1999 BOOK REVIEWS INDEX
[TOP-10] = One of my favourite books of the year, [BAD!] = Bad book!, [CDN] = Canadian Author(s).
Science-Fiction / Horror / Fantasy
- Starlight 2, (Ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden)
- Ball, Margaret: Mathemagics
- Barnes, John: Earth Made of Glass
- Barton, William & Michael Capobianco: Alpha Centauri [BAD!]
- Baxter, Stephen: Moonseed
- Baxter, Stephen: Traces
- van Belkom, Edo: Death Drives a Semi [CDN]
- Bethke, Bruce: Headcrash [TOP-10]
- Brin, David & Gregory Benford: Heart of the Comet
- Bujold, Lois McMaster: The Warrior's Apprentice
- Champetier, Joël: The Dragon's Eye [CDN]
- Hartmann, William K.: Mars Underground
- Heinlein, Robert A.: The Number of the Beast
- Jablokov, Alexander: Deepdrive
- Jurasik, Peter & William H. Keith, Jr.: Diplomatic Act
- King, Stephen / Richard Bachman: Desperation / The Regulators
- Kress, Nancy: Beggars in Spain
- McCarthy, Wil: Aggressor Six
- McCarthy, Wil: Bloom
- McCarthy, Wil: Murder in the Solid State
- McDevitt, Jack: Moonfall
- McDevitt, Jack: Standard Candles
- Odom, Mel: Stalker Analog
- Nylund, Eric S.: A Signal Shattered
- Nylund, Eric S.: Signal to Noise
- Pellegrino, Charles & George Zebrowski: The Killing Star [TOP-10]
- Pellegrino, Charles & George Zebrowski: Star Trek: TNG#50: Dyson Sphere [BAD!]
- Robinson, Kim Stanley: The Martians
- Sawyer, Robert J.: Flashforward [CDN]
- Scott, Melissa: Trouble and Her Friends [BAD!]
- Shatner, William: Man o' War [BAD!]
- Sheffield, Charles: Aftermath
- Sheffield, Charles: Proteus Manifest
- Steele, Allen: All-American Alien Boy
- Steele, Allen: The Jericho Iteration
- Steele, Allen: Labyrinth of Night and Clarke County, Space
- Steele, Allen: Orbital Decay
- Sterling, Bruce: A Good, Old-Fashioned Future
- Stith, John E.: Manhattan Transfer
- Sullivan, Tricia: Dreaming in Smoke
- Turtledove, Harry: The Guns of the South [TOP-10]
- Vinge, Vernor: A Deepness in the Sky
- Wilson, Robert Charles: Darwinia [CDN]
- Zebrowski, George: Brute Orbits
- Zebrowski, George: Macrolife
- Zettel, Sarah: Fool's War
Thrillers / Technothrillers / Crime Fiction
- Alten, Steve: Meg
- Anderson, Kevin J. & Doug Beason: Lethal Exposure
- Brown, Dale: Shadows of Steel
- Brown, Dale: Storming Heaven
- Cobb, James H.: Sea Strike
- Connelly, Michael: Trunk Music [TOP-10]
- Dinallo, Greg: Red Ink
- Follett, Ken: The Third Twin
- Harrison, Payne: Forbidden Summit [BAD!]
- Kadow, Jeannine: Blue Justice
- Reeves-Stevens, Judith and Garfield Icefire: [TOP-10]
- Stephenson, Neal: Cryptonomicon [TOP-10]
- Wouk, Herman: Winds of War / War and Remembrance
Non-Fiction
- Northern Dreamers (Ed. Edo van Belkom) [CDN]
- Benford, Gregory: Deep Time
- Berry, Adrian: The Next 500 Years
- Bova, Ben: Immortality
- Brin, David: The Transparent Society [TOP-10]
- Collins, Michael: Mission to Mars
- Diamond, Jared: Guns, Germs and Steel [TOP-10]
- Drexler, Eric K.: Engines of Creation [TOP-10]
- Fleming, Charles: High Concept
- Greenwald, Jeff: Future Perfect: How Star Trek Conquered Planet Earth
- Alibek, Ken with Stephen Handleman: Biohazard
- Hoving, Thomas: False Impressions
- Jenkins, Susan & Robert, M.D.: Life Signs: The Biology of Star Trek
- Junger, Sebastian: The Perfect Storm [TOP-10]
- Laver, Ross: Random Excess [CDN]
- Lewis, John S.: Mining the Sky
- McGrath, Tom: MTV: The Making of a Revolution
- Miller, Russell: Bare-Faced Messiah
- Moskowitz-Mateu, Lysa & David LaFontaine: Poison Pen
- Pollock, Dale: Skywalking: The Life and Films of George Lucas
- Regis, Ed: Virus Ground Zero
- Rucker, Rudy: Saucer Wisdom
- Sheffield, Charles: Borderlands of Science
- Shirley, Donna with Danelle Morton: Managing Martians
- Silver, Lee F.: Remaking Eden
- Springer, Jerry & Laura Morton: Ringmaster!
- Swisher, Kara: aol.com
- Tzu, Sun (Translated by Ralph D. Sawyer): The Art of War
- Vanderbilt, Tom: The Sneaker Book
Miscellaneous articles...
- Capsule Reviews: The Juror (George Dawes Green), Rock This (Chris Rock), This is Year Zero (Andrew Weiner), Hype (Liz Nickles)
- TWISTER: The Science of Tornadoes and The Original Screenplay
- Nanodreams, Ed. Elton Elliott and Nanotech, Ed. Dunn & Dozois
- Captain Jack Zodiac, Michael Kandel and Et Tu, Babe, Mark Leyner
- Tesseract 7, Ed. Johanson & Trudel, Tesseract 8, Ed. Clute and Dorsey
- Science-Fiction Movies of 1999
- SF in 1999: The Year in Review
You can always check out my reviews of movies released in 1999.