What Makes This Book So Great

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1. Introduction · article
2. Why I Re-Read · essay
3. A Deepness in the Sky, the Tragical History of Pham Nuwen · article
4. The Singularity Proble and Non-Problem · article
5. Random Acts of Senseless Violence: Why Isn't It a Classic of the Field? · article
6. From Herring to Marmalade: The Perfect Plot of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency · article
7. «That's Just Scenery»: What Do We Mean by «Mainstream»? · article
8. Re-Reading Long Series · article
9. The Dystopic Earths of Heinlein's Juveniles · article
10. Happiness, Meaning and Significance: Karl Schroeder's Lady of Mazes · article
11. The Weirdest Book in the World · article
12. The Poetry of Deep Time: Arthur C. Clarke's Against the Fall of Night · article
13. Clarke Reimagined in Hot Pink: Tanith Lee's Biting the Sun · article
14. Something Rich and Strange: Candas Jane Dorsey's Black Wine · article
15. To Trace Impunity: Greg Egan's Permutation City · article
16. Black and White and Read a Million Times: Jerry Pournelle's Janissaries · article
17. College as Magic Garden: Why Pamela Dean's Tam Lin Is a Book You'll Either Love or Hate · article
18. Making the Future Work: Maureen McHugh's China Mountain Zhang · article
19. Anathem: What Does It Gain from Not Being Our World? · article
20. A Happy Ending Depends on When You Stop: Heavy Time, Hellburner and C.J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union Universe · article
21. Knights Who Say «Fuck»: Swearing in Genre Fiction · article
22. «Earth Is One World»: C.J. Cherryh's Downbelow Station · article
23. Space Is Wide and Good Friends Are Too Few: Cherryh's Merchanter Novels · article
24. «A Need to Deal Wounds»: Rape of Men in Cherryh's Union-Alliance Novels · article
25. How to Talk to Writers · article
26. «Give Me Back the Berlin Wall»: Ken MacLeod's The Sky Road · article
27. What a Pity She Couldn't Have Single-Handedly Invented Science Fiction!: George Eliot's Middlemarch · article
28. The beauty of lists: Angelica Gorodischer's Kalpa Imperial · article
29. Like Pop Rocks for the Brain: Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand · article
30. Between Two Worlds: S. P. Somtow's Jasmine Nights · article
31. Lots of Reasons to Love These: Daniel Abraham's Long Price books · article
32. Maori Fantasy: Keri Hulme's The Bone People · article
33. Better to Have Loved and Lost? Series That Go Downhill · article
34. More Questions Than Answers: Robert A. Heinlein's The Stone Pillow · article
35. Weeping for Her Enemies: Lois McMaster Bujold's Shards of Honor · article
36. Forward Momentum: Lois McMaster Bujold's The Warrior's Apprentice · article
37. Quest for Ovaries: Lois McMaster Bujold's Ethan of Athos · article
38. Why He Must Not Fail: Lois McMaster Bujold's The Borders of Infinity · article
39. What Have You Done with Your Baby Brother?: Lois McMaster Bujold's Brothers in Arms · article
40. Hard on His Superiors: Lois McMaster Bujold's The Vor Game · article
41. One Birth, One Death, and All the Acts of Pain and Will Between: Lois Mcmaster Bujold's Barrayar · article
42. All True Wealth Is Biological: Lois McMaster Bujold's Mirror Dance · article
43. Luck Is Something You Make for Yourself: Lois McMaster Bujold's Cetaganda · article
44. This Is My Old Identity, Actually: Lois McMaster Bujold's Memory · article
45. But I'm Vor: Lois McMaster Bujold's Komarr · article
46. She's Getting Away!: Lois McMaster Bujold's A Civil Campaign · article
47. Just My Job: Lois McMaster Bujold's Diplomatic Immunity · article
48. Every Day Is a Gift: Lois McMaster Bujold's «Winterfair Gifts» · article
49. Choose Again, and Change: Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga · article
50. So, What Sort of Series Do You Like? · article
51. Time Travel and Slavery: Octavia Butler's Kindred · article
52. America the Beautiful: Terry Bisson's Fire on the Mountain · article
53. Susan Palwick's Shelter · article
54. Scintillations of a Sensory Syrynx: Samuel Delany's Nova · article
55. You May Not Know It, But You Want to Read This: Francis Spufford's Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin · article
56. Faster Than Light at Any Speed · article
57. Gender and Glaciers: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness · article
58. Licensed to Sell Weasels and Jade Earrings: The Short Stories of Lord Dunsany · article
59. The Net of a Million Lies: Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep · article
60. The Worst Book I Love: Robert Heinlein's Friday · article
61. India's Superheroes: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children · article
62. A Funny Book with a Lot of Death in It: Iain Banks's The Crow Road · article
63. More Dimensions Than You'd Expect; Samuel Delany's Babel 17 · article
64. Bad, But Good: David Feintuch's Midshipman's Hope · article
65. Subtly Twisted History: John M. Ford's The Dragon Waiting · article
66. A Very Long Poem: Alan Garner's Red Shift · article
67. Beautiful, Poetic, and Experimental: Roger Zelazny's Doorways in the Sand · article
68. Waking the Dragon: George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire · article
69. Who Reads Cosy Catastrophes? · article
70. Stalinism vs Champagne at the Opera: Constantine Fitzgibbon's When the Kissing Had to Stop · article
71. The Future of the Commonwealth: Nevil Shute's In the Wet · article
72. Twists of the Godgame: John Fowles's The Magus · article
73. Playing the Angles on a World: Steven Brust's Dragaera · article
74. Jhereg Feeds on Others' Kills: Steven Brust's Jhereg · article
75. Yendi Coils and Strikes Unseen: Steven Brust's Yendi · article
76. A Coachman's Tale: Steven Brust's Brokedown Palace · article
77. Frightened Teckla Hides in Grass: Steven Brust's Teckla · article
78. How Can You Tell?: Steven Brust's Taltos · article
79. Phoenix Rise from Ashes Grey: Steven Brust's Phoenix · article
80. I Have Been Asking for Nothing Else for an Hour: Steven Brust's The Phoenix Guards · article
81. Athyra Rules Minds' Interplay: Steven Brust's Athyra · article
82. What, Is There More?: Steven Brust's Five Hundred Years After · article
83. Orca Circles, Hard and Lean: Steven Brust's Orca · article
84. Haughty Dragon Yearns to Slay: Steven Brust's Dragon · article
85. Issola Strikes from Courtly Bow: Steven Brust's Issola · article
86. What Has Gone Before? · article
87. The Time About Which I Have the Honor to Write: Steven Brust's The Viscount of Adrilankha · article
88. Dzur Stalks and Blends with Night: Steven Brust's Dzur · article
89. Jhegaala Shifts As Moments Pass: Steven Brust's Jhegaala · article
90. Quiet Iorich Won't Forget: Steven Brust's Iorich · article
91. Quakers in Space: Molly Gloss's The Dazzle of Day · article
92. Locked in Our Separate Skulls: Raphael Carter's The Fortunate Fall · article
93. Saving Both Worlds: Katherine Blake (Dorothy Heydt)'s The Interior Life · article
94. Yearning for the Unattainable: James Tiptree Jr.'s Short Stories · article
95. SF Reading Protocols · article
96. Incredibly Readable: Robert A. Heinlein's The Door Into Summer · article
97. Nasty, But Brilliant: John Barnes's Kaleidoscope Century · article
98. Growing Up in a Space Dystopia: John Barnes's Orbital Resonance · article
99. The Joy of an Unfinished Series · article
100. Fantasy and the Need to Remake Our Origin Stories · article
101. The Mind, the Heart, Sex, Class, Feminism, True Love, Intrigue, Not Your Everyday Ho-Hum Detective Story: Dorothy Sayers's Gaudy Night · article
102. Three Short Hainish Novels: Ursula K. Le Guin's Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile and City of Illusions · article
103. On Reflection, Not Very Dangerous: Harlan Ellison's The Last Dangerous Visions · article
104. Why Do I Re-Read Things I Don't Like? · article
105. Yakking About Who's Civilized and Who's Not: H. Beam Piper's Space Viking · article
106. Feast or Famine? · article
107. Review: Bellona, Destroyer of Cities, Jay Scheib's Play of Samuel Delany's Dhalgren · article
108. Not Much Changes on the Street, Only the Faces: George Alec Effinger's When Gravity Fails · article
109. History Inside-Out: Howard Waldrop's Them Bones · article
110. I'd Love This Book If I Didn't Loathe the Protagonist: Harry Turtledove and Judith Tarr's Household Gods · article
111. Screwball Comedy Time Travel: John Kessel's Corrupting Dr. Nice · article
112. Academic Time Travel: Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog · article
113. The Society of Time: John Brunner's Times Without Number · article
114. Five Short Stories with Useless Time Travel · article
115. Time Control: Isaac Asimov's The End of Eternity · article
116. Texan Ghost Fantasy: Sean Stewart's Perfect Circle · article
117. The Language of Stones: Terri Windling's The Wood Wife · article
118. A Great Castle Made of Sea: Why Hasn't Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Been More Influential? · article
119. Gulp or Sip: How Do You Read? · article
120. Quincentenniel: Arthur C. Clarke's Imperial Earth · article
121. Quincentenniel: Arthur C. Clarke's Imperial Earth · article
122. Do You Skim? · article
123. A Merrier World: J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit · article
124. Monuments from the Future: Robert Charles Wilson's The Chronoliths · article
125. The Suck Fairy · article
126. Trains on the Moon: John M. Ford's Growing Up Weightless · article
127. Overloading the Senses: Samuel Delany's Nova · article
128. Aliens and Jesuits: James Blish's A Case of Conscience · article
129. Swiftly Goes the Swordplay: Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword · article
130. The Work of Disenchantment Never Ends: Kim Stanley Robinson's Icehenge · article
131. Literary Criticism Vs Talking About Books · article

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