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. My reviews in Dutch are here.
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
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
- Foundation trilogy (1951-’53)
- 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)
David B. Auerbach
- Meganets: How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities (2023)
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 Drowned World (1962)
- The Four-Dimensional Nightmare (1963)
- The Atrocity Exhibition (1970)
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)
Ned Beauman
- Venomous Lumpsucker (2022)
Adam Becker
Robert Jackson Bennett
- City of Stairs (2014)
Jean-Marie Henri Berckmans
- Geschiedenis van de Revolutie – Brief aan een meisje uit Hoboken (1977 / 1994)
- Vergeet niet wat de zevenslaper zei (1989)
- Rock & Roll met Frieda Vindevogel (1991)
- Café De Raaf nog steeds gesloten (1990)
- 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)
Louis Paul Boon
- De Voorstad Groeit (1943)
- Vergeten Straat (1946)
- Menuet (1955)
Thomas Boraud
Ray Bradbury
- Fahrenheit 451 (1954)
John Brunner
- Stand On Zanzibar (1968)
Allen Buchanan
- The Evolution of Moral Progress: A Biocultural Theory (2018) (with Russell Powell)
Octavia E. Butler
- Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995)
Chris Ceustermans
Ted Chiang
- Exhalation (2008)
- Stories Of Your Life And Others (2010)
Noam Chomsky
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)
D.G. Compton
- Farewell, Earth’s Bliss (1966)
Glen Cook
- The Black Company (1984)
- Shadows Linger (1984)
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)
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)
- Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974)
- Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (1975)
- A Scanner Darkly (1977)
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)
Greg Egan
- Quarantine (1992)
- Diaspora (1997)
- Schild’s Ladder (2002)
- Incandescence (2008)
- Zendegi (2010)
- Perihelion Summer (2019)
- Dispersion (2020)
Steven Erikson
- Gardens Of The Moon (1999)
- Deadhouse Gates (2000)
Andreas Eschbach
- The Hair-Carpet Weavers (1995) (also published as The Carpet Makers)
Jeffrey Ford
- The Physiognomy (1997)
Neil Gaiman
- American Gods (2001)
Nicole Galland
- The Rise And Fall Of D.O.D.O. (2017) (with Neal Stephenson)
Martin Gayford
- Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy (2021) (with David Hockney)
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)
Simona Ginsburg
- The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul: Learning and the Origins of Consciousness (2019) (with Eva Jablonka)
Michael Govan & Christine Y. Kim
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)
- Empty Space: A Haunting (2012)
- You Should Come With Me Now (2017)
- The Sunken Land Begins To Rise Again (2020)
Marlen Haushofer
- The Wall (1963, transl. 1990)
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)
- Heretics Of Dune (1984)
- Chapterhouse: Dune (1985)
Werner Herzog
Cecelia Holland
- Dragon Heart (2015)
Hans Werner Holzwarth
- Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Art of Storytelling (2020)
- David Hockney. A Chronology. (2020) (with Lutz Eitel)
Leen Huet
- Pieter Bruegel: De Biografie (2016)
Dave Hutchinson
- Europe in Autumn (2014)
- Europe at Midnight (2015)
- Europe in Winter (2016)
- Acadie (2017)
Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Buried Giant (2015)
Emmi Itäranta
- Memory Of Water (2012, transl. 2014)
Eva Jablonka
- The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul: Learning and the Origins of Consciousness (2019) (with Simona Gingsburg)
Shirley Jackson
- The Haunting of Hill House (1959)
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)
Nora K. Jemisin
- The Fifth Season (2015)
Alejandro Jodorowsky
- The Incal (1981-1988) (with Mœbius)
Anna Kavan
- Ice (1967)
Guy Gavriel Kay
- The Summer Tree (1984)
- The Wandering Fire (1986)
- The Darkest Road (1986)
- The Lions of Al-Rassan (1995)
Lásló Krasznahorkai
- A Mountain to the North, A Lake to the South, Paths to the West, A River to the East (2003, translated 2022)
David F. Lancy
Susanne Lange
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)
- Fiasco (1986)
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
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)
Cormac McCarthy
Ian McDonald
- River Of Gods (2004)
- Brasyl (2007)
- Luna: New Moon (2015)
- Luna: Wolf Moon (2017)
Richard McGuire
- Here (2014)
Patricia Anne McKillip
- The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974)
Mike Meginnis
- Drowning Practice (2022)
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)
Ottessa Moshfegh
- Lapvona (2022)
Museum Frieder Burda
Vladimir Nabokov
- Pale Fire (1962)
Linda Nagata
- Pacific Storm (2020)
Sylvain Neuvel
- Sleeping Giants (2016)
Larry Niven
- Ringworld (1970)
Naomi Novik
- Uprooted (2015)
Nnedi Okorafor
- The Book Of Phoenix (2015)
Brian Olewnick
George Orwell
- Nineteen Eighty-four (1949)
Ada Palmer
- Too Like the Lightning (2016)
- Seven Surrenders (2017)
- The Will to Battle (2017)
- Perhaps the Stars (2021)
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)
Russell Powell (as of 2021 known as Rachell Powell)
- The Evolution of Moral Progress: A Biocultural Theory (2018) (with Allen Buchanan)
- Contingency And Convergence : Toward A Cosmic Biology Of Body And Mind (2020) (The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology)
Richard Powers
- Bewilderment (2021)
Christopher Priest
- The Inverted World (1974)
- An Infinite Summer (1979)
R. Eric Reuss
- Spirit Island (2017)
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)
Adam Roberts
- The Thing Itself (2015) (scroll to the bottom of the Egan review)
Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Wild Shore (1984)
- Icehenge (1984)
- The Memory Of Whiteness (1985)
- The Gold Coast (1988)
- A Short, Sharp Shock (1990)
- Pacific Edge (1990)
- The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)
- 2312 (2012)
- Shaman (2013)
- Aurora (2015)
- Green Earth (2015) (the revised Science In The Capital trilogy (2004, 2005, 2007))
- New York 2140 (2017)
- The Ministry For The Future (2020)
- The High Sierra: A Love Story (2022)
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)
Jeff L. Rosenheim
- Bernd and Hilla Becher (2022)
Patrick Rothfuss
Joanna Russ
- We Who Are About To… (1975)
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)
Varlam Shalamov
- Kolyma Stories (1954-1965, translated 2018)
Robert Silverberg
- Hawksbill Station (1968)
- The Man In The Maze (1969)
- Dying Inside (1972)
Clifford D. Simak
- Way Station (1963)
Dan Simmons
- The Fall Of Hyperion (1990)
Jan Six
Vladimir Sorokin
- Telluria (2013, translated 2022)
Jan Spitzer
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)
- Termination Shock (2021)
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
- Roadside Picnic (1972)
Theodore Sturgeon
- More Than Human (1953)
Izumi Suzuki
- Terminal Boredom (2021)
Larry W. Swanson (ed.)
Magda Szabó
- The Door (1987)
Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Children of Time (2015)
Walter Tevis
- The Man Who Fell to Earth (1963)
Lavie Tidhar
- Central Station (2016)
Felix Timmermans
- Boerenpsalm (1935)
Olga Tokarczuk
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
- The Lord Of The Rings (1955)
Michael Tomasello
- Becoming Human: A Theory Of Ontogeny (2019)
- The Evolution of Agency: Behavioral Organization from Lizards to Humans (2022)
Dennis Tyfus
- Nico Dockx Talks With Dennis Tyfus – I Know This Sounds Quite Ridiculous, But I Just Follow The Line (2018) (with Nico Dockx)
Jeff VanderMeer
- Annihilation (2014)
Pierre L. Van den Berghe
- The Ethnic Phenomenon (1981)
Roger van de Velde
- De knetterende schedels (1969)
- Recht op Antwoord (1969)
Ernst van de Wetering
Brian K. Vaughan
- Saga: Book One (2014) (with Fiona Staples)
Denis Villeneuve
- Dune: Part One (2021) (movie review)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- The Sirens Of Titan (1959)
- Cat’s Cradle (1963)
- Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
- Breakfast Of Champions (1973)
- Armageddon In Retrospect (2008)
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)
Don Winslow
- The Power of the Dog (2005)
Gene Wolfe
- The Fifth Head Of Cerberus (1972)
- The Book Of The New Sun (1980-1983)
- 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)
Roger Zelazny
- This Immortal (1966) (also published as …And Call Me Conrad)
- Lord Of Light (1967)
- The Second Chronicles Of Amber (1985-91)