Reviews by Author

This index is separated into two parts: Reviews and Miniature Reviews. Reviews are mostly entire blog posts (some quite long) dedicated to a published work. There are a few longer multipart reviews with a separate link for each part. Miniature Reviews (bottom section) are much shorter.

There are also links to author-specific posts, which are lists of one-or-two sentence comments for a variety of books (not listed individually here).

Reviews

Aldiss, Brian (tribute list here)

• Neanderthal Planet (1970)

Allingham, Margery

• The Crime at Black Dudley (1929)
• Mystery Mile (1930)

Anderson, Poul

• “Inside Earth” (1951)
• Vault of the Ages (1952)
• Star Ways (1956)
• Virgin Planet (1959)
• Strangers from Earth (1961)
  • “Earthman, Beware,” “Quixote and the Windmill,” and “Gypsy”  (1950-1951)
  • “For the Duration” and “Duel on Syrtis” (1957, 1951)
  • “The Star Beast,” “The Disintegrating Sky,” and “Among Thieves” (1950-1957)
• After Doomsday (1962)
• Shield (1963)
• Ensign Flandry (1966)

Ardai, Charles

• Little Girl Lost (2004, as Richard Aleas)
• Songs of Innocence (2007, as Richard Aleas)

Bishop, Michael

• Eyes of Fire (1980)
• No Enemy But Time (1982)
• Blooded On Arachne (1982)
  • “Blooded on Arachne,” “Cathadonian Odyessy,” “Effigies” and “The House of the Compassionate Sharers” (1974-1978)
  • “Piñon Fall,” “Leaps of Faith,” “On the Street of the Serpents” and others (1970-1977)
  • “The White Otters of Childhood” (1973)
• Brittle Innings (1994): Part 1 Part 2

Bloch, Robert

• Spiderweb and Shooting Star (1954-1958)

Block, Lawrence

• Sinner Man (1960)
• A Diet of Treacle (1961)
• Killing Castro (1961)
• Borderline (1962)
• The Girl With the Long Green Heart (1965)
• After the First Death (1969)

Bova, Ben

• The Trikon Deception (1992, with Bill Pogue)

Boyd, John

• The Rakehells of Heaven (1969)

Bruen, Ken

• Bust (2006, with Jason Starr)
• Slide (2007, with Jason Starr)

Brunner, John

• I Speak for Earth (1961, as Keith Woodcott)
• Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
• The Sheep Look Up (1972)

Collins, Max Allan

• Two for the Money (1973)
• Quarry (1976)
• Quarry’s List (1976)
• Quarry’s Deal (1976)

Crichton, Michael

• Zero Cool (1969)

Dick, Philip K.

• The Penultimate Truth (1964)
• Now Wait For Last Year (1966)
• The Zap Gun (1967)
• Galactic Pot-Healer (1969)
• A Scanner Darkly (1977)

Dickson, Gordon

• Time Storm (1977)

Dodge, David

• Plunder of the Sun (1949)

Dos Passos, John

• U.S.A. (1930-1936)

Effinger, George Alec

• When Gravity Fails (1987)

Farmer, Philip José

• Dark is the Sun (1979)

Guthrie, Allan

• Kiss Her Goodbye (2005)

Heinlein, Robert A.

• Orphans of the Sky (1963)

Herbert, Frank

• The Dragon in the Sea (1956)
• Soul Catcher (1972)
• Children of Dune (1976)

Hogan, James P.

• Inherit the Stars (1977)

Kelly, James Patrick

• Freedom Beach (1985, with John Kessel)

Kipling, Rudyard

• “With the Night Mail” and “As Easy As A.B.C.” (1905, 1912)

Leiber, Fritz

• The Big Time (1958)
• A Pail of Air (1964)

Marshall, William

• The Hatchet Man (1976)
• Gelignite (1976)
• Thin Air (1977)
• Skulduggery (1979)
• Sci Fi (1981)
• War Machine (1982)
• Road Show (1985)
• Out of Nowhere (1988)
• Whisper (1988)

McBain, Ed

• So Nude, So Dead (1952)
• Cut Me In (1954)
• The Gutter and the Grave (1958)

Neville, Kris

• Bettyann (1970)

Parker, Robert Bogardus

• Passport to Peril (1951)

Rabe, Peter

• Stop This Man! (1955)

Roshwald, Mordecai

• Level 7 (1959)

Schow, David

• Gun Work (2008)

Shubin, Seymour

• Witness to Myself (2006)

Silverberg, Robert

• Gilgamesh the King (1984)
• Tom O’Bedlam (1985)
• Star of Gypsies (1986)

Simak, Clifford D.

• They Walked Like Men (1962)
• Out of Their Minds (1970)

Sleator, William (primer here)

Spillane, Mickey

• The Last Stand (2018)

Stapledon, Olaf

• Odd John (1935)
• Sirius (1944)

Styron, William

• The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967)

Thackeray, William

• The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844)

Vance, Jack

• The Augmented Agent and Other Stories (1986)
  • “Shape-Up,” “The Man From Zodiac,” and “Golden Girl” (1951-1967)
  • “The Planet Machine” and “Crusade to Maxus” (1951)
  • “Three-Legged Joe,” “Sjambak” and “The Augmented Agent” (1953-1961)
• Chateau d’If and Other Stories (1990)
  • “Abercrombie Station” and “Cholwell’s Chickens” (1952)
  • “Chateau d’If” (1950)
  • “Gift of Gab” and “Rumfuddle” (1955, 1973)

Vidal, Gore

• Thieves Fall Out (1953, as Cameron Kay)

Wells, H.G.

• “The Purple Pileus” (1896)
• The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904)

Westlake, Donald (including the Richard Stark books)

• The Seventh (1966)
• The Handle (1966)
• The Busy Body (1966)
• The Rare Coin Score (1967)
• God Save the Mark (1967)
• Anarchaos (1967, as Curt Clark)
• The Green Eagle Score (1967)
• The Black Ice Score (1968)
• The Sour Lemon Score (1969)
• The Getaway Car (2014)

Williams, Charles (US)

• A Touch of Death (1953)
• Man on the Run (1958)

Zelazny, Roger

• Lord of Light (1967)

Miniature Reviews

These link to posts where a listed book has a paragraph or so dedicated to it. If the author is of a special interest (e.g. Butler or Westlake), I may return to the title some day and write more about it.

Atwood, Russell

• Losers Live Longer (2009)

Bayley, Barrington J.

• Empire of Two Worlds (1972)

Block, Lawrence

• Grifter’s Game (1961)
• Coward’s Kiss (1961)
• Lucky at Cards (1964)
• The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian (1983)
• A Walk Among the Tombstones (1992)
• The Devil Knows You’re Dead (1993)
• The Girl With the Deep Blue Eyes (2015)

Boyd, Daniel

• Easy Death (2014)

Butler, Octavia

• Mind of My Mind (1977)
• Survivor (1978)

Cabell, James Branch

• Jurgen (1918)

Cain, James M.

• The Cocktail Waitress (2012)

Clarke, Arthur C.

• Rendezvous With Rama (1973)

Farmer, Philip José

• Tongues of the Moon (1964)
• The Purple Book (1982)

Foster, Alan Dean

• Midworld (1975)

Gladwell, Malcolm

• The Tipping Point (2002)
• Outliers (2008)

Heinlein, Robert A.

• The Green Hills of Earth (1951)
• Have Space Suit, Will Travel (1958)

Knight, Phil

• Shoe Dog (2016)

London, Jack

• Call of the Wild (1908)

Niven, Larry

• A World Out of Time (1976)

Norton, Andre

• Witch World (1963)

Pohl, Frederik

• The Man Who Ate the World (1960)

Silverberg, Robert

• Blood on the Mink (1962)

Stableford, Brian

• The Florians (1976)
• Critical Threshold (1977)

Wellman, Manly Wade

• Twice in Time (1940)

Westlake, Donald (including Richard Stark)

• The Cutie (1960)
• 361 (1962)
• The Hunter (1962)
• The Outfit (1963)
• The Mourner (1963)
• The Score (1963)
• The Jugger (1965)
• The Comedy is Finished (2012)