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New York Review of Science Fiction

Subject: Science Fiction / Reviews & Criticism
Category: Magazine
Country of Origin: USA

Engaging and provocative essays, thoughtful and informed reviews, and topical comment for the SF field.
 

    Twenty-one time Hugo Award nominee!
    Remains by far the most reliably published and probably the most interesting and accessible of the more scholarly oriented 'criticalzines'
    Gardner Dozois, Year's Best SF
    A literate review of the sf field, with a good mix of critical reviews, commentary, articles ... The reviews are long, discerning, and written by well-known figures in the field ... For any library that supports an active science fiction readership, The New York Review of Science Fiction is a 'best buy.'
    Library Journal

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#176 to current | #151 to #175 | #126 to #150 | #101 to #125 | #76 to #100 | #51 to #75 | #26 to #50
#25

Gary K. Wolfe, "The Dawn Patrol: Sex and Technology in Farmer and Ballard"; Tony Daniel, "Knot: The Problem"; Alexei Panshin, "L. Ron Hubbard: Science Fiction Giant?"; Jonathan Carroll's A Child Across the Sky reviewed by Richard A. Lupoff; Lewis Shiner's Slam reviewed by Charles Platt; lagniappe by John Brunner (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock
#24

Samuel R. Delany, "Modernism, Postmodernism, Science Fiction"; Kathryn Cramer, "Literary Architecture: An Introduction to Walls of Fear"; Dave Myers, "The Clarion Paradigm: A Scarecrow"; Gene Wolfe's Castleview reviewed by John Clute; Joe Haldeman's The Hemingway Hoax reviewed by Charles Platt (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock
#23

Samuel R. Delany, "Science and Literature"; Greg Cox, "Excerpts from The Transylvanian Library: A Consumer's Guide to Vampire Fiction"; Howard Mittelmark, "An Interview with Orson Scott Card"; Nancy Kress's Brain Rose reviewed by Tony Daniel; K. W. Jeter's Death Arms reviewed by Glenn Grant; reading list by Gordon Eklund (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock
#22

Justin Leiber, "Riding the Void Captain's Torch Through Essex House"; Kathryn Hume, "Making Love with the System: Sexualizing Technology-with-a-Capital-T"; Jessica Amanda Salmonson, "The Optimist and the Cynic"; Dan Simmons' Hyperion reviewed by Robert Killheffer; Michael Swanwick, "Two Short Fiction Reviews." (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock
#21

Frederik Pohl, "Rio Plus Twenty"; Dave Langford, "Muddying the Waters"; Poul Anderson's The Boat of a Million Years reviewed by John G. Cramer; The New Yolk Review of Scientifiction (parody) including: Robert Killheffer, "Hogwash: The Pig in Fantasy Literature"; James Morrow, "Doom and Digression" and many reviews (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock
#20

Jessica Amanda Salmonson, "Amazon Heroic Fantasy: An Overview"; Frank Dietz, "Everyperson in Nowhereland: Characters in Contemporary American Utopias"; Charles Platt, "Quantum Fiction: A Blueprint for Avoiding Literary Obsolescence"; Rob Swigart, "NITS and DRITS"; S. P. Somtow's Moon Dance reviewed by Greg Cox (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock
#19

Phillip C. Jennings, "An Interview with Bruce Bethke"; Daniel M. Pinkwater's Fish Whistle reviewed by Gene Wolfe; Kathleen L. Spencer, "The 'Monstrous Regiment'" (pt. II); Jim Young, "Before the Dawn (pt. II)"; Robert A. Heinlein's Grumbles from the Grave, reviewed by Sam Moskowitz and by Richard A. Lupoff (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock
#18

Kathleen L. Spencer, "The 'Monstrous Regiment': Mythologies of The Other in British Fantastic Fiction 1880-1920"; Patrick D. Murphy, "The Left Hand of the Pilgrim: Joanna Russ's Contributions to Criticism"; Jim Young, "Before the Dawn: Weinbaum, Campbell, and the Invention of Modern Science Fiction (pt. I)" (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock
#17

Frederik Pohl, "The Law of the Raft"; Adrian Cole, "The Vulgariad: An Epic in the Making"; Michael R. Collings, "New Words for New Worlds"; James Morrow's Only Begotten Daughter reviewed by Brian Stableford; Ellen Datlow's Blood Is Not Enough reviewed by Richard A. Lupoff; reading list by Christopher Hinz (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock
#16

Robert Killheffer, "After Winning the War: Fantasy & Science Fiction's Fortieth Anniversary" (pt. 1 of 2); P. R. Graucho, Ian Grump, Todt Achtungherr, et al, "Un-Nuclear Simmer: The Effect on Global Media of a Major Nuclear Bore"; Alexei and Cory Panshin, "A New Moral Order" from The World Beyond the Hill (pt. III) (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock
#15

John Crowley, "The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart"; John Crowley's Novelty reviewed by Jennifer K. Stevenson; Alexei and Cory Panshin, "A New Moral Order" (pt. II); Gene Wolfe's Soldier of Arete reviewed by Robert Killheffer; reading lists by Eileen Gunn, Paul J. McAuley, et al (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock
#14

Alexei and Cory Panshin, "A New Moral Order" from The World Beyond the Hill (pt. I); Michael Swanwick, "Three Short Fiction Reviews"; "The New Generation Gap" responses from Marta Randall, Jack Williamson, James Gunn et al; Jim Crace's The Strength of Stones reviewed by Paul Preuss (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock
#13

Samuel R. Delany, "How Not to Teach Science Fiction"; Joan Slonczewski, "The Central Paradox in An Alien Light by Nancy Kress"; Alexei and Cory Panshin, "Universal Principles of Operation" from The World Beyond the Hill (pt. 3 of 3); "The New Generation Gap" responses from L. Sprague de Camp, Larry Niven, et al (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock
#12

Robert Killheffer, "Striking a Balance: Robert Silverberg's Lord of Darkness, Dying Inside and Others"; Alexei and Cory Panshin, "Universal Principles of Operation (pt. 2 of 3)"; Michael Swanwick, "The Amateur Demographer Goes to the Bookstore"; Generational Saga: Responses to Kathryn Cramer's article "The New Generation Gap" (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock
#11

Alexei and Cory Panshin, "Universal Principles of Operation: from The World Beyond the Hill (pt. 1 of 3)"; Kathryn Cramer, "The New Generation Gap: A Study of SF Writers' Ages of Professional Entry into the Science Fiction Field for Six Decades of SF"; Gwyneth Jones, "Deconstructing the Starships" (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock
#10

Susan Palwick, "Recapitulating Phylogeny: A Roundabout Review of In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction" by Sarah Lefanu; Patrick D. Murphy, "'Gender Politics': Epithet or Accolade? Or, Feminist Sf and the Case of Joanna Russ"; Full Spectrum 2 reviewed by Kathryn Cramer (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock
#9

Brian Stableford, "To Bring in Fine Things: The Significance of Science Fiction Plots"; Kathryn Cramer, "Escher in Elfland: Logic, Fantasy & Criticism" (part 1 of 2); Two Views of "Kirinyaga": Lois Tilton, "Strangling the Baby"; Gordon Van Gelder, "'Let's Go Look at the Natives'"; reading lists by Terry Bisson et al (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock
#8

David Langford, "On High"; Jessica Amanda Salmonson, "Two Centuries of Women's Supernatural Stories"; Samuel R. Delany, "Neither the Beginning nor the End of Structuralism... (pt. 3 of 3)"; David G. Hartwell, "An Interview with Theodore Sturgeon (pt. 2 of 2)"; Rebecca Ore, "The Lost Audience." (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock
#7

David G. Hartwell, "An Interview with Theodore Sturgeon (pt. 1 of 2); Brian Stableford, "Henceforward: SF in the Theatre"; Richard C. Hoagland's The Monuments of Mars reviewed by Richard Lupoff; Kim Stanley Robinson's The Gold Coast and Green Mars reviewed by Donald M. Hassler (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock
#6

Samuel R. Delany, "Neither the Beginning Nor the End of Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Semiotics, or Deconstruction for SF Readers: An Introduction (pt. 1 of 3)"; Susan Palwick, "The Last Unicorn: Magic as Metaphor"; Ursula K. Le Guin, "Science Fiction and the Future"; reading lists by Walter Jon Williams et al (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock
#5

Ursula K. Le Guin, "Some Thoughts on Narrative"; Rachel Pollack's Unquenchable Fire reviewed by Gwyneth Jones; W. P. Kinsella's The Further Adventures of Slugger McBatt reviewed by Richard A. Lupoff; Kathryn Cramer, "Sincerity and Doom (pt. 4 of 4)"; reading lists by Greg Benford, Ellen Kushner, and Richard Kadrey (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock
#4

Brooks Landon, "Genres in Collision: Philip Glass's 1000 Airplanes on the Roof as Science Fiction Music Theater"; Four excursions into UFOlogy reviewed by Paul Preuss; M. J. Engh, "Science Fiction Poetry: A Rejoinder"; Kathryn Cramer and Greg Cox, "Speaker for the Reticent"; Daniel M. Pinkwater Speaks (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock
#3

Jack Womack's Terraplane reviewed by Bruce Sterling; Bruce Sterling's Islands in the Net reviewed by Brooks Landon; Susan Palwick, "I Was a Teenaged Crud Fan: Confessions of an Uptown Girl (pt. 3 of 3)"; Michael Swanwick, "Eight Short Fiction Reviews"; Joan D. Vinge's Catspaw reviewed by Loren J. MacGregor (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock
#2

Debbie Notkin, "Forbidden Sex and Uncontrollable Obsession: Sex in the Writings of Norman Spinrad"; Ursula K. Le Guin, "Introduction to the Women's Press edition of The Language of the Night"; Kathryn Cramer, "Sincerity and Doom (pt. 1 of 4)"; Terry Bisson's Fire on the Mountain reviewed by John M. Ford (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock
#1

Samuel R. Delany, "Flow My Tears...: Theater and Science Fiction"; Kathryn Cramer, "Science Fiction and the Adventures of the Spherical Cow"; Susan Palwick, "I Was a Teenaged Crud Fan: Confessions of an Uptown Girl (pt. 1 of 3)"; Tim Powers's On Stranger Tides reviewed by Greg Cox; reading list by Lewis Shiner (A4, 24pp) N/A out of stock