"Brian Aldiss, geographer of the night side of the mind, tells here a tale echoing the Wells classic his title evokes. It is up-to-date - and more so. It is darkly fascinating. It is tightly told. It never slows down. It is a fire-shot landscape filled with bestial images, the sound of bombs and Haydn fading at distances near and metaphysical."
"The Boat of a Million Years -- sometimes Narrenschiff, ever the Flying Dutchman -- offers first-class accommodations on a reading voyage down the ages, with stops at many a fascinating port. For a long time I felt Poul was too long between books. It is good to see why and to know, simultaneously, that it was worth the wait."
"Plays with the ultimates of time, space, creation, destruction, intelligence. It is told in terms of eons, system-sized machines, time travel, resurrections from DNA, villains of universe-class nastiness. And it is, among other things, a love story... Recommended in the same spirit of extremes."
"In Random Walk, Lawrence Block has written a New Age Pilgrim's Progress, a parable for the eighties."
"Thoughtful and vivid...Broderick is a striking and absolutely unique writer."
"Damien Broderick's "A Passage in Earth"... reminds me of some of the work of the late Cordwainer Smith, and I can only selfishly hope that he returns to this same universe, many times, to fetch back more pieces of that vision."
"Watch Steven Brust. He's good. He moves fast. He surprises you. Watching him untangle the diverse threads of intrigue, honor, character and mayhem from amid the gears of a world as intricately constructed as a Swiss watch is a rare pleasure."
"A rare pleasure. I like this book a lot!"
"He tells a fantastically engaging story with consummate grace and genuine artistry."
"Wyrms is an extremely powerful and thoughtful book - one of the best things Orson Scott Card has written to date."
"Running from the micro to the macro and back again, redefining sentience, spacetime, and perhaps humanity along the way, From a Changeling Star is a fast-paced puzzler, rich in invention, and Jeffrey A. Carver's most ambitious book to date."
"Jeffrey A. Carver deserves attention. The Rapture Effect is a lively dance of ideas— first contact, interstellar war, artificial intelligence, alien culture—and it moves at a rapid pace, from Earth through cyberspace to the Horsehead Nebula, and various points between. It's well-worth the trip ticket."
"A remarkably fine fantasy...Adrian Cole has a magic touch."
"Disembodied intelligences both artificial and not so, interstellar travel by canoe, mass minds, totemic aliens, and a small-town newspaperman whose lost love is part of the environment -- It is an achievement to produce a successful amalgam of such disparate items. But Tony Daniel has done it, in this, his impressive first novel. Remember his name, and keep watching for whatever he does."
"A reality magician...and just when you feel that he has innoculated you against surprise, he will surprise you again. He's that good."
"A powerful and fascinating book - hypnotic in its hold on the reader."
"Extraordinarily fine...this is a book to be savored."
"Tom Deitz, already a good storyteller, has gotten even better."
"In Radio Free Albemuth we have Philip K. Dick's final novel, a story of political repression, reality shifts, theological speculation—all of those elements which he wove so maddeningly well."
"Philip Jose Farmer arouses awe... Philip Jose Farmer is special."
"I looked forward for over a year to the book you are holding in your hands."
"Has all the ingredients - sympathetic characters, sustained action,colorful settings and a truly novel menace - for a first-class page-turner.It's the kind of book that makes you miss sleep and be late for appointments."
"Joe Haldeman always delivers the goods, and Buying Timeis no exception. A first-rate thriller."
"A solid adventure story involving Indian traditions, shamanism, and high tech-- fast-paced, tough, and provocative."
"This is a landmark work. Daring, imaginative, witty—it is the best commentary on the field yet written."
"Prisoners of Arionn is a bewitching book, a bizarre study in family relation cast against a cosmic city-napping of amazing proportion. It is a fascinating and peculiarly satisfying story, told by a gifted writer."
"A good story by a fine writer...mesmeric appeal."
"Lavondyss is a vision-quest walkabout through time and archetime, a successful encore to a book I didn't believe could be sequeled, a whirlpool of a story spinning golden boughs, masks of gods, kings, corpses, and the bones of vanished lovers past the heroine with a thousand faces."
"It is a very good thing to see a new tale by Damon Knight. And I like this one, considerably. It is a journey of revelation, a science fiction story to satisfy the fantasy fan and something close to vice-verse-- no mean achievement. I recommend it in all directions."
"Lafferty has the power which sets fire behind your eyeballs."
"Whom the gods would destroy, they should first have read Fourth Mansions. The closest comparison I can think of is a psychedelic morality play where the Virtues and Vices keep sneaking offstage and switching masks. One comes away from it as one awakens from a dream."
"It's all Fritz Leiber's fault. If he weren't such a deadly fine fantasist I wouldn't be stopping everything to read his tales. And if he weren't such a master I wouldn't occasionally look out the window and wish he'd interrupt my routine again, as he doesn't do it often enough.The Knight and Knave of Swords came into my life and took over an otherwise fully programmed afternoon. I stop everything when a new Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story comes into my hands."
"One of the brightest new writers to come along in years."
"A gem, cut with verve and polished with abundant skill, coloured, highlighted by a master."
"Julian May has woven a many-colored tapestry of exotic adventure, bringing together a cast of humans and aliens of every stripe and friction in a place where science might as well be magic and the conflicts resonate with myth. Enjoyable and recommended."
"Julian May has woven a many-coloured tapestry of exotic adventure...I anticipate with pleasure its further unrolling in the book to come."
"Vonda McIntyre writes skilfully...tracing an exciting trail through darkness and danger."
"Dreamsnake is a fine tale...I like this book very much."
"Paul Preuss has done a fine thing. He has written a magnificent book in Broken Symmetries. I admire his knowledge and artistry."
"...a skillfully told tale, blending myth and prehistory into a carefully wrought world where the conflict of ice age forces is focused in the person of an enigmatic smith. It begins a trilogy which will be well worth following."
"Holmes, Watson, and Dracula - back again and in top form - in a tale that mesmerizes the reader."
"William Sanders' Journey To Fusang is a clever romp through maybes and might-have-beens- picaresque, witty, colorful. I like the way this man's mind works. Whatever he does for an encore will be worth the wait and the price."
""God damn! I liked Sanders' new book! It pushes all the right buttons for me - a great protagonist, WWI fighter pilots, terrific background, and - mainly - a fine story with really clever twists. It was one of those where I just wanted to keep going, though he did choose a satisfying place to stop. As you may gather, I liked it. The Wild Blue and theGray is an absolutely captivating story by one of the hottest new talents in the business. Subtle, strong, gutsy, humorous - it's got it all. Watch this man. You won't regret it."
"Burning Bright is a clever, intense, and complex tale by an author possessed of the skill to make it look easy."
"A grand picaresque tale by one of the great storytellers of the century."
"Norman Spinrad is in top form for this one. A fine book, brilliantly written, I enjoyed every page of it."
"A wild and potent collection by some of the brightest new writers in science fiction, mixing technology with desire, flashing futures within a starred mirror."
"Vacuum Flowers is a dance of ideas and action at the razor-edge of technology. Vivid and highly entertaining."
"Very good! It moves with all the precision of a chess game with fate!"
"A bright new talent."
"A mind-grabber."
"A fine tale, a pleasure to read...I recommend it most highly."
"It is a privilege to visit the landscapes of her imagination."
"A tough, sleek juggernaut of a story, punctuated by strobe light movements, coursing to the wail of jets and the twang of steel guitars--glittering, nasty and noble--and told in a style perfectly suiting its content. It has all my favorite things - blood, love, fire, hate and a high ideal or two. I wish I'd written this one."
"I have never been let down by a Connie Willis story, and this one is no exception. My, what a good book."
"A Gene Wolfe story is always surprising, rewarding and well-told."
"Castle of Days is also a flight of yesterdays, a twinkle of todays, and a promise of tomorrows. Charming and entertaining from drawbridge to tower-tip."
"A striking portrait of the artist as a young torturer. It takes hold of you and conducts you down strange corridors..."
"Wolverton can dispense the flash and dazzle of space opera while at the same time providing tough, real, sympathetic characters."