Capsule Review: The Essence of the Thing, by Madeleine St. John by Rich Horton The Essence of the Thing is a very short novel (about 47,000 words), by Madeleine St. John. It was published in […]
Another resurrected review — this was on my SFF Net blog in 2002. Review: Perdido Street Station, by China Miéville by Rich Horton China Miéville’s second novel, Perdido Street Station, was published in the U. K. […]
Hugo Novel Ballot Review: Service Model, by Adrian Tchaikovsky a review by Rich Horton This is the sixth and last of my reviews of novels on the 2025 Hugo Award final ballot. Service Model is […]
Review: The Adventures of Mary Darling, by Pat Murphy by Rich Horton Pat Murphy’s new novel, The Adventures of Mary Darling, is a clever mashup of Peter Pan and Sherlock Holmes — the one sentence […]
Hugo Ballot Review: Someone You Can Build a Nest In, by John Wiswell by Rich Horton Here is a review of the fifth of six nominees for the Best Novel Hugo that I have read. […]
Review: Miss Mackenzie, by Anthony Trollope by Rich Horton I continue my reading of the immensely enjoyable mid-Victorian writer Anthony Trollope. I have so far mostly concentrated on his two most famous sequences of novels: […]
My latest Substack post covers my thoughts on the current Hugo Best Novel final ballot: https://open.substack.com/pub/richhorton314252/p/the-2025-hugo-best-novel-ballot Rich Horton Rich Horton was a short fiction columnist for Locus for 20 years, and has edited some two […]
Resurrected Review: The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri by Rich Horton This is a review of Jhumpa Lahiri’s first novel, that I wrote back in 2006 or so. I should add that my potted bio below […]
Review: Some Trick, by Helen DeWitt a review by Rich Horton Some Trick is a collection of thirteen short stories (and one prefatory poem) by Helen DeWitt, who is best known for her brilliant 2000 […]
by Rich Horton Chaz Brenchley is a delightful writer, an Englishman long resident in the US, born in the same year I was born. He’s been publishing SF and Fantasy since the early ’90s. I […]
by Rich Horton SFWA Grandmaster Robert Silverberg had a career of a rather interesting shape. He broke into the field as a teenager in 1954, with his first two stories appearing that year, one in […]
Hugo Ballot Review: The Tainted Cup, by Robert Jackson Bennett by Rich Horton This is the fourth of the 2025 Hugo finalists for Best Novel that I have read. Robert Jackson Bennett is a writer […]
My next review of a Hugo nominated novel is Alien Clay, by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky (real name Czajkowski — publishers asked to change it because the composer’s name is so familiar) has been publishing SF […]
by Rich Horton Our book club discussed Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonflight this week, which prompted a long overdue reread on my part. I had first read it way back in my Golden Age, or technically shortly […]
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