Reviews

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A

• Aaronovitch, Ben
  • Midnight Riot – Rivers of London #1 – (2 stars)  [aka:  Rivers of London]
• Abe, Kobo
  • The Woman in the Dunes – (3 stars)
• Abnett, Dan
  • Horus Rising – Horus Heresy #1 – (5 stars)
• Achebe, Chinua
  • Things Fall Apart – (4 stars)
• Adams, Douglas
  • The Restaurant at the End of the Universe– HHG #2 – (4 stars)
• Aira, César
  • Artforum – (5 stars)
  • Dinner – (3 stars)
  • The Literary Conference – (4 stars)
• Allingham, Margery
  • The Crime at Black Dudley – Albert Campion #1 – (2 stars)
  • Mystery Mile – Albert Campion #2 – (3 stars)
• Ambler, Eric
  • Background to Danger – (5 stars)
• Amis, Martin
  • Time’s Arrow – (2 stars)
• Anderson, Poul
  • The Long Way Home – (3 stars)
  • Question and Answer – (2 stars)
  • Shield – (4 stars)
• Andrews, Ilona
  • Magic Bites – Kate Daniels #1 – (3 stars)
• Asimov, Isaac
  • I, Robot – Robot #1 – (4 stars)
  • The Caves of Steel – Olivaw #1 – (4 stars)
  • Foundation – Foundation #1 – (4 stars)
  • Foundation and Empire – Foundation #2 – (4 stars)
  • The Naked Sun – Olivaw #2 – (4 stars)
  • Second Foundation – Foundation #3 – (4 stars)
• Auster, Paul
  • City of Glass – part #1 of The New York Trilogy – (4 stars)
  • Ghosts – part #2 of The New York Trilogy – (4 stars)
  • The Locked Room – part #3 of The New York Trilogy – (2 stars)

B

• Babel, Isaac
  • Red Cavalry and Other Stories – (3 stars)
• Baldacci, David
  • Memory Man – Amos Decker #1 – (2 stars)
• Ballard, J. G.
  • Concrete Island – (2 stars)
  • High-Rise – (2 stars)
  • The Wind From Nowhere – (2 stars)
• Banister, Manly 
  • Conquest of Earth – (3 stars)
• Banks, Iain M.
  • Consider Phlebas – Culture #1 – (3 stars)
• Banner, Blake
  • An Ace and a Pair – Dead Cold #1 – (3 stars)
• Barbery, Murial
  • The Elegance of the Hedgehog – (5 stars)
• Barnes, Linda
  • A Trouble of Fools  – Carlotta Carlyle #1 – (4 stars)
• Bass, Jefferson
  • Carved in Bone – Body Farm #1 – (2 stars)
• Baxter, Alan
  • The Gulp – (4 stars)
• Bellairs, John
  • The Curse of the Blue Figurine – (5 stars)
  • The Figure in the Shadows – (3 stars)
  • The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt – (4 stars)
• Berenson, Alex
  • The Faithful Spy –  John Wells #1 – (3 stars)
• Bester, Alfred
  • The Dark Side of the Earth – (4 stars)
  • The Demolished Man – (3 stars)
• Black, Holly
  • White Cat – Curse Workers #1 – (3 stars)
• Blish, James
  • They Shall Have Stars – (2 stars)
• Block, Lawrence
  • Burglars Can’t Be Choosers – Bernie Rhodenbarr #1 – (3 stars)
• Bradley, Alan
  • The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie – Flavia de Luce #1 – (4 stars)
  • The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag – Flavia de Luce #2 – (4 stars)
  • A Red Herring Without Mustard – Flavia de Luce #3 – (4 stars)
• Brazill, Paul D. 
  • Gumshoe Blues – (4 stars)
• Brett, Peter V. 
  • The Warded Man – Demon Cycle #1 – (5 stars) [aka: The Painted Man]
• Brett, Simon
  • A Nice Class of Corpse – Pargeter #1 – (3 stars)
  • Mrs, Presumed Dead – Pargeter #2 – (3 stars)
• Brightwell, Emily
  • The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries – Mrs. Jeffries #1 – (2 stars)
• Britain, Kristen
  • Green Rider – Green Rider #1 – (4 stars)
• Brown, Eric
  • The Devil’s Nebula – Weird Space #1 – (3 stars)
• Brown, Rita Mae
  • Wish You Were Here – Mrs. Murphy #1 – (3 stars)
• Bruce, Leo
  • Case for Three Detectives – Sgt. Beef #1 – (4 stars)
  • Case Without a Corpse – Sgt. Beef #2 – (3 stars)
• Brunner, John
  • The Atlantic Abomination – (3 stars)
  • Meeting at Infinity – (3 stars)
  • The Stardroppers – (3 stars)
  • The Whole Man – (4 stars)
• Brust, Steven
  • Jhereg – Vlad Taltos #1 – (3 stars)
• Buchan, John
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps – Richard Hannay #1 – (3 stars)
• Budrys, Algis
  • The Falling Torch – (3 stars)
  • Rogue Moon – (2 stars)
• Bulgakov, Mikhail
  • The Master and the Margarita – (4 stars)
• Burroughs, Edgar Rice
  • A Princess of Mars – Barsoom #1 – (4 stars)
• Byers, Richard Lee
  • Dissolution – War of the Spider Queen #1 – (3 stars)

C

• Calvino, Italo
  • If on a winter’s night a traveler – (5 stars)
  • Invisible Cities – (4 stars)
  • The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount – (3 stars)
• Campbell, Jack
  • The Lost Fleet: Dauntless – Lost Fleet #1 – (5 stars)
• Card, Orson Scott
  • Ender’s Game – Enderverse #1 – (4 stars)
• Carr, John Dickson
  • It Walks By Night – Bencolin #1 – (3 stars)
  • Castle Skull – Bencolin #2 – (5 stars)
• Carriger, Gail
  • Soulless – Alexia Tarabotti #1 – (3 stars)
  • Etiquette & Espionage – Finishing School #1 – (2 stars)
• Carter, Lin
  • Under the Green Star – Green Star #1 – (3 stars)
• Cash, Michael Phillip
  • Stillwell – (2 stars)
• Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
  • The Journey to the End of the Night – (4 stars)
• Chekhov, Anton
  • Ward No. 6 and Other Stories – (3 stars)
• Child, Lee
  • Killing Floor – Jack Reacher #1 – (3 stars)
• Child, Lincoln
  • Deep Storm – (2 stars)
  • Terminal Freeze – (3 stars)
  • The Third Gate – (2 stars)
• Childs, Laura
  • Death by Darjeeling – Tea House #1 – (2 stars)
• Christie, Agatha
  • The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Poirot #1 – (4 stars)
  • The Murder on the Links – Poirot #2 – (4 stars)
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Poirot #3 – (5 stars)
  • The Big Four – Poirot #4 – (4 stars)
  • Peril at End House – Poirot #6 – (4 stars)
• Christopher, John
  • The Lotus Caves – (4 stars)
  • The White Mountains – Tripods #1 – (4 stars)
• Clarke, Arthur C.
  • Childhood’s End – (3 stars)
  • Expedition to Earth – (5 stars)
• Clement, Hal
  • Needle – (3 stars)
• Collins, Suzanne
  • The Hunger Games – (4 stars)
• Compton, D. G.
  • Synthajoy – (4 stars)
• Connelly, Michael
  • The Black Echo – Harry Bosch #1 – (3 stars)
  • The Black Ice – Harry Bosch #2 – (2 stars)
• Cook, Glen
  • The Black Company – Black Company #1 – (4 stars)
  • Sweet Silver Blues – Garrett, p.i. #1 – (3 stars)
• Corey, James S. A.
  • Leviathan Wakes – The Expanse #1 – (3 stars)
• Counter, Ben
  • Galaxy in Flames – Horus Heresy #3 – (4 stars)
• Crispin, Edmund
  • The Case of the Gilded Fly – Gervase Fen #1 – (3 stars)
• Crombie, Deborah
  • A Share in Death – Kincaid/James #1 – (2 stars)
  • All Shall Be Well – Kincaid/James #2 – (2 stars)
• Crouch, Blake
  • Dark Matter – (2 stars)
• Cussler, Clive
  • The Mediterranean Caper – Dirk Pitt #2 – (2 stars)

D

• Del Rey, Lester
  • Marooned on Mars – (3 stars)
• Dembski Bowden, Aaron
  • Soul Hunter – Night Lords #1 – (4 stars)
• Dick, Philip K.
  • Clans of the Alphane Moon – (5 stars)
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – (4 stars)
  • Eye in the Sky – (3 stars)
  • Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said – (3 stars)
  • The Man in the High Castle – (2 stars)
  • The Man Who Japed – (3 stars)
  • Now Wait For Last Year – (4 stars)
  • The Penultimate Truth – (4 stars)
  • Our Friends From Frolix 8 – (3 stars)
  • Ubik – (3 stars)
  • VALIS – (3 stars)
  • The World Jones Made – (2 stars)
• Dillon, Eilis
  • Death At Crane’s Court – (3 stars)
• Disch, Thomas M.
  • Camp Concentration – (3 stars)
  • Echo Round His Bones – (4 stars)

E

F

• Farmer, Philip Jose
  • To Your Scattered Bodies Go – Riverworld #1 – (3 stars)
• Faulkner, William
  • Knight’s Gambit – (4 stars)
• Fforde, Jasper
  • Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron – (4 stars)
• Freeling, Nicolas
  • Love in Amsterdam – (3 stars)

G

• Galley, Ben
  • The Written – Emaneska #1 – (4 stars)
• Gibson, William
  • Neuromancer – The Sprawl #1 – (3 stars)
  • Count Zero – The Sprawl #2 – (4 stars)
• Gilman, Dorothy
  • The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax – Mrs. Pollifax #1 – (3 stars)
• Grossman, Lev
  • The Magicians – The Magicians #1 – (2 stars)
• Goncharov, Ivan
  • Oblomov – (5 stars)
• “Grant, Maxwell”
  • The Living Shadow – (3 stars)
• Greaney, Mark
  • The Gray Man – Gray Man #1 – (4 stars)
• Green, Simon R.
  • The Dark Side of the Road – Ishmael Jones #1 – (3 stars)
  • Dead Man Walking – Ishmael Jones #2 – (3 stars)
  • Very Important Corpses – Ishmael Jones #3 – (2 stars)
  • Death Shall Come – Ishmael Jones #4 – (3 stars)
  • Into the Thinnest of Air – Ishmael Jones #5 – (1 star)
• Greene, Graham
  • The Ministry of Fear – (3 stars)
  • Twenty-One Stories – (2 stars)
• Gunn, James E.
  • This Fortress World – (4 stars)
  • Future Imperfect – (2 stars)
  • The Joy Makers – (3 stars)
  • Station in Space – (5 stars)

H

• Habens, Alison
  • Dreamhouse – (2 stars)
• Haddon, Mark
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – (3 stars)
• Hamilton, Edmond
  • Captain Future and the Space Emperor – (3 stars)
• Hammett, Dashiell
  • Red Harvest – (3 stars)
• Harris, Charlaine
  • Dead Until Dark  – Sookie Stackhouse #1 – (3 stars)
• Harrison, Harry
  • The Stainless Steel Rat – Rat #1 – (4 stars)
  • One Step From Earth – (3 stars)
• Heinlein, Robert A.
  • Beyond This Horizon – (2 stars)
• Hemingway, Ernest
  • Men Without Women – (2 stars)
• Herbert, Frank
  • Dune Messiah – Dune #2 – (2 stars)
• Heskett, Jim & Nick Thacker
  • Primary Target – Six Assassins #1 – (4 stars)
• Heyer, Georgette
  • Why Shoot a Butler? – (3 stars)
  • The Unfinished Clue – (5 stars)
• Higgins, Jack
  • The Bormann Testament – (3 stars)
  • East of Desolation – (4 stars)
• Higgins, Peter
  • Wolfhound Century – Wolfhound Century #1 – (5 stars)
• Household, Geoffrey
  • Rogue Male – (3 stars)
• Howey, Hugh
  • Wool (omnibus) – Silo #1 – (4 stars)
• Hoyle, Fred
  • October the First is Too Late – (2 stars)
• Huntington, Sarah Jane
  • Between Light and Shadow – (3 stars)

I

• Inoue, Yasushi
  • Bullfight – (3 stars)
  • The Counterfeiter and Other Stories – (3 stars)
• Innes, Michael
  • Death at the President’s Lodging – Inspector Appleby #1 – (4 stars)

J

• Jacka, Benedict
  • Fated – Alex Verus #1 – (2 stars)
• Jameson, Hanna
  • The Last – (3 stars)
• Janifer, Laurence
  • Survivor – Gerald Knave #1 – (2 stars)
• Jeter, K. W.
  • Infernal Devices – (2 stars)
• Junger, Ernst
  • The Glass Bees – (5 stars)

K

• Kafka, Franz
  • The Trial – (2 stars)
• Kaminsky, Stuart M.
  • Death of a Dissident – Inspector Rostnikov #1 – (4 stars)
  • Black Knight in Red Square – Inspector Rostnikov #2 – (4 stars)
• Karpyshyn, Drew
  • Star Wars: The Old Republic – Revan – (3 stars)
• Kaufman, Amie & Jay Kristoff
  • Illuminae – Illuminae Files #1 – (3 stars)
• Kavan, Anna
  • Ice – (2 stars)
• Kawabata, Yasunari
  • The Master of Go – (3 stars)
  • Snow Country – (3 stars)
  • The Sound of the Mountain – (2 stars)
  • Thousand Cranes – (3 stars)
• Kerr, Philip
  • March Violets – Bernie Gunther #1 – (3 stars)
• Khoury, Raymond
  • The Last Templar – (1 star)
• Kinberg, Margot
  • A Matter of Motive – (2 stars)
• King, Laurie R.
  • The Moor – Mary Russell #4 – (4 stars)
• King, Stephen
  • The Colorado Kid – HCC #013 – (2 stars)
  • The Gunslinger – Dark Tower #1 – (2 stars)
  • The Running Man – (3 stars)
• Kirk, Russell
  • The Surly Sullen Bell – (2 stars)
• Koestler, Arthur
  • Darkness at Noon – (4 stars)
• Koontz, Dean
  • Odd Thomas – Odd Thomas #1 – (3 stars)
  • Forever Odd – Odd Thomas #2 – (3 stars)
• Kornbluth, C. M.
  • The Explorers – (3 stars)
• Kornbluth, C. M. & Frederik Pohl
  • Search the Sky – (2 stars)
• Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund
  • Autobiography of a Corpse – (3 stars)
• Kurzweil, Allen
  • The Grand Complication – (2 stars)
• Kyoka, Izumi
  • Japanese Gothic Tales – (3 stars)

L

• Lackey, Mercedes
  • Arrow’s Flight – Heralds of Valdemar #2 – (2 stars)
• Lane, Jeff
  • One Way – (4 stars)
• Larsson, Stieg
  • The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Millennium #1 – (3 stars)
• Laumer, Keith
  • Envoy to New Worlds – (4 stars)
  • A Trace of Memory – (3 stars)
• Lawrence, Mark
  • Prince of Thorns – The Broken Empire #1 – (4 stars)
• Leblanc, Maurice
  • Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar – Arsène Lupin #1 – (4 stars)
• Lee, Tanith
  • Indigara – (3 stars)
• LeFanu, J. Sheridan
  • Green Tea and Other Stories – (3 stars)
• Leiber, Fritz
  • The Big Time – (5 stars)
• Leinster, Murray
  • The Brain-Stealers – (3 stars)
  • Twists in Time – (3 stars)
• Lem, Stanislaw
  • The Investigation – (4 stars)
  • Memoirs Found in a Bathtub – (3 stars)
• Lemarchand, Elizabeth
  • Death of an Old Girl – Pollard & Toye #1 – (4 stars)
• Leskov, Nikolai
  • Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District – (4 stars)
• Lethem, Jonathan
  • Gun, With Occasional Music – (4 stars)

M

• MacDonald, John D.
  • The Deep Blue Good-by – Travis McGee #1 – (3 stars)
• Maine, Charles Eric
  • High Vacuum – (2 stars)
• Malzberg, Barry N.
  • The Falling Astronauts – (2 stars)
• Marsh, Ngaio
  • A Man Lay Dead – Roderick Alleyn #1 – (3 stars)
  • Enter a Murderer – Roderick Alleyn #2 – (3 stars)
• Mason, Douglas R.
  • Eight Against Utopia – (2 stars)
  • Matrix – (2 stars)
• Matheson, Richard
  • The Shores of Space – (3 stars)
• Matsumoto, Seicho
  • The Voice and Other Stories – (5 stars)
• McDevitt, Jack
  • The Engines of God – Academy #1 – (3 stars)
• McGuire, Seanan
  • Rosemary and Rue – October Daye #1 – (3 stars)
• McIntyre, Vonda N.
  • The Entropy Effect – Star Trek #2 – (4 stars)
• McKinney, Jack
  • Genesis – Robotech #1 – (3 stars)
• McNeill, Graham
  • False Gods – Horus Heresy #2 – (5 stars)
  • Fulgrim – Horus Heresy #5 – (4 stars)
• Miéville, China
  • The City & The City – (4 stars)
  • Embassytown – (3 stars)
• Milne, A. A.
  • The Red House Mystery – (3 stars)
• Miller, jr., Walter M.
  • The View From The Stars – (3 stars)
  • A Canticle for Leibowitz – (3 stars)
• Mishima, Yukio
  • The Sound of Waves – (4 stars)
  • The Temple of the Golden Pavilion – (2 stars)
  • The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea – (2 stars)
• Monk, Devon
  • Magic to the Bone – Allie Beckstrom #1 – (3 stars)
  • Magic in the Blood – Allie Beckstrom #2 – (3 stars)
• Moon, Elizabeth
  • Trading in Danger – Vatta’s War #1 – (3 stars)
• Morden, Simon
  • Equations of Life – Metrozone #1 – (4 stars)
• Moreland, Brian
  • Savage Island – (1 star)
• Morrell, David
  • Creepers – (2 stars)
• Murakami, Haruki
  • A Wild Sheep Chase – (3 stars)

N

• Nabokov, Vladimir
  • Bend Sinister – (5 stars)
  • Despair – (2 stars)
  • The Defense – (4 stars)
  • Invitation to a Beheading – (3 stars)
  • Pale Fire – (3 stars)
• Nicholas, Chad
  • Nightmare – (2 stars)
• Niven, Larry
  • The Ringworld Engineers – Ringworld #2 – (2 stars)
• Norton, Andre
  • The Crossroads of Time – (2 stars)
• Nothomb, Amélie
  • Hygiene and the Assassin – (2 stars)

O

• O’Malley, Daniel
  • The Rook – The Checquy #1 – (4 stars)
• Orczy, Baroness Emma
  • The Old Man in the Corner – (3 stars)
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel – (4 stars)

P

• Palahniuk, Chuck
  • Damned – (2 stars)
• Parker, Steve
  • Rynn’s World – Space Marines Battles #1 – (3 stars)
• Parker, T. Jefferson
  • The Room of White Fire – Roland Ford #1 – (2 stars)
• Pehov, Alexey
  • Shadow Prowler – Chronicles of Siala #1 – (4 stars)
• Pessl, Marisha
  • Night Film – (4 stars)
  • Special Topics in Calamity Physics – (3 stars)
• Pitts, J. A.
  • Black Blade Blues – (2 stars)
• Pohl, Frederik
  • Beyond the Blue Event Horizon – Heechee #2 –  (4 stars)
  • Gateway – (2 stars)
• Pohl, Frederik (ed.)
  • Star Science Fiction 1 – (3 stars)
  • Star Science Fiction 2 – (3 stars)
• Pohl, Frederik & C. M. Kornbluth
  • Search the Sky – (2 stars)
• Pratchett, Terry
  • Sourcery – Discworld #5 – (5 stars)
  • Wyrd Sisters – Discworld #6 – (3 stars)
• Preston, Douglas
  • Blasphemy – (2 stars)
• Preston, Douglas & Lincoln Child
  • Relic – Pendergast #1 – (4 stars)
  • Reliquary – Pendergast #2 – (3 stars)
• Priest, Cherie
  • Boneshaker – Clockwork Century #1 – (3 stars)
• Pullman, Philip
  • The Golden Compass – His Dark Materials #1 – (5 stars)

Q

• Queen, Ellery
  • The Roman Hat Mystery – Ellery Queen #1 – (2 stars)

R

• Reichs, Kathy
  • Deja Dead – Brennan #1 – (3 stars)
  • Death du Jour – Brennan #2 – (3 stars)
  • Deadly Decisions –Brennan #3 – (2 stars)
  • Fatal Voyage – Brennan #4 – (3 stars)
• Reilly, Matthew
  • Contest – (2 stars)
• Rendell, Ruth 
  • From Doon With Death – Inspector Wexford #1 – (2 stars)
• Riggs, Ransom
  • Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Peculiar Children #1 – (2 stars)
• Robinson, Peter
  • Gallows View – Inspector Banks #1 – (1 star)
• Rohmer, Sax
  • The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu – (2 stars)
• Rollins, James
  • Subterranean – (3 stars)
• Rosamilia, Armand
  • Dirty Deeds – James Gaffney #1 – (4 stars)
  • Dirty Deeds 2 – James Gaffney #2 – (3 stars)
• Roshwald, Mordecai
  • Level 7 – (4 stars)
• Roth, Veronica
  • Divergent – (3 stars)
• Rusch, Kristine Kathryn
  • Diving Into The Wreck – (4 stars)
  • The Disappeared – Retrieval Artist #1 – (3 stars)

S

• Saberhagen, Fred
  • Berserker – Berserker #1 – (4 stars)
  • Brother Assassin – Berserker #2 – (4 stars)
• Sanderson, Brandon
  • Elantris (3 stars)
  • Steelheart – Reckoners #1 – (4 stars)
• Sapkowski, Andrej
  • The Last Wish – The Witcher stories – (4 stars)
• Sayers, Dorothy L.
  • Whose Body? – Wimsey #1 – (3 stars)
  •  Clouds of Witness – Wimsey #2 – (4 stars)
  • The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club – Wimsey #4 – (3 stars)
  • Strong Poison – Wimsey #5 – (4 stars)
• Saylor, Steven
  • Roman Blood – Roma Sub Rosa #1 – (4 stars)
• Setiawan, Erick
  • Of Bees and Mist – (3 stars)
• Sheckley, Robert
  • Citizen in Space – (4 stars)
  • Pilgrimage to Earth – (3 stars)
  • Untouched by Human Hands – (4 stars)
• Shepherd, Joel
  • Crossover – Kresnov #1 – (2 stars)
• Shepherd, Mike
  • Kris Longknife: Mutineer – Longknife #1 – (3 stars)
• Sigler, Scott
  • Alive – The Generations #1 – (4 stars)
• Silverberg, Robert
  • Recalled to Life – (3 stars)
• Simak, Clifford D.
  • All Flesh is Grass – (4 stars)
  • Cosmic Engineers – (3 stars)
  • Ring Around the Sun – (4 stars)
  • Time and Again – (3 stars)
  • Time is the Simplest Thing – (4 stars)
  • They Walked Like Men – (3 stars)
  • Way Station – (3 stars)
  • The Werewolf Principle – (3 stars)
• Simenon, Georges
  • Pietr the Latvian – (3 stars)
  • The Carter of La Providence – (2 stars)
  • The Late Monsieur Gallet – (3 stars)
• Sladek, John
  • Tik-Tok – (4 stars)
• Smith, Alexander Gordon
  • Lockdown – Escape from Furnace #1 – (4 stars)
• Smith, Joan
  • La Comtesse – (1 star)
• Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – (4 stars)
• Somers, Jeff
  • The Electric Church – Avery Cates #1 – (4 stars)
• Soseki, Natsume
  • Ten Nights Dreaming and The Cat’s Grave – (4 stars)
  • The Three-Cornered World – (4 stars)
• Souders, J. A.
  • Renegade –  Elysium Chronicles #1 – (3 stars)
• Stout, Rex
  • Fer-de-Lance – Nero Wolfe #1 – (3 stars)
  • The League of Frightened Men – Nero Wolfe #2 – (4 stars)
  • The Rubber Band – Nero Wolfe #3 – (3 stars)
• Stross, Charles
  • The Atrocity Archives – Laundry #1 – (2 stars)
• Sturgeon, Theodore
  • Caviar – (3 stars)
• Swallow, James
  • The Flight of the Eisenstein – Horus Heresy #4 – (4 stars)

T

• Tanizaki, Junichiro
  • Devils in Daylight – (4 stars)
• Taylor, Brad
  • One Rough Man – Pike Logan #1 – (3 stars)
• Taylor, Jodi
  • Just One Damned Thing After Another – Chronicles of St. Mary’s #1 – (2 stars)
• Tsushima, Yuko
  • The Watery Realm – (4 stars)
  • Of Dogs and Walls – (2 stars)

U

V

• Van Vogt, A. E.
  • The Universe Maker – (1 star)
• Vance, Jack
  • Big Planet – (3 stars)
  • The Blue World – (3 stars)
  • To Live Forever – (3 stars)
  • The Languages of Pao – (5 stars)
  • Space Opera – (2 stars)
  • Star King – (4 stars)
• Vardeman, Robert E.
  • The Klingon Gambit – Star Trek #3 – (3 stars)
• von Harbou, Thea
  • Metropolis – (4 stars)

W

• Watt-Evans, Lawrence
  • The Lure of the Basilisk – The Lords of Dûs #1 – (4 stars)
• Weinstein, Howard
  • The Covenant of the Crown – Star Trek #4 – (3 stars)
• Wells, Martha
  • All Systems Red – Murderbot Diaries #1 – (3 stars)
• Westerfeld, Scott
  • Leviathan – Leviathan #1 – (5 stars)
• White, James
  • The Escape Orbit – (5 stars)
  • The Watch Below – (4 stars)
  • Hospital Station – Sector General #1 – (3 stars)
  • Star Surgeon – Sector General #2 – (2 stars)
  • The Secret Visitors – (2 stars)
• Williamson, Jack & James E. Gunn
  • Star Bridge – (3 stars)
• Willis, Dan
  • In Plain Sight – Arcane Casebook #1 – (4 stars)
• Wolfe, Gene
  • The Shadow of the Torturer – Book of the New Sun #1 – (3 stars)
• Woods, Stuart
  • New York Dead – Stone Barrington #1 – (1 star)
• Wyndham, John
  • The Secret People – (4 stars)

X

• Xingjian, Gao
  • Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather – (4 stars)

Y

• Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn
  • Signs and Portents – (2 stars)

Z

• Zamyatin, Yevgeny
  • We – (4 stars)
• Zelazny, Roger
  • Roadmarks – (3 stars)
  • This Immortal – (2 stars)
• Zweig, Stefan
  • Chess Story – (4 stars)