Here are the answers to the quiz I posted a couple of days ago. (Here’s the original quiz.) 1.  One of the earliest women to hold major creative roles in television science fiction, D. C. […]

Making History, by K. J. Parker a review by Rich Horton K. J. Parker’s latest novella is Making History, from 2025. Parker is a very enjoyable writer, either under his real name (Tom Holt) or […]

These reviews were done for SF Site in 1999, using the 1999 Millennium editions of the first and third volumes of the five books of Dick’s collected short fiction. At the time I didn’t know […]

This is another review I did for SF Site, and thus am recovering after that wonderful pioneering website went dark. As ever, I note that it’s about a quarter century old, and I haven’t updated […]

Here’s another review risen from the ashes of SF Site. The review itself didn’t really need “repair” — but I’m posting it in part to comfort (?) the author of Strange Trades, who will soon […]

Here are the my looks at the six novels on the shortlist for the 2026 Hugo for Best Novel. They are listed in my order of preference, and I will say that I consider the […]

Here are links to my reviews of all the Hugo nominated novellas. In what I think is not a terribly strong shortlist, I have a clear first place vote, a clear last place vote, and […]

Orson Scott Card’s reputation has taken a rather well-deserved hit over the past few decades in great part because of his repellent views about homosexuality, but also because the quality of his writing has not […]

Here’s another review that had been lost in the ether since SF Site disappeared. This one is from 2000. Remediated Review: Malignos, by Richard Calder   Malignos is an entertaining and baroque work, with a […]

Here’s another review taken from SF Site. I wrote it in 2000. Retold Review: Travel Arrangements, by M. John Harrison by Rich Horton M. John Harrison recently won the Richard Evans Award (named after the […]

Recent Substack Posts Here are some recent reviews I’ve done on my Substack. Human Voices, by Penelope Fitzgerald The Mills of the Gods, by Tim Powers Cumberworld & Farther, by Gregory Feeley Beloved, by Toni […]

This an extended review I wrote back in 2001, on the occasion of the nomination of L. Ron Hubbard’s short novel “To the Stars” for a Retro Hugo. I go into some detail at the […]

Replanted Review: Deepdrive, by Alexander Jablokov by Rich Horton [I wrote this back in 1998, when the novel came out. I haven’t revised it at all (save for a few bracketed additions] so what I […]

This review was written originally in 1999 for SF Site, about two YA novels by Sherwood Smith, one called Crown Duel (1997), the second Court Duel (1998). At the time I rather grumpily concluded my […]

I resurrect another review of a rather nice original anthology from a small press, back in 2008. This review originally appeared in Locus, as a Divers Hand review. Lace and Blade, edited by Deborah J. […]

SF Site isn’t the only place I reviewed for that has gone defunct. (Not by a long shot, alas!) I also did a number of reviews for Fantasy Magazine. Here’s one, of a really fine […]

Reclaimed Review: Declare, by Tim Powers I’m reading Tim Powers’ The Mills of the Gods just now, and I thought maybe I should repost something I wrote about him. Alas, I didn’t write a full […]

Here’s an old SF site review I did of one of Philip K. Dick’s lesser known novels.  Review: The Game Players of Titan, by Philip K. Dick British SF classic re-release series seem to be […]

 Review: The Witness for the Dead, by Katherine Addison By Rich Horton A few years ago I read Katherine Addison’s novel The Goblin Emperor, and I just lapped it up – it’s a captivating read, […]

This review was written in 2010, when Blue and Gold came out, and I honestly can’t recall where it was published. Possibly nowhere! But a much briefer review appeared from Locus.  There is an interview […]

I reviewed Wil McCarthy’s The Collapsium at SF Site in 2000 when it first appeared. I thought it lots of fun. A trilogy which somewhat more darkly explored the implications of the ideas introduced in […]

This is a review I did for SF Site in 2008. So the opening sentence is much dated — Egan has been publishing regularly for the last couple of decades after a bit of an […]

I was a bit surprised to realize that I haven’t posted here in half a month — but I have a good reason: my new grandson, Sylvester Took Whitman, was born, and my wife and […]

Here’s another SF Site review I’m posting on this blog after the demise of that wonderful site. This review was written in 2000. The UK imprint Millennium is reprinting a number of classic SF novels […]

Retro Magazine Review: Astounding, July 1955 Astounding Science Fiction, under the editorship of John W. Campbell, Jr., was the central magazine of the so-called “Golden Age of Science Fiction”, which is typically considered to have […]

Howard Andrew Jones died a year ago, on January 16, 2024. He was only 56 (and could have passed for 36!) He was one of the undersung stars of the modern day sword and sorcery […]

Here’s another review I did for the late great science fiction site SF Site, which gave me a huge leg up in my book reviewing career. This was one of my earlier reviews for them, […]

Here is a quick and dirty look at the books I read in 2025, and how they fit into various categories. To some extent, these categories simply track some of my personal interest: how many […]

Here’s another review I’m reposting after the demise of the outstanding old SF/F review site, SF Site. Note that for the most part I’m leaving these reviews unchanged. This was first published in 2001, when […]

Review: A Christmas Carol and Other Holiday Treasures, by Charles Dickens by Rich Horton Charles Dickens wrote five novellas, of almost equal length (about 30,000 words) in the 1840s. The most famous of these by […]