Gavin Grant
Content by Gavin Grant
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British writer Jon Courtenay Grimwood, author of eight novels, is just beginning to make a splash in the U.S.
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<b>A journey into India's future</b> Ian McDonald's faithful readership will be well rewarded with the publication of his new novel, <b>River of Gods</b>, which represents i
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English writer Charles Stross, whose books burst with pop-science ideas, intrigue, strong characters and even romance, continues his Merchant Princes series with the release this month of The Hidd
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You'll never see old Westerns the same way after reading Territory, Emma Bull's re-imagining of the frontier West. In 1881, a rider arrives in Tombstone, Arizona, with a man he has shot.
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In The Wellstone, a freestanding follow-up to his acclaimed novel The Collapsium, writer and real-life rocket scientist Wil McCarthy considers post-scarcity economies, leadership politi
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Ken MacLeod's The Execution Channel is a tomorrow's-headlines-today technothriller with enough ideas packed aboard to rise out of its small subcategory and into the stratosphere of speculative
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Laurie Marks's rich and affecting new novel Earth Logic is the second book in her Elemental Logic series which began with Fire Logic (warmly reviewed here in May 2002).
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Every senator, especially the ones with presidential aspirations, should read Kim Stanley Robinson's Sixty Days and Counting, probably the most hopeful book of the year.
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This month, fans of acclaimed science fiction writer Ray Bradbury receive a long-awaited treat: more than 50 years after he created the Elliots, a novel about this very peculiar family is being pu
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William Gibson, the influential science fiction author who coined the term "cyberspace" and created the character Johnny Mnemonic, has moved closer in his recent work to writing about the present day
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Neal Stephenson practices alchemy of the literary variety, turning words into gold in the successful conclusion of his Baroque Cycle, The System of the World.
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Margo Lanagan's Red Spikes is one of the best short story collections of the year in any genre.
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Greg Bear's 28th novel, the near-future thriller Darwin's Children, is a direct sequel to his Darwin's Radio (1999), although familiarity with the prequel is not necessary to enjoy the
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Peter Straub's page-turner, In the Night Room (Random House, $21.95, 352 pages, ISBN 1400062527), is a fascinating jumble of fantasy and reality that follows his previous novel, lost boy, l
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Sheri S. Tepper returns to her favorite themes human overpopulation and man's inhumanity to man and all other creatures in her latest novel, The Companions.
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Elizabeth Bear's first fantasy novel, Blood and Iron: A Novel of the Promethean Age, follows her well-received debut science fiction trilogy, Hammered, Scardown and Worldwired, r
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M. John Harrison's latest novel, Light, arrives from the U.K.
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, the fifth novel from science fiction writer Linda Nagata, is a thriller right from the start.
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<B>Liz Williams' daring brew</B> British writer Liz Williams' first novel, <I>The Ghost Sister</I>, was a finalist for the Philip K.
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Neil Gaiman's latest collection, Fragile Things, compiles 31 Short Fictions and Wonders, including such varied items as a story based on tarot cards and short pieces written for Tori Amos CD bookle
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In Mappa Mundi, the latest science ficiton novel by British writer Justina Robson to be published in the U.S., the author offers an engaging pyrotechnic slice of a near future in which compute
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Editor Sheree R. Thomas' first anthology of science fiction by African-American writers, Dark Matter, was released in 2000 to critical acclaim.
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Now in his 80s, Ray Bradbury continues to turn out the kind of imaginative and insightful short stories that have made him the grand old man of American science fiction (as noted by the National Book
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How can a painter create a portrait of a model he never actually sees? That question is at the center of Jeffrey Ford's fascinating new novel, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque.
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erry Bisson's latest book is a laugh-out-loud fantastic tale. It's a critique and a question: what does an individual have to do to stand out from the crowd?
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Sandra McDonald's debut novel The Outback Stars should reach a broad swathe of readers from hard science fiction fans to romance readers and manage to please them all.
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Alexander C. Irvine's debut novel, A Scattering of Jades, is a rich and entertaining tale.
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Kim Stanley Robinson's latest novel, Forty Signs of Rain, is a convincing story of weather disasters in the not-too-distant future.
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In the future depicted in Kelley Eskridge's new novel, Solitaire, people grow up in a peer group known as a web. Those born on the cusp of a certain new year are known as hopes.
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Canadian writer Sean Russell spent years purposefully and successfully avoiding the Tolkien-type of grand fantasy that has ongoing characters and plot elements.
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British author Karen Traviss' debut novel City of Pearl is the first entry in a fast-moving science fiction trilogy.
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is the sixth book in Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series, which becomes, with this addition, one of the richest fantasies ever created.
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