Thoughts on Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations by Rich Horton What to say about Great Expectations, one of the most famous English novels of all time? I don’t really have an awful lot to add to […]

Review: The Blighted Stars, by Megan O’Keefe by Rich Horton My latest read for the book club I’m a member of was Megan O’Keefe’s 2023 novel The Blighted Stars, the first in a trilogy (collectively […]

Review: Aiding and Abetting, by Muriel Spark by Rich Horton The recent publication of a biography of the great British novelist Muriel Spark, Electric Spark, by Frances Wilson, has led to some welcome attention to […]

Review: Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!, edited by Richard Wolinsky by Rich Horton In 1977, the Berkeley, CA, community radio station KPFA began broadcasting a program called Probabilities Unlimited, aimed at interviewing science fiction […]

[I’m getting ready to head to Seattle for the 2025 Worldcon, so I’ve resurrected a review I did in 2004 of a really fine novel by one of SF’s true greats.] Resurrected Review: Humpty Dumpty: […]

“A Look At the Candidates for the 1950 Retro Hugo”  by Rich Horton Back in 2001 I spent some time going over as many potential candidates for the Retro Hugo that year — for works […]

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 […]

Review: On Strike Against God, by Joanna Russ by Rich Horton I don’t usually publish reviews of books by the same author back to back, but after finishing The Female Man I proceeded straight to […]

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 […]

Review: The Female Man, by Joanna Russ by Rich Horton Joanna Russ finished The Female Man in 1971, and spent the next few years trying to sell it. According to Nicole Rudick, the editor of […]

Review: The Small House at Allington, by Anthony Trollope by Rich Horton The Small House at Allington (serialized 1862-1863, in book form in 1864) is the fifth novel in Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire Chronicles. It is […]

Review: The Case of the Late Pig, by Margery Allingham by Rich Horton Margery Allingham (1904-1966) was one of the “big four” women writers during the so-called “Golden Age of Detective Fiction”, the others being […]

Review: Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson by Rich Horton This is the first novel I read by Marilynne Robinson, which I suspect is true for many readers. Shortly before it appeared, in 2004, I read an […]

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 […]

Review: Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell by Rich Horton David Mitchell is a personal favorite writer of mine, particularly for Cloud Atlas (2004) and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010). I’ve been working […]

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 […]

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 […]

Old Bestseller Review: The Wings of the Morning, by Louis Tracy by Rich Horton A year or two ago I happened across this book in an antique store. It’s a novel I had never heard […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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: […]

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 […]