Genre fiction criticism at its scholarly, irritating best: Warm Words & Otherwise by John Grant

Over 150,000 words of book reviews, many of full essay length, by the two-time Hugo winning and World Fantasy Award-winning co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and author. Scholarly, iconoclastic, opinionated, hilarious, downright irritating...
 
Sept. 19, 2011 - PRLog -- A bumper collection – over 150,000 words! – of book reviews, many of full essay length, by the two-time Hugo winning and World Fantasy Award-winning co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and author, among much fiction, of such recent nonfiction works as Corrupted Science and (forthcoming) Denying Science.

Scholarly, iconoclastic, witty, passionate, opinionated, hilarious, scathing and downright irritating by turn, these critical pieces are sure to appeal to anyone who loves fantasy, science fiction, mystery fiction, crime fiction and many points in between ... and who also enjoys a rousing argument.

FULL DETAILS AT http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/books/jg/warmwords.htm

contents:

   Introduction

   THE BOOKS

   Steven-Elliot Altman (creator), Patrick Merla (editor): The Touch
   C.K. Anderson: A Step Beyond
   Kevin J. Anderson: Hopscotch
   Donald Antrim: The Verificationist
   Isaac Asimov, Janet Jeppson Asimov (editor): It's Been a Good Life
   Jonathan Aycliffe: The Lost
   Steve Aylett: Atom
   Kage Baker: Black Projects, White Knights
   Clive Barker: Coldheart Canyon
   Beverly Barton: The Fifth Victim
   Hilari Bell: A Matter of Profit
   Ann Benson: Thief of Souls
   Mark Billingham: Lazy Bones
   Elena Dorothy Bowman: Sarah's Landing 1
   Gerry Boyle: Pretty Dead
   Ray Bradbury: From the Dust Returned
   Ray Bradbury: Let's All Kill Constance
   Steve Brewer: Boost
   Keith Brooke: Expatria
   Keith Brooke: Keepers of the Peace
   Susan M. Brooks: Collecting Candace
   Lois McMaster Bujold: The Curse of Chalion
   Timothy Burke and Kevin Burke: Saturday Morning Fever
   Andrea Camilleri: Voice of the Violin
   Jonathan Carroll: The Wooden Sea
   Vincent Cobb: Nemesis
   Nancy A. Collins: Tempter
   Thomas H. Cook: Into the Web
   Thomas H. Cook: Peril
   Natasha Cooper: Fault Lines
   Parley J. Cooper: The Feminists
   Frank Corsaro: Kunma
   Joseph Covino Jr: Terror Tales of the City: Prince of the Perverse
   Wes Craven: Fountain Society
   Michael Crichton: Prey
   Stuart David: Nalda Said
   L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt: The Compleat Enchanter: Fantasy Masterworks 10
   Bill DeSmedt: Singularity
   A.J. Diehl: The Mind Box
   Sharon Duncan: The Dead Wives Society
   David and Leigh Eddings: Regina's Song
   Chris Elliott: The Shroud of the Thwacker
   Sylvia Engdahl: Children of the Star
   Sylvia Louise Engdahl, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon: Enchantress from the Stars
   George A. Erickson: Time Traveling with Science and the Saints
   Mary Anna Evans: Artifacts
   Christopher Fahy: Fever 42
   Robert J. Favole: Through the Wormhole
   Kitty Fitzgerald: Pigtopia
   Tom Flynn: Galactic Rapture
   Jeffrey Ford: The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
   Katherine V. Forrest: Daughters of a Coral Dawn
   Alan Dean Foster: Reunion
   George Foy: Last Harbor
   Gregory Frost: Fitcher's Brides
   Lisa Gardner: Alone
   Lisa Gardner: The Killing Hour
   Lisa Gardner: The Survivors' Club
   Martin Gardner: Science Good, Bad and Bogus
   Bartholomew Gill: Death in Dublin
   Robert Girardi: Vaporetto 13
   Joel Goldman: Motion to Kill
   Howard E. Green: The Tarzan Chronicles
   Amy Gutman: The Anniversary
   Dashiell Hammett, Vince Emery (editor): Lost Stories: 21 Long-Lost Stories from the Bestselling Creator of Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man
   Laurell K. Hamilton: A Caress of Twilight
   William Heffernan: A Time Gone By
   Howard V. Hendrix: Empty Cities of the Full Moon
   David Hewson: A Season for the Dead
   David Hewson: Lucifer's Shadow
   Tom Holland: Supping with Panthers
   Kay Hooper: Sense of Evil
   Greg Hurwitz: The Program
   Phillip Ellis Jackson: Timeshift
   P.D. James: The Murder Room
   Roy Johansen: Deadly Visions
   Kaylie Jones: Speak Now
   Stephen Jones and David Sutton (editors): Dark Terrors 4
   Graham Joyce: The Tooth Fairy
   Robert I. Katz: The Anatomy Lesson
   Robert I. Katz: Edward Maret
   Robert I. Katz: Surgical Risk
   Jack Ketchum: Right to Life: A Novella and Two Stories
   Stephen King: Bag of Bones
   Alistair Kinnon: The Knotted Cord
   Rachel Klein: The Moth Diaries
   Jim Knipfel: The Buzzing
   Dean Koontz: From the Corner of His Eye
   Henry Kuttner: Fury
   Geoffrey A. Landis: Impact Parameter, and Other Quantum Realities
   Gillian Linscott: Dead Man Rising: A Nell Bray Mystery
   Simon Logan: i-o
   Jack London: Fantastic Tales
   James Long: Silence and Shadows
   Ed McBain: Fat Ollie's Book
   Hugh McCracken: Rules of the Hunt
   Jack McDevitt: Deepsix
   Brian McNaughton: Guilty Until Proven Guilty
   Nick Mamatas: Northern Gothic
   George R.R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle: Windhaven
   Richard Matheson: Come Fygures, Come Shadowes
   Richard Matheson: Noir: Three Novels of Suspense
   Robert A. Metzger: Picoverse
   Ron Miller: Bronwyn Book One: Palaces & Prisons
   Elizabeth Moon: Remnant Population
   Elizabeth Moon: The Speed of Dark
   Michael Moorcock: The Dreamthief's Daughter
   James W. Moseley and Karl T. Pflock: Shockingly Close to the Truth: Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist
   Arthur Nersesian: Suicide Casanova
   Larry Niven: The Integral Trees
   Debbie Notkin and The Secret Feminist Cabal (editors): Flying Cups & Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction & Fantasy
   Tim O'Laughlin: Phoenix Fire
   Gene O'Neill: The Burden of Indigo
   Monica J. O'Rourke (editor): Decadence
   Terry Pratchett: Thief of Time
   M.K. Preston: Song of the Bones
   Christopher Priest: The Extremes
   Mike E. Purfield: Dirty Boots
   Ian Rankin: Resurrection Men
   Michael Reaves: Hell on Earth
   David L. Robb: Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies
   David L. Robbins: Scorched Earth
   Chris Roberson: Any Time At All
   Adam Roberts: Salt
   Kim Stanley Robinson: The Years of Rice and Salt
   Peter Robinson: The First Cut
   Michael Romkey: The Vampire's Violin
   Joel Rosenberg: Home Front
   Eric Frank Russell: Next of Kin
   Richard Paul Russo: Ship of Fools
   James Sallis: Drive
   Vivian Schilling: Quietus
   Lucius Shepard, illustrated by J.K. Potter: Louisiana Breakdown
   Lynn Sholes and Joe Moore: The Grail Conspiracy
   Robert Silverberg: The Longest Way Home
   Clifford D. Simak: Way Station
   Dan Simmons: Worlds Enough & Time: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction
   Alison Sinclair: Cavalcade
   Harry R. Squires: What Rough Beast
   Thomas Staab: Heart of Ice, Blood of Fire
   Victor J. Stenger: Has Science Found God?
   Jean Stewart: Return to Isis
   N.K. Stouffer: The Legend of Rah and the Muggles
   Matthew Stover: Blade of Tyshalle
   Theodore Sturgeon: Selected Stories
   Sheri S. Tepper: The Companions
   Sheri S. Tepper: Singer from the Sea
   Matthew Thomas: Terror Firma
   C.S. Thompson: Games Dead People Play, and Other Stories
   Rupert Thomson: The Book of Revelation
   S.D. Tower: The Assassins of Tamurin
   Jack Vance: Big Planet
   Marian Veevers: Bloodlines
   Greg Vilk: Golem
   Sue Walker: The Reunion
   Chananya Weissman: Journeys into Limbo
   Michael J. Weldon: The Psychotronic Video Guide
   Gary Westfahl: The Mechanics of Wonder: The Creation of the Idea of Science Fiction
   Donald E. Westlake: God Save the Mark
   Karen Williams: Love Spell
   Walter Jon Williams: The Rift
   Connie Willis: Passage
   F. Paul Wilson: The Haunted Air: A Repairman Jack Novel
   F. Paul Wilson: Hosts: A Repairman Jack Novel
   Jeanette Winterson: The World and Other Places
   Jack Womack: Going, Going, Gone
   Lytchcov Zammana: The Otherhood
   Marc Scott Zicree and Barbara Hambly: Magic Time

   TWO GROUP REVIEWS

   Cruci-Fiction
   J.R. Lankford: The Jesus Thief
   Peter Senese with Robert Geis: Cloning Christ

   Across the Sea of Genre
   Greg Bear: Vitals
   Sheri S. Tepper: The Visitor
   Alice Borchardt: The Dragon Queen

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