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Introduction

This page collects criticisms of various books I've read. Most but not all of the books reviewed here are science fiction and fantasy, i.e. so-called speculative ficton.

All titles given are the original ones. If applicable, the title of the English translation, or alternatively a translation of the title, is provided in parentheses. Reviews of translations are marked as such, otherwise assume that I read the original.

Index (by author)

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(Anonymous)

• The Flash Gordon Series (1980–81)

A

Aldrin, Buzz; with John Barnes

• Encounter With Tiber (1996)

Anderson, Poul

• The Enemy Stars (1959, rev. 1987)

Anthony, Piers

• Omnivore (1968)
• Prostho Plus (1973)

Asher, Neal

• Gridlinked (2001)

Asher, Neal L.

• The Engineer (C) (1998)

Asimov, Isaac

• The Foundation Trilogy (1951–53)
• The Caves of Steel (1954)
• The Naked Sun (1957)

Ayerdhal

• (ed.) Genèses ("Geneses") (A) (1996)

B

Bakker, Robert T.

• Raptor Red (1995)

Banks, Iain

• The Wasp Factory (1984)
• Walking on Glass (1985)
• The Bridge (1986)
• Espedair Street (1987)
• Canal Dreams (1989)

Banks, Iain M.

• Feersum Endjinn (1994)
• Excession (1996)
• Inversions (1999)

Barnes, John; with Buzz Aldrin

• Encounter With Tiber (1996)

Bear, Greg

• The Forge of God (1987)
• Tangents (C) (1989) Hugo Nebula
• Quantico (2005)

Benchley, Peter

• Beast (1991)

Benford, Gregory

• Timescape (1980) Nebula
• Against Infinity (1983)
• Artifact (1985)

Benford, Gregory; with David Brin

• Heart of the Comet (1986)

Bester, Alfred

• The Demolished Man (1953) Hugo

Blish, James

• The Seedling Stars (1957)

Boulle, Pierre

• La planète des singes (Planet of the Apes) (1963)

Brin, David

• Sundiver (1980)
• Startide Rising (1983, rev. 1993) Hugo Nebula
• The Uplift War (1987) Hugo

Brin, David; with Gregory Benford

• Heart of the Comet (1986)

Brown, Eric

• Blue Shifting (C) (1995)

Bujold, Lois McMaster

• Falling Free (1988) Nebula
• Shards of Honor (1986)
• Barrayar (1991) Hugo
• The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
• Borders of Infinity (C) (1989) Hugo Nebula
• The Vor Game (1990) Hugo
• Cetaganda (1996)
• Ethan of Athos (1986)
• Brothers in Arms (1989)
• Mirror Dance (1994) Hugo
• Memory (1996)
• Komarr (1998)
• A Civil Campaign (1999)
• Diplomatic Immunity (2002)

Burkett, William R. Jr.

• Bloodsport (1998)

C

Card, Orson Scott

• Ender's Game (1985, rev. 1991) Hugo Nebula

Castle, Richard

• Heat Wave (2009)

Cat, Ivan; with Darren Sarvari

• The Eyes of Light and Darkness (1996)

Charrière, Henri

• Papillon (1969)

Clarinard, R.; with M. Ollivier

• L'ombre de Mars ("The Shadow of Mars") (1997)

Clarke, Arthur C.

• The Deep Range (1957)
• A Fall of Moondust (1961)
• The Fountains of Paradise (1979) Hugo Nebula

Clement, Hal

• Iceworld (1953)
• Mission of Gravity (1954)
• Star Light (1971)
• Half Life (1999)

Clifton, Mark; with Frank Riley

• The Forever Machine (1957) Hugo

Cramer, John

• Twistor (1989, rev. 1996)
• Einstein's Bridge (1997)

D

Donaldson, Stephen

• The Gap Series (1990–96)

Drake, David; with Karl Edward Wagner

• Killer (1985)

E

Egan, Greg

• Quarantine (1992)
• Permutation City (1994)
• Axiomatic (C) (1995)
• Our Lady of Chernobyl (C) (1995)
• Distress (1995)
• Diaspora (1997)
• Luminous (C) (1998)
• Teranesia (1999)
• Schild's Ladder (2001)

Ellis, Bret Easton

• American Psycho (1991)

Eschbach, Andreas

• Die Haarteppichknüpfer (The Carpet Makers) (1995)

Evans, Christopher

• Mortal Remains (1995)

F

Farmer, Philip José

• The World of Tiers Series (1965–93)
• Flesh (1968)
• To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971) Hugo
• The Unreasoning Mask (1981)

Finney, Jack

• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1955, rev. 1978)

Forward, Robert L.

• The Rocheworld Series (1990–95)
• Camelot 30K (1993)
• Indistinguishable From Magic (C) (1995)
• Saturn Rukh (1997)

Foster, Alan Dean

• Nor Crystal Tears (1982)

G

Ghosh, Amitav

• The Calcutta Chromosome (1996)

Gibson, William

• Virtual Light (1993)

Graham, Daniel Jr.

• The Gatekeepers (1995)

Grundy, Stephen

• Rhinegold (1994)

H

Hamilton, Laurell K.

• Guilty Pleasures (1993)
• The Laughing Corpse (1994)
• Circus of the Damned (1995)
• The Lunatic Cafe (1996)
• Bloody Bones (1996)
• The Killing Dance (1997)
• Burnt Offerings (1998)
• Blue Moon (1998)
• Obsidian Butterfly (2000)
• Narcissus in Chains (2002)

Hamilton, Peter F.

• The Night's Dawn Trilogy (1996–99)
• A Second Chance at Eden (C) (1997)

Harris, Thomas

• Hannibal (1999)

Harrison, Harry

• The Deathworld Trilogy (1960–68)

Heinlein, Robert A.

• Space Cadet (1948)
• Tunnel in the Sky (1955)
• Double Star (1956) Hugo
• Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958)

Hill, Douglas

• The Last Legionary Quartet (1979–81)

Hogan, James P.

• The Two Faces of Tomorrow (1979)
• Realtime Interrupt (1995)

Howard, Robert E.

• Cormac Mac Art (C) (1995)
• Kull (C) (1995)
• Solomon Kane (C) (1995)
• Bran Mak Morn (C) (1996)
• Eons of the Night (C) (1996)
• Trails in Darkness (C) (1996)
• Beyond the Borders (C) (1996)

J

Jablokov, Alexander

• Deepdrive (1998)

K

Keyes, Daniel

• Flowers for Algernon (1966) Nebula

King, Stephen

• The Stand (1990)

Klein, H.D.

• Googol (2000)

L

Langford, David

• The Space Eater (1982)

Leiber, Fritz

• The Big Time (1961) Hugo

Leinster, Murray

• Planet Explorer (1957) Hugo

Lem, Stanisław

• Astronauci (The Astronauts) (1951)
• Niezwyciężony (The Invincible) (1964)
• Głos Pana (His Master's Voice) (1968)

M

MacLeod, Ken

• The Star Fraction (1995)
• The Stone Canal (1996)
• The Cassini Division (1998)
• The Sky Road (1999)

Matheson, Richard

• The Incredible Shrinking Man (1956)

McCarthy, Wil

• Aggressor Six (1994)
• The Fall of Sirius (1996)
• Murder in the Solid State (1996)
• Bloom (1998)

Moore, Brian

• Black Robe (1985)

N

Nagata, Linda

• The Bohr Maker (1995)
• Tech-Heaven (1995)
• Deception Well (1997)

Niven, Larry

• The World of Ptavvs (1966)
• Flatlander (C) (1995)
• Protector (1973)
• A Gift From Earth (1968)
• Ringworld (1970) Hugo Nebula
• The Ringworld Engineers (1980)
• The Ringworld Throne (1996)
• A World Out of Time (1976)

O

Ollivier, M.; with R. Clarinard

• L'ombre de Mars ("The Shadow of Mars") (1997)

P

Palmer, Stephen

• Memory Seed (1996)

Pellegrino, Charles

• Flying to Valhalla (1993)
• Dust (1998)

Pellegrino, Charles; with George Zebrowski

• The Killing Star (1995)

Pournelle, Jerry

• Exiles to Glory (1977, rev. 1993)
• Falkenberg's Legion (1990)
• Prince of Mercenaries (1989)
• King David's Spaceship (1980)

Pournelle, Jerry; with Charles Sheffield

• Higher Education (1996)

Pournelle, Jerry; with S.M. Stirling

• Go Tell the Spartans (1991)
• Prince of Sparta (1993)

R

Reynolds, Alastair

• Revelation Space (2000)

Riley, Frank; with Mark Clifton

• The Forever Machine (1957) Hugo

Robinson, Kim Stanley

• Green Mars (1993) Hugo
• Blue Mars (1996) Hugo
• The Martians (C) (1999)

Russell, Eric Frank

• The Great Explosion (1962)

S

Sagan, Carl

• Contact (1985)

Sarvari, Darren; with Ivan Cat

• The Eyes of Light and Darkness (1996)

Sawyer, Robert J.

• The Terminal Experiment (1995) Nebula
• Illegal Alien (1998)

Sheffield, Charles; with Jerry Pournelle

• Higher Education (1996)

Sladek, John

• Tik-Tok (1983)

Sterling, Bruce

• (ed.) Mirrorshades (A) (1986)

Stirling, S.M.

• Marching Through Georgia (1988)
• Under the Yoke (1989)
• The Stone Dogs (1990)
• Drakon (1996)

Stirling, S.M.; with Jerry Pournelle

• Go Tell the Spartans (1991)
• Prince of Sparta (1993)

Stith, John E.

• Reckoning Infinity (1997)

Stross, Charles

• Singularity Sky (2003)

Sturgeon, Theodore

• Some of Your Blood (1961)

Swann, S. Andrew

• Forests of the Night (1993)
• Emperors of the Twilight (1994)
• Specters of the Dawn (1994)
• Fearful Symmetries (1999)
• Profiteer (1995)
• Partisan (1995)
• Revolutionary (1996)
• God's Dice (1997)
• Zimmerman's Algorithm (2000)

Swanwick, Michael

• Vacuum Flowers (1987)

Swiniarski, S.A.

• Raven (1996)

V

van Vogt, A.E.

• The Voyage of the Space Beagle (1950)

Vinge, Vernor

• Across Realtime (1986)
• A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) Hugo

W

Wagner, Karl Edward; with David Drake

• Killer (1985)

Watts, Peter

• The Rifters Trilogy (1999–2004)

Z

Zahn, Timothy

• The Conquerors Trilogy (1994–96)

Zebrowski, George; with Charles Pellegrino

• The Killing Star (1995)

Zindell, David

• Neverness (1988)

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