Laika’s Ghost, by Karl Schroeder

A Mirror for Observers, by Edgar Pangborn

Here's another piece from the ashes of SF Site -- a review of Karl Schroeder's 2005 collection The Engine of Recall . I've been reading Schr...

Testament of Leaves, by Carolyn Ives Gilman

The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton

Home, by Marilynne Robinson

Jules, Penny & the Rooster , by Daniel Pinkwater a review by Rich Horton I've read several of Daniel Pinkwater's novels, both those in the Y...

The Fair Miss Fortune, by D. E. Stevenson

The Fourth Consort, by Edward Ashton

The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton

The Book of Bots, by James Patrick Kelly

Radiant Star, by Ann Leckie

The Fifth Head of Cerberus, by Gene Wolfe

Here are the answers to the quiz I posted a couple of days ago. ( Here's the original quiz .) 1.  One of the earliest women to hold major cr...

As I do many years, I created a quiz for the online trivia league I play in (Learned League.) This year the subject was "Early Women Science...

What's So Great About the Great Books?, by Naomi Kanakia

Making History, by K. J. Parker a review by Rich Horton K. J. Parker's latest novella is Making History , from 2025. Parker is a very enjoy...

An Awfully Big Adventure, by Beryl Bainbridge

A Game of Hide-and-Seek, by Elizabeth Taylor

Here are links to my reviews of all the Hugo nominated novellas. In what I think is not a terribly strong shortlist, I have a clear first pl...

Cinder House, by Freya Marske

Murder by Memory, by Olivia Waite

Here are the my looks at the six novel on the shortlist for the 2026 Hugo for Best Novel. They are listed in my order of preference, and I w...

The Raven Scholar, by Antonia Hodgson

Elves vs. Humans, Take N

Here's another review taken from SF Site. I wrote it in 2000. Retold Review: Travel Arrangements , by M. John Harrison by Rich Horton M. Joh...

Robots and cooking

Here's another review that had been lost in the ether since SF Site disappeared. This one is from 2000.  Remediated Review: Malignos , by Ri...

Orson Scott Card's reputation has taken a rather well-deserved hit over the past few decades in great part because of his repellent views ab...

Death of the Author, by Nnedi Okorafor

Nina Balatka, by Anthony Trollope

This is another review I did for SF Site, and thus am recovering after that wonderful pioneering website went dark. As ever, I note that it'...

A look at the nominees

Shroud, by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Here's another review risen from the ashes of SF Site. The review itself didn't really need "repair" -- but I'm posting it in part to comfor...

The Best SF Stories from New Worlds #2, edited by Michael Moorcock

This review was written originally in 1999 for SF Site, about two YA novels by Sherwood Smith, one called Crown Duel (1997), the second Cou...

Phineas Redux, by Anthony Trollope

This an extended review I wrote back in 2001, on the occasion of the nomination of L. Ron Hubbard's short novel "To the Stars" for a Retro H...

Ice, by Anna Kavan

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë

Replanted Review: Deepdrive , by Alexander Jablokov by Rich Horton [I wrote this back in 1998, when the novel came out. I haven't revised it...

Human Voices, by Penelope Fitzgerald

The Mills of the Gods, by Tim Powers

Reclaimed Review: Declare , by Tim Powers I'm reading Tim Powers' The Mills of the Gods just now, and I thought maybe I should repost somet...