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SIGHTINGS :
REVIEWS 2002-2006
Gary K Wolfe
Indexed by Leigh Kennedy
On the Locus "Recommended Reading List"
of the best non-fiction of 2011.
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Photo © Kyle Cassidy
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A reviews of this book has appeared in the following
journals
The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts #23.3 (by Damien Broderick)
Foundation #116 (Maureen Speller)
Sample reviews from
this book can be viewed here.
. . . essential coverage of major texts and trends
in the field . . . (SFStudies)
This is the third in the series of collected Locus reviews by
Gary K Wolfe.
The first volume, Soundings: Reviews
1992-1996, was published by Beccon
in 2005 and won the BSFA Award for best Non-Fiction Book.
The second, called Bearings: Reviews
1997-2001, was launched at Eastercon 2010.
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Gary K Wolfe
has been a long-time reviewer for Locus magazine, and 1992 was his
first full year with the magazine. This book collects most of his
review columns (over 200 books) from the
beginning of 2002 up to the end of 2006.
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Gary K Wolfe is the author of Harlan Ellison: The Edge
of Forever (with Ellen Weil), Critical Terms for Science
Fiction and Fantasy,
The Known and the Unknown: The Iconography of Science Fiction, as
well as hundreds of essays and reviews, mostly for Locus magazine since
1991.
He has received the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (1998), the Pilgrim
Award from the
Science Fiction Research Association (1987), and the Eaton Award
(for The Known and the Unknown). He also received a World
Fantasy Award, for reviews and criticism, at the World Fantasy
Convention in 2007. He teaches at Roosevelt University in Chicago.
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Books reviewed in SIGHTINGS
- Barth Anderson
- The Patron Saint of Plagues
- Margaret Atwood
- Oryx and Crake
- Stephen Baxter
- Coalescent: Destiny's Children, Book 1
- Emperor (Time's Tapestry #1)
- Evolution
- Exultant: Destiny's Children: 2
- The Hunters of Pangaea
- Transcendent: Destiny's Children Book Three
- Stephen Baxter & Arthur C. Clarke
- Sunstorm
- Time's Eye: A Time Odyssey: 1
- Greg Bear
- Darwin's Children
- Dead Lines
- Quantico
- Gregory Benford
- Beyond Infinity
- The Sunborn
- Terry Bisson
- Greetings and Other Stories
- Ray Bradbury
- Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
- Farewell Summer
- One More For the Road
- The Cat's Pajamas
- David Brin
- The Kiln People
- Damien Broderick
- Godplayers
- K-Machines
- Transcension
- Fredric Brown
- Martians and Madness: The Complete SF Novels of Fredric
Brown
- Tobias S. Buckell
- Crystal Rain
- Mark Budz
- Clade
- Crache
- Idolon
- Octavia E. Butler
- Fledgling
- Jack Cady
- Ghosts of Yesterday
- John W. Campbell Jr.
- A New Dawn: The Complete Don A. Stuart Stories
- Orson Scott Card
- Shadow of the Giant
- Jonathan Carroll
- White Apples
- Suzy McKee Charnas
- Stagestruck Vampires and Other Phantasms
- Ted Chiang
- Stories of Your Life and Others
- Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter
- Sunstorm
- Time's Eye: A Time Odyssey: 1
- Susanna Clarke
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
- John Clute
- Scores: Reviews 1993-2003
- Kathryn Cramer & David G. Hartwell (eds)
- The Space Opera Renaissance
- The Hard SF Renaissance
- Michael Crichton
- Prey
- John Crowley
- Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land
- Novelties & Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction
- Tony Daniel
- Superluminal
- Charles Dickinson
- A Shortcut in Time
- Paul Di Filippo
- Little Doors
- Thomas M. Disch
- On SF
- Gardner Dozois (ed)
- Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future
- The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best
Science Fiction
- Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming
- Tananarive Due
- The Good House
- Carol Emshwiller
- I Live With You
- Mister Boots
- Andreas Eschbach, translated by Doryl Jensen
- The Carpet Makers
- Philip José Farmer
- The Best of Philip José Farmer
- Philip José Farmer, ed. Paul Spiteri
- Pearls from Peoria
- Jasper Fforde
- The Eyre Affair
- Sheila Finch
- Reading the Bones
- Jeffrey Ford
- The Empire of Ice Cream
- Karen Joy Fowler & others (eds)
- The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1
- The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2
- Michael Chabon (ed)
- McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
- Neil Gaiman
- Anansi Boys
- Coraline
- Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
- Neil Gaiman
- The Wolves in the Walls
- Kathleen Ann Goonan
- Light Music
- Theodora Goss
- In the Forest of Forgetting
- Jon Courtenay Grimwood
- 9Tail Fox
- Effendi: The Second Arabesk
- Felaheen: The Third Arabesk
- Stamping Butterflies
- Eileen Gunn
- Stable Strategies and Others
- Joe Haldeman
- A Separate War and Other Stories
- Old Twentieth
- The Guardian
- Marty Halpern & Claude Lalumière (eds)
- Witpunk
- Peter F. Hamilton
- Fallen Dragon
- Elizabeth Hand
- Bibliomancy
- Mortal Love
- Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories
- M. John Harrison
- Light
- Nova Swing
- The Course of the Heart
- David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (eds)
- The Space Opera Renaissance
- The Hard SF Renaissance
- Robert A. Heinlein
- For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs
- Brian Herbert
- Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert
- Cecelia Holland
- The Serpent Dreamer
- Nalo Hopkinson.
- The Salt Roads
- Alexander C. Irvine
- A Scattering of Jades
- One King, One Soldier
- Pictures from an Expedition
- The Narrows
- Graham Joyce
- The Facts of Life
- The Limits of Enchantment
- The Stormwatcher
- TWOC
- James Patrick Kelly
- Burn
- Strange But Not a Stranger
- Caitlín R. Kiernan
- The Dry Salvages
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- Jim Knipfel
- The Buzzing
- Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore
- Two-Handed Engine: The Selected Stories of Henry Kuttner
and C.L. Moore
- Claude Lalumière & Marty Halpern (eds)
- Witpunk
- Margo Lanagan
- Black Juice
- White Time
- David Langford
- Up Through an Empty House of Stars: Reviews and Essays
1980-2002
- Justine Larbalestier
- The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Changing Planes
- Gifts
- The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
- Paul Levinson
- The Consciousness Plague
- Kelly Link
- Magic for Beginners
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Tales
- Paul McAuley
- Mind's Eye
- White Devils
- Maureen F. McHugh
- Mothers and Other Monsters: Stories
- Scott Mackay
- Orbis
- Ken MacLeod
- Learning the World
- Newton's Wake
- Paul Malmont
- The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril
- Nick Mamatas
- Move Under Ground
- David Marusek
- Counting Heads
- Cormac McCarthy
- The Road
- Judith Merril and Emily Pohl-Weary
- Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril
- China Miéville
- Looking for Jake and Other Stories
- Laura J. Mixon
- Burning the Ice
- Richard Morgan
- Altered Carbon
- Broken Angels
- Market Forces
- James Morrow
- The Last Witchfinder
- Walter Mosley
- The Wave
- Linda Nagata
- Memory
- Sharyn November (ed)
- Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science
Fiction and Fantasy
- Naomi Novik
- Temeraire. (aka His Majesty's Dragon)
- Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
- Zahrah the Windseeker
- Paul Park
- A Princess of Roumania
- If Lions Could Speak
- The Tourmaline
- The White Tyger
- Holly Phillips
- In the Palace of Repose
- Julie Phillips
- James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
- Tim Powers
- Strange Itineraries
- Christopher Priest
- The Separation
- Alastair Reynolds
- Pushing Ice
- M. Rickert
- Map of Dreams
- Albert Robida
- The Twentieth Century
- Kim Stanley Robinson
- Fifty Degrees Below
- Forty Signs of Rain
- The Years of Rice and Salt
- Vinland the Dream and Other Stories
- Justina Robson
- Keeping It Real: Quantum Gravity, Book One
- Living Next Door to the God of Love
- Natural History
- Mary Rosenblum
- Horizons
- Philip Roth
- The Plot Against America
- Al Sarrantonio (ed)
- Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy
- Carolyn See
- There Will Never Be Another You
- Dan Simmons
- Ilium
- Olympos
- Brian Stableford
- Dark Ararat
- The Omega Expedition
- Neal Stephenson
- Confusion
- Quicksilver
- The System of the World
- Bruce Sterling
- The Zenith Angle
- Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years
- Visionary in Residence
- Sean Stewart
- Perfect Circle
- Peter Straub
- In the Night Room
- lost boy lost girl
- Charles Stross
- The Atrocity Archives
- Theodore Sturgeon
- And Now the News . . . : Volume IX: The Complete Stories
of Theodore Sturgeon
- Steph Swainston
- No Present Like Time
- The Year of Our War
- Michael Swanwick
- The Bones of Earth
- Sheri S. Tepper
- The Companions
- The Visitor
- Sheree R. Thomas (ed)
- Dark Matter: Reading the Bones
- Karen Traviss
- City of Pearl
- Jeff VanderMeer
- Veniss Underground
- A E van Vogt
- Transfinite: The Essential A.E. Van Vogt
- Ian Watson
- Mockymen
- The Great Escape
- Sam Weller
- The Bradbury Chronicles
- Scott Westerfeld
- Midnighters #3: Blue Noon
- Midnighters: The Secret Hour
- Pretties
- Specials
- The Killing of Worlds: Book Two of Succession
- Uglies
- Scott Westerfield
- The Risen Empire: Book One of Succession
- Gary Westfahl (ed)
- Science Fiction Quotations: From the Inner Mind to the
Outer Limits
- Edward Whittemore
- Jericho Mosaic
- Jerusalem Poker
- Nile Shadows
- Quin's Shanghai Circus
- Sinai Tapestry
- Robert Charles Wilson
- Blind Lake
- Spin
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