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Soundings
Cover © Judith Clute

SOUNDINGS :
REVIEWS 1992-1996

Gary K Wolfe



Winner 2006 BSFA Award
for Best Nonfiction Work

Shortlisted for 2006 Hugo Award
for Best Nonfiction Work


On the Locus "Recommended Reading List"
of the best non-fiction of 2005.
Wolfe
Photo © Roger Robinson


Reviews of this book appear on the following sites -
Emerald City #120      The Eyrie      Christian Sauvé      SF Site      SF Studies #99     

Gary K Wolfe was awarded a Special Non-Fiction World Fantasy Award in 2007
for "reviews and criticism in Locus and elsewhere"


Two further volumes are planned.
The first, to be called Bearings, will be published at Easter 2010
with the second, Sightings, following a year later.



Gary K Wolfe has been a long-time reviewer for Locus magazine, and 1992 was his first full year with the magazine. This book has collected most of his review columns from the first five years, along with his annual year-in-review columns, to provide a snapshot of what those five years had to offer the science fiction reader.

"Gary Wolfe is one of speculative fiction's smartest observers and wisest critics.
He's funny and trenchant, always acute and always perceptive.
We are fortunate to have him."
Neil Gaiman



Gary K Wolfe is the author of Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever (with Ellen Weil), Critical Terms for Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Known and the Unknown: The Iconography of Science Fiction, as well as hundreds of essays and reviews, mostly for Locus magazine since 1991. He has received the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (1998), the Pilgrim Award from the Science Fiction Research Association (1987), and the Eaton Award (for The Known and the Unknown). He teaches at Roosevelt University in Chicago.



Paperback, viii + 415 pages.
233mm x 150mm. Publication date 27 July 2005.

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Books reviewed in SOUNDINGS

Brian Aldiss
328 - The Secret of this Book
172 - Somewhere East of Life
106 - A Tupolev Too Far
David Alexander
172 - Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry
Kevin J. Anderson & Doug Beason
260 - Ill Wind
Kevin J. Anderson (ed.)
342 - War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches
Patricia Anthony
114 - Brother Termite
72 - Cold Allies
Catherine Asaro
393 - Catch the Lightning
Isaac Asimov
150 - I. Asimov
Isaac Asimov & Harlan Ellison
207 - I Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay
Isaac Asimov & Robert Silverberg
51 - The Ugly Little Boy
Brian Attebery & Ursula K. Le Guin (eds.)
106 - The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction
J.G. Ballard
245 - Rushing to Paradise
Jay Barbree & Howard Benedict with Deke Slayton & Alan Shepard
172 - Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon
John Barnes
260 - Kaleidoscope Century
Steven Barnes
393 - Blood Brothers
Stephen Baxter
145 - Anti-Ice
145 - Flux
215 - Ring
285 - The Time Ships
384 - Voyage
Peter S. Beagle
104 - The Innkeeper's Song
Greg Bear
23 - Anvil of Stars
275 - Legacy
114 - Moving Mars
Greg Bear & Martin H. Greenberg (eds.)
158 - New Legends
Doug Beason & Kevin J. Anderson
260 - Ill Wind
M. Shayne Bell (ed.)
193 - Washed by a Wave of Wind: Science Fiction from the Corridor
Peter Benchley
150 - White Shark
Howard Benedict & Jay Barbree with Deke Slayton & Alan Shepard
172 - Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon
Gregory Benford
215 - Matter's End
267 - Sailing Bright Eternity
Gregory Benford (ed.)
305 - Far Futures
Alexander Besher
193 - Rim: A Novel of Virtual Reality
Michael Bishop
359 - At the City Limits of Fate
136 - Brittle Innings: A Southern Gothic World War II Baseball Novel
Terry Bisson
337 - Pirates of the Universe
James Blish
323 - A Case of Conscience
136 - A Work of Art and Other Stories
Robert Bloch
92 - Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography
Ben Bova
193 - Death Dream
36 - Mars
Ray Bradbury
373 - Quicker than the Eye
Scott Bradfield
316 - Animal Planet
Damien Broderick
292 - Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction
Eric Brown
99 - Meridian Days
Algis Budrys
72 - Hard Landing
David R. Bunch
76 - BUNCH!
Katharine Burdekin ("Murray Constantine")
141 - Proud Man
James Lee Burke
76 - In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead
Stephen Bury
136 - Interface
F. M. Busby
68 - The Singularity Project
Octavia E. Butler
285 - Bloodchild: Novellas and Stories
145 - Parable of the Sower
Richard Calder
260 - Dead Boys
254 - Dead Girls
Orson Scott Card
62 - The Call of Earth: Homecoming, Volume 2
234 - Earthfall: Homecoming, Volume 4
36 - Lost Boys
19 - The Memory of Earth
316 - Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
Orson Scott Card & Kathryn Kidd
193 - Lovelock
Angela Carter
359 - Burning Your Boats
Michael Cassutt with Donald K. "Deke"Slayton
172 - Deke! US Manned Space from Mercury to the Shuttle
Arthur C. Clarke
84 - The Hammer of God
Arthur C. Clarke & Gentry Lee
114 - Rama Revealed
Arthur C. Clarke & Mike McQuay
328 - Richter 10
John Clute
297 - Look at the Evidence
297 - Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia
John Clute & Peter Nicholls (eds.)
84 - The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Theodore R. Cogswell (ed.)
92 - PITFCS: Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies
Paul Collins (ed.)
172 - Metaworlds: Best Australian Science Fiction
D.G. Compton
92 - Nomansland
Alfred Coppel
84 - Glory
367 - Glory's People
240 - Glory's War
Kathryn Cramer & David G. Hartwell (eds.)
158 - The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard Science Fiction
John Crowley
121 - Antiquities: Seven Stories
Brian D'Amato
40 - Beauty
Richard Dalby (ed.)
51 - Modern Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers
Kara Dalkey
379 - Little Sister
Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (eds.)
349 - The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
31 - The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection
92 - The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection
172 - The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection
275 - The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 8th Annual Collection
L.Sprague de Camp
121 - Rivers of Time
Samuel R. Delany
228 - Silent Interviews
Paul Di Filippo
245 - The Steampunk Trilogy
Terry Dowling & Van Ikin (eds.)
141 - Mortal Fire: Best Australian Science Fiction
Gardner Dozois (ed.)
349 - The Year's Best Science Fiction: 13th Annual Collection
J.R. Dunn
186 - This Side of Judgment
Tom Dupree, Jennifer Hershey & Janna Silverstein (eds.)
267 - Full Spectrum 5
Greg Egan
337 - Distress
158 - Permutation City
40 - Quarantine
Harlan Ellison & Isaac Asimov
207 - I Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay
Harlan Ellison & Jacek Yerka
150 - Mind Fields: The Art of Jacek Yerka/The Fiction of Harlan Ellison
Joel Engel
172 - Gene Roddenberry: The Myth and the Man Behind "Star Trek"
Joe Clifford Faust
393 - Ferman's Devils
Edward L. Ferman & Kristine Kathryn Rusch (eds.)
193 - The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 45th Anniversary Anthology
Yvonne Fern
172 - Gene Roddenberry: The Last Conversation
Michael F. Flynn
342 - Firestar
John M. Ford
114 - Growing Up Weightless
Valerie J. Freireich
234 - Becoming Human
297 - Testament
Mark S. Geston
45 - Mirror to the Sky
William Gibson
379 - Idoru
Robert Gleason
207 - Wrath of God
Janet Gluckman & George Guthridge
23 - Child of the Light
Lisa Goldstein
207 - Travellers in Magic
349 - Walking the Labyrinth
Kathleen Ann Goonan
323 - The Bones of Time
207 - Queen City Jazz
Steven Gould
328 - Wildside
Terence M. Green
328 - Shadow of Ashland
Martin H. Greenberg (ed.)
193 - Nebula Award-Winning Novellas
Martin H. Greenberg & Greg Bear (eds.)
158 - New Legends
Nicola Griffith
260 - Slow River
George Guthridge & Janet Gluckman
23 - Child of the Light
Joe Haldeman
337 - None So Blind
99 - Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds
19 - Worlds Enough and Time
Elizabeth Hand
234 - Waking the Moon
Philip Harbottle & Stephen Holland
82 - Vultures of the Void: A History of British Science Fiction Publishing, 1946-1956
Robert Harris
36 - Fatherland
Harry Harrison & Bruce McAllister (ed.)
14 - There Won't Be War
David G. Hartwell (ed.)
40 - Foundations of Fear: An Exploration of Horror
349 - Year's Best Science Fiction
David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (eds.)
158 - The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard Science Fiction
David G. Hartwell & Milton T. Wolf (eds.)
384 - Visions of Wonder: The SFRA Reading Anthology
Patrick Nielsen Hayden (ed.)
373 - Starlight 1
Jennifer Hershey, Tom Dupree & Janna Silverstein (eds.)
267 - Full Spectrum 5
William Hjortsberg
193 - Nevermore
Ernest Hogan
28 - High Aztech
James P. Hogan
121 - Out of Time
Steve Holland
141 - The Mushroom Jungle
Stephen Holland & Philip Harbottle
82 - Vultures of the Void: A History of British Science Fiction Publishing, 1946-1956
William Horwood
129 - The Willows in Winter
Van Ikin & Terry Dowling (eds.)
141 - Mortal Fire: Best Australian Science Fiction
Simon Ings
215 - City of the Iron Fish
Alexander Jablokov
45 - A Deeper Sea
Harvey Jacobs
68 - Beautiful Soup: A Novel for the 21st Century
P.D. James
92 - The Children of Men
Edward James
228 - Science Fiction in the 20th Century
K.W. Jeter
379 - Blade Runner: Replicant Night
292 - Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human
Stephen Jones (ed.)
349 - Best New Horror 6
Kathryn Kidd & Orson Scott Card
193 - Lovelock
Damon Knight
379 - Humpty Dumpty: An Oval
Dean Koontz
193 - Dark Rivers of the Heart
Chris Kreski with William Shatner
172 - Star Trek Memories
R. A. Lafferty
62 - Argo
14 - Lafferty in Orbit
34 - Tales of Chicago
62 - Tales of Midnight
Ursula K. Le Guin
82 - Earthsea Revisioned
207 - A Fisherman of the Inland Sea: Science Fiction Stories
275 - Four Ways to Forgiveness
Ursula K. Le Guin & Brian Attebery (eds.)
106 - The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction
Gentry Lee
254 - Bright Messengers
Gentry Lee & Arthur C. Clarke
114 - Rama Revealed
Stanislaw Lem
292 - Highcastle
186 - Peace on Earth
Jonathan Lethem
267 - Amnesia Moon
150 - Gun, with Occasional Music
384 - The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye
Mark Leyner
62 - Et Tu, Babe
Herbert Lieberman
76 - Sandman, Sleep
H.P. Lovecraft
285 - The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death
Richard Lupoff
367 - Before É 12:01 É and After
Alison Lurie (ed.)
129 - The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales
Amin Maalouf
292 - The First Century After Beatrice
James A. Mann (ed.)
106 - The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith
Dave Marinaccio
172 - All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek
Lisa Mason
167 - Summer of Love
Bruce McAllister & Harry Harrison (ed.)
14 - There Won't Be War
Paul J. McAuley
275 - Fairyland
393 - The Invisible Country
207 - Red Dust
Larry McCaffery (ed.)
12 - Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction
Wil McCarthy
167 - Aggressor Six
367 - The Fall of Sirius
367 - Murder in the Solid State
Jack McDevitt
359 - Ancient Shores
Ian McDonald
297 - Chaga
34 - Hearts,Hands and Voices (as The Broken Land in the U.S.)
45 - Speaking in Tongues
Maureen F. McHugh
193 - Half the Day is Night
Patricia A. McKillip
215 - Something Rich and Strange
Mike McQuay & Arthur C. Clarke
328 - Richter 10
Michael Moorcock
359 - Behold the Man
James Morrow
158 - Towing Jehovah
Haruki Murakami
99 - The Elephant Vanishes
Linda Nagata
240 - The Bohr Maker
297 - Tech-Heaven
Jamil Nasir
297 - Quasar
Peter Nicholls & John Clute (eds.)
84 - The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Charles Oberndorf
14 - Sheltered Lives
92 - Testing
Rebecca Ore
260 - Gaia's Toys
Cole Perriman
150 - Terminal Games
Marge Piercy
12 - He, She and It
Jerry Pournelle & Charles Sheffield
342 - Higher Education
Tim Powers
19 - Last Call
Paul Preuss
106 - Core
Robert M. Price (ed.)
51 - Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos
David Pringle
245 - The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction: 2nd ed.
Daniel Quinn
23 - Ishmael
Robert Reed
167 - Beyond the Veil of Stars
316 - An Exaltation of Larks
Mike Resnick (ed.)
50 - Inside the Funhouse: 17 SF Stories about SF
Kim Stanley Robinson
68 - Red Mars
114 - Green Mars
323 - Blue Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson (ed.)
186 - Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias
Mary Rosenblum
106 - Chimera
76 - The Drylands
215 - The Stone Garden
359 - Synthesis & Other Virtual Realities
Kristine Kathryn Rusch & Edward L. Ferman (eds.)
193 - The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 45th Anniversary Anthology
Geoff Ryman
150 - Unconquered Countries: Four Novellas
23 - Was
Pamela Sargent (ed.)
245 - Nebula Awards 29
328 - Nebula Awards 30
Jack Seabrook
186 - Martians and Misplaced Clues: The Life and Work of Fredric Brown
William Shatner with Chris Kreski
172 - Star Trek Memories
Charles Sheffield
305 - The Ganymede Club
234 - Georgia on My Mind, and Other Places
Charles Sheffield (ed.)
186 - Future Quartet
Charles Sheffield & Jerry Pournelle
342 - Higher Education
Alan Shepard & Deke Slayton with Jay Barbree & Howard Benedict
172 - Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon
Delia Sherman
76 - The Porcelain Dove, or Constancy's Reward
Tom Shippey (ed.)
172 - The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories
40 - The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
Robert Silverberg
45 - The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume One: Secret Sharers
136 - Hot Sky at Midnight
62 - Kingdoms of the Wall
337 - Starborne
Robert Silverberg & Isaac Asimov
51 - The Ugly Little Boy
Janna Silverstein, Tom Dupree, & Jennifer Hershey (eds.)
267 - Full Spectrum 5
Clifford D. Simak
373 - Over the River & Through the Woods
Dan Simmons
31 - Children of the Night
305 - Endymion
28 - The Hollow Man
George Gaylord Simpson
316 - The Dechronization of Sam Magruder
Deke Slayton & Alan Shepard with Jay Barbree & Howard Benedict
172 - Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon
Donald K. "Deke"Slayton with Michael Cassutt
172 - Deke! US Manned Space from Mercury to the Shuttle
Michael Marshall Smith
384 - Spares
Norman Spinrad
62 - Deus X
275 - Journals of the Plague Years
Neal Stephenson
228 - The Diamond Age
28 - Snow Crash
Bruce Sterling
373 - Holy Fire
Michael Stewart
51 - Belladonna
Sean Stewart
240 - Nobody's Son
121 - Passion Play
240 - Resurrection Man
R.L. Stine
285 - The Horror at Camp Jellyjam
285 - Superstitious
Theodore Sturgeon
106 - Argyll: A Memoir
245 - The Ultimate Egoist: Volume I: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
328 - Microcosmic God: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume II
Tricia Sullivan
267 - Lethe
Lawrence Sutin (ed.)
254 - The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick
Sheri S. Tepper
342 - Gibbon's Decline and Fall
104 - A Plague of Angels
193 - Shadow's End
Diann Thornley
254 - Ganwold's Child
George Turner
72 - The Destiny Makers
Gore Vidal
62 - Live from Golgotha
Elisabeth Vonarburg
40 - The Silent City
Michael Whelan
129 - The Art of Michael Whelan
A. Susan Williams (ed.)
51 - The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women
Walter Jon Williams
245 - Metropolitan
Jack Williamson
316 - The Humanoids
Connie Willis
328 - Bellwether
19 - Doomsday Book
129 - Impossible Things
228 - Remake
158 - Uncharted Territory
Robert Charles Wilson
145 - Mysterium
Terri Windling & Ellen Datlow (eds.)
349 - The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
31 - The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection
92 - The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection
172 - The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection
275 - The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 8th Annual Collection
Milton T. Wolf & David G. Hartwell (eds.)
384 - Visions of Wonder: The SFRA Reading Anthology
Jacek Yerka & Harlan Ellison
150 - Mind Fields: The Art of Jacek Yerka/The Fiction of Harlan Ellison
Jane Yolen (ed.)
129 - Xanadu 2
David Zindell
99 - The Broken God