Some book reviews by Jim Henry

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Reviews by Author

• Poul Anderson - Harvest of Stars
• 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
• Ernest Bramah - The Moon of Much Gladness
• 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
• James Branch Cabell - The Biography of Manuel
• 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
  • An Abridged History
  • A Hand-book of Volapük (review first published in Esperanto USA)
  • My 2006 interview with Drummond (first published in Esperanto USA)
• 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
• Sarah L. Higley, Hildegard of Bingen’s Unknown Language: An Edition, Translation and Discussion (review published by Fiat Lingua in October 2011)
• 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
• The Man on the Ceiling by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem
• 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
  • Nightside City and Realms of Light
• 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

Magazines

Invented Languages: First Edition, Summer 2008, edited by Richard K. Harrison

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1959 February 1961 June 1961 September 1961 November 1961 July 1991 December 1992 September 2002 October/November 2002 February 2003 March 2003 April 2003 May 2003 July 2003

Asimov's Science Fiction January 1984 March 1984 August 1984 February 1993 October 1993 February 1994 January 2003 February 2003 March 2003 April 2003 May 2003 June 2003 March 2004

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 read; by 2003 I cut back to only writing occasional reviews of the most interesting things I've read lately.

Weblog archive

• 2009 April
  
• 2008 July
  
• 2008 June
  
• 2008 February
  
• 2007 June
  
• 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
• 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.)

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