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Great Science-Fiction & Fantasy Works
Science-fiction & fantasy literature: a critical list with discussions.
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Regrettably, I have in recent years been spared little time for further development of this site. While I hope and expect that I will be returning to a heavier commitment to it soon now, in the meantime I thought to augment the site a bit with a list of some books yet-unlisted here but by authors already in the lists.
There remain quite a number of authors who can at least on occasion rise to acceptable quality, as evidenced by their being represented in these lists at all, but whose output shows significant variations in quality (“quality” always, of course, meaning “quality as I perceive it”). That category naturally includes a number of writers of middling ability, who can now or then hit the bell; but it also includes a nontrivial number of authors of presumed excellence who nevertheless—to me—seem capable of producing occasional potboilers or worse along with their better work.
I have, in a few cases, included some limited comments about the author, but only as an aide-memoire, not as any sort of definitive analysis.
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Ackroyd, Peter
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Adams, Richard
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Aickman, Robert
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- Reprint Collections:
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Aiken, Joan
- Omnibuses:
- Fantasy:
- Supernatural:
- “Picture Books” (children’s fantasy):
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Amis, Kingsley
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Amis, Martin
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Arnason, Eleanor
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Attanasio, A. A.
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Auster, Paul
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Baker, Frank
- Speculative:
- Speculative Nature Unknown (to me):
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Ballard, J. G.
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Barker, Clive
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Barrett, Neal
- Through Darkest America:
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Beerbohm, Max
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Benson, Stella
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Bisson, Terry
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Bramah, Ernest
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Brunner, John
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Bryant, Edward
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Bulgakov, Mikhail
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Cady, Jack
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Carrington, Leonora
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Carter, Angela
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Chabon, Michael
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Chambers, Robert W.
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Chapman, Stepan
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Cherryh, C. J.
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Cisco, Michael
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Cokal, Susann
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Collier, John
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Collodi, Carlo
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Compton, D. G.
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Connolly, John
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Cook, Glen
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Cook, Hugh
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Cooper, Louise
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Cooper, Susan
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Crawford, F. Marion
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Dahl, Roald
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Dalkey, Kara
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Davies, Robertson
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Davies, Tod
- The “History of Arcadia” Series:
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Davis, Kathryn
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Dexter, Susan
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Dickinson, Peter
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Disch, Thomas M.
- Supernatural Minnesota:
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Dorsey, Candas Jane
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Dowling, Terry
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Ducornet, Rikki
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Duncan, Dave
- The Pandemia Cycle:
- The Years of Longdirk [as by “Ken Hood”]
- The King of Chivial’s Blades:
- Dodec:
- The Brothers Magnus:
- The Starfolk:
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Effinger, George Alec
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Eisenstein, Phyllis
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Emmons, Josh
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Findley, Timothy
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Finney, Jack
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Ford, Jeffrey.
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Ford, John M.
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Frayn, Michael
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Friesner, Esther M.
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Gaiman, Neil
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- Chapbooks:
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Gardner, John
- Novels:
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Gemmell, David
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Gentle, Mary ***
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Geston, Mark S.
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Goldstein, Lisa
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Gray, Alasdair
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Gray, Nicholas Stuart
- Reasonable:
- Expensive:
- No “Very Good Condition” (Or Better) Copies Found:
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Green, Simon R.
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Hansen, Erik Fosnes
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Hoban, Russell
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Hoffman, Alice
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Holdstock, Robert
- The Merlin Codex:
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Houarner, Gerard Daniel
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Hughes, Rhys
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Hunt, Samantha
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Irwin, Robert
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Jackson, Shirley
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Jerrold, Douglas #
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Jeter, K. W. **
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Jones, Diana Wynne
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Joyce, Graham
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Karr, Phyllis Ann
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Killus, James
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King, Stephen
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Knight, Damon
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Kotzwinkle, William
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Kress, Nancy
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Le Guin, Ursula K.
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Lee, Tanith
- Ghosteria:
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Leiber, Fritz
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Lewis, C. S.
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Lightman, Alan
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Lindholm, Megan
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Lindsay, David
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Lively, Penelope
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Lupoff, Richard
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Lustbader, Eric Van
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MacAvoy, R. A.
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Mark, Jan
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Marks, Laurie J.
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Martel, Yann
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Mayhar, Ardath
- Tales of the Triple Moons
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McDonald, Ian
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- Shian:
- Chaga:
- India 2047:
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McIntyre, Vonda N.
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McKiernan, Dennis
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McKinley, Robin
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Meynard, Yves
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Miéville, China
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Millet, Lydia
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Mills, Magnus
- Novels
- Short Stories
- Screwtop Thompson *
[Includes the contents of two prior collections, Only When the Sun Shines Brightly and Once in a Blue Moon, plus three more stories.]
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Mitchell, David
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Modesitt, L. E.
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Moers, Walter
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Monaco, Richard
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Nathan, Robert
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Nesbit, E.
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Nichols, Ruth
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Norwood, Warren
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Ore, Rebecca
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Park, Paul
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Pierce, Meredith Ann
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Pinkwater, Daniel
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Piserchia, Doris
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Powers, Tim
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Priest, Christopher
- “The Dream Archipelago”:
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Resnick, Mike
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Roberts, Keith
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Ruff, Matt
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Rushdie, Salman
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Russell, Sean
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Ryman, Geoff
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Salmonson, Jessica Amanda
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Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann
- Songs from the Seashell Archives:
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Shea, Michael
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Shepard, Lucius
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Sherman, Delia
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Shetterly, Will
- Cats:
- Dogland [this had a quasi-sequel not, I think, worth listing here]
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Silverberg, Robert
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Simak, Clifford D.
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Smith, Thorne
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Snyder, Midori
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Spinrad, Norman
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Starrett, Vincent
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Stevermer, Caroline
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Stockton, Frank R.
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Stoddard, James **
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Sucharitkul, Somtow
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Tepper, Sheri S.
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Theroux, Paul
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Thurber, James
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Tournier, Michel
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Travers, P. L.
- Mary Poppins:
- Aunt Sass * [a collection of three stories originally written as a Christmas gift to select friends of Travers and published in a limited set of 500 copies, but now widely available; “Aunt Sass” was Christina Saraset, Travers’ great-aunt and the prototype of Mary Poppins]
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VanderMeer, Jeff
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Wellman, Manly Wade
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Wells, Martha
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White, E. B.
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White, T. H.
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Whitehead, Colson
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Wilhelm, Kate
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Williams, Michael
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Williams, Tad
- Tailchaser’s Song
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- Shadowmarch:
- Osten Ard:
- Memory, Sorrow & Thorn:
- The Last King of Osten Ard:
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Williams, Walter Jon
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Wolf, Gary K.
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Wyndham, John
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Zelazny, Roger
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Zindell, David
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