Langford Reviews, 2001

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These days I regularly write up books for Amazon UK, as theoretically linked below (but Amazon's ghastly database keeps losing the reviews from their pages). My stuff mostly appears in Amazon.co.uk's SF and Fantasy Area. Sometimes the same reviews turn up at Amazon.com. -- Dave Langford. Previous years' entries now deported to separate pages: 2000 • 1999. See current log page for latest entries.

December 2001
[17 Dec] David Farland, Wizardborn -- Earthlight fantasy paperback. "Book Three of the Runelords."

[13 Dec] Alastair Reynolds, Chasm City -- Gollancz sf trade paperback.

[3 Dec] Greg Egan, Schild's Ladder -- Gollancz sf. Proof copy received. Scheduled February 2002. More wildly ambitious sf of ideas.

November 2001
[29 Nov] Harry Turtledove, Colonization 3: Aftershocks -- NEL sf paperback. Third in alternate-history sequence following from the "Worldwar" tetralogy, the one where aliens invade during WWII. Reviewed earlier in hardback

[19 Nov] Neal Asher, The Skinner -- Macmillan sf. Proof copy received, scheduled March 2002.

[19 Nov] Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said -- Gollancz SF Masterworks #46, trade paperback.

[16 Nov] Richard Morgan, Altered Carbon -- Gollancz sf. Proof copy received. Scheduled February 2002 in hardback and trade paperback.

October 2001
[23 Oct] Ken MacLeod, Dark Light -- Orbit sf hardback. Second in "Engines of Light" sequence. Also Tor proof copy, scheduled January 2002.

[19 Oct] John Sladek, The Complete Roderick -- Gollancz SF Masterworks #45, trade paperback. The first one-volume edition of the long novel previously published in the UK as Roderick and Roderick at Random. (Its US history is more complicated and messy.)

[12 Oct] Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus -- Gollancz sf paperback. Reviewed earlier in large format edition.

[9 Oct] Robert Rankin, The Fandom of the Operator -- Doubleday sf/fantasy hardback.

[8 Oct] Robert Rankin, Web Site Story -- Corgi sf/fantasy paperback. More silliness, previously reviewed in hardback.

September 2001
[26 Sep] Terry Pratchett and Paul Kidby, The Last Hero -- Gollancz coffee-table book with 40,000-word Pratchett story illustrated throughout by Kidby paintings.

[13 Sep] Simon Clark, The Night of the Triffids -- NEL sf paperback. Reviewed earlier in hardback

[13 Sep] Wil McCarthy, The Collapsium -- Gollancz sf paperback. Reviewed earlier in large format edition.

[13 Sep] Stan Nicholls, Warriors of the Tempest -- Gollancz fantasy paperback. Reviewed earlier in large format edition.

August 2001
[20 Aug] The Harvard Lampoon (Henry N. Beard & Douglas C. Kenny), Bored of the Rings -- Gollancz fantasy hardback, small format. First hardback edition of broad Tolkien parody, first published 1969.

[7 Aug] Ursula Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven -- Gollancz SF Masterworks #44, trade paperback.

[7 Aug] James Lovegrove, The Foreigners -- Gollancz sf paperback. Reviewed earlier in hardback.

[5 Aug] Paul McAuley, Whole Wide World -- Voyager sf/detective hardback. Received earlier in proof and already reviewed.

[3 Aug] Peter F. Hamilton, Fallen Dragon -- Macmillan sf hardback. Proof copy received, scheduled 12 October. Standalone novel, the author having vowed to give up Huge Trilogies after the colossal exertions of "Night's Dawn".

July 2001
[18 Jul] Stephen Baxter, Manifold 2: Space -- Voyager sf paperback.

[18 Jul] Ben Bova, The Precipice -- NEL sf paperback. "The Asteroid Wars: 1."

[9 Jul] Adam Roberts, Salt -- Gollancz sf paperback. Author's first novel, a Clarke Award nominee.

[5 Jul] Stephen Baxter, Manifold 3: Origin -- Gollancz sf hardback.

June 2001
[28 Jun] Harry Turtledove, Colonization 3: Aftershocks -- Hodder & Stoughton sf hardback. Not to be confused with his "Darkness" alternate-WWII fantasy series.

[15 Jun] Paul McAuley, Whole Wide World -- Voyager sf/detective hardback. Proof copy received; scheduled September 2001.

[11 Jun] Ward Moore, Bring the Jubilee -- Gollancz SF Masterworks #42, trade paperback.

[7 Jun] Roger Levy, Reckless Sleep -- Gollancz sf paperback.

May 2001
[23 May] Simon Clark, The Night of the Triffids -- Hodder & Stoughton sf hardback. Authorized 50th-anniversary sequel to John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids (1951).

[8 May] Alastair Reynolds, Chasm City -- Gollancz sf hardback. Also C-format paperback.

[1 May] Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space -- Gollancz sf paperback.

April 2001
[20 Apr] Stephen Baxter, Icebones -- Gollancz sf C-format paperback. "Mammoth Book Three."

[19 Apr] Peter Crowther (ed.), Futures -- Gollancz sf hardback. Novellas by Stephen Baxter, Peter F. Hamilton, Paul McAuley and Ian McDonald.

[10 Apr] Eugene Byrne, Things Unborn -- Earthlight sf paperback.

[8 Apr] Greg Bear, Blood Music -- Gollancz SF Masterworks #40, trade paperback.

[3 Apr] Robert Heinlein, Orphans of the Sky -- Gollancz yellowjacket sf reissue, trade pb.

March 2001
[30 Mar] Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter, The Light of Other Days -- Voyager C-format pb reissue.

[23 Mar] Tom Holt, Nothing But Blue Skies -- Orbit hardback comic fantasy.

[17 Mar] Neal Asher, Gridlinked -- Macmillan C-format paperback sf.

[9 Mar] Ian McDonald, Ares Express -- magic-realist sf, or thereabouts. Simon & Schuster page proofs. Hardback scheduled May 2001.

[6 Mar] Robert Rankin, Waiting For Godalming, Corgi humorous fantasy paperback.

[2 Mar] Linda Nagata, Vast -- Gollancz paperback sf. Large-scale successor to Deception Well.

February 2001
[27 Feb] David Farland, Wizardborn -- Earthlight C-format paperback fantasy. "Book 3 of the Runelords".

[23 Feb] Stephen Baxter, Deep Future -- Gollancz hardback, futurological nonfiction essays.

[14 Feb] John Sladek, Tik-Tok -- Gollancz yellowjacket sf reissue, trade pb. Fine black farce.

[2 Feb] Ben Bova, The Precipice -- Hodder & Stoughton sf hardback. "The Asteroid Wars: 1."

January 2001
[22 Jan] Michael Reaves, Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter -- Century sf hardback. Cliché-laden spinoff novel from some movie universe or other.

[19 Jan] Orson Scott Card, The Shadow of the Hegemon -- Orbit sf hardback. Follow-up to Ender's Shadow, an alternate-viewpoint return to Card's very popular Ender's Game; billed as "Book Two of the Shadow Trilogy".

[8 Jan] Holly Lisle, Vengeance of Dragons -- Millennium pb fantasy reissue. "The Secret Texts Book 2."

Past entries for 2000

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