My essays and reviews of fiction and nonfiction available on Genre Fantasies are listed here in alphabetic order by author last name. For authors with multiple texts, those are given in chronological order of publication/release. Media essays and reviews are organized alphabetically by title of the text. I have also included an index of cover artists, publishers, and publication decades for the fiction covered in my essays to help readers make new connections across the fantasy, horror, and sf I’ve covered.
In addition to my writing on Genre Fantasies, I’ve written dozens of essays and reviews for other websites, magazines, academic journals, etc. For a list of those, see my Shorter Writing page. Those are not cross-indexed here, since links and downloadable PDFs are already available on that page.
I have also done or am working on several “reading series,” which are organized projects to read through and provide extended criticism on a set of related books. The landing pages for those series are linked below:
- Ballantine Adult Fantasy: A Reading Series (Genre Fantasies, 2025–)
- Ursula K. Le Guin Reread (Reactor, 2020–2021)
Table of Contents
Index to Essays on…
Fiction (by Author)
Media (by Title)
Nonfiction (by Author)
Index to…
Cover Artists
Publishers and Imprints
Publication Decade
FICTION (BY AUTHOR)
Awlinson, Richard [see Ciencin, Scott]
Beagle, Peter S.
- A Fine and Private Place (1960)
- The Last Unicorn (1968)
Chin, M. Lucie
- The Fairy of Ku-She (1988)
Ciencin, Scott
- Shadowdale (1989) (FR: Avatar 1)
Doherty, Gordon
- Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey (2018)
Dunsany, Lord
Eddison, E.R.
- The Worm Ouroboros (1922)
- Mistress of Mistresses (1935) (Zimiamvia 1)
- A Fish Dinner in Memison (1941) (Zimiamvia 2)
- The Mezentian Gate (1958) (Zimiamvia 3)
Furlong, Monica
- Juniper (1998) (Doran 1)
Jiang, Ai
Jordan, Robert
- The Eye of the World (1990) (Wheel of Time 1)
Knaak, Richard A.
- Firedrake (1989) (Dragonrealm 1)
Kostova, Elizabeth
- The Historian (2005)
Le Guin, Ursula K.
- The Dispossessed (1974)
- See also Ursula K. Le Guin Reread (Reactor, 2020–2021)
Lindsay, David
- A Voyage to Arcturus (1920)
Logston, Anne
- Shadow (1991) (Shadow 1)
Novik, Naomi
- Black Powder War (2006) (Temeraire 3)
- Empire of Ivory (2007) (Temeraire 4)
Park, Linda Sue
- SeeSaw Girl (1999)
- A Single Shard (2001)
Peake, Mervyn
- Titus Groan (1946) (Gormenghast 1)
- Gormenghast (1950) (Gormenghast 2)
- Titus Alone (1959) (Gormenghast 3)
Penman, Sharon Kay
- Here Be Dragons (1985) (Welsh Princes 1)
Pratt, Fletcher
- The Blue Star (1952)
Scalzi, John
- Redshirts (2012)
Shawl, Nisi
- Everfair (2016) (Everfair 1)
Sjón
- The Blue Fox (2003/2013)
Skomantas
- The Captive (1998) (Tales from the Baltic 1)
Stoutenburg, Adrien
- Out There (1971)
Swann, Thomas Burnett
- Day of the Minotaur (1966)
- The Weirwoods (1967)
- Moondust (1968)
- The Forest of Forever (1971)
- The Goat Without Horns (1971)
- Green Phoenix (1972)
- Wolfwinter (1972)
- How Are the Mighty Fallen (1974)
- The Not-World (1975)
- Will-O-the-Wisp (1976)
- The Minikins of Yam (1976)
- Lady of the Bees (1976)
- The Tournament of Thorns (1976)
- The Gods Abide (1976)
- Queens Walk in the Dusk (1977)
- Cry Silver Bells (1977)
Tuleja, Thaddeus
- Land of Precious Snow (1977)
MEDIA (BY TITLE)
Black Book (video game, 2021)
No One Will Save You (film, 2023)
Venba (video game, 2023)
NONFICTION (BY AUTHOR)
Carter, Lin
Goh, Katie
Greenaway, Jon
Jubber, Nicholas
Olivier, Marc
COVER ARTISTS
Barr, George
Baslove
Benson, William
Brom
Easley, Jeff
Ebel, Alex
Elmore, Larry
Gallardo, Gervasio
Grace, Robert
Hickman, Stephen
Jones, Jeffrey Catherine
Morrow, Gray
Pepper, Bob
Remington, Barbara
Schaumann, Peter
Staton, Joe
Sweet, Darrell K.
Szafran, Gene
Walotsky, Ron
Yi, Kang
PUBLISHERS AND IMPRINTS
Ace Books
Alfred A. Knopf
Avon Books
Ballantine Books
Corgi
DAW Books
Del Rey / Ballantine Books
Dell
Heritage Press
Laurel-Leaf Library / Dell
Little, Brown
Popular Library
Python
Questar / Popular Library
Tor
TSR
PUBLICATION DECADE
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