At this time I regularly wrote up books for Amazon UK, as formerly linked below; but Amazon's ghastly database kept losing the reviews from their pages and now I prefer not to link to Amazon anyway. Instead, all the reviews are collected along with much else in my ebook Short Shrift: A Big Book of Little Reviews, which see. Sometimes the same reviews turned up at Amazon.com. – David Langford. See the most recent Amazon log page.
December 2001 - [17 Dec] David Farland, Wizardborn – Earthlight fantasy paperback. "Book Three of the Runelords." ISBN 0671029509 • AbeBooks
- [13 Dec] Alastair Reynolds, Chasm City – Gollancz sf trade paperback. ISBN 0575073659 • AbeBooks
- [3 Dec] Greg Egan, Schild's Ladder – Gollancz sf. Proof copy received. Scheduled February 2002. More wildly ambitious sf of ideas. ISBN 0575071230 • AbeBooks
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 ISBN 0340769106 • AbeBooks
- [19 Nov] Neal Asher, The Skinner – Macmillan sf. Proof copy received, scheduled March 2002. ISBN 0333903641 • AbeBooks
- [19 Nov] Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said – Gollancz SF Masterworks #46, trade paperback. ISBN 1857983416 • AbeBooks
- [16 Nov] Richard Morgan, Altered Carbon – Gollancz sf. Proof copy received. Scheduled February 2002 in hardback ISBN 0575073217 • AbeBooks
Also trade paperback ISBN 0575073225 • AbeBooks
October 2001 - [23 Oct] Ken MacLeod, Dark Light – Orbit sf hardback. Second in "Engines of Light" sequence. ISBN 1841490695 • AbeBooks
Also Tor proof copy, scheduled January 2002. ISBN 0765303027 • AbeBooks- [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.) ISBN 1857983408 • AbeBooks
- [12 Oct] Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus – Gollancz sf paperback. Reviewed earlier in large format edition. ISBN 1857987241 • AbeBooks
- [9 Oct] Robert Rankin, The Fandom of the Operator – Doubleday sf/fantasy hardback. ISBN 0385602561 • AbeBooks
- [8 Oct] Robert Rankin, Web Site Story – Corgi sf/fantasy paperback. More silliness, previously reviewed in hardback. ISBN 0552147435 • AbeBooks
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. ISBN 057506885X • AbeBooks
- [13 Sep] Simon Clark, The Night of the Triffids – NEL sf paperback. Reviewed earlier in hardback ISBN 0340766018 • AbeBooks
- [13 Sep] Wil McCarthy, The Collapsium – Gollancz sf paperback. Reviewed earlier in large format edition. ISBN 1857983262 • AbeBooks
- [13 Sep] Stan Nicholls, Warriors of the Tempest – Gollancz fantasy paperback. Reviewed earlier in large format edition. ISBN 1857985621 • AbeBooks
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. ISBN 0575073624 • AbeBooks
- [7 Aug] Ursula Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven – Gollancz SF Masterworks #44, trade paperback. ISBN 1857989511 • AbeBooks
- [7 Aug] James Lovegrove, The Foreigners – Gollancz sf paperback. Reviewed earlier in hardback. ISBN 1857987918 • AbeBooks
- [5 Aug] Paul McAuley, Whole Wide World – Voyager sf/detective hardback. Received earlier in proof and already reviewed. ISBN 0002259036 • AbeBooks
- [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". ISBN 0333900650 • AbeBooks
July 2001 - [18 Jul] Stephen Baxter, Manifold 2: Space – Voyager sf paperback. ISBN 000651183X • AbeBooks
- [18 Jul] Ben Bova, The Precipice – NEL sf paperback. "The Asteroid Wars: 1." ISBN 0340769610 • AbeBooks
- [9 Jul] Adam Roberts, Salt – Gollancz sf paperback. Author's first novel, a Clarke Award nominee. ISBN 185798787X • AbeBooks
- [5 Jul] Stephen Baxter, Manifold 3: Origin – Gollancz sf hardback. ISBN 000225770X • AbeBooks
June 2001 - [28 Jun] Harry Turtledove, Colonization 3: Aftershocks – Hodder & Stoughton sf hardback. Not to be confused with his "Darkness" alternate-WWII fantasy series. ISBN 0340769092 • AbeBooks
- [15 Jun] Paul McAuley, Whole Wide World – Voyager sf/detective hardback. Proof copy received; scheduled September 2001. ISBN 0002259036 • AbeBooks
- [11 Jun] Ward Moore, Bring the Jubilee – Gollancz SF Masterworks #42, trade paperback. ISBN 1857987640 • AbeBooks
- [7 Jun] Roger Levy, Reckless Sleep – Gollancz sf paperback. ISBN 1857988906 • AbeBooks
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). ISBN 034076600X • AbeBooks
- [8 May] Alastair Reynolds, Chasm City – Gollancz sf hardback. ISBN 0575068779 • AbeBooks
Also C-format paperback. ISBN 0575068787 • AbeBooks- [1 May] Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space – Gollancz sf paperback. ISBN 1857987489 • AbeBooks
April 2001 - [20 Apr] Stephen Baxter, Icebones – Gollancz sf C-format paperback. "Mammoth Book Three." ISBN 0575072148 • AbeBooks
- [19 Apr] Peter Crowther (ed.), Futures – Gollancz sf hardback. Novellas by Stephen Baxter, Peter F. Hamilton, Paul McAuley and Ian McDonald. ISBN 0575070234 • AbeBooks
- [10 Apr] Eugene Byrne, Things Unborn – Earthlight sf paperback. ISBN 0743409116 • AbeBooks
- [8 Apr] Greg Bear, Blood Music – Gollancz SF Masterworks #40, trade paperback. ISBN 1857987624 • AbeBooks
- [3 Apr] Robert Heinlein, Orphans of the Sky – Gollancz yellowjacket sf reissue, trade pb. ISBN 0575072377 • AbeBooks
March 2001 - [30 Mar] Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter, The Light of Other Days – Voyager C-format pb reissue. ISBN 0002247534 • AbeBooks
- [23 Mar] Tom Holt, Nothing But Blue Skies – Orbit hardback comic fantasy. ISBN 1841490407 • AbeBooks
- [17 Mar] Neal Asher, Gridlinked – Macmillan C-format paperback sf. ISBN 0333903633 • AbeBooks
- [9 Mar] Ian McDonald, Ares Express – magic-realist sf, or thereabouts. Simon & Schuster page proofs. Hardback scheduled May 2001. ISBN 0684861518 • AbeBooks
- [6 Mar] Robert Rankin, Waiting For Godalming, Corgi humorous fantasy paperback. ISBN 0552147427 • AbeBooks
- [2 Mar] Linda Nagata, Vast – Gollancz paperback sf. Large-scale successor to Deception Well. ISBN 1857987454 • AbeBooks
February 2001 - [27 Feb] David Farland, Wizardborn – Earthlight C-format paperback fantasy. "Book 3 of the Runelords". ISBN 0684860619 • AbeBooks
- [23 Feb] Stephen Baxter, Deep Future – Gollancz hardback, futurological nonfiction essays. ISBN 0575071958 • AbeBooks
- [14 Feb] John Sladek, Tik-Tok – Gollancz yellowjacket sf reissue, trade pb. Fine black farce. ISBN 0575072350 • AbeBooks
- [2 Feb] Ben Bova, The Precipice – Hodder & Stoughton sf hardback. "The Asteroid Wars: 1." ISBN 0340769602 • AbeBooks
January 2001 - [22 Jan] Michael Reaves, Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter – Century sf hardback. Cliché-laden spinoff novel from some movie universe or other. ISBN 0712684174 • AbeBooks
- [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". ISBN 1841490377 • AbeBooks
- [8 Jan] Holly Lisle, Vengeance of Dragons – Millennium pb fantasy reissue. "The Secret Texts Book 2." ISBN 1857987586 • AbeBooks