My 2025 reading summary. Really just a list of books and some statistics ... rrhorton.blogspot.com/2026/01/2025...

Thoughts on Northanger Abbey. open.substack.com/pub/richhort...

My latest review of a midcentury UK woman writer -- one of my favorite writers of that period, though not at her best: Margery Sharp's 1953 novel The Gipsy in the Parlour. open.substack.com/pub/richhort...

I've rescued another of my reviews from the ashes of the pioneering science fiction review website SF Site. This one is of the late Damien Broderick's excellent collection Uncle Bones. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/12/resc...

For the season, here's a look at Charles Dickens' five holiday-themed novellas from the 1840s: rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/12/revi...

For the season, here's a look at Charles Dickens' five holiday-themed novellas from the 1840s: rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/12/revi...

Here's a review of Junichiro Tanizaki's 1925 novel Naomi (translation of Chijin no Ai (A Fool's Love): open.substack.com/pub/richhort...

On my Substack I've posted a look, revised from something I wrote nearly a decade ago, at the little-remembered Philip Wylie novel FINNLEY WREN: richhorton314252.substack.com/p/notions-op...

Here's a look at Isaac Asimov's THE END OF ETERNITY: rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/12/resu...

This 1955 French YA novel became a Disney TV movie -- and it's actually pretty good. The Horse Without a Head, by Paul Berna. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/12/revi...

A review of Fran Wilde's very find new novel A PHILSOPHY OF THIEVES: richhorton314252.substack.com/p/a-caper-bu...

A review of Edgar Wallace's (co-screenwriter of King Kong) novel The Feathered Serpent. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/12/old-...

This is a look at an anthology Cosmopolitan put together in 1932, of some of the best stories in the magazine -- and, so, a look at the middle range of American short fiction in that period. richhorton314252.substack.com/p/some-middl...

A look at Ford Madox Ford's time travel novel Ladies Whose Bright Eyes (1915/1935). This is the expanded version of my Curiosities piece from the July-August 2022 F&SF. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/12/revi...

I reread Christopher Priest's Inverted World after 50 years -- open.substack.com/pub/richhort...

Thanks to Hyson Concepcion for revealing to me the existence of LIES AND WEDDINGS, a novel by Kevin Kwan (of CRAZY RICH ASIANS fame), that is also about crazy rich Asians (and non-Asians) but is cleverly based on Anthony Trollope's DOCTOR THORNE. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/11/revi...

Henry Green's wonderful novel Party Going: open.substack.com/pub/richhort...

I've reviewed -- after a while not doing so -- another piece of forgotten popular fiction from early in the 20th Century: The Love of Monsieur, by George Gibbs. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/11/old-...

I've reviewed the sequel to last year's Hugo winner (and it's just as good): A DROP OF CORRUPTION, by Robert Jackson Bennett. open.substack.com/pub/richhort...

A look at two classic movies: The River, and My Man Godfrey: rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/11/two-...

A minor of enjoyable John Brunner novel: THE DRAMATURGES OF YAN (1971/1972): rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/11/resu...

Here's a repost of my sort of TOC for anthologies of the best short science fiction between 1989 and 2018. richhorton314252.substack.com/p/great-shor...

Here's a review of C. S. E. Cooney's lovely new novel Saint Death's Herald. open.substack.com/pub/richhort...

A look at a very light "historical" mystery, A Royal Pain, by Rhys Bowen. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/11/revi...

A resurrected review of The Armies of Memory (2006), by John Barnes, who should get more attention. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/10/resu...

I've written about another great midcentury English woman writer, Rumer Godden, and her lovely 1946 novel The River. open.substack.com/pub/richhort...

I think Ray Nayler is doing the most exciting things with SF of any writer today. Here's a look at his new novel, Where the Axe is Buried. open.substack.com/pub/richhort...

I've resurrected another decades old review, this one of Matthew Hughes' diverting Vancean novel Fool Me Twice. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/10/resu...

Here's a look at Anthony Trollope's The Eustace Diamonds, and at why I think Trollope is so great. open.substack.com/pub/richhort...

Here's a look at a rather better issue of a 1955 SF magazine than the one I reviewed last week: open.substack.com/pub/richhort...

Muriel Spark is getting well-deserved attention with the publication of a new biography. Some while ago I read about a dozen of her books. I need to reread her, but in the interim, here's a very brief look at one of her last novels, Aiding and Abetting. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/10/resu...

Looking at Charles Dickens' GREAT EXPECTATIONS: rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/10/old-...

Here's a look at a 1956 issue of Fantastic. Not a great issue, but it does have four stories by a very young Robert Silverberg. open.substack.com/pub/richhort...

I review recent iissuse of Analog (an SF magazine) and Zyzzyva (a "literary" magazine). open.substack.com/pub/richhort...

Here's a review of Michael Swanwick's 2002 novel Bones of the Earth, which I loved but which doesn't seem to get as much notice these days as it deserves. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/09/resu...

Something I wrote long ago about one of Lawrence Watt-Evans' amusing and intelligent Ethshar novels, The Blood of a Dragon. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/09/resu...

Elizabeth Taylor's beautiful and powerful novel Angel: open.substack.com/pub/richhort...

A look at a 1938 novel by the Anglo-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart. open.substack.com/pub/richhort...

Here's a review of all three of John Brunner's novels about the survivors of a nova that destroyed the planet Zarathustra. Brunner wrote the novels in the early '60s, and revised them later, finally published an omnibus of all three as Victims of the Nova. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/09/revi...

Here's a review of Megan E. O'Keefe's 2023 novel The Blighted Stars, first in the Devoured Worlds trilogy. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/09/revi...

Here's a review of Rich Larson's new collection CHANGELOG, available now from Fairwood Press: open.substack.com/pub/richhort...

Here's a review of an oral history of sorts of SF, based on interviews conducted at the Berkeley radio station KPFA: Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!, edited by Richard Wolinsky rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/09/revi...

Now a look at Alexandre Dumas's most famous novel, THE THREE MUSKETEERS. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/08/old-...

Some notes, thoughts, reflections, whatever -- after my recent reread of The Fellowship of the Ring. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Here's a review of the July-August Asimov's, plus a look a couple more online short stories: open.substack.com/pub/richhort...

Here's a review of Eleanor Arnason's delightful collection of stories set (mostly) in Iceland, HIDDEN FOLK. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/08/revi...

Another pre-Worldcon post of an old review, of Damon Knight's puzzling but worthwhile HUMPTY DUMPTY: AN OVAL, his last novel. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/08/resu...

I’m on my way to this year’s World Science Fiction Convention, so here’s a piece from a few years ago at Black Gate, on one of the best stories by one of the best of SF writers, Samuel R. Delany. open.substack.com/pub/richhort...

Here's a review of Lincoln Michel's novel METALLIC REALMS, which is not SF but certainly SF-adjacent: open.substack.com/pub/richhort...

I've reviewed another Joanna Russ novel, her only mainstream novel, and a lovely book. ON STRIKE AGAINST GOD. rrhorton.blogspot.com/2025/08/revi...