NONFICTION
Released: March 12, 1992
"Thorough, richly researched, and written with moral fire. (Photos—not seen.)"
FICTION
Released: April 1, 1993
"Though didactic (without being preachy) and uneven in places: thrilling drama, compelling dialectic."
From the author of the splendid Brain Rose (1989), another telling near/medium-future sociological probe.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 11, 1996
"Electrifying effects and a deft handling of mysteries and their explanations (some remaining tantalizingly incomplete) in an unexpectedly compelling fusion of weird science and legerdemain."
After a ten-year hiatus, Priest (The Glamour, 1985, etc.) returns in strength with a taut, twisting, prize-winning story of two magicians and their fierce fin-de-siäcle rivalry that taints successive generations of their respective families.
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FICTION
Released: March 25, 1998
"A brutal and deliberate tale, its characters rather too forgiving to be wholly human, that will challenge and sometimes shred the reader's preconceptions. (First printing of 50,000; Book- of-the-Month selection; author tour)"
Sequel to The Sparrow (1996), Russell's account of a 21st- century Jesuit-led expedition to planet Rakhat with its two intelligent, kangaroo-like alien races, the carnivorous Jana'ata and their prey, the enslaved Runa.
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FICTION
Released: March 6, 2000
"The story's very ambiguity steadily feeds its mysteriousness and power, and Danielewski's mastery of postmodernist and cinema-derived rhetoric up the ante continuously, and stunningly. One of the most impressive excursions into the supernatural in many a year."
An amazingly intricate and ambitious first novel - ten years in the making - that puts an engrossing new spin on the traditional haunted-house tale.
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FICTION
Released: June 19, 2001
"A magical mystery tour through the mythologies of all cultures, a unique and moving love story--and another winner for the phenomenally gifted, consummately reader-friendly Gaiman."
An ex-convict is the wandering knight-errant who traverses the wasteland of Middle America, in this ambitious, gloriously funny, and oddly heartwarming latest from the popular fantasist (
Stardust, 1999, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 28, 2002
"Still, it's a welcoming and amusing place to pass a few hours."
An unusually sure-footed first novel, this literary folly serves up a generally unique stew of fantasy, science fiction, procedural, and cozy literary mystery--but in the end is more dancing bear than ballet.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 8, 2004
"An instant classic, one of the finest fantasies ever written."
Rival magicians square off to display and match their powers in an extravagant historical fantasy being published simultaneously in several countries, to be marketed as Harry Potter for adults.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2004
"Sharp-edged humor--and wonderfully executed. "
Pratchett satirizes the modern telecom business in a deeply satisfying comedy about a man sent to a fate worse than death: the post office.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 12, 2006
"A literate, ironic, strangely tasty treat for fans of 28 Days Later, Dawn of the Dead, The Last Man on Earth and other treasures of the zombie/counterzombie genre."
FICTION
Released: Aug. 10, 2009
"Very dark and very scary, with no simple answers provided--fantasy for grown-ups, in other words, and very satisfying indeed."
Grossman (
Codex, 2004, etc.) imagines a sorcery school whose primary lesson seems to be that bending the world to your will isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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FICTION
Released: June 29, 2010
"Likely reaction: raised eyebrows, head-scratching bewilderment."
New, hefty urban fantasy with a London setting--sort of--from Miéville (
The City & The City, 2009, etc.).
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