Langford
Reviews, 1999
Home
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Home