The Science Fiction Book Club Reviews Revisited: March 2001

[james_davis_nicoll]

Lists courtesy of Andrew Wheeler.

Contents for anthologies and omnibuses from the Locus Index
to Science Fiction www.locusmag.com/index/

This will be very, very quick.

MARCH

SHIP OF FOOLS by Richard Paul Russo

As far as I could tell before I put the book down, never to return to it, a collection of unlikable people find the set of a low-budget horror film IN SPACE.


THE SPHERES OF HEAVEN by Charles Sheffield

I missed this.

[I used to be a Sheffield completist, too]


THE SERPENT'S SHADOW by Mercedes Lackey

And this.


IN BAD COMPANY (2-in-1 of MENDOZA IN HOLLYWOOD and THE GRAVEYARD GAME) by Kage Baker (Alternate)

And this.


ON COMPANY TIME (2-in-1 of THE GARDEN OF IDEN and SKY COYOTE) by Kage Baker (reactivation)

And this.


FALLING STARS by Michael Flynn (Alternate)

And this.

[As I recall this was part of a near future series that was outdated pretty quickly even for near future SF. I find for me there's an uncanny valley effect with near future SF that is more pronounced for the recent stuff than the olden timey NFSF]


THE WORLD OF TIERS (5-in-1 of THE MAKER OF UNIVERSES, THE GATES OF CREATION, A PRIVATE COSMOS, BEHIND THE WALLS OF TERRA and THE LAVALITE WORLD) by Philip Jose Farmer (Alternate)

And all of these. I have read Farmer but not this Farmer in particular.


KINGDOMS OF LIGHT by Alan Dean Foster (Alternate)

And I didn't read this.


THE WOODEN SEA by Jonathan Carroll (Alternate)

Or this, although I own it.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"THE SPHERES OF HEAVEN" by Charles Sheffield - I believe this is a sequel to the "Nimrod Hunt"/ "the Mind Pool"

[chuk-g.livejournal.com]

Did you ever read those Kage Baker books? They were pretty interesting. (I am not sure if you count them as different books from the standalone editions.)

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

The Lackey was (one of) the first of her Elemental Masters/trapped in a fairytale series. I think. the Farmer series you have complete there at the time, though a couple more came along later; it's pulp multi-world what if Earth has Secret Masters and the visible universe is a Fake, with interworld gates with a unique control mechanism involved. The Foster looks to be a one-off, if my booklist can be trusted, and I currently have no clue what it was about.

--Dave