This week's books and more, unfairly (or sometimes fairly) neglected, or simply those the reviewers below think you might find of some interest (or, infrequently, you should be warned away from); certainly, most weeks we have a few not at all forgotten titles, and particularly this week, as we celebrate Banned Books Week...if I've missed your review or someone else's, please let me know in comments. Below, a still featuring the recently late writer Carol Emshwiller and two of her and filmmaker/visual artist Edmund Emshwiller's children...
Patricia Abbott: Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Stacy Alesi: The H List: Fiction Reviews 1983-2013
Brian Attebery: "The Day Before the Revolution" by Ursula K. Le Guin, Galaxy Science Fiction, August 1974, edited by James Baen
Brad Bigelow: Not Tonight by Kathleen Sully
Paul Bishop: Skywald western comics
Les Blatt: The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan by Stuart Palmer; A Puzzle for Fools by "Patrick Quentin"
Joachim Boaz: Frontera by Lewis Shiner
Brian Busby: No Tears for Goldie by "Jack C. Fleming" (Thomas P. Kelley)
Steve Carper: Buck Rogers, the newspaper comic strip, by Phil Nowlan and Dick Calkins
Martin Edwards: Hand of Fate by Michael Underwood
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: Warren horror comics, July-October 1968, edited by Archie Goodwin
Barry Ergang: Fever Dream by Dennis Palumbo
Will Errickson: Valley of Lights by Stephen Gallagher
José Ignacio Escribano: Inspector French's Greatest Case by Freeman Wills Crofts
Curtis Evans: Raymond Chandler on British crime fiction
Olman Feelyus: The End of the Night by John D. MacDonald; The Wanderer by "Alain-Fournier" (Henri-Alban Fournier)(translated by Frank Davison)
Paul Fraser: New Worlds SF, September 1965, edited by Michael Moorcock
John Grant: Salvation of a Saint by Keigo Higashino (translated by Alexander O. Smith); Ripper by Isabel Allende (translated by Ollie Brock and Frank Wynne); Homicide Trinity by Rex Stout
Aubrey Hamilton: Appleby's Answer by "Michael Innes" (John Innes Mackintosh Stewart); Up in Smoke by Charlotte Weir
Bev Hankins: The Two-Pound Tram by "William" (aka Kenneth) Newton; The Fate of the Immodest Blonde by "Patrick Quentin" (this time, Hugh Wheeler and Richard Webb)
Rich Horton: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov among other novels in contention for the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 1973; The Beasts of Kohl by "John Rackham" (John Phillifent); A Planet of Their Own by John Brunner; Hazard by Jo Beverly; Andy Duncan short fiction
Jerry House: The Diploids by Katherine MacLean; Super Detective Library #74 (1955?): Sherlock Holmes: "The Thames Afire" and "A Scandal in Bohemia" (comics adaptations, the former an original story)
Kate Jackson: It Walks By Night by John Dickson Carr; The Hooded Gunman: An Illustrated History of Collins Crime Club by John Curran
Jeanne at Bristol, VA, Public Library: If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura (translated by Eric Selland)
Tracy K: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons: Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson (translated by Quentin Bates)
Colman Keane: The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins
George Kelley: Norman Rockwell's America; Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty by Isaiah Berlin
Joe Kenney: Logan's Search by William F. Nolan;
Goodnight, L. A. by Ken Hartman
Rob Kitchin: The Abrupt Physics of Dying by Paul Hardisty
Nick Kolakowski: A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block
Derek Kunsken: Great History of Comics Books by Ron Goulart
B. V. Lawson: Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories by Colin Dexter
Des/DF Lewis: Black Static and Interzone, September-October 2019, edited by Andy Cox
Evan Lewis: "Robots Can't Lie" by Robert Leslie Bellem, Fantastic Adventures, July 1941, edited by Raymond Palmer
Steve Lewis: The Bigamist by John Jay Chichester
John O'Neill: The Opener of the Way (and the House of the Hatchet paperback partial reprint) by Robert Bloch
Matt Paust: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
James Reasoner: Tough as Nails by Fletcher Nebel
Richard Robinson: City of Corpses by Norvell Page
Sandra Ruttan: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas; Banned Books Week
Gerard Saylor: Kidnap & Ransom by Michelle Gagnon
Jack Seabrook: "Dry Run" by Norman Struber, Manhunt, April 1956, edited by "N. King"
Steven H Silver: "Songbird" by Orson Scott Card (Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1979, edited by Stanley Schmidt); Betty and Ian Ballantine
Victoria Silverwolf: Fantastic: Stories of Imagination, October 1964, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli
Kerrie Smith: Sleeping Partner by James Humphreys
Scott Tipple: JLA: Earth 2 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
"TomCat": Where There's a Will by "Kip" Chase (Travett C. Chase)
Bill Wallace: Way Out: A History and Episode Guide to Roald Dahl's Spooky 1961 Television Program by Martin Grams; Evergreen Review, March-April 1960, edited by Barney Rosset; Candy by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg
Sarah Waters: suggested ghost stories (with reviews from Ed Gorman, Bill Crider and a number of other stalwarts, some still with us...)
Patricia Abbott: Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Stacy Alesi: The H List: Fiction Reviews 1983-2013
Brian Attebery: "The Day Before the Revolution" by Ursula K. Le Guin, Galaxy Science Fiction, August 1974, edited by James Baen
Brad Bigelow: Not Tonight by Kathleen Sully
Paul Bishop: Skywald western comics
Les Blatt: The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan by Stuart Palmer; A Puzzle for Fools by "Patrick Quentin"
Joachim Boaz: Frontera by Lewis Shiner
Brian Busby: No Tears for Goldie by "Jack C. Fleming" (Thomas P. Kelley)
Steve Carper: Buck Rogers, the newspaper comic strip, by Phil Nowlan and Dick Calkins
Martin Edwards: Hand of Fate by Michael Underwood
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: Warren horror comics, July-October 1968, edited by Archie Goodwin
Barry Ergang: Fever Dream by Dennis Palumbo
Will Errickson: Valley of Lights by Stephen Gallagher
José Ignacio Escribano: Inspector French's Greatest Case by Freeman Wills Crofts
Curtis Evans: Raymond Chandler on British crime fiction
Olman Feelyus: The End of the Night by John D. MacDonald; The Wanderer by "Alain-Fournier" (Henri-Alban Fournier)(translated by Frank Davison)
Paul Fraser: New Worlds SF, September 1965, edited by Michael Moorcock
John Grant: Salvation of a Saint by Keigo Higashino (translated by Alexander O. Smith); Ripper by Isabel Allende (translated by Ollie Brock and Frank Wynne); Homicide Trinity by Rex Stout
Aubrey Hamilton: Appleby's Answer by "Michael Innes" (John Innes Mackintosh Stewart); Up in Smoke by Charlotte Weir
Bev Hankins: The Two-Pound Tram by "William" (aka Kenneth) Newton; The Fate of the Immodest Blonde by "Patrick Quentin" (this time, Hugh Wheeler and Richard Webb)
Rich Horton: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov among other novels in contention for the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 1973; The Beasts of Kohl by "John Rackham" (John Phillifent); A Planet of Their Own by John Brunner; Hazard by Jo Beverly; Andy Duncan short fiction
Jerry House: The Diploids by Katherine MacLean; Super Detective Library #74 (1955?): Sherlock Holmes: "The Thames Afire" and "A Scandal in Bohemia" (comics adaptations, the former an original story)
Kate Jackson: It Walks By Night by John Dickson Carr; The Hooded Gunman: An Illustrated History of Collins Crime Club by John Curran
Jeanne at Bristol, VA, Public Library: If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura (translated by Eric Selland)
Tracy K: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons: Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson (translated by Quentin Bates)
Colman Keane: The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins
George Kelley: Norman Rockwell's America; Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty by Isaiah Berlin
Joe Kenney: Logan's Search by William F. Nolan;
Goodnight, L. A. by Ken Hartman
Rob Kitchin: The Abrupt Physics of Dying by Paul Hardisty
Nick Kolakowski: A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block
Derek Kunsken: Great History of Comics Books by Ron Goulart
B. V. Lawson: Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories by Colin Dexter
Des/DF Lewis: Black Static and Interzone, September-October 2019, edited by Andy Cox
Evan Lewis: "Robots Can't Lie" by Robert Leslie Bellem, Fantastic Adventures, July 1941, edited by Raymond Palmer
Steve Lewis: The Bigamist by John Jay Chichester
John O'Neill: The Opener of the Way (and the House of the Hatchet paperback partial reprint) by Robert Bloch
Matt Paust: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
James Reasoner: Tough as Nails by Fletcher Nebel
Richard Robinson: City of Corpses by Norvell Page
Sandra Ruttan: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas; Banned Books Week
Gerard Saylor: Kidnap & Ransom by Michelle Gagnon
Jack Seabrook: "Dry Run" by Norman Struber, Manhunt, April 1956, edited by "N. King"
Steven H Silver: "Songbird" by Orson Scott Card (Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1979, edited by Stanley Schmidt); Betty and Ian Ballantine
Victoria Silverwolf: Fantastic: Stories of Imagination, October 1964, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli
Kerrie Smith: Sleeping Partner by James Humphreys
Scott Tipple: JLA: Earth 2 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
"TomCat": Where There's a Will by "Kip" Chase (Travett C. Chase)
Bill Wallace: Way Out: A History and Episode Guide to Roald Dahl's Spooky 1961 Television Program by Martin Grams; Evergreen Review, March-April 1960, edited by Barney Rosset; Candy by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg
Sarah Waters: suggested ghost stories (with reviews from Ed Gorman, Bill Crider and a number of other stalwarts, some still with us...)
