Some book reviews by Jim Henry

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Reviews by Author

• Jane Austen
  • Northanger Abbey
  • Pride and Prejudice
• Hilaire Belloc
  • Charles the First, King of England
  • James the Second
  • The Path to Rome
• Stephen Vincent Benet
• Transfigurations by Michael Bishop
• James P. Blaylock
  • Thirteen Phantasms (short stories)
  • various novels
• Ray Bradbury
  • Dandelion Wine
  • R is for Rocket
• Alan Brennert - Time and Chance
• David Brin - Sundiver
• Charlotte Brontë
  • Villette
  • The Professor
• Fredric Brown - Rogue in Space
• John Brunner
  • Stand on Zanzibar
• Steven Brust
  • Early novels
  • The Phoenix Guards
  • Five Hundred Years After
• John Crowley - The Deep
• Avram Davidson
  • The Phoenix and the Mirror
  • Vergil in Averno
  • The Scarlet Fig
  • various other novels
  • Everybody has Somebody in Heaven (collection)
  • ¡Limekiller! and The Avram Davidson Treasury (collections)
• Bradley Denton - Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede
• Charles Dickens
  • The Pickwick Papers
  • Nicholas Nickleby
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Andrew Drummond - A Hand-book of Volapük — and interview
• Lord Dunsany - various plays
  
• George Alec Effinger
  • various early novels
  • Death in Florence
• Greg Egan - Quarantine
• Harlan Ellison - Approaching Oblivion (short stories)
• Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book
• The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque by Jeffrey Ford
• John M. Ford - From the End of the Twentieth Century (collection)
• Jack Finney's time travel stories
  
• Neil Gaiman - American Gods
• Mary Gentle: Rats and Gargoyles
  
• Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory
• The Catholic Church in the Modern World by E. E. Y. Hales
• Japan: From Prehistory to Modern Times by John Whitney Hall
• Italy and the Vatican at War by S. William Halperin
• Michael Hart - A Brief History of the Internet
• Mark Helprin - A City in Winter
• Herodotus, The Histories - 2002-8-23, 2002-8-28, 2002-9-21, 2002-9-29
• Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • The Thread that Binds the Bones
  • Child of an Ancient City (cowritten with Tad Williams)
• Eugéne Ionesco - Rhinocéros
• Jane Jacobs - The Death and Life of Great American Cities
• Jerome K. Jerome - comic essays
• Ronald A. Knox - Memories of the Future
• Between Heaven and Hell by Peter Kreeft
• Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Rocannon's World
  • The Dispossessed
• Steven Levy - Artificial Life
  
• Dun J. Li - The Ageless Chinese: A History
• H. P. Lovecraft
  • The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
  • At the Mountains of Madness
• Vonda N. McIntyre - The Exile Waiting
  
• China Miéville
  • Perdido Street Station
  • The Scar
• David Mitchell - Black Swan Green
• John Mortimer
  • Rumpole of the Bailey
  • Rumpole's Return
• Lewis Mumford - The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
• Making Book by Teresa Nielsen Hayden
• Naomi Novik - His Majesty's Dragon
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
• George Orwell - Keep the Aspidistra Flying
• Joseph Pearce - Old Thunder: A life of Hilaire Belloc
• Robert Reed
  • Down the Bright Way
  • Marrow
• Kim Stanley Robinson
  • The Mars trilogy and other sf novels
  • The Years of Rice and Salt
• The Great Explosion by Eric Frank Russell
• Geoff Ryman - The Unconquered Country
• The One Before by Barry Pain
• A History of the Catholic Church by Dom Charles Poulet
• Terry Pratchett
  • Feet of Clay
  • Jingo
  • The Last Continent
  • The Fifth Elephant
  • various early novels
• Fletcher Pratt - The Blue Star
• Robert J. Sawyer - Flashforward
• William Shakespeare - The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• Lewis Shiner - Deserted Cities of the Heart
• Dan Simmons - Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion
  
• Sophocles - the Oedipus plays
• Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
• Bram Stoker - The Jewel of Seven Stars
• Clifford Stoll - Silicon Snake Oil and High Tech Heretic
  
• Arkady and Boris Strugatsky - Hard to be a God
• The Weirwoods by Thomas Burnett Swann
• Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels
• Sándor Szathmári - Voyag^o al Kazohinio (Voyage to Kazohinia) 2003-2-14 2003-2-21
• Thucydides' history of the Pelopponesian War
• Mark Twain
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  • Roughing It
• Sir Thomas Urquhart - The Jewel and Logopandecteision
• Jack Vance
  • Emphyrio
  • The Tschai tetralogy
  • Maske: Thaery
• Virgil - The Aeneid
• Vernor Vinge's short stories
  
• Joan D. Vinge - The Snow Queen, etc.
  
• Voltaire
  • L'Homme aux Quarante Ecus
  • La Princesse de Babylone
• Ray Vukcevich - Meet Me In the Moon Room
• Evangeline Walton - The Mabinogion
• Lawrence Watt-Evans
  • Dragon Weather
  • The Spriggan Mirror
• Peter Watts - Blindsight
• Manly Wade Wellman
  • John the Balladeer
  • The Third Cry to Legba and Other Invocations
  • The Devil is Not Mocked and Other Warnings
• Connie Willis
  • Passage
  • Remake
• Robert Charles Wilson - The Chronoliths
  
• Gene Wolfe
  • The Book of the Long Sun
  • Strange Travellers (short stories)
  • Pirate Freedom
• Tom Wolfe - A Man in Full
• Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright
• Xenophon - Hellenica 2003-1-25 2003-1-28

Fiction Magazines

Many of these reviews were originally written for the ILink Fantasy and Science Fiction conference or Usenet's rec.arts.sf.reviews and rec.arts.books.reviews. Some I wrote specially for my web page. In May 2002, I started writing a weblog of reviews of nearly everything I'm reading.

Weblog archive

• 2007 April
  
• 2007 March
  (no postings in 2006)
• 2005 October
  
• 2005 May
  
• 2004 February
  
• 2003 September
  
• 2003 June
• 2003 May
• 2003 April
• 2003 March
  
• 2003 February
  
• 2003 January
  (no postings in November and December)
• 2002 October
• 2002 September
• 2002 August
• 2002 July 7
• 2002 June 10 to July 4
• 2002 May 11 to June 8

Shorter reviews I've posted at Amazon.com

Non-review weblog posts

• My reading and book-buying habits
• Reply to Sean Roberts - telling one's family that one is going to enter the Church
• Researching G. K. Chesterton's visit to Chattanooga in 1931
• My list of the best short stories of 2002
• My Hugo nomination ballot for 2003
• On Lenten penance and fasting
• Words derived by back-formation from "sequel": prequel, paraquel, inquel, circumquel
• Best new fiction of 2006, and Hugo Nomination ballot

Brief reviews in old emails (plain text)

• Paul Cashman's post in ILink's Fantasy & Science Fiction conference on his favorite (and least favorite) books read in 1994, and my reply with my own list

Other good review sites

• Espen's favorite books
• Bluejack's sf reviews (mainly of short fiction magazines)
• Steven Silver's book reviews - mostly sf novels
• Tangent Online (short fiction reviews)
• Danny Yee's Book Reviews - largely of nonfiction
• Locus Online (mostly news, some reviews of sf novels, nonfiction about sf, etc.)
• John Clute's Excess Candour review column

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