Langford Reviews, 1999

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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. See current log page for latest entries.

December 1999
• Chris Bunch, The Warrior King
• L.E. Modesitt, Colours of Chaos
• Elizabeth Moon, Once a Hero

Paperbacks of books reviewed earlier
• Kristen Britain, Green Rider
• Alison Sinclair, Cavalcade

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November 1999
• Alice Borchardt, Night of the Wolf
• Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind
• John de Lancie and Peter David, I, Q
• Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors
• Jon Courtenay Grimwood, redRobe
• Tom Holt, Snow White and the Seven Samurai
• Robert Jordan, The Conan Chronicles (oh God!)
• Robert Jordan, The Conan Chronicles 2 (oh God!)
• Maureen F. McHugh, Mission Child
• Peter Mann, The Slayer Files (oh God!)
• Ricardo Pinto, The Chosen
• Robert Rankin, Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls
• Janny Wurts, Fugitive Prince
• Janny Wurts, Grand Conspiracy

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October 1999
• Stephen Baxter, Ken MacLeod, James Lovegrove, Maggie, The Web 2028
• Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
• William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties
• Anne McCaffrey, Nimisha's Ship
• Maureen F. McHugh, Half the Day is Night
• China Miéville, Perdido Street Station
• Stan Nicholls, Legion of Thunder
• Terry Pratchett, City Watch Trilogy
• R.A. Salvatore, The Demon Awakens
• Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
• Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, Beyond the Deepwoods
• Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, Stormchaser
• George R. Stewart, Earth Abides
• Jack Vance, Emphyrio

Paperbacks of books reviewed earlier
• Guy Gavriel Kay, Sailing to Sarantium
• Robert Rankin, Snuff Fiction

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September 1999
• J.G. Ballard, The Drowned World
• Clive Barker, The Essential Clive Barker
• John Kessel, Corrupting Dr Nice
• Paul J. McAuley, Fairyland
• Paul J. McAuley, Eternal Light
• Paul J. McAuley, Pasquale's Angel
• Jane Palmer, The Drune
• J.R.R. Tolkien, Farmer Giles of Ham
• Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

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August 1999
• Greg Bear, Heads
• Mark Chadbourn, World's End
• Michael Cordy, Crime Zero
• Greg Egan, Luminous
• Greg Egan, Quarantine
• Raymond E. Feist, Krondor: The Assassins
• Julia Gray, Fire Music
• Fritz Leiber, Lean Times in Lankhmar
• Maureen F. McHugh, China Mountain Zhang
• Elizabeth Moon, Winning Colours
• Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs, Discworld Assassins' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2000

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July 1999
• James Barclay, Dawnthief (Chronicles of the Raven 1)
• Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man
• Jim Burns, Transluminal: The Paintings of Jim Burns
• Peter Delacorte, Time on My Hands
• Philip K. Dick, Martian Time-Slip
• David Eddings, The Tamuli
• Maggie Furey, The Heart of Myrial
• Tom Holt, Alexander at the World's End
• Robert Jordan and Teresa Patterson, The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time
• L.E. Modesitt, Adiamante
• Elizabeth Moon, Sporting Chance
• Michael Scott Rohan, The Singer and the Sea
• Sean Williams, Metal Fatigue
• Tad Williams, Otherland 2: River of Blue Fire

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June 1999
• Stephen Baxter, Time (Manifold: 1)
• Stephen Baxter, Stephen Bowkett, Eric Brown, Graham Joyce, Peter F. Hamilton and Maggie Furey, The Web 2027
• Brendan DuBois, Resurrection Day
• Neil Gaiman, Stardust
• Jeff Long, The Descent
• Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball, Acorna's Quest
• Ian McDonald, Kirinya
• Julian May, Orion Arm
• Elizabeth Moon, Hunting Party
• Kim Newman, Life's Lottery
• Robert Rankin, Snuff Fiction
• Justina Robson, Silver Screen
• Stephen Walker, Danny Yates Must Die

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May 1999
• Gill Alderman, Lilith's Castle
• Patricia Anthony, Flanders
• Peter Chippindale, Laptop of the Gods
• Anne McCaffrey, The Tower and the Hive
• Jack McDevitt, Moonfall
• L.E. Modesitt, The White Order
• Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic (new omnibus volume)

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April 1999
• Kevin J. Anderson, Blindfold
• Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks
• David Farland, Brotherhood of the Wolf
• Karen Wynn Fonstad, The Atlas of Tolkien's Middle-Earth
• John Luther Novak (Christopher Priest), eXistenZ
• Frederik Pohl, Gateway
• Anne Rice, Pandora
• Cordwainer Smith, The Rediscovery of Man
• Harry Turtledove, Into the Darkness
• Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light

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March 1999
• Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio [now out of print?]
• Kristen Britain, Green Rider
• Tom Holt, Only Human
• Fritz Leiber, Ill Met in Lankhmar
• Elizabeth A. Lynn, Dragon's Winter
• Niall Macnamara and Wayne Anderson, The Leprechaun Companion
• Darren O'Shaughnessy, Ayuamarca: Procession of the Dead
• Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen, The Science of Discworld
• Freda Warrington, The Amber Citadel

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February 1999
• David Drake, Lord of the Isles
• K.W. Jeter, Noir
• Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
• John Meaney, To Hold Infinity
• L.E. Modesitt, The Spellsong War
• Kim Stanley Robinson, The Memory of Whiteness
• Robert Silverberg, Lord Prestimion

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January 1999
• Stephen Baxter, Mammoth -- Book 1: Silverhair
• Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
• Paul Kearney, The Iron Wars
• Holly Lisle, Diplomacy of Wolves
• Ken MacLeod, The Cassini Division
• Larry Niven, Rainbow Mars
• Tricia Sullivan, Dreaming in Smoke (Clarke Award winner) ... also small-format paperback
• Rosemary Sutcliff, Song for a Dark Queen
• Matthew Thomas, Before & After
• Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky

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December 1998
• Iain M. Banks, Inversions
• Stephen Baxter, Moonseed
• Alexander Besher, Chi
• Ray Bradbury, Driving Blind
• Stephen Donaldson, Reave the Just
• Brian Froud, Good Faeries / Bad Faeries
• Kathleen Ann Goonan, Queen City Jazz
• Robert Holdstock, Gate of Ivory
• Guy Gavriel Kay, Sailing to Sarantium ... trade paperback
• Julian May, Perseus Spur
• Alison Sinclair, Cavalcade