• Spacebloom (-), ed. Awk Ro
• The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases (B+), eds. Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts
  
  
• ACKROYD, Peter: The Plato Papers (A-)
• ADAMS, Colin: Zombies and Calculus (B)
• AIRA, César: Game of the Worlds (B)
• AJVAZ, Michal:
  • The Golden Age (A-)
  • The Other City (B-)
• AL-ESSA, Bothayna: The Book Censor's Library (B)
• ANDRI Snær Magnason: LoveStar (B)
• ARAMAKI Yukio: The Sacred Era (B)
• ARBES, Jakub: Newton's Brain (B+)
• ASAMATSU Ken: Kthulhu Reich (B)
• AYCKBOURN, Alan:
  • Comic Potential (A-)
  • Communicating Doors (A-)
  • Henceforward ... (A-)
• AYLETT, Steve:
  • Only an Alligator (B)
  • Shamanspace (B)
  • Slaughtermatic (B)
  • The Velocity Gospel (B)
• BACHELDER, Chris: U.S. ! (B)
• [BACIGALUPI, Paolo: The Windup Girl]
• BAE Myung-hoon:
  • Launch Something ! (B)
  • Tower (B)
• BALLARD, J.G.: Crash (C+)
• BARJAVEL, René: The Immortals (B)
• BARRY, Max: Providence (B)
• BASU, Samit: Turbulence (B+)
• BEARD, Steve: Digital Leatherette (B)
• BEAUMAN, Ned: Venomous Lumpsucker (B)
• BECKETT, Bernard: Genesis (B)
• BEUKES, Lauren: Zoo City (B+)
• BODELSEN, Anders: Freezing Down (A-)
• BOULLE, Pierre:
  • Desperate Games (C-)
  • Planet of the Apes (B+)
  • Trouble in Paradise (C)
• BOULLOSA, Carmen: Heavens on Earth (B)
• BROOKE-ROSE, Christine:
  • Textermination (B+)
  • Xorandor (B+)
• BRUSSOLO, Serge: The Deep Sea Diver's Syndrome (A-)
• BURDEKIN, Katharine: Swastika Night (A-) (writing as: Murray Constantine)
• BUZZATI, Dino: The Singularity (B+)
• CABIYA, Pedro: Wicked Weeds (B)
• ČAPEK, Karel: The Absolute at Large (B)
• CARROLL, Jonathan:
  • Glass Soup (B-)
  • The Marriage of Sticks (B+)
  • Mr. Breakfast (B+)
  • White Apples (B)
  • The Wooden Sea (C)
• CARTER, Angela: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (A)
• CASTAGNET, Martin Felipe: Bodies of Summer (B)
• CHANG Hsi-Kuo :
  • The City Trilogy (B)
    • I. Five Jade Disks (B)
    • II. Defenders of the Dragon City (B-)
    • III. Tale of a Feather (B-)
• CHI Ta-wei: The Membranes (A)
• CHOI Jin-young: To the Warm Horizon (B+)
• CLARKE, Susanna:
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (A-)
  • Piranesi (A-)
• COMPTON, D.G.:
  • The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe (also: The Unsleeping Eye) (A-)
  • The Steel Crocodile (UK title: The Electric Crocodile) (B)
• CONSTANTINE, Murray: Swastika Night (A-)
• COOVADIA, Imraan: A Spy in Time (B)
• CRICHTON, Michael: Prey (B-)
• DANTEC, Maurice G.:
  • [Babylon Babies (also: Babylon A.D.)]
  • [Cosmos Incorporated]
• DICK, Kay: They (A-)
• EDELBAUER, Raphaela: DAVE (B)
• EFFINGER, George Alec: What Entropy Means to Me (B+)
• EGAN, Greg: Distress (B)
• ERICKSON, Steve:
  • See the complete review's Steve Erickson page
  • Amnesiascope (B)
  • Rubicon Beach (B+)
  • The Sea came in at Midnight (B-)
  • Tours of the Black Clock (B+)
• FAHY, Warren: Pandemonium (B)
• FFORDE, Jasper:
  • The Big Over Easy (B+)
  • The Constant Rabbit (B)
  • Early Riser (B)
  • The Eyre Affair (B+)
  • The Fourth Bear (B+)
  • First Among Sequels (B+)
  • Lost in a Good Book (B+)
  • One of Our Thursdays is Missing (B)
  • Red Side Story (B+)
  • Something Rotten (B+)
  • The Well of Lost Plots (B+)
  • The Woman who Died a Lot (B+)
• FUJII Taiyo:
  • Gene Mapper (B)
  • Orbital Cloud (B)
• FUJISAKI Shingo: Crystal Silence (B)
• GAFLA, Ofir Touché: The World of the End (B+)
• GARY, Romain: The Gasp (B-)
• GHOSH, Amitav: The Calcutta Chromosome (B)
• GRABIŃSKI, Stefan: The Dark Domain (B+)
• GRAY, Alasdair:
  • A History Maker (A-)
  • Poor Things (A)
• GROSSMAN, Lev:
  • The Bright Sword (B-)
  • The Magician King (B)
  • The Magicians (B-)
• HAN Song: Hospital (B+)
• HARKNESS, Deborah: A Discovery of Witches (B-)
• HARNESS, Charles L.: The Rose (B)
• HARRISON, M. John:
  • Light (A-)
  • Signs of Life (B+)
• HARSTAD, Johan: 172 Hours on the Moon (C)
• HAYASHI Jyouji: The Ouroboros Wave (B)
• HIGASHINO Keigo: Naoko (B)
• HODDER, Mark:
  • The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man (B-)
  • The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (B)
• HOLBERG, Ludvig: The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground (B+)
• HOLM, Sven: Termush (B+)
• HOSHINO Tomoyuki: ME (B)
• HOUELLEBECQ, Michel:
  • The Elementary Particles, (A-) (UK title: Atomised)
  • The Possibility of an Island (B)
• HUANG Fan: Zero and Other Fictions (B)
• HUGHES, Rian: XX (B+)
• IDLE, Eric: The Road to Mars (C)
• INDIANA, Rita: Tentacle (B)
• INUI Rokuro: Automatic Eve (B)
• ISHIGURO, Kazuo:
  • Klara and the Sun (B+)
  • Never Let Me Go (A-)
• ITOH, Project: Harmony (B)
• JENSEN, Liz: The Rapture (B)
• JERSILD, P.C.: A Living Soul (B)
• JESCHKE, Wolfgang: The Cusanus Game (B)
• JODOROWSKY, Alejandro: Albina and the Dog-Men (A-)
• KAVAN, Anna: Ice (A-)
• KAWAKAMI Hiromi: Under the Eye of the Big Bird (B+)
• KAWAMATA Chiaki: Death Sentences (B+)
• KERR, Philip: The Second Angel (B-)
• KHALED TOWFIK, Ahmed: Utopia (B)
• KILPI, Volter: Gulliver's Voyage to Phantomimia (B+)
• KITANO Yusaku: Mr. Turtle (B)
• KNAPP, Radek: Reise nach Kalino (B)
• LE ROUGE, Gustave:
  • The Prisoner of the Planet Mars (B)
  • The War of the Vampires (B)
• LESSING, Doris: Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (A-)
• LE TELLIER, Hervé: The Anomaly (B+)
• LINDSTEDT, Laura: Oneiron (B)
• LIU Cixin: The Three-Body Problem (B)
• MACDONALD, Hector: The Mind Game (B-)
• MACLEOD, Ken:
  • The Corporation Wars:
    1. Dissidence (B+)
    2. Insurgence (B)
    3. Emergence (B)
  • The Execution Channel (B+)
  • The Night Sessions (B)
  • The Restoration Game (B+)
• MALZBERG, Barry N.:
  • The Destruction of the Temple (B)
  • Gather in the Hall of the Planets (B) (writing as: K. M. O'Donnell)
  • The Remaking of Sigmund Freud (B+)
• MARGWELASCHWILI, Giwi: Officer Pembry (B+)
• MARTINSON, Harry: Aniara (B)
• MATHEWS, Adrian: Vienna Blood (B)
• McEWAN, Ian: Machines Like Me (B)
• McKINNEY, Chris: Midnight, Water City (B)
• MENDOZA, Eduardo: No Word From Gurb (B)
• MIÉVILLE, China:
  • King Rat (B+)
  • The Last Days of New Paris (B)
  • Perdido Street Station (B+)
  • The Scar (B+)
• MIŁOSZ, Czesław: The Mountains of Parnassus (B)
• MITSUSE Ryu: Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights (B+)
• MONTERO, Rosa: Tears in Rain (B-)
• MOORCOCK Michael:
  • The Cornelius Quartet (The Cornelius Chronicles) (B+):
    • The Condition of Muzak (B+)
    • A Cure for Cancer (B)
    • The English Assassin (B)
    • The Final Programme (The Final Program) (B)
  • A Nomad of the Time Streams (B)
    • The Warlord of the Air (B+)
    • The Land Leviathan (B)
    • The Steel Tsar (B)
• MORSELLI, Guido: Dissipatio H.G. (A-)
• MUSGRAVE, David: Lambda (B+)
• NAAM, Ramez: Nexus (B-)
• NOON, Jeff:
  • Falling Out of Cars (C+)
  • Nymphomation (B)
  • Pixel Juice (B+)
• O'DONNELL, K. M.: Gather in the Hall of the Planets (B)
• ŌE Kenzaburō: 治療塔 (B)
• OGAWA Yoko: The Memory Police (A-)
• ŌHARA Mariko: Hybrid Child (B)
• PALMA, Félix J.: The Map of Time (B-)
• PAPADIMITRIOU, Christos H.: Turing (B)
• PEARS, Iain: Arcadia (A)
• POND, Hattie: On Wandsworth Bridge (A-)
• PORTA, Antonio: The King of the Storeroom (B+)
• PORTER, Chana: The Seep (B)
• POTTER, Dennis: Cold Lazarus (B)
• PULLMAN, Philip:
  • The Book of Dust - trilogy:
    • I. La Belle Sauvage (B)
  • His Dark Materials (B+)
    • I. Northern Lights (US title: The Golden Compass) (B+)
    • II. The Subtle Knife (B)
    • III. The Amber Spyglass (B+)
• RABINOVICI, Doron: Die Außerirdischen (B)
• RAJANIEMI, Hannu: The Quantum Thief (B)
• RAVN, Olga: The Employees (B)
• REIG, Rafael: Blood on the Saddle (B)
• REYMONT, Władysław: The Revolt of the Animals (B)
• RIFBJERG, Klaus: Witness to the Future (B-)
• ROBERTS, Adam: Jack Glass (B)
• ROBINSON, Kim Stanley:
  • Aurora (A-)
  • Blue Mars (B+)
  • Fifty Degrees Below (B)
  • Forty Signs of Rain (B)
  • Green Mars (B)
  • Red Mars (B+)
  • Sixty Days and Counting (B)
  • 2312 (B+)
• ROJAS, Agustín de:
  • A Legend of the Future (B)
  • The Year 200 (B+)
• ROTH, Philip: The Plot Against America (A)
• RUFF, Matt: 88 Names (B)
• RUGE, Eugen: Follower (B)
• RUSS, Joanna: We Who Are About To ... (A-)
• SAKURAZAKA Hiroshi: All You Need is Kill (B+)
• SCHUYLER, George S.: Black Empire (B)
• SENA Hideaki: Parasite Eve (B)
• ŞENYÜREK, Levent: The Book of Madness (B-)
• SHERRIFF, R.C.: The Hopkins Manuscript (B)
• SHIMADA Soji: One Love Chigusa (B)
• SHIRAISHI Kazufumi: Stand-in Companion (B)
• SHRIVER, Lionel: The Mandibles (B)
• SINISALO, Johanna:
  • The Core of the Sun (B)
  • Not Before Sundown (US title: Troll) (B+)
  • Renaten tarina (C)
• SLADEK, John: The Reproductive System (B)
• SOMOZA, José Carlos: Zig Zag (C+)
• SOROKIN, Vladimir: Ice (B+)
• STEPHENSON, Neal:
  • Anathem (B)
  • The Diamond Age (B-)
  • Fall; or, Dodge in Hell (B)
  • The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (B) (with Nicole Galland)
  • Seveneves (B)
  • Snow Crash (B+)
  • Termination Shock (B+)
• STROSS, Charles:
  • Accelerando (B)
  • Singularity Sky (B)
• STRUGATSKY, Arkady and Boris:
  • The Dead Mountaineer's Inn (B+)
  • Definitely Maybe (B)
  • The Doomed City (A-)
  • Hard to be a God (B+)
  • Roadside Picnic (A-)
  • The Snail on the Slope (B+)
• SUAREZ, Daniel: Daemon (B)
• SUZUKI Koji:
  • Loop (B-)
  • Ring (B)
  • Spiral (B-)
• TANIGAWA Nagaru: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (B)
• TELLER, Astro: Exegesis (D)
• TERAYAMA Shūji: The Crimson Thread of Abandon (B)
• THOMAS, Scarlett: The End of Mr. Y (A-)
• TSUTSUI Yasutaka:
  • The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (B)
  • Hell (B)
  • Paprika (C)
  • Salmonella Men on Planet Porno (B)
• VERNE, Jules:
  • The Meteor Hunt (B)
  • The Self-Propelled Island (B)
• VIAN, Boris: To Hell with the Ugly (B-)
• VOLODINE, Antoine:
  • Minor Angels (B-)
  • Radiant Terminus (A)
• VOPĚNKA, Martin: The Fifth Dimension (B)
• WINTERSON, Jeanette:
  • The PowerBook (B+)
  • The Stone Gods (B+)
  • Tanglewreck (B)
• WOLFE, Gene: A Borrowed Man (B)
• WOOD, Jonathan: No Hero (B)
• WRAY, John: The Lost Time Accidents (B-)
• WU Jianren: New Story of the Stone (B)
• WU Ming-Yi: The Man with the Compound Eyes (B)
• YAMAMOTO Hiroshi: MM9 (B)
• YOSS:
  • Red Dust (B+)
  • Super Extra Grande (B+)
• YU, Charles: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (B+)
• ŽIVKOVIĆ, Zoran:
  • Compendium of the Dead (B)
  • The Fourth Circle (B+)
  • The Grand Manuscript (B)
  • Hidden Camera (B)
  • The Image Interpreter (B)
  • The Last Book (B+)
  • The Library (B+)
  • Steps Through the Mist (B+)
  • Time Gifts (B+)

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Books about Science Fiction under Review

• CARRÈRE, Emmanuel: I am Alive and You are Dead (B) -- Philip K. Dick biography
• CORDASCO, Rachel S.: Out of This World (--)
• DISCH, Thomas: The Stuff our Dreams are made of (B-), survey of American sci-fi literature
• LEM, Stanislaw: A Stanislaw Lem Reader (Ed.: Peter Swirski) (B-)
• MITCHELL, W.J.T.: The Last Dinosaur Book (C+)
• MURRAY, Janet H.: Hamlet on the Holodeck (B-)
• POLKINGHORNE, John: The God of Hope and the End of the World (--)
• SINCLAIR, Iain: Crash (B+) -- essay on the Ballard book and the Cronenberg film

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