The Celtic Riddle

There are two types of crime fiction that commonly cop all the literary attention: hardboiled and psychological. Hardboiled fiction is terse and sulphurous, and features the kind of pulpy plots and characters that screenwriters swoon ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Polished Hoe

By Austin Clarke

There are these rum advertisements that have been getting a lot of airplay in the U.K. recently. The commercials are set in a few tropical, sun-bleached locales in the West Indies and the action consists ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Callahan’s Con

By Spider Robinson

For more than a quarter-century, the gang from Callahan’s Place has been facing interplanetary peril, exploring strange new species (and drinks), and pushing the boundaries of physics and fiction alike. Spider Robinson’s ongoing series of ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Beholder’s Eye

By Julie E. Czerneda

This is the author’s second science fiction novel for Daw, following A Thousand Words for Stranger. Esen-Alit-Quar is a shape-shifter. The youngest of the five remaining members of her ancient species, she has spent the ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Pattern Recognition

By William Gibson

It’s a sign of the times that the new novel by sci-fi veteran William Gibson is his first set entirely in the present day. Twenty years ago, Gibson’s Neuromancer – his vision of a globalized ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Moor Is Dark Beneath the Moon

By David Watmough

The death of an elderly aunt sends Davey Bryant to England where he visits the haunts of his Cornish childhood. Bryant is dismayed by the commercial changes that are transforming the landscape of the moors ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Haunting of L.

By Howard Norman

The link between photography and death haunts all photographs of people,” Susan Sontag wrote in her classic series of essays, On Photography. Howard Norman’s noir thriller is a prolonged meditation on the relationship between photography ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sticks and Stones: A Randy Craig Mystery

By Janice MacDonald

Sticks and stones will break my bones but names can never hurt me, the childhood rhyme goes. But over the past decade feminists and other left-wing theorists have made naming a central concern, arguing that ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Proximate Causes

By Lyndsay Smith

There’s a nether world out there of biker gangs, multi-million-dollar drug deals and murder and mayhem that would put the Marquis de Sade to shame.Lyndsay Smith has seen it all as a Vancouver attorney. She ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dance of Knives

By Donna McMahon

Vancouver sci-fi writer William Gibson is known for his pioneering depictions of the anarchic, post-apocalyptic city. With Dance of Knives, first-time novelist and fellow Vancouverite Donna McMahon has put her stamp on that futuristic vision. ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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