John Newsinger
Articles
The Best Books of 2007
Vector, Spr 2008
Best of 1988: Reviewers' Choice
Vector, Feb 1989
Books of the Year
Vector, Mar 1999
Books of the Year - 2001
Vector, Mar 2002
Books of the Year - 2003
Vector, Mar 2004
Books of the Year: 1987
with John newsinger
Vector, Apr 1988
Books of the Year: 1989
Vector, Apr 1990
Don't Get Caught: The Borribles - Children's fantasy literature in Today's Britain
Vector, Apr 1989
I Hate It Here: Warren Ellis & Transmetropolitan
Vector, Mar 2001
The People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road Betrayed (Terry Pratchett's The Night Watch)
Vector, Nov 2003
Reviewers' Choice: The Best Books of 1991
Vector, Apr 1992
SF and the Troubles (Ian McDonald's _Hearts, Hands and Voices_)
Vector, Jul 1997
Book Reviews
The Airtight Garage
- Moebius
Paperback Inferno, Aug 1990
The Amtrak Wars: Blood River
- Patrick Tilley
Paperback Inferno, Apr 1989
The Amtrak Wars: Earth Thunder
- Patrick Tilley
Paperback Inferno, Apr 1991
Ayuamarca
- Darren O'Shaughnessy
Vector, Sep 1999
Bad Company Book 4
- Pete Milligan
& Brett Ewins
& Jim McCarthy
Paperback Inferno, Jun 1990
Barnacle Bill the Spacer and Other Stories
- Lucius Shepard
Vector, Sep 1998
Better Than Life
- Grant Naylor
Vector, Jun 1991
The Black Ship
- Christopher Rowley
Paperback Inferno, Apr 1987
Black Star Rising
- Frederik Pohl
Paperback Inferno, Aug 1987
Bloodseed
- Lyndon Darby
Paperback Inferno, Feb 1989
Borrowed Tides
- Paul Levinson
Vector, Jul 2001
British Summertime
- Paul Cornell
Vector, Nov 2002
The Broken Worlds
- Raymond Harris
Paperback Inferno, Aug 1988
Candlenight
- Phil Rickman
Vector, Jun 1993
cat Magic
- Whitley Strieber
Paperback Inferno, Jun 1989
Chaga
- Ian McDonald
Vector, Feb 1996
Chernobyl
- Frederik Pohl
Vector, Feb 1988
Child of Fortune
- Norman Spinrad
Vector, Sep 2002
Childe Roland
- Samantha Lee
Paperback Inferno, Jun 1990
Clan and Crown
- Jerry Pournelle
& Roland Green
Paperback Inferno, Aug 1989
Clan Ground
- Clare Bell
Paperback Inferno, Oct 1988
Cradle
- Arthur C. Clarke
& Gentry Lee
Vector, Dec 1988
Crucifax
- Ray Garton
Paperback Inferno, Jun 1989
Crystal and Steel
- Lyndon Darby
Paperback Inferno, Dec 1988
Crystal Express
- Bruce Sterling
Vector, Feb 1991
The Dark Half
- Stephen King
Vector, Apr 1990
Dark Hand of Magic
- Barbara Hambly
Paperback Inferno, Dec 1991
Dark Visions: An Illustrated Guide to The Amtrak Wars
- Patrick Tilley
& Fernando Fernandez
Paperback Inferno, Apr 1989
Death Bringer
- Patrick Tilley
Paperback Inferno, Jun 1990
Doors of Life and Death
- Brenda W. Clough
Vector, Jan 2002
Double Contact
- James White
Vector, May 2000
Double Planet
- John Gribbin
& Marcus Chown
Vector, Jun 1989
Dracula's Children
- R. Chetwynd-Hayes
Vector, Oct 1987
The Dragonbone Chair
- Tad Williams
Vector, Oct 1989
Ecce and Old Earth
- Jack Vance
Vector, Jun 1992
Ersatz Nation
- Tim Kenyon
Vector, May 2003
Faerie Tale
- Raymond E. Feist
Vector, Feb 1989
Faraday's Orphans
- N. Lee Wood
Vector, Jul 1997
Farmer in the Sky
- Robert A. Heinlein
Paperback Inferno, Feb 1991
Firechild
- Jack Williamson
Paperback Inferno, Oct 1988
Firestar
- Michael F. Flynn
Vector, Nov 1996
Firestorm
- Jerry Ahern
Paperback Inferno, Apr 1992
Foundation and Earth
- Isaac Asimov
Paperback Inferno, Oct 1987
The God Killer
- Simon R. Green
Vector, Feb 1992
Good Omens
- Terry Pratchett
& Neil Gaiman
Paperback Inferno, Aug 1991
Green Eyes
- Lucius Shepard
Vector, Sep 1998
Grief
- Ed Lark
Vector, Jan 2006
Guards! Guards! The Play
- Stephen Briggs
Vector, Sep 1997
Hellblazer Book 1
- Jamie Delano
& John Ridgeway
Paperback Inferno, Jun 1990
A Hidden Place
- Robert Charles Wilson
Paperback Inferno, Feb 1991
The Hidden World
- Stuart Gordon
Vector, Aug 1988
Horrors
- Dave Dutton
Paperback Inferno, Apr 1990
The House on the Borderland
- William Hope Hodgson
Paperback Inferno, Feb 1989
Illusion
- Paula Volsky
Vector, Dec 1992
Imaginary Lands
- Robin McKinley
Paperback Inferno, Dec 1987
In the Caves of Exile
- Ru Emerson
Paperback Inferno, Apr 1989
Interface Masque
- Shariann Lewitt
Vector, Sep 1997
Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology (Edited)
- John Kessel
& Mark L. Van Name
& Richard Butner
Vector, Aug 1996
The Iron Chain
- Steve Cockayne
Vector, Jul 2003
Jupiter
- Ben Bova
Vector, May 2001
Kirinya
- Ian McDonald
Vector, Sep 1999
Kirinyaga
- Ian McDonald
Vector, Nov 1998
Life During Wartime
- Lucius Shepard
Vector, Sep 1998
The Light of Eden
- W. A. Harbinson
Paperback Inferno, Aug 1987
Mammoth
- Stephen Baxter
Vector, May 1999
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 11 (Edited)
- Gardner Dozois
Vector, May 1999
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 17 (Edited)
- Gardner Dozois
Vector, May 2005
Manta's Gift
- Timothy Zahn
Vector, May 2003
Masques
- J. N. Williamson
Paperback Inferno, Feb 1990
Maximum Light
- Nancy Kress
Vector, Jan 1998
Memory Wire
- Robert Charles Wilson
Paperback Inferno, Feb 1991
Midnight
- Dean R. Koontz
Paperback Inferno, Aug 1990
Millennium (Edited)
- Douglas E. Winter
Vector, Nov 1997
Mirage
- F. Paul Wilson
& Matthew J. Costello
Vector, Jan 1997
Moondance
- S. P. Somtow
Vector, Aug 1991
Moving Pictures
- Terry Pratchett
Vector, Jun 1991
Mutation
- Robin Cook
Vector, Aug 1989
Necroscope V: Deadspawn
- Brian Lumley
Paperback Inferno, Dec 1991
Nerilka's Story and the Coelura
- Anne McCaffrey
Paperback Inferno, Apr 1988
On the Seas of Destiny
- Ru Emerson
Paperback Inferno, Aug 1989
The Parliament of Dreams: Conferring on Babylon 5 (Edited)
- Edward James
& Farah Mendlesohn
Vector, Jan 1999
Patterns
- Pat Cadigan
Paperback Inferno, Apr 1992
Phoenix Fire
- Lyndon Darby
Paperback Inferno, Aug 1989
Post Mortem (Edited)
- Paul F. Olson
& David B. Silva
Paperback Inferno, Apr 1991
Psychoville
- Christopher Fowler
Vector, Aug 1996
Quozl
- Alan Dean Foster
Vector, Feb 1992
Ragnarok
- D. G. Compton
& John Gribbin
Vector, Feb 1993
Ratha's Creature
- Clare Bell
Paperback Inferno, Oct 1988
Return to Mars
- Ben Bova
Vector, Nov 1999
Rogue Trooper Book 6
- Simon Geller
& Steve Mcmanus
& Steve Dillon
Paperback Inferno, Jun 1990
Rose of the Prophet
- Margaret Weis
& Tracy Hickman
Paperback Inferno, Apr 1991
Salt
- Adam Roberts
Vector, Nov 2000
The Seagull Drovers
- Steve Cockayne
Vector, Nov 2004
Second Child
- John Saul
Paperback Inferno, Dec 1991
Sepulchre
- James Herbert
Vector, Aug 1987
Skin of the Soul (Edited)
- Lisa Tuttle
Vector, Oct 1990
Slow Lightning
- Jack McDevitt
Vector, Sep 2000
The Smoke Ring
- Larry Niven
Paperback Inferno, Feb 1989
The Snows of Olympus
- Arthur C. Clarke
Vector, Jul 1997
Software
- Rudy Rucker
Paperback Inferno, Apr 1988
Soldiers of Paradise
- Paul Park
Paperback Inferno, Oct 1989
Sphere
- Michael Crichton
Vector, Apr 1988
Stallion
- Gordon McGill
Paperback Inferno, Apr 1990
Star Dragon
- Mike Brotherton
Vector, May 2004
Storms of Victory
- Jerry Pournelle
& Roland Green
Paperback Inferno, Dec 1989
Strange Seed
- T. M. Wright
Vector, Oct 1993
Tanis: The Shadow Years
- Barbara Siegel
& Scott Siegel
Paperback Inferno, Aug 1991
Teranesia
- Greg Egan
Vector, Jan 2000
This is the Way the World Ends
- James Morrow
Paperback Inferno, Dec 1989
Tides
- Melanie Tem
Vector, Jan 1997
Time Out of Mind
- John R. Maxim
Vector, Jun 1987
To Live Forever
- Jack Vance
Paperback Inferno, Apr 1988
The Tommyknockers
- Stephen King
Vector, Jun 1988
The Tower of Fear
- Glen Cook
Paperback Inferno, Aug 1991
Trojan
- James Follett
Vector, Oct 1991
Vampire World 2: The Last Aerie
- Brian Lumley
Vector, Dec 1993
Vengeance of Orion
- Ben Bova
Paperback Inferno, Jun 1989
A Very British Genre
- Paul Kincaid
Vector, Dec 1995
Victim Prime
- Robert Sheckley
Paperback Inferno, Oct 1987
Villains! (Edited)
- Mary Gentle
& Roz Kaveney
Vector, Aug 1992
The Walrus and the Warwolf
- Hugh Cook
Vector, Feb 1993
Wanderers and Islanders
- Steve Cockayne
Vector, Jul 2002
Wolf Riders (Edited)
- David Pringle
Vector, Apr 1990
Wulfsyarn
- Phillip Mann
Paperback Inferno, Apr 1992
Zaragoz
- Brian Craig
Vector, Apr 1990
Zenith Book 1
- Grant Morrison
& Steve Yeowell
Paperback Inferno, Jun 1990
Books Reviewed
The Dredd Phenomenon: Comics and Contemporary Society
Vector, Mar 2000
by Gary Wilkinson
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