Reprint: Sex and/or Mr Morrison

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Carol Emshwiller, Damon Knight, Fritz Leiber, Harlan Ellison, Larry Niven, Philip K. Dick, Poul Anderson, William Blake

This is one of my In Short columns, dealing with Carol Emshwiller’s story from Dangerous Visions. It first appeared in Vector 282, Winter 2015-16.

Reprint: Three Science Fiction Novellas

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Damon Knight, H.G. Wells, J-H Rosny aine, Jules Verne

I first came across J-H Rosny aîné in a Damon Knight anthology many years ago, and immediately fell in love with his work. This review of three of his novellas was first published in Interzone 241, July-August 2012.

Reprint: Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne

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Damon Knight, Gene Wolfe, John Clute, R.A. Lafferty

This is another of my In Short columns. It appeared in Vector 275, Spring 2014.

Reprint: Nebula Awards Showcase 2004

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A.E. Van Vogt, Adam-Troy Castro, Alexei Panshin, Allen Steele, Anna Kavan, Anthony Boucher, Arthur Sellings, Bob Shaw, Brian Aldiss, Carol Emshwiller, Charles Stross, Damon Knight, Darko Suvin, Frederik Pohl, Groff Conklin, Harlan Ellison, Harry Harrison, Jack McDevitt, Jerry Oltion, John Wyndham, Katherine MacLean, Lesley What, Megan Lindholm, Mervyn Peake, Michael Swanwick, Molly Gloss, Neil Gaiman, Peter Jackson, Poul Anderson, Ray Bradbury, Richard Chwedyk, Sharon Lee, Ted Chiang, Ursula K. Le Guin, Vonda McIntyre, Willis E. McNelly, Willy Ley

I haven’t actually included any anthologies in my reprints so far, even though I have reviewed an awful lot of them. So I thought I should include one today. This review of Nebula Awards Showcase 2004 edited by Vonda N. McIntyre was, I think, written for The New York Review of Science Fiction, but I can’t find a record of it being published. So this may be its first appearance.

Reprint: Against a Definition of Science Fiction

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Damon Knight, Darko Suvin, Farah Mendlesohn, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jane Austen, John Crowley, Kelly Link, Ludwig Wittgenstein, m john harrison, Monty Python, Raymond Carver, Robert Heinlein, Samuel R. Delany, Steve Erickson, Steven Millhouser, T.S. Eliot

This is a revised version of a talk that I gave to a joint meeting of the Science Fiction Foundation and the British Science Fiction Association on 27 June 2009. This revised version was then published in World Literature Today, May-June 2010.

Reprint: The SFWA European Hall of Fame

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Andreas Eschbach, Arthur C Clarke, Bernhard Ribbeck, Claude Dunyach, Cyrano de Bergerac, Damon Knight, David Hartwell, Eleni Aresenieva, James Morrow, Joao Barreiros, Joelle Wintrebert, Johanna Sinisalo, Johannes Kepler, Jorge Luis Borges, Jose Antonio Cotrina, Jules Verne, Kathryn Morrow, Lucian Merisca, Marek S. Huberath, Ondrej Neff, Panagiotis Koustas, Pedro Jorge Romero, Philip Jose Farmer, Ricard de la Casa, Sergei Lukyanenko, Stanislaw Lem, Strugatskis, Valerio Evangelisti, W.J. Maryson, Zoran Zivkovic

My recovery of old reviews continues with another from The New York Review of SF, in this instance The SFWA European Hall of Fame edited by James Morrow and Kathryn Morrow. The review appeared in The New York Review of Science Fiction 234, February 2008.