Rich Horton
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I've rescued another of my reviews from the ashes of the pioneering science fiction review website SF Site. This one is of the late Damien Broderick's excellent collection Uncle Bones.
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Rescued Review: Uncle Bones, by Damien Broderick
Here is another review I first wrote for SF Site , back in 2010. With the demise of SF Site , I am slowly reprinting some of those reviews a...
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December 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I've rescued another of my reviews from the ashes of the pioneering science fiction review website SF Site. This one is of the late Damien Broderick's excellent collection Uncle Bones.
rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/12/resc...
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For the season, here's a look at Charles Dickens' five holiday-themed novellas from the 1840s: rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/12/revi...
Review: A Christmas Carol and Other Holiday Treasures, by Charles Dickens
Review: A Christmas Carol and Other Holiday Treasures , by Charles Dickens by Rich Horton Charles Dickens wrote five novellas, of almost equ...
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December 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
For the season, here's a look at Charles Dickens' five holiday-themed novellas from the 1840s: rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/12/revi...
For the season, here's a look at Charles Dickens' five holiday-themed novellas from the 1840s: rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/12/revi...
Review: A Christmas Carol and Other Holiday Treasures, by Charles Dickens
Review: A Christmas Carol and Other Holiday Treasures , by Charles Dickens by Rich Horton Charles Dickens wrote five novellas, of almost equ...
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December 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
For the season, here's a look at Charles Dickens' five holiday-themed novellas from the 1840s: rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/12/revi...
Here's a review of Junichiro Tanizaki's 1925 novel Naomi (translation of Chijin no Ai (A Fool's Love): open.substack.com/pub/richhort...
A Queasy Satire in 1920s Japan
Naomi, by Junichiro Tanizaki
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December 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Here's a review of Junichiro Tanizaki's 1925 novel Naomi (translation of Chijin no Ai (A Fool's Love): open.substack.com/pub/richhort...
On my Substack I've posted a look, revised from something I wrote nearly a decade ago, at the little-remembered Philip Wylie novel FINNLEY WREN: richhorton314252.substack.com/p/notions-op...
Notions, Opinions, and Amours
Philip Wylie's Finnley Wren
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December 18, 2025 at 4:40 AM
On my Substack I've posted a look, revised from something I wrote nearly a decade ago, at the little-remembered Philip Wylie novel FINNLEY WREN: richhorton314252.substack.com/p/notions-op...
Here's a look at Isaac Asimov's THE END OF ETERNITY: rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/12/resu...
Resurrected Review: The End of Eternity, by Isaac Asimov
I call some of my reviews "Resurrected Review", typically when I grab something from my old blog or SFF Net newsgroup and republish it here....
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December 18, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Here's a look at Isaac Asimov's THE END OF ETERNITY: rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/12/resu...
This 1955 French YA novel became a Disney TV movie -- and it's actually pretty good. The Horse Without a Head, by Paul Berna. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/12/revi...
Review: The Horse Without a Head, by Paul Berna
Review: The Horse Without a Head , by Paul Berna by Rich Horton At an estate sale recently, whose deceased owner clearly had interesting tas...
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December 12, 2025 at 3:14 AM
This 1955 French YA novel became a Disney TV movie -- and it's actually pretty good. The Horse Without a Head, by Paul Berna. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/12/revi...
A review of Fran Wilde's very find new novel A PHILSOPHY OF THIEVES: richhorton314252.substack.com/p/a-caper-bu...
A Caper, but Much More
A Philosophy of Thieves, by Fran Wilde
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December 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
A review of Fran Wilde's very find new novel A PHILSOPHY OF THIEVES: richhorton314252.substack.com/p/a-caper-bu...
A review of Edgar Wallace's (co-screenwriter of King Kong) novel The Feathered Serpent. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/12/old-...
Old Bestseller Review: The Feathered Serpent, by Edgar Wallace
Old Bestseller Review: The Feathered Serpent , by Edgar Wallace by Rich Horton Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born in 1875 in London. He ...
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December 9, 2025 at 3:16 AM
A review of Edgar Wallace's (co-screenwriter of King Kong) novel The Feathered Serpent. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/12/old-...
This is a look at an anthology Cosmopolitan put together in 1932, of some of the best stories in the magazine -- and, so, a look at the middle range of American short fiction in that period. richhorton314252.substack.com/p/some-middl...
Some "middlebrow" short fiction of the 1930s
"Favorite" stories from Cosmopolitan, circa 1931
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December 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This is a look at an anthology Cosmopolitan put together in 1932, of some of the best stories in the magazine -- and, so, a look at the middle range of American short fiction in that period. richhorton314252.substack.com/p/some-middl...
A look at Ford Madox Ford's time travel novel Ladies Whose Bright Eyes (1915/1935). This is the expanded version of my Curiosities piece from the July-August 2022 F&SF. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/12/revi...
Review: Ladies Whose Bright Eyes, by Ford Madox Ford
In 2022 I had a Curiosities feature in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction on Ford Madox Ford's time travel novel Ladies Whose Brig...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM
A look at Ford Madox Ford's time travel novel Ladies Whose Bright Eyes (1915/1935). This is the expanded version of my Curiosities piece from the July-August 2022 F&SF. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/12/revi...
I reread Christopher Priest's Inverted World after 50 years -- open.substack.com/pub/richhort...
Revisiting a Truly Strange World
Christopher Priest's Inverted World
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December 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I reread Christopher Priest's Inverted World after 50 years -- open.substack.com/pub/richhort...
Thanks to Hyson Concepcion for revealing to me the existence of LIES AND WEDDINGS, a novel by Kevin Kwan (of CRAZY RICH ASIANS fame), that is also about crazy rich Asians (and non-Asians) but is cleverly based on Anthony Trollope's DOCTOR THORNE. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/11/revi...
Review: Lies and Weddings, by Kevin Kwan
Review: Lies and Weddings , by Kevin Kwan by Rich Horton Kevin Kwan is likely best known for his first novel, Crazy Rich Asians (2013), whic...
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November 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Thanks to Hyson Concepcion for revealing to me the existence of LIES AND WEDDINGS, a novel by Kevin Kwan (of CRAZY RICH ASIANS fame), that is also about crazy rich Asians (and non-Asians) but is cleverly based on Anthony Trollope's DOCTOR THORNE. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/11/revi...
Henry Green's wonderful novel Party Going: open.substack.com/pub/richhort...
Who Needs Plot on the Way to a Party?
The great Henry Green and Party Going
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November 26, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Henry Green's wonderful novel Party Going: open.substack.com/pub/richhort...
I've reviewed -- after a while not doing so -- another piece of forgotten popular fiction from early in the 20th Century: The Love of Monsieur, by George Gibbs. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/11/old-...
Old Bestseller Review: The Love of Monsieur, by George Gibbs
Old Bestseller Review: The Love of Monsieur , by George Gibbs by Rich Horton My original focus on this blog was popular fiction of the first...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I've reviewed -- after a while not doing so -- another piece of forgotten popular fiction from early in the 20th Century: The Love of Monsieur, by George Gibbs. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/11/old-...
I've reviewed the sequel to last year's Hugo winner (and it's just as good): A DROP OF CORRUPTION, by Robert Jackson Bennett.
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A Dark Drop of Delight
Review of A Drop of Corruption, by Robert Jackson Bennett
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November 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I've reviewed the sequel to last year's Hugo winner (and it's just as good): A DROP OF CORRUPTION, by Robert Jackson Bennett.
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A look at two classic movies: The River, and My Man Godfrey: rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/11/two-...
Two Classic Movies: My Man Godfrey and The River
Two Classic Movies: My Man Godfrey and The River by Rich Horton Here's an informal look at two movies I watched recently, both classics. Th...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:36 AM
A look at two classic movies: The River, and My Man Godfrey: rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/11/two-...
A minor of enjoyable John Brunner novel: THE DRAMATURGES OF YAN (1971/1972): rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/11/resu...
Resurrected Review: The Dramaturges of Yan, by John Brunner
Here's another review of John Brunner, who is really one of my favorite SF writers of his era, but oddly more due to his less well-known wor...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
A minor of enjoyable John Brunner novel: THE DRAMATURGES OF YAN (1971/1972): rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/11/resu...
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...