Reviews, 2000Home
These days I regularly write up books for Amazon UK, as theoretically linked below (but Amazon's ghastly database keeps losing the reviews from their pages). My stuff mostly appears in Amazon.co.uk's SF and Fantasy Area. Sometimes the same reviews turn up at Amazon.com. -- Dave Langford. See current log page for latest entries.
December 2000 - [23 Dec] John Barnes, Finity -- Gollancz (Millennium pb line rebranded) sf paperback reissue.
- [23 Dec] Stephen Baxter, Longtusk -- Gollancz (Millennium pb line rebranded) sf paperback reissue -- "Mammoth Book Two".
- [14 Dec] Terry Pratchett, Graham Higgins and Stephen Briggs, Guards! Guards! -- Gollancz hardback graphic novel. Adaptation of Pratchett's 1989 comic police-procedural fantasy.
- [13 Dec] Paul McAuley, The Secret of Life --Voyager sf hardback.
- [11 Dec] John Whitbourn, Downs-Lord Day -- Earthlight fantasy pb, second in "The Downs-Lord Triptych".
November 2000 - [24 Nov] Bob Shaw, A Wreath of Stars -- Gollancz yellowjacket sf reissue, trade pb.
- [23 Nov] Octavia Butler, Wild Seed -- Gollancz yellowjacket sf reissue, trade pb.
- [22 Nov] Joe Haldeman, Forever Free -- Millennium sf paperback reissue of the sole and, alas, inferior sequel to The Forever War (NB Forever Peace was a "thematic sequel" with another setting).
- [21 Nov] James H. Schmitz, The Witches of Karres -- Gollancz yellowjacket sf reissue, trade pb. One of my favourite sf comedies.
- [20 Nov] John Crowley, Beasts -- Gollancz yellowjacket sf reissue, trade pb.
- [20 Nov] Stan Nicholls, Warriors of the Tempest -- Gollancz fantasy trade pb. Third book of "Orcs: First Blood" trilogy.
- [16 Nov] Robert Silverberg, Sailing To Byzantium -- ibooks trade paperback. Five sf novellas: title story, "Homefaring", "Thomas the Proclaimer", "We Are For The Dark" and "The Secret Sharer".
- [6 Nov] Ken MacLeod, Cosmonaut Keep -- Orbit SF hardback. Enjoyable opening to his new "Engines of Light" sequence.
October 2000 - [30 Oct] Anne McCaffrey, Pegasus in Space -- Corgi paperback reissue.
- [23 Oct] Keith Roberts, Pavane -- Millennium SF Masterworks #35, trade paperback. Classic reissue.
- [18 Oct] Wil McCarthy, The Collapsium -- Gollancz C-format sf paperback.
- [16 Oct] Clifford D. Simak, Way Station -- Gollancz yellowjacket sf reissue, trade paperback.
- [13 Oct] Theodore Sturgeon, The Dreaming Jewels -- Gollancz yellowjacket sf reissue, trade paperback.
- [12 Oct] James Lovegrove, The Foreigners -- Gollancz sf hardback.
- [11 Oct] Keith Roberts obituary
- [Reissue: reviewed earlier] Clive Barker, The Essential Clive Barker -- Voyager trade paperback. An odd sampler of 70-odd prose snippets, with only four actual complete stories.
September 2000 - Robert Rankin, Waiting For Godalming
- Brian Aldiss, Non-Stop -- Millennium SF Masterworks #33, trade pb. Lightly revised (a heat-ray welder becomes a laser, etc).
- Peter F. Hamilton, The Confederation Handbook -- Macmillan hardback. A "nonfiction companion" to the "Night's Dawn" trilogy.
- Michael Moorcock and Storm Constantine, Silverheart -- Earthlight fantasy hardback; also trade pb.
- Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth, Wolfbane -- Gollancz yellowjacket SF, trade pb.
Paperbacks of books reviewed earlier - Joanne Bertin, Dragon and Phoenix -- Earthlight fantasy pb.
- Jeff Long, The Descent -- Orion sf/horror/thriller pb billed as just "Fiction".
- Stan Nicholls, Legion of Thunder -- Millennium fantasy pb. Second in "Orcs: First Blood" trilogy, with orcs going on a noble world-saving quest for a change.
- Robert Rankin, Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls -- Corgi pb
August 2000 - John Brunner, The Jagged Orbit
- Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter, The Light of Other Days
- Philip K. Dick, Dr Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb
- ed. Robert Silverberg, The Ultimate Dinosaur
- Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic
Paperbacks of books reviewed earlier - Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks
- Mark Chadbourn, World's End
- Raymond E. Feist, Krondor: The Assassins
- Harry Harrison, Stars and Stripes in Peril
- Jack McDevitt, Slow Lightning
- Janny Wurts, Grand Conspiracy
July 2000 - Stephen Baxter, Space (Manifold: 2)
- Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment
- Katharine Kerr and Kate Daniel, Polar City Nightmare
- Adam Roberts, Salt
- John Sladek, The Reproductive System
Paperbacks of books reviewed earlier - Stephen Baxter, Time (Manifold: 1)
June 2000 - James Blish, A Case of Conscience
- Tom Holt, Valhalla
- Holly Lisle, Vengeance of Dragons
- Elizabeth Moon, Change of Command
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith, X-Men ... oh dearie me.
Paperbacks of books reviewed earlier - James Barclay, Dawnthief (Chronicles of the Raven 1)
- Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky [Amazon.com review -- Langford leaps the Atlantic!]
May 2000 - Poul Anderson, Tau Zero
- Iain M. Banks, Look to Windward
- Greg Bear, Star Wars: Rogue Planet
- Ray Bradbury, Long After Midnight
- James Morrow, This Is the Way the World Ends
- Samuel R. Delany, The Jewels of Aptor
- Frederik Pohl, Man Plus
- Bob Shaw, Orbitsville
April 2000 - Michael Bishop, No Enemy But Time
- Richard Calder, Malignos
- Hal Clement, Mission of Gravity
- John Meaney, Paradox
- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, The Burning City
- Eric Frank Russell, Wasp
- Robert Silverberg, Tower of Glass
- Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human
- Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun 1: Shadow and Claw
Paperbacks of books reviewed earlier - Anne McCaffrey, The Tower and the Hive
- Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky
March 2000 - Harry Harrison, Stars and Stripes in Peril
- Anne McCaffrey, Pegasus in Space
- Elizabeth Moon, Rules of Engagement
- Linda Nagata, Vast
- Vernor Vinge, Across Realtime
- Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep
- Freda Warrington, The Sapphire Throne
Paperbacks of books reviewed earlier - Paul Kearney, The Iron Wars
- Harry Turtledove, Into the Darkness
February 2000 - Isaac Asimov, Buy Jupiter
- Gregory Benford, Timescape
- Joanne Bertin, Dragon and Phoenix
- Joanne Bertin, The Last Dragonlord
- Alfred Bester, The Deceivers
- David Brin, Foundation's Triumph
- Philip K. Dick, Ubik
- Simon R. Green, Haven of Lost Souls
- Peter Haining (editor), Knights of Madness
- Jan Lars Jensen, Shiva 3000
- Fritz Leiber, Farewell to Lankhmar
- Jack McDevitt, Slow Lightning
- Michael Moorcock, Behold the Man
- Darren O'Shaughnessy, Hell's Horizon
January 2000 - Tom Arden, The King and Queen of Swords
- Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
- John Barnes, Finity
- Stephen Baxter, Longtusk (Mammoth 2)
- Greg Bear, Eternity
- Greg Bear, Hegira
- Greg Bear, Strength of Stones
- Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
- David Drake, Queen of Demons
- Joe Haldeman, Forever Free
- Joe Haldeman, Forever Peace
- Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus
- Mo Hayder, Birdman
- J.V. Jones, A Cavern of Black Ice
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
- Fritz Leiber, Return to Lankhmar
- Roger Levy, Reckless Sleep
- Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space; also hardback
- R.A. Salvatore, The Demon Spirit
- Robert Silverberg, The Book of Skulls
- Norman Spinrad, Bug Jack Barron
- Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker
- James Stoddard, The False House
Paperbacks of books reviewed earlier - Stephen Baxter, Mammoth 1: Silverhair
Past entries for 1999