Book Reviews

Some reviews appear at this site. Most are designated either E2 because they appear at Everything, or B42 because they appear at Bureau42. Some have been reviewed in both places. Generally, the B42 reviews are shorter, but have a place to post discussion and responses. The E2 reviews are generally longer, but do not permit on-site discussion.

Kelley Armstrong
Bitten. (B42)
No Humans Involved (B42)

Diana Atkinson
Highways and Dancehalls (E2)

Paolo Bacigalupi
The Windup Girl (B42)

J. G. Ballard
Crash (E2)

Scott Beatty
The Batman Handbook (E2)
The Batman Handbook (B42)

Alfred Bester
The Stars My Destination (B42)

Lauren Beukes
Moxyland (E2)
Moxyland (B42)

E.R. Braithwaite
To Sir, With Love (E2)
(Book and Film)

David Brin
The Kiln People (B42)

Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code (B42)

Truman Capote
In Cold Blood (E2)

Michael Chabon
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (B42)
The Secret Policemen's Union (E2)
The Secret Policemen's Union (B42)

Suzy McKee Charnas
The Vampire Tapestries (B42)
Walk to the End of the World (B42)

Eric Choi and Derwin Mak, eds.
The Dragon and the Stars (E2)
The Dragon and the Stars (B42)

Julia Cunningham
Dorp Dead (E2)

Avram Davidson
Masters of the Maze (E2)
Masters of the Maze (B42)

Craig Davidson
Sarah Court (B42)

Vicki Delany
Whiteout (B42)

Jason Dickson
The Hunt (B42)

James Ellroy
The Black Dahlia (E2)

Janice Erlbaum
Girlbomb. (E2)

Loren D. Estleman
Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula (E2)

Jules Feiffer
The Great Comic Book Heroes (E2)

Timothy Findley
Not Wanted on the Voyage (E2)
Not Wanted on the Voyage (B42)

Matthew Firth
Suburban Pornography (E2)

Neil Gaiman
American Gods (B42)
Coraline (E2)
Coraline (B42)
Anansi Boys (B42)
The Graveyard Book (B42)

William Gibson
Virtual Light (B42)
Idoru (B42)
All Tomorrow's Parties (B42)
Pattern Recognition (B42)
Spook Country (B42)
Spook Country (E2)

Christopher Isherwood
The Berlin Stories (E2)

Marcy Italiano
Pain Machine (B42)

Gerard Jones
Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book (B42)
Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book (E2)

Sarah Kuhn
One Con Glory (E2)
One Con Glory

James Kunen
The Strawberry Statement (E2)

James Howard Kunstler
World Made by Hand (B42)

John Ajvide Lindqvist
Let the Right One In (B42)

Delos Lovelace et al
King Kong (B42)

Yann Martel
Life of Pi (B42)

Valerie Martin
The Consolation of Nature and other Stories

Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men (E2)
The Road (E2)

Grace Metalious
Peyton Place (E2)

China Mieville
The Scar (B42)
Perdido Street Station (B42)
Iron Council (E2)
Iron Council (B42)
Un Lun Dun (E2)
Un Lun Dun (B42)
The City and The City (B42)
Embassytown (B42)
Embassytown (E2)

David Nickle
Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism (E2)
Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism (B42)

Audrey Niffenegger
The Time Traveler's Wife (B42)

Emily Pohl-Weary, ed.
Girls Who Bite Back (E2)
Girls Who Bite Back (B42)

Richard Price
The Wanderers (E2)

Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow (B42)

Paul Quarrington
Whale Music (Book and Film: E2)

Herman Raucher
Summer of '42 (E2)

Kim Stanley Robinson
Red Mars (B42)
Antarctica (B42)

Robert J. Sawyer
Hominids (B42)
Humans (B42)
Mindscan (B42)

John Scalzi
Old Man's War (B42)
The Ghost Brigades (B42)
The Last Colony (B42)
Zoë’s Tale (B42)

Alice Sebold
The Lovely Bones (B42)

Hubert Selby, Jr.
Requiem for a Dream (E2)

Ekaterina Sedia
Alchemy of Stone. (B42)

Jack D. Shackleford
The Strickland Demon (E2)

William Shatner
Get A Life! (E2)

Robert L. Short
The Gospel According to Peanuts (E2)

Jonathan Shute
Humane Society: Stories about tragedy and golf (B42)

Dan Simmons
Ilium (B42)
Olympos (B42)
Olympos (E2)

Douglas Smith
Chimerascope (E2)
Chimerascope (B42)

Lucy A. Snyder
Sparks and Shadows (B42)

Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (E2)
(Book and Film)

Nancy Springer, ed.
Prom Night (B42)
Prom Night (E2)

Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash (B42)
The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (B42)
Cryptonomicon (B42)
Quicksilver (B42)
The Confusion (B42)
The System of the World (B42)
Anathem (B42)

Shirley Sterling
My Name is Seepeetza (E2)

Charles Stross
Singularity Sky (E2)
Singularity Sky (B42)
Iron Sunrise (E2)
Iron Sunrise (B42)
Accelerando (E2)
Accelerando (B42)
The Atrocity Archives (E2)
The Atrocity Archives (B42)
Glasshouse (E2)
Glasshouse (B42)
The Jennifer Morgue (B42)
Saturn's Children (B42)

Theodore Sturgeon
The Dreaming Jewels (B42)

Anthony Swofford
Jarhead (E2)

Michael Swanwick
Bones of the Earth (B42)

Caitlin Sweet
A Telling of Stars (B42)
The Silences of Home (B42)

Vernor Vinge
Rainbows End (E2)
Rainbows End (B42)

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Player Piano (B42)
The Sirens of Titan (B42)
Cat's Cradle (B42)
Slaughterhouse Five (B42)
Galapagos (B42)

Jo Walton
Farthing (B42)

Jack Williamson
The Legion of Time (E2)
The Legion of Time (B42)

Connie Willis
The Doomsday Book (B42)

Robert Charles Wilson
Darwinia (B42)
Bios (B42)
Blind Lake (E2)
Blind Lake (B42)
Spin (E2)
Spin (B42)
Axis (E2)
Julian Comstock (E2)
Julian Comstock (B42)

Gene Wolfe
The Fifth Head of Cerberus (B42)

And for cheap laughs...

The Life Cycle Library for Young People, Vols. 1-2
The Life Cycle Library for Young People, Vols. 3-4


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