Review Index

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Fiction

Comics

• Breathed, Berkley. Bloom County: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1: 1980-1982. IDW Publishing, 2009.
• Jasper, Michael and Niki Smith. In Maps and Legends. 2010-2011.

General Fiction

• Crichton, Michael. Dragon Teeth. HarperCollins, 2017.

Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Ahmed, Saladin. Throne of the Crescent Moon. DAW, 2012.
• Anderson, Poul. The High Crusade. Doubleday, 1960.
• Ashby, Madeline. Company Town. Tor, 2016.
• Bacigalupi, Paolo. The Alchemist. Audible, 2010.
• ——— and Tobias S. Buckell. The Tangled Lands. Saga, 2018.
• Barnes, John. One for the Morning Glory. Tor, 1996.
• Beukes, Lauren. Zoo City. Angry Robot, 2010.
• Brennan, Marie. A Natural History of Dragons. Tor, 2013.
• ———. Driftwood. Tachyon, 2020.
• Bobet, Leah. Above. Arthur A. Levine, 2012.
• Boyczuk, Robert. The Book of Thomas. ChiZine, 2012.
• Buckell, Tobias S. The Executioness. Audible, 2010.
• ———. Arctic Rising. Tor, 2012.
• Church, Suzanne. Elements. Edge, 2014.
• Corey, James S. A. Leviathan Wakes. Orbit, 2011.
• ———. Caliban’s War. Orbit, 2012.
• De Bodard, Aliette. Servant of the Underworld. Angry Robot, 2010.
• ———. Harbinger of the Storm. Angry Robot, 2011.
• ———. Master of the House of Darts. Angry Robot, 2012.
• ———. The House of Shattered Wings. Gollancz/Roc, 2015.
• ———. The House of Binding Thorns. Ace/Gollancz, 2017.
• Dellamonica, A. M. Child of a Hidden Sea. Tor, 2014.
• Domingue, Ronlyn. The Mapmaker’s War. Atria Books, 2013.
• Dozois, Gardner. When the Great Days Come. Prime, 2011.
• Duncan, Andy. The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories. PS Publishing, 2012.
• Fox, Rose and Daniel José Older, eds. Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History. Crossed Genres, 2014.
• Gardner, James Alan. All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault. Tor, 2017.
• Grant, Mira. Feed. Orbit, 2010.
• ———. Deadline. Orbit, 2011.
• ———. Blackout. Orbit, 2012.
• Gunn, Eileen. Questionable Practices. Small Beer, 2014.
• Haldeman, Joe. Marsbound. Ace, 2008.
• Hopkinson, Nalo. Falling in Love with Hominids. Tachyon, 2015.
• Hurley, Kameron. The Stars Are Legion. Angry Robot/Saga Press, 2017.
• Jemisin, N. K. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. Orbit, 2010.
• Johnson, Kij. At the Mouth of the River of Bees. Small Beer, 2012.
• Johnson, Matthew. Fall from Earth. Bundoran, 2009.
• ———. Irregular Verbs and Other Stories. ChiZine, 2014.
• Klima, John, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, eds. Glitter and Mayhem. Apex, 2013.
• Kowal, Mary Robinette. Glamour and Glass. Tor, 2012.
• ———. Without a Summer. Tor, 2013.
• ———. Ghost Talkers. Tor, 2016.
• Lalumière, Claude. Venera Dreams. Guernica, 2017.
• Liu, Ken, ed. Invisible Planets. Tor, 2016.
• Lord, Karen. The Best of All Possible Worlds. Del Rey/Jo Fletcher, 2013.
• Mastai, Elan. All Our Wrong Todays. Doubleday Canada/Michael Joseph/Penguin, 2017.
• McDonald, Ian. The Dervish House. Pyr, 2010.
• ———. Planesrunner. Pyr, 2011.
• ———. Be My Enemy. Pyr, 2012.
• Miéville, China. Embassytown. Del Rey/Macmillan, 2011.
• Milbrodt, Teresa. Instances of Head-Switching. Shade Mountain Press, 2020.
• Navarro, Elvira. Rabbit Island. Trans. by Christina MacSweeney. Two Lines Press, 2021.
• Neuvel, Sylvain. Sleeping Giants. Del Rey, 2016.
• ———. Waking Gods. Del Rey, 2017.
• Newitz, Annalee. Autonomous. Tor, 2017.
• Owen, James A. Here, There Be Dragons. Simon and Schuster, 2006.
• Ozeki, Ruth. A Tale for the Time Being. Viking, 2013.
• Palmer, Ada. Too Like the Lightning. Tor, 2016.
• ———. The Will to Battle. Tor, 2017.
• Panshin, Alexei. Rite of Passage. Ace, 1968.
• Priest, Christopher. The Islanders. Gollancz, 2011.
• Robinson, Kim Stanley. 2312. Orbit, 2012.
• Samatar, Sofia. The Winged Histories. Small Beer, 2016.
• Savory, Brett. A Perfect Machine. Angry Robot, 2017.
• Sawyer, Robert J. Triggers. Ace/Viking, 2012.
• ———. Red Planet Blues. Ace/Viking, 2013.
• ———. Quantum Night. Ace/Viking, 2016.
• Scalzi, John. Zoe’s Tale. Tor, 2009.
• ———. Fuzzy Nation. Tor, 2011.
• ———. Redshirts. Tor, 2012.
• ———. The Human Division. Tor, 2013.
• ———. Miniatures. Subterranean, 2016.
• ———. Head On. Tor, 2018.
• Schanoes, Veronica. Burning Girls and Other Stories. Tor.com, 2021.
• Schroeder, Karl. Lockstep. Tor, 2014.
• Shepherd, Peng. The Cartographers. William Morrow/Orion, 2022.
• Slonczewski, Joan. A Door into Ocean. Arbor House, 1986.
• St. John Mandel, Emily. Station Eleven. Knopf/Picador, 2014.
• Sterling, Bruce. Pirate Utopia. Tachyon, 2016.
• Strahan, Jonathan, ed. Engineering Infinity. Solaris, 2010.
• ———, ed. Bridging Infinity. Solaris, 2016.
• ———, ed. Infinity Wars. Solaris, 2017.
• Stross, Charles. The Delirium Brief. Orbit/Tor.com, 2017.
• Swanwick, Michael. Dancing with Bears. Night Shade, 2011.
• ———. Not So Much, Said the Cat. Tachyon, 2016.
• Swithin, Antony. Princes of Sandastre. Fontana, 1990.
• Tidbeck, Karin. Amatka. Vintage, 2017.
• Valente, Catherynne M. Deathless. Tor, 2011.
• ———. Radiance. Tor, 2015.
• Waldrop, Howard. Horse of a Different Color. Small Beer, 2013.
• Walton, Jo. Lifelode. NESFA Press, 2009.
• ———. Among Others. Tor, 2011.
• ———. My Real Children. Tor, 2014.
• ———. The Just City. Tor, 2015.
• ———. The Philosopher Kings. Tor, 2015.
• ———. Necessity. Tor, 2016.
• Watts, Peter. Beyond the Rift. Tachyon, 2013.
• ———. Echopraxia. Tor, 2014.
• Weir, Andy. The Martian. 2011. Crown, 2014.
• ———. Artemis. Crown/Del Rey, 2017.
• Wexler, Robert Freeman. Undiscovered Territories. PS Publishing, 2021.

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Nonfiction

Astronomy and Space

• Dupont-Bloch, Nicolas. Shoot the Moon. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
• Ferris, Timothy. Seeing in the Dark. Simon and Schuster, 2002.
• Gallentine, Jay. Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft. University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
• Kanas, Nick. Star Maps: History, Artistry, and Cartography. 3rd ed. Springer Praxis, 2019.
• Schenk, Paul. Atlas of the Galilean Satellites. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
• Sinnott, Roger W. Sky and Telescope’s Pocket Sky Atlas. Sky Publishing, 2006.
• Sobel, Dava. The Glass Universe. Viking, 2016.
• Tirion, Wil. Cambridge Star Atlas. 3rd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• Ward, Peter W. and Donald Brownlee. The Life and Death of Planet Earth. Times Books, 2003.

Biography and Memoir

• Butcher, William. Jules Verne: The Definitive Biography. Thunder’s Mouth, 2006.
• Greene, Harry W. Tracks and Shadows: Field Biology as Art. University of California Press, 2013.
• Isaacson, Walter. Steve Jobs. Simon and Schuster, 2011.
• James, Jamie. The Snake Charmer. Hachette, 2008.
• Monmonier, Mark. Adventures in Academic Cartography. Bar Scale Press, 2014.
• Morris, Edmund. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.  Putnam, 1979.
• ———. Theodore Rex. Random House, 2001.
• ———. Colonel Roosevelt. Random House, 2010.
• Offutt, Chris. My Father, the Pornographer. Atria, 2016.
• Swafford, Jan. Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.

Cartography and Maps

• Bennett, Jim. Navigation: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017.
• Berry, Jill K. Personal Geographies: Explorations in Mixed-Media Mapmaking. North Light Books, 2011.
• Blanding, Michael. The Map Thief. Gotham, 2014.
• Blando, Jared. How to Draw Fantasy Art and RPG Maps. Impact, 2015.
• Brooke-Hitching, Edward. The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps. Simon & Schuster UK, 2016; Chronicle, 2018.
• Brotton, Jerry. A History of the World in Twelve Maps. Allen Lane, 2012.
• Bucklan, Matthew and Victor Cizek. North American Maps for Curious Minds. The Experiment, 2021.
• Canada Back Road Atlas. MapArt, 2007.
• Davies, John and Alexander J. Kent. The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World. University of Chicago Press, 2017.
• Edney, Matthew H. Cartography: The Ideal and Its History. University of Chicago Press, 2019.
• Edwards, Melissa. The Geist Atlas of Canada: Meat Maps and Other Strange Cartographies. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2006.
• Ekman, Stefan. Here Be Dragons: Exploring Fantasy Maps and Settings. Wesleyan University Press, 2013.
• Felt, Hali. Soundings. Henry Holt, 2012.
• Garfield, Simon. On the Map. Gotham, 2013.
• Hall, Debbie, ed. Treasures from the Map Room. The Bodleian Library, 2016.
• Hancock, James Gulliver et al. The Art of Map Illustration. Walter Foster, 2018.
• Harmon, Katharine. You Are Here: NYC: Mapping the Soul of the City. Princeton Architectural Press, 2016.
• Harper, Tom. Atlas: A World of Maps from the British Library. The British Library, 2018.
• Harzinski, Kris. From Here to There: A Curious Collection from the Hand Drawn Map Association. Princeton Architectural Press, 2010.
• Hayes, Derek. Historical Atlas of Washington and Oregon. University of California Press, 2011.
• Hewitt, Rachel. Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey. Granta, 2010.
• Hornsby, Stephen J. Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps. University of Chicago Press, 2017.
• Huth, John Edward. The Lost Art of Finding Our Way. Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2013.
• Jennings, Ken. Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks. Simon and Schuster, 2011.
• Kanas, Nick. Star Maps: History, Artistry, and Cartography. 3rd ed. Springer Praxis, 2019.
• Kashuba, Melinda. Walking with Your Ancestors: A Genealogist’s Guide to Using Maps and Geography. Family Tree Books, 2005.
• Krygier, John and Denis Wood. Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS. Guilford Press, 2005.
• Lester, Toby. The Fourth Part of the World. The Free Press, 2009.
• Lewis-Jones, Huw, ed. The Writer’s Map. Thames & Hudson/University of Chicago Press, 2018.
• Liesemer, Dirk. Phantom Islands. Trans. by Peter Lewis. Haus, 2019.
• Maier, Jessica. The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps. University of Chicago Press, 2020.
• Mason, Betsy and Greg Miller. All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey. National Geographic, 2018.
• Monmonier, Mark. How to Lie with Maps. 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press, 1996.
• ———. Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection. University of Chicago Press, 2004.
• ———. From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim and Inflame. University of Chicago Press, 2006.
• ———. Adventures in Academic Cartography. Bar Scale Press, 2014.
• ———. How to Lie with Maps. 3rd ed. University of Chicago Press, 2018.
• ———. Clock and Compass: How John Byron Plato Gave Farmers a Real Address. University of Iowa Press, 2022.
• National Geographic Atlas of the World. 9th ed. National Geographic, 2010.
• The Onion. Our Dumb World: Atlas of the Planet Earth. Little, Brown, 2007.
• Ovenden, Mark. Transit Maps of the World. Penguin, 2007.
• ———. Paris Underground. Penguin, 2009.
• ———. Underground Cities. Frances Lincoln, 2020.
• Owings, Rich. GPS Mapping: Make Your Own Maps. Ten Mile Press, 2005.
• Parker, Mike. Map Addict. Collins, 2009.
• Ramm, Frederik, Jochen Topf and Steve Chilton. OpenStreetMap: Using and Enhancing the Free Map of the World. UIT Cambridge, 2010.
• Reichle, Natasha, ed. China at the Center. Asian Art Museum, 2016.
• Reinhartz, Dennis. The Art of the Map: An Illustrated History of Map Elements and Embellishments. Sterling, 2013.
• Roman, John. The Art of Illustrated Maps. HOW Books, 2015.
• Schulten, Susan. A History of America in 100 Maps. University of Chicago Press, 2018.
• Shoalts, Adam. A History of Canada in Ten Maps. Allen Lane, 2017.
• Sinnott, Roger W. Sky and Telescope’s Pocket Sky Atlas. Sky Publishing, 2006.
• Sobel, Dava. Longitude. Walker, 2007.
• Solnit, Rebecca. Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas. University of California Press, 2010.
• Springer, Nick, ed. Cartography Design Annual #1. Self-published, 2008.
• Tallack, Malachy. The Un-Discovered Islands. Birlinn, 2016; Picador, 2017.
• The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World. 15th ed. HarperCollins, 2018.
• Tirion, Wil. Cambridge Star Atlas. 3rd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• Trinklein, Michael J. Lost States. Self-published, 2008.
• Van Duzer, Chet. Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps. The British Library, 2013.
• Wood, Denis, Ward L. Kaiser and Bob Abramms. Seeing Through Maps. ODT, 2006.

Geography

• De Blij, Harm. The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization’s Rough Landscape. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Health

• Zashin, Scott J. with M. Laurette Hessler. Arthritis Without Pain: The Miracle of TNF Blockers. Sarah Allison, 2004.

History

• Mann, Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. Knopf, 2005.
• ———. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created. Knopf, 2011.
• Shoalts, Adam. A History of Canada in Ten Maps. Allen Lane, 2017.

Literary Criticism

• Mendlesohn, Farah. The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein. Unbound, 2019.

Miscellaneous

• Cain, Susan. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking. Crown, 2012.
• Nielsen Hayden, Teresa. Making Book. NESFA Press, 1994.

Music

• Swafford, Jan. Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.

Paleontology

• Black, Riley (as Brian Switek). Written in Stone. Bellevue Literary Press, 2010.
• ———. My Beloved Brontosaurus. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
• Brusatte, Steve. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs. William Morrow, 2018.
• ———. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals. Mariner, 2022.
• Pickrell, John. Weird Dinosaurs. Columbia University Press, 2017.
• Tattersall, Ian. Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins. St. Martin’s Press, 2012.

Reptiles and Amphibians

• Flank, Lenny Jr. Beginner’s Guide to Keeping Venomous Snakes. Red and Black, 2008.
• Gibbons, Whit. Snakes of the Eastern United States. University of Georgia Press, 2017.
• ——— and Mike Dorcas. Snakes of the Southeast. Rev. ed. University of Georgia Press, 2015.
• Graham, Sean P. American Snakes. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
• Greene, Harry W. Tracks and Shadows: Field Biology as Art. University of California Press, 2013.
• James, Jamie. The Snake Charmer. Hachette, 2008.
• Montgomery, Sy. The Snake Scientist. Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
• Steen, David A. Secrets of Snakes: The Science Beyond the Myths. Texas A&M University Press, 2019.
• Wright, Erica. Snake. Bloomsbury, 2020.

Trains

• Posey, Sam. Playing with Trains: A Passion Beyond Scale. Random House, 2004.

Travel

• Bonnett, Alastair. Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
• ———. Elsewhere: A Journey into Our Age of Islands. University of Chicago Press, 2020.
• Foer, Joshua, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton. Atlas Obscura. Workman, 2016.
• Le Carrer, Olivier. Atlas of Cursed Places. Black Dog & Leventhal, 2015.
• Thompson, Chuck. Smile When You’re Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer. Holt, 2007.

Writing

• Koboldt, Dan, ed. Putting the Fact in Fantasy. Writer’s Digest Books, 2022.