Recent Substack posts from me

Here are some links to recent posts on my Substack: A look at a 1956 issue of Fantastic. Not a great issue, but it does have four stories by a very young Robert Silverberg. https://open.substack.com/pub/richhorton314252/p/the-bad-old-stuff?r=arrxg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true […]

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Review: Hidden Folk, by Eleanor Arnason

Review: Hidden Folk, by Eleanor Arnason by Rich Horton Eleanor Arnason is one of my favorite writers. She’s been publishing excellent short fiction for over 50 years, including early highlights such as “The Warlord of […]

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Review: Treacle Walker, by Alan Garner

Review: Treacle Walker, by Alan Garner by Rich Horton Alan Garner, born in 1934, established his reputation with a few fantasies generally marketed for young adults, though Garner rejects such a label, and his books […]

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Review: Espedair Street, by Iain Banks

Review: Espedair Street, by Iain Banks by Rich Horton I really enjoy Iain M. Banks’ SF novels, particularly Use of Weapons, one of his Culture novels. I have also generally enjoyed those of his mainstream […]

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Recent Short SF/F Fiction Reviews

Recent Short SF/F Fiction Reviews by Rich Horton Here I’m taking a look at some recent SF or Fantasy short stories I read recently. I’ll begin by helping celebrate the 50th outing of Lady Churchill’s […]

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Review: Collisions, by Alec Nevala-Lee

Review: Collisions, by Alec Nevala-Lee a review by Rich Horton Alec Nevala-Lee is building a repuation as one of the best biographers of science, with his previous books Astounding (about a science fiction magazine and […]

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Review: Miss Mackenzie, by Anthony Trollope

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: […]

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Hugo Best Novel Final Ballot Thoughts, 2025

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 […]

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Review: Some Trick, by Helen DeWitt

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 […]

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