Rich Horton
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Here's a repost of my sort of TOC for anthologies of the best short science fiction between 1989 and 2018. richhorton314252.substack.com/p/great-shor...
Great Short Science Fiction since 1989
A Personal SF Hall of Fame 1989-2018
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November 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Here's a repost of my sort of TOC for anthologies of the best short science fiction between 1989 and 2018. richhorton314252.substack.com/p/great-shor...
Here's a review of C. S. E. Cooney's lovely new novel Saint Death's Herald. open.substack.com/pub/richhort...
November 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Here's a review of C. S. E. Cooney's lovely new novel Saint Death's Herald. open.substack.com/pub/richhort...
A look at a very light "historical" mystery, A Royal Pain, by Rhys Bowen. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/11/revi...
Review: A Royal Pain, by Rhys Bowen
A Royal Pain , by Rhys Bowen a review by Rich Horton I came across this book in an antique store near Rolla, MO, a few weeks ago. It looked ...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM
A look at a very light "historical" mystery, A Royal Pain, by Rhys Bowen. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/11/revi...
A resurrected review of The Armies of Memory (2006), by John Barnes, who should get more attention. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/10/resu...
Resurrected Review: The Armies of Memory, by John Barnes
Here's something I wrote back in 2006 about the concluding novel in John Barnes' Thousand Cultures series. Barnes' work has never, it seems ...
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October 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
A resurrected review of The Armies of Memory (2006), by John Barnes, who should get more attention. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/10/resu...
I've written about another great midcentury English woman writer, Rumer Godden, and her lovely 1946 novel The River. open.substack.com/pub/richhort...
And the River Flows
Rumer Godden's luminous novella The River
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October 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I've written about another great midcentury English woman writer, Rumer Godden, and her lovely 1946 novel The River. open.substack.com/pub/richhort...
I think Ray Nayler is doing the most exciting things with SF of any writer today. Here's a look at his new novel, Where the Axe is Buried. open.substack.com/pub/richhort...
The End of the World (and a Beginning?)
Ray Nayler's new novel Where the Axe is Buried
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October 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I think Ray Nayler is doing the most exciting things with SF of any writer today. Here's a look at his new novel, Where the Axe is Buried. open.substack.com/pub/richhort...
I've resurrected another decades old review, this one of Matthew Hughes' diverting Vancean novel Fool Me Twice. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/10/resu...
Resurrected Review: Fool Me Twice, by Matthew Hughes
I wrote the review below back in 2004. I should add some detail -- Matthew Hughes (born in England but in Canada from age 5) has continued t...
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October 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I've resurrected another decades old review, this one of Matthew Hughes' diverting Vancean novel Fool Me Twice. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/10/resu...
Here's a look at Anthony Trollope's The Eustace Diamonds, and at why I think Trollope is so great.
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Diamonds and Paste
A look at The Eustace Diamonds, and why Trollope is so fun
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October 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Here's a look at Anthony Trollope's The Eustace Diamonds, and at why I think Trollope is so great.
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Here's a look at a rather better issue of a 1955 SF magazine than the one I reviewed last week:
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Better Old Stuff
A look at the June 1955 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
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October 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Here's a look at a rather better issue of a 1955 SF magazine than the one I reviewed last week:
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Muriel Spark is getting well-deserved attention with the publication of a new biography. Some while ago I read about a dozen of her books. I need to reread her, but in the interim, here's a very brief look at one of her last novels, Aiding and Abetting. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/10/resu...
Resurrected Review: Aiding and Abetting, by Muriel Spark
Review: Aiding and Abetting , by Muriel Spark by Rich Horton The recent publication of a biography of the great British novelist Muriel Spar...
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October 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Muriel Spark is getting well-deserved attention with the publication of a new biography. Some while ago I read about a dozen of her books. I need to reread her, but in the interim, here's a very brief look at one of her last novels, Aiding and Abetting. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/10/resu...
Looking at Charles Dickens' GREAT EXPECTATIONS: rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/10/old-...
Old Bestseller Review: Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
Thoughts on Charles Dickens' Great Expectations by Rich Horton What to say about Great Expectations , one of the most famous English novels ...
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October 3, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Looking at Charles Dickens' GREAT EXPECTATIONS: rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/10/old-...
Here's a look at a 1956 issue of Fantastic. Not a great issue, but it does have four stories by a very young Robert Silverberg. open.substack.com/pub/richhort...
The Bad Old Stuff
A look at an indifferent issue of Fantastic, from 1956
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October 2, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Here's a look at a 1956 issue of Fantastic. Not a great issue, but it does have four stories by a very young Robert Silverberg. open.substack.com/pub/richhort...
I review recent iissuse of Analog (an SF magazine) and Zyzzyva (a "literary" magazine). open.substack.com/pub/richhort...
From A to Z in Short Fiction Magazines
Looking at Analog and Zyzzyva
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September 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I review recent iissuse of Analog (an SF magazine) and Zyzzyva (a "literary" magazine). open.substack.com/pub/richhort...
Here's a review of Michael Swanwick's 2002 novel Bones of the Earth, which I loved but which doesn't seem to get as much notice these days as it deserves. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/09/resu...
Resurrected Review: Bones of the Earth, by Michael Swanwick
Another Resurrected Review, this one of Michael Swanwick's 2002 novel Bones of the Earth , which, it seems to me, isn't remembered as well a...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Here's a review of Michael Swanwick's 2002 novel Bones of the Earth, which I loved but which doesn't seem to get as much notice these days as it deserves. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/09/resu...
Something I wrote long ago about one of Lawrence Watt-Evans' amusing and intelligent Ethshar novels, The Blood of a Dragon. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/09/resu...
Resurrected Review: The Blood of a Dragon, by Lawrence Watt-Evans
Resurrected Review: The Blood of a Dragon , by Lawrence Watt-Evans by Rich Horton Lawrence Watt-Evans's Ethshar novels are uniformly enjoyab...
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September 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Something I wrote long ago about one of Lawrence Watt-Evans' amusing and intelligent Ethshar novels, The Blood of a Dragon. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/09/resu...
Elizabeth Taylor's beautiful and powerful novel Angel: open.substack.com/pub/richhort...
Satire and Sympathy
Elizabeth Taylor's wonderful novel Angel
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September 20, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Elizabeth Taylor's beautiful and powerful novel Angel: open.substack.com/pub/richhort...
A look at a 1938 novel by the Anglo-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart. open.substack.com/pub/richhort...
Innocence and Emptiness
The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen
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September 12, 2025 at 11:52 PM
A look at a 1938 novel by the Anglo-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart. open.substack.com/pub/richhort...
Here's a review of all three of John Brunner's novels about the survivors of a nova that destroyed the planet Zarathustra. Brunner wrote the novels in the early '60s, and revised them later, finally published an omnibus of all three as Victims of the Nova. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/09/revi...
Review: Victims of the Nova, by John Brunner
Review: Victims of the Nova, by John Brunner (1962, 1963, 1965, revised 1969, 1974, 1981, omnibus edition 1989) by Rich Horton Early John B...
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September 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Here's a review of all three of John Brunner's novels about the survivors of a nova that destroyed the planet Zarathustra. Brunner wrote the novels in the early '60s, and revised them later, finally published an omnibus of all three as Victims of the Nova. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/09/revi...
Here's a review of Megan E. O'Keefe's 2023 novel The Blighted Stars, first in the Devoured Worlds trilogy. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/09/revi...
Review: The Blighted Stars, by Megan O'Keefe
Review: The Blighted Stars , by Megan O'Keefe by Rich Horton My latest read for the book club I'm a member of was Megan O'Keefe's 2023 novel...
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September 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Here's a review of Megan E. O'Keefe's 2023 novel The Blighted Stars, first in the Devoured Worlds trilogy. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/09/revi...
Here's a review of Rich Larson's new collection CHANGELOG, available now from Fairwood Press: open.substack.com/pub/richhort...
Review: Rich Larson's Changelog
Propulsive action, wrenching characters, dark visions of near future technology
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September 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Here's a review of Rich Larson's new collection CHANGELOG, available now from Fairwood Press: open.substack.com/pub/richhort...
Here's a review of an oral history of sorts of SF, based on interviews conducted at the Berkeley radio station KPFA: Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!, edited by Richard Wolinsky
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Review: Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!, edited by Richard Wolinsky
Review: Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods! , edited by Richard Wolinsky by Rich Horton In 1977, the Berkeley, CA, community radio stat...
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September 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Here's a review of an oral history of sorts of SF, based on interviews conducted at the Berkeley radio station KPFA: Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!, edited by Richard Wolinsky
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Now a look at Alexandre Dumas's most famous novel, THE THREE MUSKETEERS. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/08/old-...
Old Bestseller Review: The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas
Review: The Three Musketeers , by Alexandre Dumas (with Auguste Maquet) by Rich Horton The Three Musketeers is Alexandre Dumas's most famou...
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August 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Now a look at Alexandre Dumas's most famous novel, THE THREE MUSKETEERS. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/08/old-...
Some notes, thoughts, reflections, whatever -- after my recent reread of The Fellowship of the Ring. substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Fellowship of the Ring and regret
a living vision of that which has already been left far behind by the flowing streams of time
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August 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Some notes, thoughts, reflections, whatever -- after my recent reread of The Fellowship of the Ring. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Here's a review of the July-August Asimov's, plus a look a couple more online short stories: open.substack.com/pub/richhort...
Short Science Ficton Reviews
Asimov's for July-August 2025, The Daily Tomorrow, Synthesized Sunsets
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August 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Here's a review of the July-August Asimov's, plus a look a couple more online short stories: open.substack.com/pub/richhort...
Here's a review of Eleanor Arnason's delightful collection of stories set (mostly) in Iceland, HIDDEN FOLK. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/08/revi...
Review: Hidden Folk, by Eleanor Arnason
Review: Hidden Folk , by Eleanor Arnason by Rich Horton Eleanor Arnason is one of my favorite writers. She's been publishing excellent short...
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August 20, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Here's a review of Eleanor Arnason's delightful collection of stories set (mostly) in Iceland, HIDDEN FOLK. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/08/revi...