FICTION
Released: April 1, 2008
"Arguably her best novel, and an altogether worthy companion volume to one of the Western world's greatest stories."
Le Guin (
Powers, 2007, etc.) departs from her award-winning fantasy and science-fiction novels to amplify a story told only glancingly in Virgil's epic
The Aeneid.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2004
"Languorous, occasionally repetitive--but this is quintessential Vance: rich, eccentric, nourished from roots deep in the human psyche."
Belated sequel or, better, the missing last section of
Ports of Call (1998), a picaresque travel-adventure from the master storyteller and stylist.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2001
"Still, a worthy effort through it all."
FICTION
Released: Sept. 8, 1999
"Challenging problem, fascinating investigation, persuasive resolution: gripping hard SF from a veteran pro."
New science fiction from the veteran author of Still River (1987), etc. Near the end of the next century, diseases are evolving so rapidly that human survival itself is threatened.
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FICTION
Released: April 25, 1999
"Persuasive aliens, remarkable world-building, and splendid puzzles: fans partial to any of these will find Clement well worth investigating."
Three full-length novels from Clement (Still River, 1987) dating from an era when novels ran to 150—200 pages and didn't wear out their welcome.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 24, 1998
"An episodic, disconcerting mix of mind-boggling ideas, thrilling storytelling, dull padding, and characters-by-numbers, set forth in Anderson's patented outlandish, antique prose: probably his best-ever full-length outing."
Far-future cosmic epic from the veteran author of The Fleet of Stars (1997), etc. Early in the next century, speed-of-light starships become feasible, while astronomers discover that, 5,000 light-years distant, another race is already using starships.
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 1998
"Time will tell."
New galaxy-hopping, picaresque adventure from a master storyteller (Night Lamp, 1996, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 1998
FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 1997
"Nonpareil."
FICTION
Released: March 7, 1996
"Not to every taste, perhaps, but thoughtful and subtle, conveying the unnerving sense that there's always something else going on just beyond the reader's immediate apprehension."
The latest collection from British grandmaster Aldiss (A Tupolev Too Far, 1994, etc.) includes six original stories among the reprints, 198795, the whole being knitted together with unsettling fictional-autobiographical musings and others comments.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 1993
"Though recent volumes have been presented for review in these pages, series fans will wish to investigate."
Farmer's World of Tiers yarns—a mingling of classical and American Indian mythology, William Blake-ish romanticism, and Edgar Rice Burroughs-like high adventure—have been appearing variously since 1965; this book (according to the publishers) presents the ultimate showdown between the hero, Kickaha, and Lord Red Orc—one of the arrogant and decadent super-race that created the Tiers, a succession of pocket universes (the Tower of Babylon tier, the Atlantis tier, the Amerind tier, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: May 8, 1974
"All through, this impresses with small but incalculably right choices which add up solidly and confirm Mrs. Le Guin as one of our finest projectionists of brave old and other worlds."
It's a few thousand years from now, a time of widened horizons but all too familiar contours.
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