred Sellink

• Breugel In Detail (2014)

Robert Silverberg

• The Man In The Maze (1969)
• Dying Inside (1972)

Clifford D. Simak

• Way Station (1963)

Dan Simmons

• The Fall Of Hyperion (1990)

Jan Six

• Rembrandt’s Portrait Of A Young Gentleman (2018)

W. Olaf Stapledon

• Last And First Men: A Story Of The Near And Far Future (1930)
• Sirius (1944)

Neal Stephenson

• The Diamond Age (1995)
• Quicksilver (2003)
• Seveneves (2015)
• The Rise And Fall Of D.O.D.O. (2017)  (with Nicole Galland)
• Fall or, Dodge in Hell (2019)

Theodore Sturgeon

• More Than Human (1953)

Magda Szabó

• The Door (1987)

T

Lavie Tidhar

• Central Station (2016)

Olga Tokarczuk

• Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead (2009)

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

• The Lord Of The Rings (1955)

Michael Tomasello

• Becoming Human: A Theory Of Ontogeny (2019)

Dennis Tyfus

• Nico Dockx Talks With Dennis Tyfus – I Know This Sounds Quite Ridiculous, But I Just Follow The Line (2018)  (with Nico Dockx)

V

Jeff VanderMeer

• Annihilation (2014)

Pierre L. Van den Berghe

• The Ethnic Phenomenon (1981)

Ernst van de Wetering

• Rembrandt: The Painter Thinking (2016)

Brian K. Vaughan

• Saga: Book One (2014)  (with Fiona Staples)

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

• The Sirens Of Titan (1959)
• Cat’s Cradle (1963)
• Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
• Armageddon In Retrospect (2008)

W

Peter Watts

• Blindsight (2006)
• The Freeze-Frame Revolution (2018)

Andy Weir

• The Martian (2011)

H.G. Wells

• The Time Machine (1895)

Peter Williams

• Jellyfish (2020)

Gene Wolfe

• The Fifth Head Of Cerberus (1972)
• Nightside The Long Sun (1993)
• Lake Of The Long Sun (1994)
• Caldé Of The Long sun (1995)
• The Knight (2004)

John Wyndham

• The Day Of The Triffids (1951)

Z

Roger Zelazny

• Lord Of Light (1967)
• The Second Chronicles Of Amber (1985-91)